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

... 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

[Richard Cranium]

Hi Richard Cranium

... 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...

[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.

... 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.

[Juanito]

There’s the pygtk extension?

[Rich]

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.

[Richard Cranium]

Hi Richard Cranium
I think you need to load tint2 and pygobject.

... 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

[mocore]

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


[Rich]

Hi Richard Cranium

... 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.