Comments on: dockapps: Everything old is new again

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 06:36:33 +0000

[...] note from Sertse last week about adeskbar was particularly [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:22:32 +0000

Could you be more specific? The dock is configurable through the ObConf menu, and the launcher on the right is wbar.

By: Beau

Beau — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:39:52 +0000

Hello. can you tell me how you got your openbox to look like that? Thanks

By: Sertse

Sertse — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:24:42 +0000

Slightly off topic,

Looking at your wbar, I wonder if you got the chance to try adeskbar yet? It has a few more features while remaining equally as light (and doesn’t require compositing of course). There’s a huge thread on the crunchbang forums about it http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/441/little-application-launcher-for-openbox/ , there’s a pkgbuild for it in the aur in arch.

By: bryan

bryan — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:06:43 +0000

The only dockapps I ever really use are bbpager, docker (which swallows my systray into the dock – super useful if you run with no panel) and lal (or lalcal). I’ve never liked the idea of using the dock for something to show me info such as temperature, speed etc. I just use conky for that.

By: Trent

Trent — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:52:19 +0000

I can totally understand… I get pretty hung up with dockapps.org too. In my screenshot here (from the bottom to the top), I’ve got fbpager, wmacpi, wmweather, wmnetload, wmmemload, and wmcpuload.

I used to be a GKRellM fan, but I’ve gotten really enamored with being able to run little applets one at a time.