Comments on: Tutorial: How to Get a Full Desktop On Your Eee PC with IceWM and Rox-Filer http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/ Productivity tips & tricks for the Linux desktop Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: nathan http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/comment-page-1/#comment-1007 nathan Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:44:29 +0000 http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/#comment-1007 Sweet! I'm glad it worked...have fun tweaking! Sweet! I’m glad it worked…have fun tweaking!

]]> By: Gareth http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/comment-page-1/#comment-1002 Gareth Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:11:02 +0000 http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/#comment-1002 Nathan, Good spot. What a difference a space makes! It now looks much more promising. Still needs a little tweaking, but plenty to work with now. Many thanks. Nathan,

Good spot. What a difference a space makes! It now looks much more promising. Still needs a little tweaking, but plenty to work with now. Many thanks.

]]> By: nathan http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/comment-page-1/#comment-997 nathan Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:42:53 +0000 http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/#comment-997 Hi Gareth! I'm not sure what to tell you regarding the 'wapmonitor &' line...I have the 4G Surf, so I may have a slightly different configuration that you have. Nevertheless, I noticed that you do not have a space in your rox command. Yours (as you wrote it here) is 'rox-S &' while it should be 'rox -S &' This may account for your unexpected desktop behavior. Regarding the start menu, make sure you check out the "Customizing IceWM" section above...you'll have to manually edit your menu to your liking. Good luck! Hi Gareth! I’m not sure what to tell you regarding the ‘wapmonitor &’ line…I have the 4G Surf, so I may have a slightly different configuration that you have. Nevertheless, I noticed that you do not have a space in your rox command. Yours (as you wrote it here) is ‘rox-S &’ while it should be ‘rox -S &’ This may account for your unexpected desktop behavior.

Regarding the start menu, make sure you check out the “Customizing IceWM” section above…you’ll have to manually edit your menu to your liking. Good luck!

]]> By: Gareth http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/comment-page-1/#comment-995 Gareth Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:50:53 +0000 http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/#comment-995 This looks promising. Trying to sort it on my 901. However, I have a question. On trying to edit the start up script (startsimple.sh), I can't find the line: wapmonitor & The closest I can find is 'powermonitor &', hence, not sure where to place: rox-S & I have tried placing 'rox-S &' after 'powermonitor &' and do get a desktop of sorts, but without the 'home' icon etc and with limited 'start' menu functions. Any advice welcomed. Gareth (the linux novice). This looks promising. Trying to sort it on my 901. However, I have a question.

On trying to edit the start up script (startsimple.sh), I can’t find the line: wapmonitor &

The closest I can find is ‘powermonitor &’, hence, not sure where to place: rox-S &

I have tried placing ‘rox-S &’ after ‘powermonitor &’ and do get a desktop of sorts, but without the ‘home’ icon etc and with limited ’start’ menu functions.

Any advice welcomed.

Gareth (the linux novice).

]]> By: Wayne http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/comment-page-1/#comment-923 Wayne Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:07:24 +0000 http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/#comment-923 wow! I love it! goodbye Easy Mode. wow! I love it! goodbye Easy Mode.

]]> By: nathan http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/comment-page-1/#comment-542 nathan Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:23:35 +0000 http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/#comment-542 Jeff, I'm glad you found the tutorial helpful! I'm not sure what to make of your theming issue...this isn't normal! My best advice would be to consult the knowledgeable folks on the icewm-user mailing list... To subscribe to the mailing list send an email to: icewm-user-request@lists.sourceforge.net with body or subject "subscribe", or visit http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/icewm-user. Finding icons can be challenging. When I come across a mime-type that hasn't been matched by Rox I right click on the question mark --> and Set Icon. Then you can navigate to your icon folder and choose what you'd like to use. Hope this helps... ~Nathan Jeff,

I’m glad you found the tutorial helpful! I’m not sure what to make of your theming issue…this isn’t normal! My best advice would be to consult the knowledgeable folks on the icewm-user mailing list…

To subscribe to the mailing list send an email to: icewm-user-request@lists.sourceforge.net with body or subject “subscribe”, or visit http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/icewm-user.

Finding icons can be challenging. When I come across a mime-type that hasn’t been matched by Rox I right click on the question mark –> and Set Icon. Then you can navigate to your icon folder and choose what you’d like to use. Hope this helps…

~Nathan

]]> By: Jeff Schallenberg http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/comment-page-1/#comment-534 Jeff Schallenberg Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:50:49 +0000 http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/#comment-534 I lied - I have another niggling problem. Many icons in the ROX Filer are question marks. For example, in the Home folder, I have a tar.gz file, a .png file, and a .sh file, all showing as ¨?¨ How can I correct that? - Jeff I lied - I have another niggling problem.

Many icons in the ROX Filer are question marks. For example, in the Home folder, I have a tar.gz file, a .png file, and a .sh file, all showing as ¨?¨

How can I correct that?

- Jeff

]]> By: Jeff Schallenberg http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/comment-page-1/#comment-532 Jeff Schallenberg Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:42:06 +0000 http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/#comment-532 Great tutorial, Nathan! I have just one problem - I can use the /Settings/Themes menu entry to view or switch themes. There s a hige list of ice-themes, but clicking on one does nothing but a lot of flashing - no error message or anything. - Jeff Great tutorial, Nathan!

I have just one problem - I can use the /Settings/Themes menu entry to view or switch themes. There s a hige list of ice-themes, but clicking on one does nothing but a lot of flashing - no error message or anything.

- Jeff

]]> By: nathan http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/comment-page-1/#comment-480 nathan Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:31:31 +0000 http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/#comment-480 It's true that with this method, you have to create your menu by hand. If this is annoying for you, you may look up some information on applications like MenuMaker and IceMC IceMC: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:customizeicewmstartmenuwithicemc MenuMaker http://menumaker.sourceforge.net/ It’s true that with this method, you have to create your menu by hand. If this is annoying for you, you may look up some information on applications like MenuMaker and IceMC

IceMC:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:customizeicewmstartmenuwithicemc

MenuMaker
http://menumaker.sourceforge.net/

]]> By: Jammet http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/comment-page-1/#comment-479 Jammet Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:01:21 +0000 http://productivelinux.com/2008/01/05/tutorial-how-to-get-a-full-desktop-on-your-eee-pc-with-icewm-and-rox-filer/#comment-479 With your solution I keep having to add all the applications to the menu myself. It's not looking into /usr/share/applications/ at all. The kicker menu always has the stuff, but I don't want kicker. With your solution I keep having to add all the applications to the menu myself. It’s not looking into /usr/share/applications/ at all. The kicker menu always has the stuff, but I don’t want kicker.

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