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aledie

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Registered: 2018-02-21

Posts: 58

Windowmaker and Afterstep applets

Hello, while experimenting with Windowmaker and Afterstep window manager I stumbled on so called Windowmaker dockapps and similar Afterstep applets, for example here: http://www.dockapps.net/

These things look like big icons and get placed on the desktop by executing via RUN. May be quite interesting for mobile slitaz application on USB as:

-these apps provide just limited functions and are mostly developed years back(CPU, power, memory, system, HD, audio monitoring, weather, clock, temperature etc), but

-are very small just few KBs and light on resources, very nice looking and can be installed depending what a person needs

-I realised that they even work in Openbox/ LXDE, and other lighter WMs.

-when you execute several of them they for example in LXDE automatically lineup vertically

-there are several implementations (docker, wmbutton, wmdrawer, stalonetray), which allow to group several such apps in one icon or such expands horizontally like a tray or drawer.

-on WMs where you have no or dont want a panel, it  can be used in function of systray

-most of them work no problem by converting a debian package with tazpkg -c (I searched here: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=search   ... and downloaded stretch i386 version as long as glibc required is not >2.14 it will work on slitaz, otherwise i took wheezy or ubuntu version)

-most windowmaker dockapps start in naming with "wm" and Afterstep applets with "as"

Here a little guide how to use them in under Openbox WM, but should also apply to LXDE which uses it and other WMs similarly: http://lxlinux.com/dock.html

Most, 8 out of 10 deb packages work after being converted. If not, run them in terminal and see what dependency is missing and needs to be installed. Tried and workable: wmclock_1.0.14-1_i386.deb, wmclockmon_0.8.1-2_i386.deb, wmcpuload_1.0.1-3.2_i386.deb, wmcube_1.0.2-1_i386.deb, wmfire_1.2.4-2+b1_i386.deb, wmhdplop_0.9.10-1_i386.deb, wmmemload_0.1.6-7_i386.deb. wmmon_1.1+20131205-1.1+b1_i386.deb, wmnd_0.4.17-2+b1_i386.deb, wmtemp_0.0.6-3.3+b2_i386.deb

Attach a screenshot of them in LXDE

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aledie

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Registered: 2018-02-21

Posts: 58

Re: Windowmaker and Afterstep applets

There is an .rpm package at OpenSUSE with a collection of many applets, which is more convenient to install just one package. I converted tumbleweed version to tazpkg from here: https://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/tumbleweed/repo/oss/suse/i586/WindowMaker-applets-1.0.1-31.1.i586.rpm

In my case those I tried work. If some of them don't (cuz of slitaz earlier glibc / libpng version or similar) but you wish to have them, you may try converting the package from OpenSuse 11.2 (same or earlier glibc as slitaz) from here: https://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/i586/WindowMaker-applets-1.0-881.1.i586.rpm

You may even repack all those working and useful in a new tazpkg for slitaz!?