Where's the source code?

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Where's the source code?
started by: bigpilot

Posted by bigpilot on April 13 2006,06:23

I'm looking for the DSL source code, including the custom app suchs as the Control Panel. I want to check why the Wireless Configuration doesn't work or at least HOW it works.

Posted by newOldUser on April 13 2006,11:06

I think a lot of the custom stuff is written in LUA so the file name would be something.lua Check in /usr/local/bin

To see what's being run when you click on a menu item look in /home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu

Posted by mikshaw on April 13 2006,13:33

*ALL* of the DSL-specific stuff is human-readable script, whether it be Lua or Perl or Bash. Much of it is also in /etc/init.d or /usr/sbin.
Everything else, as far as I know, is built from either unmodified code or taken directly from Knoppix. I'm not totally sure about this last statement.

Posted by pr0f3550r on April 13 2006,15:38

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/damnsmall/GPL_Sources.txt

Posted by roberts on April 13 2006,20:26

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everything else, as far as I know, is built from either unmodified code or taken directly from Knoppix. I'm not totally sure about this last statement.

I have modified xtdesk source to allow easy configuration of single or double click. I have also modified the source of jwm, actually backported some code from a later version of jwm, to provide right click menus that we are all so familiar with. All of my other stuff is bash or lua. Me, no perl, unless forced!

Posted by bigpilot on April 14 2006,06:50

Where can I find the code for the Control Panel and the underlying buttons? It's the only thing I couldn't find.

Posted by newOldUser on April 14 2006,11:58

Looking in home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu you'll find the CONTROL PANEL entry executes something called cpanel.

issue the 'whereis cpanel' command from a shell (or the bottom command line in emelFM) and it tells you it's in usr/sbin

use emelFM to navigate to usr/sbin and right-click on the cpanel file, select VIEW.

It's a lua/flua program. Check the programing section of this board for some hints and links on lua. I think their main site is www.lua.org. DSL uses version 4. If you open a shell and type lua it will put in into interactive mode.

Good luck

Posted by bigpilot on April 14 2006,17:34

Found it, thx