Comments on: wbar, for fun and profit

By: You know you’re a CLI addict when « Motho ke motho ka botho

You know you’re a CLI addict when « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:25:09 +0000

[...] So it feels a little funny to be using the core duo with Openbox and Firefox … alongside ihtop and mc, all cued up by wbar. [...]

By: adeskbar, for fun and profit « Motho ke motho ka botho

adeskbar, for fun and profit « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:36:42 +0000

[...] have used wbar in Openbox setups off and on for the past year or so, since I saw it at work with Tiny Core Linux. I figured, if wbar [...]

By: Wind it up, watch it go « Motho ke motho ka botho

Wind it up, watch it go « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:34:11 +0000

[...] although the screen dimensions make things like shadows and transparency a little silly. But I run wbar constantly now, and I have a lot options available through Openbox, if I want even more desktops, [...]

By: Leftover Openbox screenshots « Motho ke motho ka botho

Leftover Openbox screenshots « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:02:57 +0000

[...] were handled by iDesk, which I’ve since grown out of (although you could say my recent affectation with wbar is just another symptom). I always liked the idea of iDesk, but disliked the configuration for it. [...]

By: giggens

giggens — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:30:11 +0000

Thanks

By: rpj8

rpj8 — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:43:16 +0000

I put wbar on my mother’s slug-like computer just for kicks. I wasn’t too pleased with some things, such as the action when you click an icon. If the icons are meant to hop when you click them, they didn’t for me. This made it hard to tell if the icon was actually clicked or not. Also this program needs a little more cooking for it to be truly useful (to me); once this baby can auto-hide and raise with proximity of the mouse to the edge of the screen, I’m all in.

Other than that, it’s a really nice replacement for desktop icons. It’s definitely an eye-candy app, though .

By: Mark76

Mark76 — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:52:33 +0000

http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/1655/paris_scrap_art.html

By: giggens

giggens — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:26:54 +0000

Wbar seems a little superfluous to me, especially with Openbox’s root menu.

And I like that Paris wallpaper. Any chance of a link, please?

By: Mark76

Mark76 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:25:24 +0000

What’s wrong with a panel and some quicklaunch icons?

With Rox it’s as easy as navigating to /usr/share/applications and then just dragging the ones you want to the panel

By: matiit

matiit — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:58:36 +0000

I wan’t to use it with openbox but I have added many programs to autostart (eg. firefox) and if swomething what need X starting parallel with wbar there are wbar’s aretacts… black “aureole”… ;/
I use iDesk instead of it…