MX Fluxbox Screenshots

[Amiga-MX]

@AVLinux

Personally, with a core duo IMac 4GRam, Conky is a must for monitoring. What I found, in order to avoid some boring, is that I can create/modified a class of them, for every favorite Wallpaper I have a dedicated Conky set.

FBX'ers I wonder is there a way to change wallpaper and Conky simultaneously. For example using a little fav shortcut menu. See my conky Hat button ready at right-bottom of the bar.

We can do good things matching Conky with wallpapers. I'm still investigating with the use of MX-FB.

The thematic Devpunk that I'm prospecting has a long scope, my personal MX-FB dream is to create a entire set of ambiance related experiences under Devpunk category using wallpapers, Conky, Rofi, MX tour and loader. With a classic linux usable interface

Here a video to ambient you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUYwCy-a0WI

Thanks and good evening.

[Jerry3904]

FBX'ers I wonder is there a way to change wallpaper and Conky simultaneously.

Maybe with the FB tool "Look"?

[Amiga-MX]

Good catch @Jerry3904

Thank you

Tested FB-Look it seems not all information is correctly saved, like wallpaper dimensions , desktops 1-2 , Conky selection also is missing, the rest seems to be OK.

[Jerry3904]

@Melber Can you confirm what Amiga-MX has observed?

[Amiga-MX]

@Jerry3904 Thank you for your attemption. Can you also try it? Remember first to save your current look.
I'm gonna try moving my Conkies to the desktop #1 to check if happens.

[Amiga-MX]

#1 FB Look and wallpapers for two screens with different dimensions.

It seems that fittings 2 screens with different dimensions with wallpapers and save it in FB-Look works okay, once you save your look with both screens active. Then, in order to restore the look You'll have to do it with only main screen on, if both screen are on, the size of the wallpaper will vary, not fitting.
#2 Conky
I've tested to save only one Conky as seen on the FB-Look tips, but Conky still not restored neither saved as selected.
I have tested for the reason above with both cases, 1 screen only active and with 2 screens on.

Thanks

[Melber]

#1 FB Look and wallpapers for two screens with different dimensions.

It seems that fittings 2 screens with different dimensions with wallpapers and save it in FB-Look works okay, once you save your look with both screens active. Then, in order to restore the look You'll have to do it with only main screen on, if both screen are on, the size of the wallpaper will vary, not fitting.
#2 Conky
I've tested to save only one Conky as seen on the FB-Look tips, but Conky still not restored neither saved as selected.
I have tested for the reason above with both cases, 1 screen only active and with 2 screens on.

Thanks

@Amiga-MX
#Wallpapers
The script just restores the wallpaper with the command nitrogen --set-zoom-fill.
Is nitrogen maybe using the same wallpaper size on the differently sized screens?

#conky
Presume you are using mx-fluxbox 23.
The conky startup script made by look has a DE check in it, if DESKTOP_SESSION != fluxbox the script doesn't run.

Can you post the contents of your saved .look file in ~/.config/MX-Linux/mxfb-look and the contents of ~/.conky/conky-startup.sh

[Amiga-MX]

I'm on MX21-FB
#Wallpapers

Is nitrogen maybe using the same wallpaper size on the differently sized screens?

Yes that's correct. Same wallpaper(1920x1080) on screen1 (1920x1080) automatic mode, and on screen 2 (1680x1050) Zoom fill


These are the outputs I got for the pair .look files DevPunk6 and devpunk6 as I tested both.
DevPunk6.look

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gtk-theme-name=mx-comfort
gtk-icon-theme-name=Papirus-mxblue-darkpanes
gtk-font-name=Sans 11
gtk-theme-name="mx-comfort"
gtk-icon-theme-name="Papirus-mxblue-darkpanes"
gtk-font-name="Sans 11"
session.styleFile:  /home/Amiga/.fluxbox/styles/MX-comfort
1
/home/Amiga/.config/tint2/tint2rc 
None
@theme "/usr/share/rofi/themes/extra-themes/cappuccin-mocha-mx.rasi"
file=/home/Amiga/Imágenes/backgrounds/wallhaven-e75x28.png
cd "$HOME/.conky/Amiga-MX-CPU-Bar"
conky -c "$HOME/.conky/Amiga-MX-CPU-Bar/Amiga-MX-CPU-Bar" &
Hidden=false

and
devpunk6.look

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gtk-theme-name=mx-comfort
gtk-icon-theme-name=Papirus-mxblue-darkpanes
gtk-font-name=Sans 11
gtk-theme-name="mx-comfort"
gtk-icon-theme-name="Papirus-mxblue-darkpanes"
gtk-font-name="Sans 11"
session.styleFile:  /home/Amiga/.fluxbox/styles/MX-comfort
1
/home/Amiga/.config/tint2/tint2rc 
None
@theme "/usr/share/rofi/themes/extra-themes/cappuccin-mocha-mx.rasi"
file=/home/Amiga/Imágenes/backgrounds/wallhaven-e75x28.png
cd "$HOME/.conky/MX-Voyager"
conky -c "$HOME/.conky/MX-Voyager/voyager_No10-Time-MX_colors_mod-LibSans" &
Hidden=false

In addition I'll say that after reboot it seems that the wallpaper on second screen loose the dimensions, so could be something related with the aspect ratio/dimensions of my second monitor that usually windows do not fit the entire vertical space...

@Melber do you have several screens to try by your own ?

Also try the #conky with FB-Looks if you can.

conky-startup.sh

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#!/bin/sh

sleep 20s
killall -u $(id -nu) conky 2>/dev/null
cd "$HOME/.conky/Amiga-MX-CPU-Bar"
conky -c "$HOME/.conky/Amiga-MX-CPU-Bar/Amiga-MX-CPU-Bar" &
cd "$HOME/.conky/CPUtemp-verde"
conky -c "$HOME/.conky/CPUtemp-verde/CPU-TEMP-verde" &
cd "$HOME/.conky/MX-Voyager"
conky -c "$HOME/.conky/MX-Voyager/voyager_No10-Time-MX_colors_mod-LibSans" &
exit 0

I see this file saves my actual election (3 conkies) while the instruction said a conky (single one?)
However I tested before with just only one conky if happened to be saved by FB-Look but it wasn't.

Thank you in advance.

[Melber]

@Melber do you have several screens to try by your own ?

No. I don't even have access to my laptop at the moment.

Look only saves and restores one conky.
The look files seem to be okay.

Is that the contents of conky-startup.sh directly after running restore look? If so, look is not overwriting the file with the new setting for some reason. If not, what are the contents directly after running restore look?

[Amiga-MX]

This is the content of my saved .look with one Conky.

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gtk-theme-name=mx-comfort
gtk-icon-theme-name=Papirus-mxblue-darkpanes
gtk-font-name=Sans 11
gtk-theme-name="mx-comfort"
gtk-icon-theme-name="Papirus-mxblue-darkpanes"
gtk-font-name="Sans 11"
session.styleFile:  /home/Amiga/.fluxbox/styles/MX-comfort
1
/home/Amiga/.config/tint2/tint2rc 
None
@theme "/usr/share/rofi/themes/extra-themes/cappuccin-mocha-mx.rasi"
file=/home/Amiga/Imágenes/backgrounds/wallhaven-e75x28.png
cd "$HOME/.conky/CPUtemp-verde"
conky -c "$HOME/.conky/CPUtemp-verde/CPU-TEMP-verde" &
Hidden=false

This is the content of conky-startup.sh using one Conky alone.

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#!/bin/sh
if [ x"${DESKTOP_SESSION##*/}" = x"lightdm-xsession" ]; then
sleep 10s
killall conky
cd "$HOME/.conky/CPUtemp-verde"

conky -c "$HOME/.conky/CPUtemp-verde/CPU-TEMP-verde" &

exit 0
fi

These are the content after restore withFB-Look, the Conky saved is not active, as I see is even not selected as active in the Conky manager.


Thanks

Addendum
#Wallpapers with FB-Looks
Confirm that in order to get wallpaper on two screens properly restored with the right dimensions with -FB-Look, the restoration must be done with only the main screen on, second screen must be off. After restore, the second screen can be turn on.