PekWM autoproperty for oo2

Why won't my pekwm autoproperty work?
I use the open office 2 beta from unstable. It has the little window titled "Styles and Formatting" I want that window to be always on top.
This is my autoproperty:
Property = "VCLSalFrame,OpenOffice.org 1.9.122" {
Title = "^Styles and Formatting"
ApplyOn = "Start New"
Layer = "OnTop"
I got the Property using the auxillery propstring function. If I don't have the Title line in there, it makes the full open office window always on top (not pleasant). Putting the Title line in doesn't work... what am I doing wrong???
Thanks,
Dusty

I've had this problem with Mozilla Thunderbird.
Turns out, as the program is loading, you can see the window title changes. That may be the case here. You need to tell pekwm about the original window title, or it won't recognise it.
I doubt OOo would have the window Role set, but that's the best way to set autoproperties (which is what i do with gaim). check xprops output for it.

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A simplified version of wifi-select which will scan for networks and populate an openbox right-click menu item with available networks. displays security type and signal strength. click on a network to connect via netcfg the same way wifi-select does it.
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-- you have to install zenity
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USERNAME ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/netcfg
USERNAME ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /home/USERNAME/.config/openbox/wifi-pipe
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<menu id="term-menu"/>
<item label="Run...">
<action name="Execute">
<command>gmrun</command>
</action>
</item>
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The script
#!/bin/bash
# pbrisbin 2009
# simplified version of wifi-select designed to output as an openbox pipe menu
# required:
# netcfg
# zenity
# NOPASSWD entries for this and netcfg through visudo
# the following in menu.xml:
# <menu id="pipe-wifi" label="Wifi" execute="sudo /path/to/wifi.pipe interface"/>
# the idea is to run this script once to scan/print, then again immediately to connect.
# therefore, if you scan but don't connect, a temp file is left in /tmp. the next scan
# will overwrite it, and the next connect will remove it.
# source this just to get PROFILE_DIR
. /usr/lib/network/network
[ -z "$PROFILE_DIR" ] && PROFILE_DIR='/etc/network.d/'
# awk code for parsing iwlist output
# putting it here removes the wifi-select dependency
# and allows for my own tweaking
# prints a list "essid=security=quality_as_percentage"
PARSER='
BEGIN { FS=":"; OFS="="; }
/\<Cell/ { if (essid) print essid, security, quality[2]/quality[3]*100; security="none" }
/\<ESSID:/ { essid=substr($2, 2, length($2) - 2) } # discard quotes
/\<Quality=/ { split($1, quality, "[=/]") }
/\<Encryption key:on/ { security="wep" }
/\<IE:.*WPA.*/ { security="wpa" }
END { if (essid) print essid, security, quality[2]/quality[3]*100 }
errorout() {
echo "<openbox_pipe_menu>"
echo "<item label=\"$1\" />"
echo "</openbox_pipe_menu>"
exit 1
create_profile() {
ESSID="$1"; INTERFACE="$2"; SECURITY="$3"; KEY="$4"
PROFILE_FILE="$PROFILE_DIR$ESSID"
cat > "$PROFILE_FILE" << END_OF_PROFILE
CONNECTION="wireless"
ESSID="$ESSID"
INTERFACE="$INTERFACE"
DESCRIPTION="Automatically generated profile"
SCAN="yes"
IP="dhcp"
TIMEOUT="10"
SECURITY="$SECURITY"
END_OF_PROFILE
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if [ -n "$KEY" ]; then
echo "KEY=\"$KEY\"" >> "$PROFILE_FILE"
chmod 600 "$PROFILE_FILE"
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chmod 644 "$PROFILE_FILE"
fi
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iwlist $INTERFACE scan 2>/dev/null | awk "$PARSER" | sort -t= -nrk3 > /tmp/networks.tmp
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if [ ! -s /tmp/networks.tmp ]; then
rm /tmp/networks.tmp
errorout "no networks found."
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echo "<openbox_pipe_menu>"
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echo " <action name=\"Execute\">"
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echo " </action>"
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# if found use it, else create a new profile
if [ -n "$PROFILE_FILE" ]; then
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if [ "$SECURITY" != "none" ]; then
KEY="$(zenity --entry --title="Authentication" --text="Please enter $SECURITY key for $ESSID" --hide-text)"
fi
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create_profile "$ESSID" "$INTERFACE" "$SECURITY" "$KEY"
fi
# connect
netcfg2 "$PROFILE" >/tmp/output.tmp
# if failed, ask about removal of created profile
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
zenity --question \
--title="Connection failed" \
--text="$(grep -Eo "[\-\>]\ .*$" /tmp/output.tmp) \n Remove $PROFILE_FILE?" \
--ok-label="Remove profile"
[ $? -eq 0 ] && rm $PROFILE_FILE
fi
rm /tmp/output.tmp
rm /tmp/networks.tmp
[ $(id -u) -ne 0 ] && errorout "root access required."
[ -z "$1" ] && errorout "usage: $0 [interface]"
INTERFACE="$1"; shift
# i added a sleep if we need to explicitly bring it up
# b/c youll get "no networks found" when you scan right away
# this only happens if we aren't up already
if ! ifconfig | grep -q $INTERFACE; then
ifconfig $INTERFACE up &>/dev/null || errorout "$INTERFACE not up"
while ! ifconfig | grep -q $INTERFACE; do sleep 1; done
fi
if [ "$1" = "connect" ]; then
ESSID="$2"
connect
else
print_menu
fi
Screenshots
removed -- Hi-res shots available on my site
NOTE - i have not tested this extensively but it was working for me in most cases. any updates/fixes will be edited right into this original post. enjoy!
UPDATE - 10/24/2009: i moved the awk statement from wifi-select directly into the script. this did two things: wifi-select is no longer needed on the system, and i could tweak the awk statement to be more accurate. it now prints a true percentange. iwlist prints something like Quality=17/70 and the original awk statement would just output 17 as the quality. i changed to print (17/70)*100 then bash trims the decimals so you get a true percentage.
Last edited by brisbin33 (2010-05-09 01:28:20)

froli wrote:
I think the script's not working ... When I type
sh wifi-pipe
in a term it returns nothing
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he above is only an adjustment to the OB script's print_menu() function, it's not an entire script to itself. so, if the original OB script shows output for you with
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# pbrisbin 2009
# simplified version of wifi-select designed to output as an pekwm pipe menu
# required:
# netcfg
# zenity
# NOPASSWD entries for this and netcfg through visudo
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errorout() {
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echo " Entry = \"$1\""
echo "}"
exit 1
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PROFILE_FILE="$PROFILE_DIR$ESSID"
cat > "$PROFILE_FILE" << END_OF_PROFILE
CONNECTION="wireless"
ESSID="$ESSID"
INTERFACE="$INTERFACE"
DESCRIPTION="Automatically generated profile"
SCAN="yes"
IP="dhcp"
TIMEOUT="10"
SECURITY="$SECURITY"
END_OF_PROFILE
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echo "KEY=\"$KEY\"" >> "$PROFILE_FILE"
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if [ ! -s /tmp/networks.tmp ]; then
rm /tmp/networks.tmp
errorout "no networks found."
fi
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IFS='='
cat /tmp/networks.tmp | while read ESSID SECURITY QUALITY; do
echo "Entry = \"$ESSID ($SECURITY) $QUALITY%\" {"
echo " Actions = \"Exec sudo $0 $INTERFACE connect \\\"$ESSID\\\"\"</command>"
echo "}"
done
unset IFS
echo "}"
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if [ -n "$PROFILE_FILE" ]; then
PROFILE=$(basename "$PROFILE_FILE")
else
PROFILE="$ESSID"
SECURITY="$(awk -F '=' "/$ESSID/"'{print $2}' /tmp/networks.tmp | head -n1)"
# ask for the security key if needed
if [ "$SECURITY" != "none" ]; then
KEY="$(zenity --entry --title="Authentication" --text="Please enter $SECURITY key for $ESSID" --hide-text)"
fi
# create the new profile
create_profile "$ESSID" "$INTERFACE" "$SECURITY" "$KEY"
fi
# connect
netcfg2 "$PROFILE" >/tmp/output.tmp
# if failed, ask about removal of created profile
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
zenity --question \
--title="Connection failed" \
--text="$(grep -Eo "[\-\>]\ .*$" /tmp/output.tmp) \n Remove $PROFILE_FILE?" \
--ok-label="Remove profile"
[ $? -eq 0 ] && rm $PROFILE_FILE
fi
rm /tmp/output.tmp
rm /tmp/networks.tmp
[ $(id -u) -ne 0 ] && errorout "root access required."
[ -z "$1" ] && errorout "usage: $0 [interface]"
INTERFACE="$1"; shift
# i added a sleep if we need to explicitly bring it up
# b/c youll get "no networks found" when you scan right away
# this only happens if we aren't up already
if ! ifconfig | grep -q $INTERFACE; then
ifconfig $INTERFACE up &>/dev/null || errorout "$INTERFACE not up"
sleep 3
fi
if [ "$1" = "connect" ]; then
ESSID="$2"
connect
else
print_menu
fi
exit 0

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usbhid USB HID core driver
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ecb ECB block cipher algorithm
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rt2500pci Ralink RT2500 PCI & PCMCIA Wireless LAN driver.
snd_seq_oss OSS-compatible sequencer module
rt2x00pci rt2x00 pci library
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rt2x00lib rt2x00 library
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input_polldev Generic implementation of a polled input device
mac80211 IEEE 802.11 subsystem
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uhci_hcd USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
snd_pcm_oss PCM OSS emulation for ALSA.
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cfg80211 wireless configuration support
ppdev
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snd_mixer_oss Mixer OSS emulation for ALSA.
snd_ac97_codec Universal interface for Audio Codec '97
nvidia
lp
eeprom_93cx6 EEPROM 93cx6 chip driver
parport_pc PC-style parallel port driver
ohci1394 Driver for PCI OHCI IEEE-1394 controllers
parport
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ac97_bus
ieee1394
serio_raw Raw serio driver
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e100 Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver
snd_pcm Midlevel PCM code for ALSA.
pcspkr PC Speaker beeper driver
battery ACPI Battery Driver
8139cp RealTek RTL-8139C+ series 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver
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i2c_core I2C-Bus main module
iTCO_wdt Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver
mii MII hardware support library
evdev Input driver event char devices
snd Advanced Linux Sound Architecture driver for soundcards.
ac ACPI AC Adapter Driver
iTCO_vendor_support Intel TCO Vendor Specific WatchDog Timer Driver Support
usbcore
soundcore Core sound module
sg SCSI generic (sg) driver
shpchp Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver
snd_page_alloc Memory allocator for ALSA system.
processor ACPI Processor Driver
thermal ACPI Thermal Zone Driver
pci_hotplug PCI Hot Plug PCI Core
intel_agp
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agpgart AGP GART driver
rtc_cmos Driver for PC-style 'CMOS' RTCs
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rtc_lib
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mbcache Meta block cache (for extended attributes)
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sr_mod SCSI cdrom (sr) driver
cdrom
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ata_generic low-level driver for generic ATA
pata_acpi SCSI low-level driver for ATA in ACPI mode
libata Library module for ATA devices
floppy
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DAMAGE
DOUBLE-BUFFER
DPMS
DRI2
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XKEYBOARD
XTEST
XVideo
OpenGL
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Vendor Intel
Configuration
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Frequency 1594.77MHz
BogoMIPS 3190.44
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HLT Bug no
F00F Bug no
Coma Bug no
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vme Virtual 86 Mode Extension
de Debug Extensions - I/O breakpoints
pse Page Size Extensions (4MB pages)
tsc Time Stamp Counter and RDTSC instruction
msr Model Specific Registers
pae Physical Address Extensions
mce Machine Check Architeture
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sep Fast System Call (SYSENTER/SYSEXIT)
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pat Page Attribute Table
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clflush Cache Line Flush instruction
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acpi Thermal Monitor and Software Controlled Clock
mmx MMX technology
fxsr FXSAVE and FXRSTOR instructions
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ss Self Snoop
ht HyperThreading
tm Thermal Monitor
up smp kernel running on up
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CPU Blowfish
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So what I am wanting help with is finding the solution to the cpu usage so that I can use this computer at least until I can afford a new power supply or whatever. I am open to any good suggestions, though I must state I am not really interested in tiling wm's at the moment. I am just not a true minimalist.
Thanks in advance for any and all help. I understand that there is a lot of info in this post, but it is my hope that with this info the problem can be solved. If there is info I didn't provide that is needed, please let me know.

also check that you have
session.screen0.opaqueMove false
in your .fluxbox/init this will probably help a bit if it is currently true,
Last edited by Cyrusm (2009-01-26 13:52:13)

I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

Hi everyone,
I'm setting up a linux desktop for the first time. I'd like some directions on finding a music player. Here are my criteria, in order of importance:
- Can play (at least) ogg, mp3 and wav
- Prefers a 'playlist approach' (m3u) to a 'media library' approach
- Can play songs without breaks in-between
- Fast startup
- Simple interface (ex. VLC beats mplayer)
My window manager is pekwm. This is for usability reasons, not performance reasons - my comp. can handle all the bells and whistles you throw at it (actually, I tried with my doorbell, but I wouldn't recommend with the church bell). (sorry for the bad humour). Crazy visualisations and features whose sole purposes are to eat up CPU cycles are O.K.
Good support for keyboard would be appreciated - I am a pekwm user.
So what have you got?

MPD rocks, runs here for months without major problems.
The client side is very flexible, you can choose many players:
http://www.musicpd.org/clients.shtml
For X, for console, etc..
Edit:
MPD supports Icecast also, to create streams.
Last edited by mephisto (2007-05-15 14:00:36)

[SOLVED] PekWM menu font size

I just installed a new theme (it's called Case) to use with PekWM and it is pretty ideal for me. However, the menu's font size is really, really small. After delving into Case's theme file, I found some "$font" strings, but I cannot find where font is originally defined. Changing the font in lxappearance does not effect the theme's font, either.
Any pointers?
Last edited by oalicein (2011-05-07 13:01:55)

Thank you Jean-Paul, I cannot believe I missed that.
After reloading PekWM, the font appears bigger, but now my submenus are cut-off. For instance, while the first menu should say "Development" only "Develop" fits. Similarly, "VLC media player" only reads "VLC media".
Does this also have to do with the first line in the theme? I'm not exactly sure how to proceed.
Edit: On restart, everything looks normal. I probably should have checked that first. Anyway, thanks for your help.
Last edited by oalicein (2011-05-07 13:01:35)

[SOLVED] Looking for a tiling WM with a certain feature

I've been using openbox/pekwm for a few years I recently tried tiling window managers again (tried them a few years ago and hated them) and I'm hooked but after trying just about all of the popular ones and reading the man pages/web sites I can't find any that have a certain feature I'd like (maybe I've just completely missed it). What I'd like is to have firefox in the master area (left hand side, about 50-60% width), whatever else I have open (usually one or two terminals and thunar) in the slave area and then pidgin buddy list open in a small thin area on the right hand side of the screen.
I'm not fussed about status/task bars or anything like that (but being able to add my own would be a bonus), prefer no window borders (like i3 or wmii) and would prefer something easy to configure (I don't mind learning haskell if xmonad is perfect for my needs but I'd rather avoid awesome as I've heard the config changes often and I'm not too keen on the built in task bar etc)
Thanks
Last edited by descendent87 (2010-02-16 14:12:41)

descendent87 wrote:what's the difference in dynamic and manual tyling managers?
Dynamic tilers have one or more pre-defined layouts for you to choose from and arrange the frames accordingly, while in manual tilers, you choose the size/arrangement of frames yourself.
What I'd ideally like is something where I can set so that firefox/chromium/uzbl (whatever browser I'm using) always opens in the master area, pidgin always opens in the far right hand side and anything else (terminals, thunar, mplayer) always opens in the slave erea (inbetween web browser and pidgin).
Well, this is doable with musca, though I've never even tried to set it up that way Though it's probably along the lines of:
* Put commands in a ~/.musca_start file
* In this file, set up frames as you want using commands like hsplit, vsplit, etc.
* Set focus to the frame you want browser to appear in (also with above commands), start browser, dedicate frame to browser so no other window will appear in the same frame
* focus next frame, start Pidgin
* etc.
Unfortunately, this won't work with multiple browser windows, for example, since the dedicate command won't allow several browser windows to appear in the same frame. Also, my solution is *very* ugly (seems more like an Excel macro to me rather than a properly scripted solution ). There's probably a lot more possible with proper use of wmctrl, but I never got around doing much with it. If you really do want full control over your layout, I should probably recommend Xmonad, but I've had zero experience with it (a >500MiB ghc is a little spooky).

Looking for a file manager with these features:

Hi everyone,
I'm looking for a file manager that has the following features (in that order of importance):
- Designed with keyboard users in mind (but full mouse support also)
- Easily configurable
- Supports copying, moving, deleting and the usual operations
- Good search functionnality
- Can see a lot of files at once, does not take up too much room on screen
- Can tie certain file types to applications (ex. open .avi files with video player)
- Nice to look at
- [opt.] Can preview pictures (thumbnails or a preview pane)
Does such a file manager exist? What would you reccomend?
By the way, my current window manager is pekwm.
I am new to linux desktops, so this may change.
Last edited by peets (2007-05-14 23:17:34)

phrakture wrote:
slackhack wrote:not trying to be a wiseguy, but the command line actually does everything you require (except mousing, obviously) better than any gui you are likely to find. give it a try, you might be surprised at how often you start using it by default.
Hah, I was going to say exactly that... "keyboard users in mind? my file manager has some awesome hotkeys - like 'l' then 's' to list files, and 'c' then 'p' to copy, 'm' then 'v' to move, it goes on and on, and it has millions of 'plugins'!"
Yeah. I fell in love with linux because of the command line. But it's not always the best tool.
One advantage of graphical file managers is that they offer 'automatic ls': you always see the contents of your directory.
Also, yesterday I needed to move most files in one directory to another. They had varied names. This would have taken a long time with the command-line: I could have named the files one by one, or moved all of them and then name one by one the files that I want moved back. With a graphical file manager, I can select all files and then 'unselect' the ones I don't want to move with just a few clicks. It's faster and simpler. (Or maybe there's some really fancy CLI tool that I don't know about)
When choosing a tool for a job, first I look for the most ethical one, then the most practical one. In most cases I would say I prefer the command line, but sometimes a graphical interface is better. Computers are really good at both, so using both methods is the way I go.
I absolutely love your humour though, slackhack and phrakture. Keep it up!

PekWM help? {SOLVED}

I am checking out pekwm for fun but I have a problem. I want to have "Desktop Margins" as they are called in Openbox. I have a conky display on the top of my screen and tint, ipager, and trayer on the bottom. I tried EdgeSize in the pekwm config file which worked except for one problem. If I used EdgeSize then I couldn't click anything in tint, and trayer and ipager loads above the EdgeSize just like other apps do. How can I accomplish this. I just want a 20 px space at the top and bottom of the screen but still be able to click my tint and trayer and have ipager load right.
Thanks
Last edited by cu3edweb (2008-11-25 13:43:12)

Actually I found my answer. There is a section under the mouse config "ScreenEdge". I just commented that out and I am all set now. I used openbox for awhile, but I am really enjoying pekwm right now.

I'd like to convert this OB action to a Pekwm action

I found a thread by pablokal which showed his Openbox shortcuts and noticed one that I've really wanted:
Super Left - resizes window to half the screen then snaps it to the left [Obkey options Action: unmaximizefull, maximizevert, move resize to x=0,y=0, width:half horizontal monitor resolution 1920:2=960]
However, I use pekwm and not openbox. Does anyone know the commands to recreate this action in Pekwm syntax? I have tried, but my solution was clumsy and required multiple keypresses.
Thanks for anyone who can help!

If you had an actual table with tabular input you'd get something with an export to Excel.
If the PDF was a well-formed Tagged PDF the export of tabular data into the spreadsheet file format would be rather good.
But, alas, what you've displayed is not "spreadsheet" material.
Export of form fields and form field content takes one down a somewhat different path.
Be well...

PekWM Does not end XSession

When using the "exit" from pekwm's menu, it does not end my Xsession...and gets stuck. Until I know how to get around that, I'm going to be sampling Openbox more.

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
If a program is not responding and you cannot "force quit" then you can launch Activity Monitor in Utilities. Under "my processes" you can choose that program and use the red "Quit process" icon at the upper left. That should do it rather than a restart.
But if many applications aren't responding both Apple and non-Apple there is a problem that should be sorted.
A good start would be to create a new account, name it "test" and see how your apps work in that User acct? (That will tell if your problem is systemwide or limited to your User acct.) This account is just for test, do nothing further with it.
Open System Preferences >> Accounts >> "+" make it an admin account.
Let us know and we'll troubleshoot this further.
-mj
[email protected]

My Arch/Pekwm Setup (and you can have it too!)

Hello Everyone,
I've gotten a nice working lightweight setup going here with Arch and Pekwm (see screenshot:http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/9571 … enshot.png) and I felt like I should share the tools necessary for others to get a similar environment up and running quickly. The core of my "desktop" is Pekwm, LXPanel, Xcompmgr, and Nitrogen. I also have a set of common applications installed, choosing lighter alternatives based on my knowledge of what's light and what works.
This quick guide assumes a bit of knowledge and doesn't spell out every command, but should be plenty clear for intermediate Archers and likely many beginners. The guide will be based on a clean install, which assumes you already have Arch installed and are able to boot and login as root into the console. You should also make sure to run a pacman -Syu before beginning if you are working from a fresh install.
The majority of this will be a bunch of pacman commands to get everthing installed. I'm providing my confirguation files as a means of getting a system setup quickly. For more details of configuring certain components, I reccomend the Arch Wiki, which has very nice documentation on just about everything I'm suggesting for installation here.
Oh! and one more thing. I have NOT yet tested this exact guide on a fresh install, so it could likely contain typos, missing programs, etc. It is, however, derived from a text document that I use everytime I create a fresh install, so it should be pretty solid. There may also be some leftovers that are specific to my username, paths, etc. If you find these, please let me know and I'll update accordingly. I also plan on posting my openbox setup at somepoint, so any feedback here would be greatly appreciated.
And so it begins...
## GROUPS ##
Make sure you're user account is assigned to some useful groups. I have added my user to the following groups:
wheel, optical, storage, disk, power, and audio
## CORE GUI/AUDIO PACKAGES (for sound and video) ##
NOTE: I am using nvidia here, since I have an nvidia card...
pacman -S xorg mesa nvidia alsa-utils
## GRAPHICAL LOGIN (if you don't already have one... I use slim) ##
pacman -S slim archlinux-themes-slim
## MAIN DESKTOP PACKAGES ##
pacman -S pekwm nitrogen menumaker xcompmgr lxpanel lxappearance gcalctool mousepad terminal thunar thunar-volman xarchiver gpicview mtpaint exaile gnome-mplayer xfce4-mixer xfburn midori pidgin transmission-gtk abiword gnumeric orage epdfview gkrellm
## CODECS/PLUGINS ##
pacman -S gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins gstreamer0.10-good-plugins gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins libdvdcss libdvdread flashplugin openjdk6
## THEMES/FONTS ##
pacman -S gtk2 xcursor-vanilla-dmz ubuntulooks gnome-icon-theme murrine-themes-collection ttf-ms-fonts ttf-dejavu ttf-bitstream-vera
Ok, so now we should be done installing stuff. Time for just a bit of hackery.
## RC.CONF ##
Add these to the DAEMONS in /etc/rc.conf: dbus hal fam slim alsa
## SLIM ##
Ignore this part if you are NOT starting from scratch and/or have another DM that you will be using (ie. GDM, KDM, XDM, etc).
Copy the provided slim.conf.save file to /etc/slim.conf
Copy the provided xinitrc file to ~/.xinitrc and make .xinitrc executable
## DESKTOP CONFIG ##
Copy the contents of the provided dot_pekwm folder to ~/.pekwm/
Copy the contents of the provided lxpanel folder to ~/.config/lxpanel/
Copy the provided NATURE-SouthwestSunset_1600x1200.jpg (from art.gnome.org) to wherever you keep your wallpaper and update the "nitrogen" line in ~/.pekwm/start to point to the correct path (currently, it's pointing to MY home directory). You can also comment out or modify the xcompmgr line to your likings. I just run it for transparency and no other effects.
For the Vanilla-DMZ mouse cursor to be the default (which is what I am using), create this file:
.icons/default/index.theme
And populate with this:
[Icon Theme]
Inherits=Vanilla-DMZ
Run lxappearance from the System menu and select MurrinaCandido (Human-Graphite also works well with this setup) for the GTK theme and GNOME for the icon theme. Again, this assumes you wish to copy my exact setup. Also, the theme I am running in Pekwm is Murrina334, which *should* be set by default if you use my config.
NOTE: The attached tarball also includes a folder called "Fonts". This came with one of the the Pekwm themes I downloaded, but I can't remember which one. So, just copy contents to /usr/share/fonts/ to be safe.
## ISSUES/CAVEATS WITH PACKAGES AND SUCH ##
1) If you want mangler (which is in my pekwm menu), you'll need to get that from the AUR.
2) If you want a version of Midori that doesn't crash when you click on the little history button in the address bar, you'll need to get the git version from the AUR.
3) For mounting of CD/DVD drives to work properly in thunar, you *may* need to modify /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf and add these lines:
<policy group="power">
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement"/>
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel"/>
</policy>
<policy group="storage">
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/>
<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto"/>
</policy>
## INCLUDED FILES/FOLDERS ##
Download arch_pekwm.tgz from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?2nl6dr20wtrdome
slim.conf.save
xinitrc.save
dot_pekwm
lxpanel
NATURE-SouthwestSunset_1600x1200.jpg
## EXTERNAL INFO ##
Both art.gnome.org and box-look.org are great resources for themes and wallpapers.
Arch Wiki SliM: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM
Arch Wiki Pekwm: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PekWM
Arch Wiki Yaourt: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt (for getting the mangler and midori packages I mentioned)
Last edited by Mr. Swillis (2010-10-03 17:12:31)

Remove your email account and see if the problem persists.

PekWM autoproperty for oo2

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