Window Maker

[abarbarian]

2 hours ago, crp said:

i put Ventoy on a SSD and have a partition set aside for persistent storage and some program installs.

 

That is a neat solution what with the cheap price of ssd's these days. I'll have to have a look see for a dirt cheap ssd.

[crp]

On 8/27/2023 at 12:46 AM, abarbarian said:

 

That is a neat solution what with the cheap price of ssd's these days. I'll have to have a look see for a dirt cheap ssd.

Oh, and I also have a USB=>SATA cable so I don't have to open the chassis.

 

[abarbarian]

15 hours ago, crp said:

Oh, and I also have a USB=>SATA cable so I don't have to open the chassis.

 

 

I have a usb2 dock which copes with hdd/ssd sata drives. Great for using old hdd's as backup drives aswell as newer ssd's. Been using them for over ten years.

 

[crp]

5 hours ago, abarbarian said:

 

I have a usb2 dock which copes with hdd/ssd sata drives. Great for using old hdd's as backup drives aswell as newer ssd's. Been using them for over ten years.

 

Mine is a wavlink.  Used so much, the door flap for 'source' doesn't flap anymore.

[abarbarian]

WorkspaceBack in themes - useful information

 

Going from a 22" flat to a 27" curved monitor threw up some strange behaviour in Window Maker.

 

A resized and altered theme with a resized background did not seem to work even after several reboots. Then it started to work properly.

 

So I had a look at some of the other themes I had installed and there was some odd results. Bearing in mind that I did not resize or alter any of the theme configs or the background graphics for these themes.

Some of my own creations did not show a resized background, this was expected as they were using a 1920x1200 .jpg. However some of my own home made themes did automatically show a correctly resized background which was not expected and rather strange.

Now I have themes gathered from all over the net and some of them go back to the beginning of time itself. Whilst I have poked around in some of them some I have just transferred to the correct folder for themes if I have found that they worked ok.

Looking at one very old theme I found two background pictures, 1012x756 and 1024x768. Now this theme worked just fine on my 1920x1200 screen and the background seemed to fit the screen perfectly. It also works the same with this new screen.

A quick run through of some other themes showed that some did a background resize automatically and some did not and it made no difference if they were very old or newer themes..

 

Why was this happening ?????

 

After a little investigation I found the reason. Some themes have this instruction in the "style" file (that is a sort of .config file),

 

WorkspaceBack = (tpixmap, skynet.jpeg, gray20);

 

and some have this line,

 

WorkspaceBack = (spixmap, shark.jpeg, grey20);

 

You will notice that one has a "tpixmap" and the other has a "spixmap". The "tpixmap" themes did not auto resize but the "spixmap"  ones did.

 

So after a quick change from,

WorkspaceBack = (tpixmap, purpleballs.jpg, gray20);

 

to

 

WorkspaceBack = (spixmap, purpleballs.jpg, gray20);

 

Just by altering the "t" to a "s" my Purple Balls theme now works correctly. No need to resize the picture and swap it over in the theme folder and no need to fiddle around too much with the style file. Just a quick "t" to a "s" alteration.

 

Don't you just love well crafted old programs that still work really well using the kiss principle. 

[Hedon James]

On 9/4/2023 at 6:48 AM, abarbarian said:

 

I have a usb2 dock which copes with hdd/ssd sata drives. Great for using old hdd's as backup drives aswell as newer ssd's. Been using them for over ten years.

 

I've been using a single bay (3.5" or 2.5") BlacX dock for about 10 years.  Just bought a Sabrent dual-dock 2.5"/3.5" with clone capability.  Very pleased, and impressed with it!