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February 28, 2008

Nicolás Varcarcel
nxvl
Nikolas Valcarcel
» openbox

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It works!! Today i woke up, start my computer and there it was! Update Notifier saying i need to update my machine on pypanel!! Now i won’t miss Gnome!! wohooo!

by nxvl at 9:42 PM under bin clock , desktop , development , free software , freesoftware , gutsy , hex clock , linux , oct clock , openbox , pypanel , setlayout , ubuntu , update-notifier (Comments)
February 27, 2008

Nicolás Varcarcel
nxvl
Nikolas Valcarcel
» Openbox again.

After some time using Gnome i decided to return to openbox again to see is this time i can make it work better, and i did it \o/. I have my keyboard shortcuts, pypanel with my bin/oct/hex clock hack, conky and most important a 3×2 desktop grid without using any pager :D

Here are the steps i followed to make the desktop grid work:

1) Download setlayout source
$ wget http://icculus.org/openbox/tools/setlayout.c

2) Download dependencies
$ sudo apt-get install libx11-dev build-essential

3) Compile setlayout
$ gcc -lX11 setlayout.c
$ ln a.out setlayout

4) Add the setlayout “command” to autostart.sh script
echo “/route/to/setlayout/script/setlayout 0 3 2 0″ >> ~/route/to/autostart.sh

And it’s done! I only need to wait until there are some upgrades to test if update-manager’s notifications work on pypanel notification area and i won’t miss Gnome :D

Screen shot

by nxvl at 4:55 AM under bin clock , desktop , development , free software , freesoftware , gutsy , hex clock , linux , oct clock , openbox , pypanel , setlayout , shortcuts , ubuntu (Comments)
October 12, 2007

Nicolás Varcarcel
nxvl
Nikolas Valcarcel
» PyPanel Clock Patch

I have hack the Ubuntu PyPanel again (just for fun) to show the clock in Binary, Octal and Hex. You can download the patch for PyPanel 2.4 here.

Instructions:

To use it you only need to patch /usr/bin/pypanel and set CLOCK_FORMAT to “hex”, “oct” or “bin” in the ~/.pypanelrc file.

I really love FLOSS.

P.D: Thank you for the python help.

by nxvl at 7:36 AM under development , freesoftware , pypanel , python , ubuntu (Comments)