fluxbox - update request

[Rich]

Hi coreplayer2

Is this the same backup check script invoked by "filetool.sh -d"  and "dry run" in the backup/restore app  ?

Yes, the two are similar. Ixbrian added a column that shows file size as a percentage of total and sorted by size.

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tc@box:~$ filetool.sh -d
Performing dry run backup (backup will not actually take place).   Please wait.

  0.01 MB  /usr/local/share/oprofile/i386/piii/events
  0.38 MB  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.4.0
  0.00 MB  /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Total backup size (uncompressed):    0.39 MB (412569 bytes)
Total backup size (compressed)  :    0.22 MB (230992 bytes)

tc@box:~$ ./showbackup.sh
 0.3%   0.00 MB  2012-02-14    etc/X11/xorg.conf
 1.9%   0.01 MB  2012-05-29    usr/local/share/oprofile/i386/piii/events
97.8%   0.38 MB  2012-02-21    usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.4.0

Total backup size (uncompressed):    0.39 MB (412569 bytes)
Total backup size (compressed)  :    0.22 MB (230992 bytes)

[netnomad]

hi coreplayer2,

now i recreated my init-file and everything works fine.
perhaps you could clean up or delete the few ugly styles like:
BlueFlux
Emerge
LemonSpace
Meta
arch
bloe
carp
qnx-photon
zimek-green

my bash-history works fine again.
it looks like a good cut

[coreplayer2]

lol  well don't get too comfy, a new and very much improved version is on it's way very soon.. 

separated  locale and man files from main extension.   found the oh so missing build dependencies for nls (will update the previously posted build script here in a minute..)   

Now the app is small !!

[coreplayer2]

I know it's a big icon, but click the image linky, then click on the image again for an unscaled view of fluxbox-v1.3.4 in HD


I'm really liking the feel and look of fluxbox - Results Style (my current favorite, looks good on my Mac mini + Xorg-7.5 right ? 

[coreplayer2]

Hi coreplayer2

Is this the same backup check script invoked by "filetool.sh -d"  and "dry run" in the backup/restore app  ?

Yes, the two are similar. Ixbrian added a column that shows file size as a percentage of total and sorted by size.

That's cool too    just checked it out,  Brian is a wizard..

[netnomad]

hi coreplayer2,

the first impression of the last cut looks good..
btw the previous mentioned problems with the styles disappear after a restart of fluxbox.
i guess in former versions the change of a style could be done on-the-fly (without restart),
but the rest of fluxbox_1.3.4 seems to be pretty good

[coreplayer2]

Glad to hear that,  Netnomad

it appears the fluxbox team changed a few things around in a addition the customizable files in (home)/.fluxbox are not compatible with the latest version apparently.  We simply have to back up our custom settings (like I had any..) and delete the .fluxbox files and start over. 

Far too many customizable settings for me to fiddle with,  but I like having the ability..


AIUI the ability to set a desktop background was changed somehow, I use TinyCore's ControlPanel to set backgrounds anyhow.

[netnomad]

hi coreplayer2,

a little remark for the polish:
after deleting the ~/.fluxbox-config files the default files have odd permissions:

drwxrwxr-x    2 tc       staff          220 Feb 13 02:17 ./
drwxr-s---   31 tc       staff         1600 Feb 13 02:17 ../
-rwxrwxr-x    1 tc       staff           70 Feb 11 01:21 apps
-rwxrwxr-x    1 tc       staff         2972 Feb 13 02:18 init
-rwxrwxr-x    1 tc       staff         4899 Feb 13 02:16 keys
-rw-r--r--    1 tc       staff           54 Feb 13 02:17 lastwallpaper
-rw-rw-r--    1 tc       staff          987 Feb 13 02:17 menu
-rw-rw-r--    1 tc       staff         4225 Feb 13 02:17 ondemand
-rwxrwxr-x    1 tc       staff           89 Feb 11 01:21 overlay
-rwxrwxr-x    1 tc       staff            0 May 25  2009 slitlist
-rwxrwxr-x    1 tc       staff          168 Feb 11 01:21 windowmenu

i use "chmod 644 *" for my configuration files...

i checked that this bad-refresh-behavior, after changing a style, occurs even with default configuration files.
so this could be a bug of version 1.3.4 or of this cut!?
the version in the rep has no problem with changing styles on-the-fly...

[coreplayer2]

Thanks for reminding me...  I noticed that too and put investigating that on the back burner until the fribidi issue was resolved, which it is

[netnomad]

hi coreplayer2,

i just want to inform you that fluxbox switched to 1.3.5:
http://fluxbox.org/news/

[coreplayer2]

Oh my!! 

ok will check it out..

[bmarkus]

Tried to install 1.3.5 on piCore. configue OK but make fails with fluxbox.cat comman not found in /nls/C directory. Any idea?

[netnomad]

hi coreplayer2,

i tested 1.3.5 and everything works as expected.
do you think that this refresh bug of the system styles is an unsolved issue of these 1.3.x-versions?
i didn't find any hint in the fluxbox-bug-forum, yet.
the rest of the version seems to be flawless

[coreplayer2]

Tried to install 1.3.5 on piCore. configue OK but make fails with fluxbox.cat comman not found in /nls/C directory. Any idea?

Yes, had the same issue until adding the character set conversion build deps

this is the final adjustment to the build deps I used, the big items for nls are eglibc_base-dev eglibc_gconv eglibc_apps.  I believe the order in which these are loaded are important as they appear to be dependent on each other, like the chiken before the egg.  Best to be loaded on one line too.    there are others like imake, libtool-dev etc etc   

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tce-load -wil compiletc Xorg-7.6-dev Xorg-7.6-lib Xlibs libxft-dev fontconfig-dev freetype_base-dev \
pixman-dev eglibc_base-dev eglibc_gconv eglibc_apps linux-headers-3.0.21-tinycore imake \
libiconv-dev libtool-dev automake libxcb-dev pkg-config xdg-utils sed \
binutils coreutils util-linux
I made a separate extension for the nls feature to be consistent with other extensions in the repo, only consideration is without nls there are possibly one or two small features besides not having native language support!! which may not function as desired.  fluxbox is an immensely configurable wm and I'm just getting my feet wet with it.   In an earlier build I had an issue creating a single colored background without nls loaded  but am not sure after all the bug fixes whether this is still the case.

permissions were a menacing problem but this last build appears perfect and am really happy with it.


the configure options if it helps

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./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-xinerama --enable-randr --enable-shape \
--enable-imlib2 --enable-xft --enable-xmb --enable-xpm --enable-ewmh --enable-nls \
--disable-fribidi | tee configure_results.txt


meanwhile there was one more little detail.
I found that building against the latest fribidi-0.19.5 the fluxbox build ran smoothly (but needed a symlink explained later).   There is an old version of fribidi ( 0.10.9 )in core 4.x repo  however fluxbox spit out errors during configure.  We can build fluxbox with or without fribidi, so I disabled BIDI feature at the configure command line but left it loaded and symlinked.    besides if we enable fribidi it becomes a dependency of fluxbox.     Temporarily Sorry for those who read from right to left..   it's just not going to happen today.   

latest libfribidi  needs a symlink in /lib pointing to /usr/local/lib/libfribidi.so.0  to pass the make installcheck  and be useable at all..  I suspect the real issue to be either automake and/or autoconf used by the developer or the code.??    While i attempted to rebuild the config and make files there is a version issue with automake..   So for now no fribidi 

[coreplayer2]

good job netnomad   thanks for all the prompt testing

i tested 1.3.5 and everything works as expected.
do you think that this refresh bug of the system styles is an unsolved issue of these 1.3.x-versions?

honestly am not sure about that, because with this latest 1.3.5 build and discarding  old ~/.fluxbox config files  the changes in styles is immediate for me.  In 1.3.3 iirc there were issues, but appear to have been fixed now.

I wonder,  do you have the fluxbox_locale extension loaded?