myDSL Extensions (deprecated) :: New Extensions in Testing - 08 / 2004



Thanks once again for the excellent feedback ..

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New themes working: 7Matrix. 7color, amber, natured, rox, sid1, strawberry
All work fine.

The latest, wingmaker-theme.tar.gz, is VERY NICE..
Excellent use of both soft and deep colors ..

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Tried the xmms skins package and some worked, some didn't.  Do you want a list?  The ones that didn't just give you a standard xmms.

Some of these were zipped, and some tarred...
For the zips to work you need the gnu-utils installed, I think..
All of them work on my system,
but I always boot with dsl-dpkg and gnu-utils by default ...
I think I will go back and tar them all..  TODO

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Tried the revamped barrage and it works.

This game is SO COOL..  I've given away several copies of DSL by
request to people who just wanted to play this game...
The "F" keys switch to window mode, and the "S" key kills the sound.
After much searching, I can't find a way to make it open up in
window mode by default..
There doesn't seem to be any command options available ..

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dsl-fluxbox-0.9.9 - seems to run and it adds the menu items, but doesn't seem to do anything.  The restart in the menu does force the wm to restart.

There is a new version uploaded recently..
I'm still working on it, trying to get it to function properly without
the custom scripts in it.
DSL doesn't distribute custom software, only subsets of installs ..

Freecraft needs both icons and menu options ..  
Runs fine from command line - TODO

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wmfrog - The website to look up stations is  http://www.nws.noaa.gov/tg/siteloc.shtml  That address should probably be put in the .info file along w/ how to run it.  Works great.

Another TODO

Doom .wad's go in "/usr/share/games/doom" directory
Quake2 .pak files go in "/home/dsl/.quake2/baseq2" directory
I should post these locations in their .info files as well   TODO

73
ke4nt
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dsl-fluxbox-0.9.9 - seems to run and it adds the menu items, but doesn't seem to do anything.  The restart in the menu does force the wm to restart.

The restart is used to return to fluxbox stable from fluxbox development.
The first menu item, "enable", changes .xinitrc (if you're currently running fluxbox)...restarting X should bring you into fluxbox-dev.

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I'm still working on it, trying to get it to function properly without
the custom scripts in it.
DSL doesn't distribute custom software, only subsets of installs

Hmmm...I didn't think of it as custom software, but more of a wrapper.
What would you like changed?  The only script added is ~/flux-dev. What it does is copy ~/.xinitrc and changes the "fluxbox" line of that copy to fluxbox-dev.  On first run it copies dev-init in order to prevent overwriting the current ~./fluxbox/init, and creates a couple of empty config files.
I can try a different approach, but I think anything done to prevent overwriting the current files will require some sort of script (the current menu item does something similar, but is more complicated from the user's point of view). The default config files are built into the program with no configure option to change them.
In my opinion, your script sounds like it is performing a function that is normally done by a shell wrapper but I have not read it myself.  Hopefully you and the DSL team can figure out a way to get the needed functionality without crossing the line because Fluxbox-dev is an extension that seems to be in demand.

A member of the team was able to get my Opera extension to work acceptably so it is possible.

Worst case, you are allowed to distribute it on someone else's web/ftp/download site if not on the DSL repository.
I'd rather change it in order for it to remain in the repository.
The script is as follows:
Code Sample
#!/bin/sh

 #tells xinit to use a different rc file
export XINITRC=$HOME/.fluxbox/fluxinitrc

#copy/create configs for fluxbox-dev
if [ ! -f $HOME/.fluxbox/dev-init ]; then
cp /opt/fluxbox-0.9.9/share/fluxbox/dev-init $HOME/.fluxbox/
touch $HOME/.fluxbox/{apps,dev-groups,dev-keys,dev-slitlist}
fi

# copy .xinitrc as fluxinitrc, removing the last command and replacing with new command
cd $HOME
sed '/^$/d;s/^[ \t]*//' .xinitrc | grep -v ^\# | sed '$d' > .fluxbox/fluxinitrc
echo '/opt/fluxbox-0.9.9/bin/fluxbox -rc $HOME/.fluxbox/dev-init -log $HOME/.fluxbox/dev-log' >> .fluxbox/fluxinitrc

#startx apparently doesn't pass the $XINITRC variable
xinit
Looks like a "shell wrapper" to me.  It doesn't try to do any function other than get the program up and running.  I can see how someone (like me) would have difficulty understanding the sed line, but other than that it looks readable and well commented.  But my opinion isn't the one that matters.  You'll have to work that out with the DSL team.
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