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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Tips & Tricks => Topic started by: Richard Cranium on December 02, 2025, 09:40:35 PM

Title: Have a Full openbox TC????
Post by: Richard Cranium on December 02, 2025, 09:40:35 PM

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 (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/ (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...

Title: Re: Have a Full openbox TC????
Post by: 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...

Information on its use appears to be here:
https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/blob/master/doc/tint2.md

According to the  .info  file:

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Configuration gui tint2wizard depends on pythonFound here:
http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/tcz/tint2.tcz.info
So it sounds like after installing python, you can execute:

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tintwizard.py
Also, the  .list  file shows the man page is included:

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usr/local/share/man/man1/tint2.1Found 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:

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man tint2

Title: Re: Have a Full openbox TC????
Post by: Richard Cranium on December 03, 2025, 09:28:48 PM

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...

Information on its use appears to be here:
https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/blob/master/doc/tint2.md

According to the  .info  file:

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Configuration gui tint2wizard depends on pythonFound here:
http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/tcz/tint2.tcz.info
So it sounds like after installing python, you can execute:

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tintwizard.py
Also, the  .list  file shows the man page is included:

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usr/local/share/man/man1/tint2.1Found 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:

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man tint2

Ok , I'll look into this further :)  thank you..

post back soon...

Title: Re: Have a Full openbox TC????
Post by: Richard Cranium on December 04, 2025, 05:58:14 PM

Hmmm , I try to launch tint2 but it complains about python is not installed , yet....... I installed it.....   HUH?

Title: Re: Have a Full openbox TC????
Post by: Rich on December 05, 2025, 12:17:57 AM

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 ...

It's probably looking for python instead of python2.
I got rid of that error by doing:

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sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/python2 /usr/local/bin/python
When trying to run tintwizard.py, it threw the following error:

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ImportError: No module named pygtkI 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.

Title: Re: Have a Full openbox TC????
Post by: Juanito on December 05, 2025, 01:01:29 AM

There’s the pygtk extension?

Title: Re: Have a Full openbox TC????
Post by: Rich on December 05, 2025, 08:45:37 AM

Hi Juanito
pygtk  doesn't exist in the TC16 x86.

I tried the pygtk-2.7.tcz from TC4 and updated the .dep file to
accommodate name changes that occured but it still threw
that error.

Title: Re: Have a Full openbox TC????
Post by: Richard Cranium on May 02, 2026, 04:24:36 PM

Quote from: Rich on December 05, 2025, 12:17:57 AM

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 ...

It's probably looking for python instead of python2.
I got rid of that error by doing:

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sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/python2 /usr/local/bin/python
When trying to run tintwizard.py, it threw the following error:

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ImportError: No module named pygtkI 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.

I still can't seem to figure this one out, Just got back around to this a few days ago..

I "think" I have everything installed , I tried just as 

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man tint2 says to and typed:

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tint2 & -c /usr/local/etc/xdg/tint2/tint2rc in the terminal...Nothing happens..... hhmmmmmmm

Title: Re: Have a Full openbox TC????
Post by: mocore on July 26, 2026, 02:40:55 AM

Quote from: Richard Cranium on May 02, 2026, 04:24:36 PM

I still can't seem to figure this one out, Just got back around to this a few days ago..

I "think" I have everything installed , I tried just as 

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man tint2 says to and typed:

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tint2 & -c /usr/local/etc/xdg/tint2/tint2rc in the terminal...Nothing happens..... hhmmmmmmm

in a case like that *next* id try ..

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strace tint2 & -c /usr/local/etc/xdg/tint2/tint2rc

and try to see if it gets as far as trying to load the config ...

also looking at the exit code it returns might be insightful as to how it fails?
eg

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tint2 & -c /usr/local/etc/xdg/tint2/tint2rc
echo "exit code $?"


Title: Re: Have a Full openbox TC????
Post by: Rich on July 26, 2026, 10:42:25 AM

Hi Richard Cranium

Quote from: Richard Cranium on May 02, 2026, 04:24:36 PM

... I tried just as 

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man tint2 says to and typed:

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tint2 & -c /usr/local/etc/xdg/tint2/tint2rc in the terminal...Nothing happens.....

That's not right. The manual states:

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tint2 -c /path_to_config_file
So your command should look like this:

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tint2 -c /usr/local/etc/xdg/tint2/tint2rcRemove that  "&"  symbol from your command.