How do I
Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: How do I
started by: damianiw
Posted by damianiw on July 25 2005,22:25
How Do I customise the xwindows appearance, mainly can I change the tab at the bottom of the screen to be the full width of the screen and use a larger font ?also how do I add / remove things to what I believe is called the slit (the set of controls on the right hand side.
Finally !
I'm running a frugal HD install (I believe pendrive will have the same problem...) only root can have full control to the files on the hard disk so if I go and download something I have to launch emelfm as a super user to move it.
Would there be a way to script it to either reset permissions on boot (I think i understand frugal a little :-) ) or to make dsl a member of the root / admins group on boot to solve this - would this break anything ?
Posted by friedgold on July 25 2005,22:39
I think you can change the tab at the bottom of the screen by editing /home/dsl/.fluxbox/init. The fonts are controlled by the fluxbox style - if you want to change them copy one of the styles from /usr/share/fluxbox/styles/ to /home/dsl/.fluxbox/styles and edit it to suit. The slit applications specified in /home/dsl/.fluxbox/slitlist. There should be documentation on all of this at the < fluxbox home page >.As for the second part of your question maybe adding
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| mount -o remount,umask=000 |
Posted by mikshaw on July 26 2005,03:48
the "tab" width is controlled by this option in .fluxbox/init...session.screen0.toolbar.widthPercent: 100
(that would make it 100%, the whole width of the screen)
.fluxbox/slitlist does not control which dockapps are loaded; it controls only their order. By default, the applications are started from /usr/bin/enhance, which is started from /home/dsl/.xinitrc. The standard way of defining what is loaded with a window manager is to add/remove them in .xinitrc, above the window manager command (fluxbox), with each command followed by '&'.
Posted by damianiw on July 26 2005,09:13
| Quote (friedgold @ July 25 2005,18:39) | ||
| I think you can change the tab at the bottom of the screen by editing /home/dsl/.fluxbox/init. The fonts are controlled by the fluxbox style - if you want to change them copy one of the styles from /usr/share/fluxbox/styles/ to /home/dsl/.fluxbox/styles and edit it to suit. The slit applications specified in /home/dsl/.fluxbox/slitlist. There should be documentation on all of this at the < fluxbox home page >. As for the second part of your question maybe adding
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I can't get the
| Code Sample |
| mount -o remount,unmask=000 |
I also found that man mount won't work through my proxy !
Thanks for the links on Fluxbox, both of you - I'll have a nose and play
Posted by damianiw on July 26 2005,09:59
Thanks This is cool, Is there an easy way to add new icons to the desktop, I think it's a .lnk file somewhere, I'd like to add emelfm as super user as I use it at present :-)
Posted by adssse on July 26 2005,13:30
Open an xterminal window and type:beaver /home/.xtdesktop/emelfmsuper.lnk
Then type these lines into beaver:
Code Sample
table Icon
Type: Program
Caption: Emelfm Super
Command: 'command for emelfm as super'
Icon: .xtdesktop/emelfm.gif
X: 'desired x location'
Y: 'desired y location'
end
(Also, make sure the lines in the .lnk file do not end with whitespace (space or tab) or your icon will not show.)
Save the file and exit beaver.
Then go to the fluxbox start menu and go to
Desktop -> No icons
and then
Desktop -> Icons only
Posted by friedgold on July 26 2005,14:09
| Quote (damianiw @ July 26 2005,05:13) | ||
I can't get the
I also found that man mount won't work through my proxy ! Thanks for the links on Fluxbox, both of you - I'll have a nose and play |
Oops - I meant
| Code Sample |
| mount -o remount,umask=000 /cdrom |
Posted by damianiw on July 27 2005,10:08
Thanks for your help but I still can't get that to work !I get the following error
mount: /cdrom not mounted already, or bad option
I tried inserting a space after the comma which seemed to allow the command to complete but I still have to access rights as DSL to save
Posted by mikshaw on July 27 2005,13:38
I wonder if booting with the 'toram' option will free up the disk so user dsl can mount it.If you can't use the online man through your proxy, try the man.uci extension in testing. It's got all the standard linux man pages plus as many DSL apps as I could find.
Posted by damianiw on July 30 2005,22:46
| Quote (mikshaw @ July 27 2005,09:38) |
| I wonder if booting with the 'toram' option will free up the disk so user dsl can mount it. If you can't use the online man through your proxy, try the man.uci extension in testing. It's got all the standard linux man pages plus as many DSL apps as I could find. |
toram didn't solve it either oh well, will work with it
