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Topic: Desktop Icon Doesn't work., Building GPSDrive nearly fnished

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Headly

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Posted: Oct. 23 2005,06:51

I'm not sure what a fluxbox is. I'm assuming it is the right click on the desktop that brings up the menu. If so, I haven't created a menu item. As I plan to use this in my car with a touch screen I'm not sure if the menu will be accessible.

In any case I think I might have figured it out. Using the "Hello World" principle of debuging I copied an existing .lnk file and created a shell script that just wrote to a log file and nothing else. One by one I changed things and tested it between every change.

Those little .lnk files are touchy little begers

One character out of place and nothing happens. I made one mistake along the way and I had it so that no icons would come up at all.

I haven't rebuilt the pachage yet to do a full end to end test but so far it is looking like it is going to work.

Thanks again for your help with this.

David
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mikshaw

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Posted: Oct. 23 2005,15:06

Fluxbox is the name of the Window manager (graphical interface) that DSL uses...it controls the position, size, and decoration of windows, toolbar and menu, and has that box of apps on the right side (the slit).

Yes the icons are touchy little things. I've seen some stupid problems with them, but until now had never seen an error that would allow display of the icon but prevent its use.

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ctcurtis

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Posted: Nov. 05 2005,16:34

Any updates on getting gpsDrive to work? Can you post the application, or at least the steps you took to get it to work properly.

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Posted: Nov. 05 2005,22:58

EDIT: Oops.

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System:
eTower 566.12, 32MB RAM, 7GB HD, 200MB swap, 1x USB v.1, Intel 810GFX, Intel 810 Audio.
Recompiled so far: Pretty much everything. I think I'll have to do a remaster to cut the growing bloat off my system.

Headly

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Posted: Nov. 06 2005,04:32

I have got their last stable version 2.09 to work.
I think it is about a year and a half old and lots of development work as gone into it since then. I'm currently working on compiling their latest CVS version but there are some more compile problems that I'm working on.

It came out faily big (28mb) as I had to include all the gtk+ stuff in the archive. Only because I don't know of a better way to do it.

I'm willing to make the version available for testing purposes so long as everyone knows it is a work in progress.

I'm not sure where / how to post this kind of thing here on the DSL site. Any suggestions.

David

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