bonedome wrote:Howdo fluxbox ydl lovers I'd love to show off my desktop only I can't
couple of questions instead, No1 (ok maybe two questions in one here) how the f*£! do I put a damn fine piccy like those above on my fluxbox desktop (tried right click on pic and "set as wallpaper" but nothing
) and installed conky last night
(niiice) whch now lives on the bottom left of the desktop screen with very small writing, any ideas how to make it look like tcrroadies neat single line at the top of the screen with readable size writing.
Question 2: I may be able to solve these myself if someone could remind me how to view/edit a hidden file i.e ~.fluxbox/menu.
ok one more (for a chance to win the car and I have to take your first answer
) what does the command -r mean
For setting your desktop background (wallpaper), taken from my Warp Speed: Fluxbox Window Manager guide
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If you page down near the bottom of the menu file you will see some code defining the path to or desktop wallpapers. It looks like this
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[submenu] (Backgrounds)
[submenu] (Walls)
[wallpapers] (/home/kris/Wallpaper)
[end]
We can see that the path on my system is /home/kris/Wallpaper. Just edit this line to point to the location of your desktop wallpapers.
To view a file from the command line, you can use a file viewer called "less" or you can print the contents of a text file to your screen with "cat". For example, to view .fluxbox/menu
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less .fluxbox/menu
To open up .fluxbox/menu in a text editor such as gedit, run
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gedit .fluxbox/menu
A lower case "-r" usually means recursive. For example to recursively remove a directory and all subdirectories and files run
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rm -r name_of_directory
You will want to be carefull with that one.
As for conky, I'll send you my conkyrc used for my PS3. I don't have a copy of it on my work laptop I am on at the moment. I'll also send you instructions for installing the latest source version of conky. The version that is in the repos is unstable as hell.