KXDocker with REAL Transparency

KXDocker by stefano 148 comments

This is really nice. As always, you come up with some fantastic software. The icons over windows is the one thing that's missing from osXBar, and you've implemented it here perfectly.

Some feedback:

- The bar is not centred on my 1024x768 desktop.

- When I change the icon resolution (in the xml file) to 64 small and 128 big, the bar becomes bigger, but the bottom is off the screen, and it is not centred.

- I get a segfault if I right click on the bar.

- When the bar returns to rest after a mouse out event, it doesn't return completely to rest. Also it happens to fast. I liked the slower animation with osXBar (although if you could make it smoother, that would be cool).

- I miss the mouse-wheel feature of osXBar. When will the rest of the osXBar features be implemented?

thanks for listening, and thanks for the time and effort you put into this.

Matt - Feb 24 2004

KXDocker with REAL transpancy

Various KDE Stuff by stefano 90 comments

It's in $KDEDIR/share/apps/kxdocker. - Feb 24 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Well that sounds much easier than recompiling one tiny application - Not

Matt - Feb 23 2004

KXDocker with REAL Transparency

KXDocker by stefano 148 comments

Does this have the same feature set as osXBar?

Matt - Feb 22 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Works for me.

Matt - Feb 15 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

See:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=969482&forum_id=67470 - Feb 15 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

You are not running the theme, you are running a debug script, which I use occasionally to try and fix problems. To run the theme, you need the command:

superkaramba liquid_weather.theme

Good luck.

Matt - Feb 10 2004

KWin drop shadow patches

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by Deciare 131 comments

Copy the relevant .patch file to:

/path/to/konstruct/kde/kdebase/work/kdebase-3.2.0/kwin

then (in that directory), type:

make clean

then patch the source using the command:

patch -p0 ?kdebase.kwin-kwin_shadow.patch

PLEASE NOTE that the '?' mark needs to be replaced with a "less-than" sign - I don't know how to get this thing to not interpret a less-than sign as an html tag.

then type:

make install

You may need to be root if you're installing kde outside your home directory.

You will need to restart kde (or kwin) for the change to take effect. - Feb 07 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

See:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=969482&forum_id=67470 - Feb 05 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

You'll need to patch and recompile the Superkaramba source.

See http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=969482&forum_id=67470

Matt - Feb 05 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

You'll need to patch and recompile the Superkaramba source.

See http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=969482&forum_id=67470

Matt - Feb 05 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Not wanting to be a "RTFM" developer, but if you read the FAQ, which is available from the "Configure" menu, then you'd know that there is an option in the "Configure" menu to disable threading (as of version 1.9). This will fix your threading issue.

If you also read the changelog for version 1.9, you would have found the fix for this :)

Mattt - Feb 03 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

What city's weather are you trying to load?

Matt - Feb 03 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Launch it from a console, and email me the output.

ta

Matt - Feb 03 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

There is a discussion and a fix for this on the superkaramba discussion forums on netdragon.sourceforge.net. - Jan 25 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

This is a threading problem. If you are using Suse, one user has suggested removing the "desktop" parameter from the boot parameters in lilo/grub.

I may add an option to disable threading.

Matt - Jan 25 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

I've fixed the link! How the hell that happened, I'll never know.

Sorry.

Matt - Jan 25 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Use the following command:

wget -c 'http://www.message.co.nz/~matt-sarah/lwp-1.8.2.tar.bz2' - Jan 23 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Make sure that you close down liquid weather before you shutdown. If you don't exit properly, the config changes don't get saved.

Matt - Jan 23 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Good to here! - Jan 19 2004

osXBar

Karamba & Superkaramba by stefano 169 comments

Must...have...this. When will this be available, I just can't wait.

By the way, did you get my patch to sort out the icon ordering issue?

Matt - Jan 19 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Try a different browser then.

Matt - Jan 18 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

What distro are you using?

Do you middle click on the icon (as opposed to the picture itself)?

Matt - Jan 17 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

What browser are you using. It's a browser issue, not an issue with the link.

Matt - Jan 17 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

If you use superkaramba v0.33, then you shouldn't have any problems with font size. With v0.33, fonts are specified by pixel size, and not point size, so it should all fit together relative to the rest of the widget.

I also fail to see how your fix would have any effect on text size. It doesn't refer to any text objects.

Matt - Jan 17 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

It's only sporadically active. I'd like to work out how to parse xml properly in python using an xml parser, rather than regular expressions, but it all seems a bit beyond my comprehension, and the documentation seems to assume that you've read and understood the document, so that you can read and understand the document. Kind of like recursive learning.

Re SK itself, don't know. Adam seems to be reasonably active on the mailing list on sourceforge, and I've seen some patches posted on there. Maybe he's run out of ideas?

Matt - Jan 16 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Absolutely no problem here. It's downloading fine.

Matt - Jan 16 2004

KPhotoAlbum

Graphic Apps by blackie 13 comments

I have written a bunch of python scripts to implement the functionality in this application, and now I can throw them away, because this is so much better.

I have been looking for something like this for about a year, and finally got frustrated and hacked together my own. I can't believe I haven't found this before. It is exactly what I've been looking for.

Kde-apps has shown me a heap of software I never new existed. This is a fantastic site. - Jan 12 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

See post above (and the five posts above that that deal with proxies - you could use the "find" function on your browser to make your life a little easier).

Matt - Jan 07 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

To set a proxy, then set the following environment variable:

export http_proxy=http://hostname:port

maybe put it in your .bashrc, or write a wrapper script to launch superkaramba.

Re your other problem, nothing will show up if you can't connect to the net, and there is no cached page from a previous session.

Matt - Jan 07 2004

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Suse's python implementation seems to be slightly broken. Look on a suse site to see if there is a fix available. The os module is very standard, and should be available.

Matt - Dec 25 2003

osXBar

Karamba & Superkaramba by stefano 169 comments

This is what I get:

::05:37:07::matt@mattsbox::~/.karamba/osXBar-1.0.23::
==> find objects -type f -iname "*.ilink"
objects/08/00/xmms.ilink
objects/02/00/konsole.ilink
objects/06/kate.ilink
objects/04/00/01_opera.ilink
objects/07/00/word.ilink
objects/03/00/filemanager.ilink
objects/05/00/01_KMail.ilink
objects/01/00/kmenu.ilink

What is going on here? - Dec 17 2003

osXBar

Karamba & Superkaramba by stefano 169 comments

I have a problem with the order of the icons using the new directory tree structure. I've labeled the directories 01, 02, 03 ... in the objects directory, but they appear out of order. Can you shed any light on this problem? - Dec 17 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

My recollection is that Suse9.0's python implementation doesn't play nice with superkaramba. See if there are any fixes on the forums at netdragon.sourceforge.net, or on the Suse website.

Matt - Dec 15 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

What distro, kde version, and python version are you using. What location are you using? Are you logged on to the internet when you start it?

You are asking me to debug in an information vacuum - not easy.

Matt - Dec 14 2003

osXBar

Karamba & Superkaramba by stefano 169 comments

You have taken SK themes to a new level. This theme is just fantastic, and I think now outperforms the actual os X docker for features and functionality. This is the best theme there is for SK.

When will v24 be available?

Matt - Dec 14 2003

osXBar

Karamba & Superkaramba by stefano 169 comments

You put up a version yesterday numbered 1.0.23, and there is a patch for superkaramba for it, and a changelog entry, but no 1.0.23? What's the story?

matt - Dec 11 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

theme = "invisible"

Look on www.gkrellm.net for the link to the theme site. Then search for invisible.

Matt - Dec 10 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

sysmon = www.gkrellm.net - Dec 09 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

I'm having difficulty understanding your issues. Seems to be two. First, is that the theme is not showing up. Please upgrade superkaramba 0.33 to see if that fixes the problem.

Also, make sure that you're connect to the net.

Matt - Dec 09 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Interesting. I'll have a look at the script when I get home.

Matt - Dec 08 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

You need to put a Link to Application (use right click menu in konqueror) in ~/.kde/Autostart

Matt - Dec 03 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Are you using SK v0.33? If not, then you're going to have font problems.

Matt - Dec 02 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Yhe theme anticipates that you have verdana font installed. If not, search for MS's webfonts on sourceforge, and install them.

Matt - Dec 02 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Yes it should, although, the theme is only supposed to be configured from the configure menu. As it's not a configure option, I probably haven't paid much attention to it. I can add it as a configure option, and make it more consistent if you want.

Matt - Dec 01 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Sorry, should have added that the speed improvements comes from not caching the maps everytime you update. I think this is a good compromise as, I'm sure people don't use the maps all that often, and it would be horrendous to download all those maps (about 20). It also improves stability. But I'll look into bringing back the local maps.

Matt - Dec 01 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

I'll look into this.

Matt - Dec 01 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

It's difficult to change fonts in an intelligent way without getting into a bit of pyGTK or pyQT programming, and I'm not that advanced.

In terms of multiple themes, the terms of the license I use to get weather.com data prohibits displaying data from more than one city in one instance. However, there would be nothing stopping you from copying the files into a new directory, say liquid_weather_plus_1, and then renaming the files liquid_weather.theme and liquid_weather.py to something like liquid_weather_1.theme and liquid_weather_1.py. You could then start it using:

superkaramba liquid_weather_1.theme

Haven't tested it, but it might work.

Matt - Nov 30 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

I've fixed the BBC thingy now. Let me know if you're still having issues.

Matt - Nov 29 2003

Tuxkiller

Wallpaper Other by XpirateX 3 comments

Any chance of removing the text. The picture is self explanatory. The text sort of ruins it for me.

Matt - Nov 29 2003