adding a small picture in a wm-application

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: adding a small picture in a wm-application
started by: Patrick

Posted by Patrick on Sep. 17 2005,19:16

Hello folks!,

I am working on a "2001: A Space Odyssey" theme in my dsl-box.

I've got the theme music as startup music.
during this music: xplanet shows the earth with "realtime" clouds.
I've got hal to tell me when there is new mail.
Now i want to add a little picture of hal along side the wmapp's (as small as a wmapp-box)

Do you know how i can do this?

I am also planning on getting rid of my "the matrix"-screensaver and replace it with something 2001-ish...

Idea's?

Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 18 2005,05:30

First thing that comes to my mind is to install wmdrawer and use HAL as the main icon there. I can't remember exactly how it is done, but i know it can be done.

Posted by Patrick on Sep. 18 2005,10:49

That one came to my mind too and i replaced the main picture with hal.png and everything seemed to be allright BUT then i expierenced a server crash??!!! (i didn't write down the exact error, sorry) After that (after a reboot) i couln't get into X(Free86). After deleting wmdrawer.tar.gz (from the root) everything was fine again.

By the way, i am not running a ftp/web/deamon. (i do however have just added my printer, but i guess that has nothing to do with it)

Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 18 2005,15:18

I don't know what the problem would be, sorry.
If you just want a picture, i'm sure there is at least one dockapp that just displays images. Try dockapps.org

Posted by Patrick on Sep. 18 2005,15:30

already did that. Couldn't find it. Back to wmdrawer (got it running without that server error message)

Stranges thing, i keep getting questionmarks for the icons in wmdrawer (even if i change the capitals and save it to filetools.lst)

??

Hal is fine though!

PS: I JUST GOT THAT PESSTY SERVER ERROR MESSAGE AGAIN: "fatal server error: could not create lock file in /tmp/.tx0-lock"

after this message i can't get into x(free86). After a reboot, i can..

Icons in wmdrawer keep going from questionmark to normal and don't run all the time...