Comments on: A phony-baloney Gnome desktop

By: FOX Desktop and some graphical apps « Motho ke motho ka botho

FOX Desktop and some graphical apps « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:59:49 +0000

[...] reminds me slightly of my early days with fbpanel. I have a feeling it’s about as challenging to manage, since the only config I could find was [...]

By: Mulenmar

Mulenmar — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:36:18 +0000

Well, this is an old post, but for posterity’s sake, I’d like to point out that Debian Lenny has a version of PCManFM that does not use HAL — pcmanfm-nohal, I believe the name is.

It doesn’t have automounting, but who care <8~{P

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:17:49 +0000

I know this is an old post, but I was playing with fbpanel today and wondering about the clock myself. If you look in the profile in the block for the clock plugin, there’s a line ‘type = dclock’ change that to ‘type = tclock’ and now you’ll have a text clock with no ugly font.

By: Creativity plus perseverance « Motho ke motho ka botho

Creativity plus perseverance « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:48:32 +0000

[...] plus perseverance Published April 6, 2008 Ubuntu Just as a side note to some age-old suggestions about using fbpanel to mock up the default Ubuntu layout, chris4585 sent a screenshot of a system [...]

By: Once more, for old time’s sake « Motho ke motho ka botho

Once more, for old time’s sake « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:57:26 +0000

[...] the past couple of nights I’ve been remaking the fbpanel configurations I used to create the fake Gnome Ubuntu desktop. Here’s another screenshot, in case those have also disappeared off the photo hosting [...]

By: z3ppelin

z3ppelin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:06:29 +0000

Could you re-share, or send to me fbpanel configs?

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:02:25 +0000

They should both show transparency without xcompmgr. In lxpanel there’s a transparency setting in the Preferences menu. Set the shade and the transparency value, then restart X.

I don’t remember offhand where the settings are for fbpanel, but I’m also sure it works on that too. It might require an X restart for both of them to go transparent. And if I remember right, the taskbar doesn’t show “proper” transparency for active buttons.

If you want a full transparent setup you might have to work with pypanel, which I don’t really like, but it does the job well.

By: Gejr

Gejr — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:15:47 +0000

I actually have the same problem with lxpanel. It’s a great panel with the same ugly bold clock font. Besides, I can’t get any of them to show transparency. Shouldn’t that be possible without xcompmgr? I just need pseudo transparency on it.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:03:26 +0000

I never did find a way to change that. I didn’t look very hard though. I’m sure there’s a configuration for it somewhere, I just didn’t take the time to look.

If you liked fbpanel you should take a spin past lxpanel; it’s much easier to manage and has many of the same functions as fbpanel.

By: Gejr

Gejr — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:00:48 +0000

I tried fbpanel and I liked it a lot, but I couldn’t live with the default bold text dclock. Do you know how to change that?