MX-21 fluxbox beta 1 feedback thread.

[i_ri]

hello dolphin_oracle
menus. /home/demo/.fluxbox/submenus
files /appearance, /full_menu,
Can have one more [end] Tag.

[siamhie]

Every boot live and installed, on a 64-bit desktop machine, generates an xmessage;

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tint2:Battery low!

Chris

I finally found out what generates that message. If you edit your rc file in the .config/tint2/ folder, remove B from the "panel_items =" line. You won't get the message popup anymore.

Another way is to open the settings manager, tint2 manager, config, select your theme and click on the hamburger. Select Panel items and in the Elements selected section will show

Battery. Highlight it and move it over to the other side and select apply when done.

[oops]

so something like

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bash -c "[[ -z $(acpi 2>/dev/null) ]] && { ;} || { notify-send 'battery low'; }"

... Yes, very good, probably the best solution.

[chrispop99]

Every boot live and installed, on a 64-bit desktop machine, generates an xmessage;

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tint2:Battery low!

Chris

I finally found out what generates that message. If you edit your rc file in the .config/tint2/ folder, remove B from the "panel_items =" line. You won't get the message popup anymore.

Another way is to open the settings manager, tint2 manager, config, select your theme and click on the hamburger. Select Panel items and in the Elements selected section will show

Battery. Highlight it and move it over to the other side and select apply when done.

Thanks, but the idea is to have a solution that works for laptops and desktops without the user changing anything.

Chris

[Jerry3904]

The desktop right-click menu contains an entry for Email, which does nothing.

Chris

Yeah, I was thinking it would be handy for the user but it needs to go.

[Jerry3904]

hello dolphin_oracle
<xfdesktop4> and <xfdesktop4-data> are installed packages (?)

Thanks. I need to check whether they are needed by any of the other Xfce4 packages but it doesn't look like they should be included.

@m_pav I snooped around and can see no reason why these should be included--unless you know of some disaster that would result if we took them out!

[Jerry3904]

so something like

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bash -c "[[ -z $(acpi 2>/dev/null) ]] && { ;} || { notify-send 'battery low'; }"

... Yes, very good, probably the best solution.

And the widget is working with that command in place, having just shown up on my laptop on the right side, just inside the clock. Tooltip gives a bit detail but we might improve or remove that.

I love this b/c it's out of the way until needed. Does 25% seem like a reasonable visibility?

[oops]

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I love this b/c it's out of the way until needed. Does 25% seem like a reasonable visibility?

Me too, it's a solution "à la Fehlix" ... 25% is ok for me.

[davemx]

I didn't test this on the XFCE version, but, in the fluxbox version, when I ran MX Tools and selected alsamixer the F-keys were not captured by alsamixer and their global functions happened instead.

[davemx]

The problem mentioned by others regarding the "no battery" error on desktops, I found that by making alterations to tint2, it came up again. At one point I had the error message on screen in three different windows! It's definitely being prompted by something that comes up when you run tint2.