xcompmgr desktop effects

[Taco.22]

Most Village Openbox spins have the xcompmgr desktop effects script installed in the ~/.config/openbox/scripts folder.  The commands are written into the root menu and opened via a right-click on the "desktop".  I thought it might be useful to set it up as an "application" so that it could be called from the main applications menu if required.  This would be useful if a panel with the Applications button is being used, like LXDE.

You can download the Desktop_effects.zip here.  This contains the bash script which needs to go into /usr/local/bin, and the .desktop file which goes into /usr/share/applications.  The folder "effects" goes into /usr/share/pixmaps - this has the dialogue and app icons.  The actual xcompmgr script stays in the openbox folder.  I have used the Tango icon scheme in the script but I need to work out some generic icons that will "just work" regardless of what is installed.

Hopefully this will be of some use - screenshot below -

[melodie]

Hello,

The screenshot does not show and when I paste the url into the navigation field I land on a 404 error page.

[Taco.22]

Sorry melodie, I was just editing the first post with a revised upload!  Now has it's own icons in a folder.  Just follow the new instructions.

[melodie]

This is very cute !

[Taco.22]

Just found an issue - relies on gtkdialog and Debian no longer list that in the repos!!

[Taco.22]

Interestingly I installed gtkdialog from http://code.google.com/p/gtkdialog/downloads/list into Openbox with Spacefm (my new one) without a hitch.  The Desktop Effects script works fine.  I'll have to check out what AntiX is up to as gtkdialog is what was behind their antixcc, which is where I lifted the code from! 

[djohnston]

Just found an issue - relies on gtkdialog and Debian no longer list that in the repos!!

AntiX still has it. You may want to download the source to keep locally, too. Add this to sources.list:

# antiX
deb http://www.daveserver.info/antiX/debs testing full main

After adding the repo, do apt-get update. You'll get a missing key error. To enable the repo key, do as root:

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keymissing=452F0C20 && gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys $keymissing && gpg --armor --export $keymissing | apt-key add - && apt-get update
It may take a while to get the key. It depends on the server's status. Sometimes I get it right off the bat, other times I have to wait up to a couple of minutes. It failed completely once and I tried again (successfully) the next day. Then apt-get update again to make sure the key took. Install the gtkdialog package, then disable the repo.

[Taco.22]

Neither Scorpio nor Serqet have gtkdialog installed.  To install it do as djohnston suggests above, or to do it manually go to http://www.daveserver.info/antiX/debs/pool/main/g/gtkdialog/, download and install with -

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dpkg -i gtkdialog_0.7.20-4.2_i386.deb
Make sure all the bits are in their right places and all will work.  I will add gtkdialog to Scorpio and Serqet at the next upgrade.