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Documentation missing to replace clock icon #20

Closed drscream closed 4 years ago

drscream commented 4 years ago

It is mentioned in the documentation that it is possible to replace the pclock icon with the Solaris version (globe and hands). But somehow (from my point of view) the documentation should also describe how to replace it.

I tried to understand how it should work but somehow failed - that's also the reason why I open this ticket :-)

NsCDE commented 4 years ago

FrontPanel.actions on page 27 of the NsCDE.pdf should explain how to add custom applets by editing $FVWM_USERDIR/FrontPanel.actions. This should work for you, assuming you are on x86_64 Linux.

Btn1,__APPLET__,M1,"Swallow (Respawn) \\"pclock\\" \\"Exec exec $NSCDE_ROOT/bin/fpclock-Linux_x86_64 -H red -S white --hands-width=4 --hour-hand-length=15 --minute-hand-length=20 --second-hand-length=22 -w -B $HOME/.icons/DtEarth.l.xpm\\",Exec exec firefox

... of course, replace "Exec exec firefox" with with whatever you want, and restart Front Panel, or complete FVWM.

I have found someware my old DtEarth.l.xpm in 48x48 format suitable for pclock background. Here it is. Maybe I should include it in icon dir in the next release, together with this FrontPanel.actions line above as example in the docs. Ungzip before usage, github does not like XPM ... SDtEarth.l.xpm.gz

drscream commented 4 years ago

Thanks a lot for providing more details. What I've found out so far about fpclock:

ERR: pixmap must be 64x64

So I think including SDtEarth.l.xml wouldn't help that much, as long as it's not provided in 64x64 pixel.

NsCDE commented 4 years ago

Wrong XPM. Try again. I have replaced attachment. You can also refresh pending_release with git. I have put it in $NSCDE_ROOT/share/icons/NsCDE.

drscream commented 4 years ago

Thanks a lot. It works perfectly. Only for the record my current entry:

Btn1,__APPLET__,M1,"Swallow (Respawn) \\"pclock\\" \\"Exec exec $NSCDE_ROOT/bin/fpclock -H red -S white --hands-width=4 --hour-hand-length=15 --minute-hand-length=20 --second-hand-length=22 -w -B $FVWM_USERDIR/icons/NsCDE/SDtEarth.l.xpm\\",Exec exec firefox-bin

I will close this issue. Thanks again :-)