mxfb-2025 development ideas

[siamhie]

Since I started using dock-dualum-tint2rc as my app launcher, the weather wouldn't show up (after booting up) unless I either log out and log back into the desktop or disable then re-enable the dock.

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I found that if I edit the executors command line and add a sleep command before the curl command, then the weather is displayed after booting up.

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curl wttr.in/?format=1

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sleep 2 && curl wttr.in/?format=1

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That's interesting...
I know two cases, when the weather widget does not show.
1. No Internet connection or bad quality of the connection.
2. The number of queries exceeded and you have to wait for the wttr.in server gets its permissions back to share the information from other weather services.

In the first case the widget will appear after connecting or improving the connection quality. If there is a delay between your logging in and connecting to the Internet you have to wait about 10 minutes for the widget to refresh automatically.

@kobaian I think the problem is that curl runs it's command before the toolbar has completely loaded. I tried it with sleep 1 and the weather still won't show.

2. The number of queries exceeded and you have to wait for the wttr.in server gets its permissions back to share the information from other weather services.

I get that sometimes when I left/right click on the weather report. I'll end up with a blank terminal window.

[kobaian]

Since I started using dock-dualum-tint2rc as my app launcher, the weather wouldn't show up (after booting up) unless I either log out and log back into the desktop or disable then re-enable the dock.

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I found that if I edit the executors command line and add a sleep command before the curl command, then the weather is displayed after booting up.

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curl wttr.in/?format=1

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sleep 2 && curl wttr.in/?format=1

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That's interesting...
I know two cases, when the weather widget does not show.
1. No Internet connection or bad quality of the connection.
2. The number of queries exceeded and you have to wait for the wttr.in server gets its permissions back to share the information from other weather services.

In the first case the widget will appear after connecting or improving the connection quality. If there is a delay between your logging in and connecting to the Internet you have to wait about 10 minutes for the widget to refresh automatically.

@kobaian I think the problem is that curl runs it's command before the toolbar has completely loaded. I tried it with sleep 1 and the weather still won't show.

2. The number of queries exceeded and you have to wait for the wttr.in server gets its permissions back to share the information from other weather services.

I get that sometimes when I left/right click on the weather report. I'll end up with a blank terminal window.

On my own customized tint2 panel I use another version of the weather widget. The executor's command:

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~/.config/tint2/executors/weather

runs the external bash script:

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#!/bin/bash

wtr=`curl -s wttr.in/?format=1 | awk '{print $1 " " $2}'`

if [[ $wtr != Unknown* ]] ; then
echo "$wtr"
else 
echo "😕 Oups!"
fi

It narrows the gap between the weather icon and temperature value and prevents displaying the annoying error message from the wttr.in server on the panel.

[siamhie]

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curl -s wttr.in/?format=1 | awk '{print $1 " " $2}'

It narrows the gap between the weather icon and temperature value

@kobaian Do you know if this would work in tint2's executor line?

[i_ri]

hello
mxfb-menu-generator
AVLmxe did add a Wine Category.
Without Category Wine, the Wine apps are in Utility, mostly Other.
Also added Category Education. Pointed Category Science into Education.
Adding the two Categories count is up to 1..18 eighteen.
Works on mxfluxbox iso not showing empty categories; with those "remove empty" still commented out.

Thanks for taking paren() out of names. vivaldi (snapshot) now does not tangle the fluxbox menu. That was always a manual fix.

[kobaian]

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curl -s wttr.in/?format=1 | awk '{print $1 " " $2}'

It narrows the gap between the weather icon and temperature value

@kobaian Do you know if this would work in tint2's executor line?

I don't know. You can try to precede it with the bash -c command, but I'm not sure what is the correct syntax when it comes to all the brackets and quotation marks.

[Melber]

@Jerry3904 and any other workspaces users.
Any interest in a tool to manage workspaces?

241113_mxfb-workspaces.png

Script here for anyone who wants to take it for a test drive...

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#!/bin/bash

# mxfb-workspaces - Tool to manage workspaces for MX-Fluxbox
# Developed by Melber 2024 and released under GPLv3
# Version 2411-01

TEXTDOMAINDIR=/usr/share/locale 
export TEXTDOMAIN="mxfb-workspaces"
source gettext.sh

mxfb_workspaces () {

number_orig=$(grep "workspaces" $HOME/.fluxbox/init | cut -d: -f2)
number_orig=$(echo $number_orig | sed -e 's/ //g')

names_orig=$(grep "workspaceNames" $HOME/.fluxbox/init | cut -d: -f2)
names_orig=$(echo $names_orig | sed -e 's/ //g' | sed -e 's/,/ /g')
names_orig=($names_orig)

#TRANSLATORS Title text
TITLE="$(gettext 'MXFB-Workspaces')"
CLASS="MXFB-Workspaces"
ICONPATH="/usr/share/icons/Papirus/32x32/places/desktop.svg"

#TRANSLATORS Button label
export BTN_ABOUT=$(gettext "About")      ; BTN_ABOUT+='!help-about'
#TRANSLATORS Button label
export BTN_CLOSE=$(gettext "Close")      ; BTN_CLOSE+='!window-close'
#TRANSLATORS Button label
export BTN_APPLY=$(gettext "Apply")    ; BTN_APPLY+='!object-select'

#TRANSLATORS Window text
TEXT1="$(gettext 'Select the Number and Names of Workspaces')"

#TRANSLATORS Window text
fieldtext_0="$(gettext 'Number of Workspaces:  ')"
fieldtext_1="$(gettext 'Workspace 1 Name:  ')"
fieldtext_2="$(gettext 'Workspace 2 Name:  ')"
fieldtext_3="$(gettext 'Workspace 3 Name:  ')"
fieldtext_4="$(gettext 'Workspace 4 Name:  ')"


output=$(yad --title=$TITLE --class=$CLASS --window-icon="$ICONPATH" \
--width=400 --height=400 --borders=20 --center \
--form --separator="," \
--text="\n$TEXT1\n\n" --text-align=center \
--buttons-layout=spread --button="${BTN_CLOSE}":1 --button="${BTN_APPLY}":0 \
--field="$fieldtext_0":NUM "$number_orig!1..4!1!0" \
--field=" ":LBL " " \
--field="$fieldtext_1" "${names_orig[0]}" \
--field="$fieldtext_2" "${names_orig[1]}" \
--field="$fieldtext_3" "${names_orig[2]}" \
--field="$fieldtext_4" "${names_orig[3]}" \
)

case $? in

1 | 252)
    alldone="finished"
;;

0)

    number=$(echo $output | cut -d, -f1)

    if [[ $number == 1 ]]; then
        names=$(echo $output | cut -d, -f3)
    elif [[ $number == 2 ]]; then
        names=$(echo $output | cut -d, -f3-4)
    elif [[ $number == 3 ]]; then
        names=$(echo $output | cut -d, -f3-5)
    else
        names=$(echo $output | cut -d, -f3-6)
    fi

    names=$(echo $names | sed -e 's/ /_/g')

    number_old=$(grep "workspaces" $HOME/.fluxbox/init)
    number_new="session.screen0.workspaces: $number"
    sed -i "s/$number_old/$number_new/" $HOME/.fluxbox/init

    names_old=$(grep "workspaceNames" $HOME/.fluxbox/init)
    names_new="session.screen0.workspaceNames: $names"
    sed -i "s/$names_old/$names_new/" $HOME/.fluxbox/init

    fluxbox-remote restart

    alldone="notyet"
;;

esac

}

export -f mxfb_workspaces

until [ "$alldone" = "finished" ]; do
    mxfb_workspaces
done

exit 0

[Jerry3904]

That's very handsome--you're getting pretty good at that! I will take it for a spin, including on openbox.

[fehlix]

Maybe have title quoted:

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 --title="$TITLE"

to cater for spaces in translated title.
Perhaps also do reload conky after "fluxbox-remote restart", to avoid visual artifacts,
propably send SIGUSR1 maybe enough to reload.
2p's

[ThemetresAtrometos]

Include to the iso a small swap-file 16-32MB and eliminate any possible crash of any program.

[siamhie]

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curl -s wttr.in/?format=1 | awk '{print $1 " " $2}'

It narrows the gap between the weather icon and temperature value

@kobaian Do you know if this would work in tint2's executor line?

I don't know. You can try to precede it with the bash -c command, but I'm not sure what is the correct syntax when it comes to all the brackets and quotation marks.

@kobaian Works in terminal. I'll try it in tint2. wttr has been spotty lately for me.

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