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Have a Full openbox TC????
Richard Cranium:
Mods ? , can I post this here???
I have a 700mgz laptop that needs a job to do , I've posted already about how to have xscreensaver working https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,27873.0.html , maybe it's resolved now ? I dunno.
But I'd like a more full openbox install on my TC for this dumb laptop.. I'd like to have tint2 as a panel , but I'm not really understanding everything , Also the extra components of openbox..
I don't want a "heavy" openbox , just something that looks better than the out -of-box- experience with TC ..
https://www.reddit.com/r/unix./comments/f1lm9n/openbox_tint2_because_tiny_core_deserves_some_love/
Maybe something like that???? how do i do that??? any advice on what I could do for something that looks good , plus works good????
BTW , i have tint2 installed , but it doesn't do anything right now...
Rich:
Hi Richard Cranium
--- Quote from: Richard Cranium on December 02, 2025, 09:40:35 PM --- ... BTW , i have tint2 installed , but it doesn't do anything right now...
--- End quote ---
Information on its use appears to be here:
https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/blob/master/doc/tint2.md
According to the .info file:
--- Code: ---Configuration gui tint2wizard depends on python
--- End code ---
Found here:
http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/tcz/tint2.tcz.info
So it sounds like after installing python, you can execute:
--- Code: ---tintwizard.py
--- End code ---
Also, the .list file shows the man page is included:
--- Code: ---usr/local/share/man/man1/tint2.1
--- End code ---
Found here:
http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/tcz/tint2.tcz.list
So if you install man.tcz , you can view the man page for tint2:
--- Code: ---man tint2
--- End code ---
Richard Cranium:
--- Quote from: Rich on December 03, 2025, 12:29:07 AM ---Hi Richard Cranium
--- Quote from: Richard Cranium on December 02, 2025, 09:40:35 PM --- ... BTW , i have tint2 installed , but it doesn't do anything right now...
--- End quote ---
Information on its use appears to be here:
https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/blob/master/doc/tint2.md
According to the .info file:
--- Code: ---Configuration gui tint2wizard depends on python
--- End code ---
Found here:
http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/tcz/tint2.tcz.info
So it sounds like after installing python, you can execute:
--- Code: ---tintwizard.py
--- End code ---
Also, the .list file shows the man page is included:
--- Code: ---usr/local/share/man/man1/tint2.1
--- End code ---
Found here:
http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/tcz/tint2.tcz.list
So if you install man.tcz , you can view the man page for tint2:
--- Code: ---man tint2
--- End code ---
--- End quote ---
Ok , I'll look into this further :) thank you..
post back soon...
Richard Cranium:
Hmmm , I try to launch tint2 but it complains about python is not installed , yet....... I installed it..... HUH?
Rich:
Hi Richard Cranium
I think you need to load tint2 and pygobject.
--- Quote from: Richard Cranium on December 04, 2025, 05:58:14 PM --- ... it complains about python is not installed , yet....... I installed it ...
--- End quote ---
It's probably looking for python instead of python2.
I got rid of that error by doing:
--- Code: ---sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/python2 /usr/local/bin/python
--- End code ---
When trying to run tintwizard.py, it threw the following error:
--- Code: ---ImportError: No module named pygtk
--- End code ---
I couldn't figure out how to fix that.
tint2 and tint2conf appeared to run. They just didn't like the
window manager I was running because it's not NETWM compatible.
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