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wallpaper support in idesk

J. Bakshi [j.bakshi at unlimitedmail.org]


Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:32:02 +0530

Hello,

Is there anyone using icewm+idesk combination ? I have seen that wallpaper support is already there in idesk; more over changing the wall paper from a source folder is also possible. But is it all theory ? I can't get the wallpaper working in box. I am using idesk 0.7.5-4.

Any success from anyone ?

Please CC to me


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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]


Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:00:42 -0500

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 09:32:02PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Is there anyone using icewm+idesk combination ? I have seen that
> wallpaper support is already there in idesk; more over changing the
> wall paper from a source folder is also possible. But is it all theory
> ? I can't get the wallpaper working in box. I am using idesk  0.7.5-4.
> 
> Any success from anyone ?

It works fine for me; I described the setup in the article that I wrote (http://linuxgazette.net/160/okopnik.html). You know, the one that I pointed you to at the time. Have you read it yet? Perhaps you should.

-- 
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *


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J. Bakshi [j.bakshi at unlimitedmail.org]


Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:04:37 +0530

On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:00:42 -0500 Ben Okopnik <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 09:32:02PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Is there anyone using icewm+idesk combination ? I have seen that
> > wallpaper support is already there in idesk; more over changing the
> > wall paper from a source folder is also possible. But is it all
> > theory ? I can't get the wallpaper working in box. I am using
> > idesk  0.7.5-4.
> > 
> > Any success from anyone ?
> 
> It works fine for me; I described the setup in the article that I
> wrote (http://linuxgazette.net/160/okopnik.html). You know, the one
> that I pointed you to at the time. Have you read it yet? Perhaps you
> should.
> 
> 

Hello Ben,

Yes, I read it. But for me it is not working unfortunately. idesk always reports

 Idesk starting in :1.0
[idesk] Background's file not found.
[idesk] Background's source not found.

Though I have the configuration in my .ideskrc

#Background.Delay: 1
#Background.Source: /home/joy/pics/Father
Background.File: /home/joy/pics/Father/Father.jpg
Background.Mode: Center
Background.Color: #FFFFFF

And the file is also there.

joy@debian:~$ ls -l /home/joy/pics/Father/Father.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 joy joy 33493 Oct 12  2008 /home/joy/pics/Father/Father.jpg

Don't know what prevents the wallpaper !!!


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J. Bakshi [j.bakshi at unlimitedmail.org]


Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:57:06 +0530

On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:14:08 -0500 Ben Okopnik <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 08:04:37PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:
> > 
> > Hello Ben,
> > 
> > Yes, I read it. But for me it is not working unfortunately. idesk
> > always reports 
> > 
> > ````````````
> >  Idesk starting in :1.0
> > [idesk] Background's file not found.
> > [idesk] Background's source not found.
> > ``````````````````````
> 
> Well, idesk is telling you that it can't find either one. Go ahead and
> post your whole .ideskrc here, and I'll check it out.
>  
> > Though I have the configuration in my .ideskrc
> > 
> > `````````````````  
> > #Background.Delay: 1
> > #Background.Source: /home/joy/pics/Father
> > Background.File: /home/joy/pics/Father/Father.jpg
> > Background.Mode: Center
> > Background.Color: #FFFFFF
> > ``````````````````````
> > 
> > And the file is also there.
> > 
> > `````````````
> > joy@debian:~$ ls -l /home/joy/pics/Father/Father.jpg
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 joy joy 33493 Oct 12
> > 2008 /home/joy/pics/Father/Father.jpg ````````````````````
> > 
> > Don't know what prevents the wallpaper !!!
> 
> Given the above, I don't know what would prevent it either; it all
> looks pretty reasonable.
> 
> 

Thanks for your time. Any debug process to find out the problem ?

Here i my whole .ideskrc

table Config
  FontName: gothic
  FontSize: 11
  FontColor: #37CFA6
  ToolTip.FontSize: 11
  ToolTip.FontName: gothic
  ToolTip.ForeColor: #0000FF
  ToolTip.BackColor: #FFFFFF
  ToolTip.CaptionOnHover: true
  ToolTip.CaptionPlacement: Right
  Locked: false
  Transparency: 100
  Shadow: true
  ShadowColor: #000000
  ShadowX: 1
  ShadowY: 1 
  Bold: true
  ClickDelay: 300
  IconSnap: true
  SnapWidth: 10
  SnapHeight: 10
  SnapOrigin: BottomRight
  SnapShadow: false
  SnapShadowTrans: 200
  CaptionOnHover: false
  CaptionPlacement: bottom
  FillStyle: fillinvert
#  Background.Delay: 1
#  Background.Source: /home/joy/pics/Father 
  Background.File: /home/joy/pics/Father/Father.jpg 
  Background.Mode: Center 
  Background.Color: #FFFFFF
end
 
table Actions
  Lock: control right doubleClk
  Reload: middle doubleClk
  Drag: left hold
  EndDrag: left singleClk
  Execute[0]: left doubleClk
  Execute[1]: right doubleClk
end


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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]


Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:14:08 -0500

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 08:04:37PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:

> 
> Hello Ben,
> 
> Yes, I read it. But for me it is not working unfortunately. idesk always reports 
> 
> ````````````
>  Idesk starting in :1.0
> [idesk] Background's file not found.
> [idesk] Background's source not found.
> ``````````````````````

Well, idesk is telling you that it can't find either one. Go ahead and post your whole .ideskrc here, and I'll check it out.

> Though I have the configuration in my .ideskrc
> 
> `````````````````  
> #Background.Delay: 1
> #Background.Source: /home/joy/pics/Father
> Background.File: /home/joy/pics/Father/Father.jpg
> Background.Mode: Center
> Background.Color: #FFFFFF
> ``````````````````````
> 
> And the file is also there.
> 
> `````````````
> joy@debian:~$ ls -l /home/joy/pics/Father/Father.jpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 joy joy 33493 Oct 12  2008 /home/joy/pics/Father/Father.jpg
> ````````````````````
> 
> Don't know what prevents the wallpaper !!!

Given the above, I don't know what would prevent it either; it all looks pretty reasonable.

-- 
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *


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Steve Brown [steve.stevebrown at gmail.com]


Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:21:46 +0100

Hi Guys,

J. Bakshi wrote:

> Ben Okopnik <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 08:04:37PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:
>>>
>>> ````````````
>>>  Idesk starting in :1.0
>>> [idesk] Background's file not found.
>>> [idesk] Background's source not found.
>>> ``````````````````````
>> Well, idesk is telling you that it can't find either one. Go ahead and
>> post your whole .ideskrc here, and I'll check it out.
>>  
>>> Though I have the configuration in my .ideskrc
>>>
>>> `````````````````  
>>> #Background.Delay: 1
>>> #Background.Source: /home/joy/pics/Father
>>> Background.File: /home/joy/pics/Father/Father.jpg
>>> Background.Mode: Center
>>> Background.Color: #FFFFFF
>>> ``````````````````````

In the example .ideskrc file at: http://idesk.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Idesk-usage

it contains this:

Background.File: image.jpg
Background.Delay: 1
Background.Source: ~/.idesktop/icons
Background.Mode: Mirror
Background.Color: #C2CCFF

which suggest that you need to provide these lines instead:

Background.Source: /home/joy/pics/Father
Background.File: Father.jpg
Background.Mode: Center
Background.Color: #FFFFFF

Can you try having a go with them?

Good luck,

Steve


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Steve Brown [steve.stevebrown at gmail.com]


Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:47:19 +0100

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Ben Okopnik<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:57:06PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:14:08 -0500
>> Ben Okopnik <[email protected]> wrote:

[...]

>> Any debug process to find out the problem ?
>
> I don't know of any. I've just tried using "strace", but it shows idesk
> reading the config file, then generating the 'not found' message - no
> other info. Seems to me that idesk is broken in this regard: it works
> fine when I use it my preferred way (i.e., a random image from a
> directory), but doesn't work with a specified single image.

As a temporary workaround, have several copies of the image with different filenames and have it randomly select from them.

Steve


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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]


Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:28:07 -0500

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:57:06PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:14:08 -0500
> Ben Okopnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Well, idesk is telling you that it can't find either one. Go ahead and
> > post your whole .ideskrc here, and I'll check it out.

[...]

> > > Don't know what prevents the wallpaper !!!
> > 
> > Given the above, I don't know what would prevent it either; it all
> > looks pretty reasonable.
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> Any debug process to find out the problem ?

I don't know of any. I've just tried using "strace", but it shows idesk reading the config file, then generating the 'not found' message - no other info. Seems to me that idesk is broken in this regard: it works fine when I use it my preferred way (i.e., a random image from a directory), but doesn't work with a specified single image.

Your best bet is to file a bug.

-- 
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *


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Deividson Okopnik [deivid.okop at gmail.com]


Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:08:28 -0300

2009/7/29 Steve Brown <[email protected]>:

> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Ben Okopnik<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> As a temporary workaround, have several copies of the image with
> different filenames and have it randomly select from them.
>

or just one image in the folder? i guess that would work.


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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]


Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:54:29 -0500

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:08:28AM -0300, Deividson Okopnik wrote:

> 2009/7/29 Steve Brown <[email protected]>:
> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Ben Okopnik<[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > As a temporary workaround, have several copies of the image with
> > different filenames and have it randomly select from them.
> 
> or just one image in the folder? i guess that would work.

[blink] That's brilliant. Sounds like it would work just fine.

-- 
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *


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