My question dump

[MrMegarich]

I got everything working fine, I just want to know how to compile the other themes (zune, metallic etc.)

[rozniak]

At the moment mate, Windows Classic, Professional/Watercolor, and Windows XP Style (Blue) are the only ones that get packaged. :open_mouth:

The other themes atm only have XFWM4 borders done, I haven't gotten around to doing their GTK themes yet (been busy working on #205 lately).

[MrMegarich]

ok, but i have some more questions, how do i change the icons in the start menu? how do I rename stuff. Why does my winver have these ugly borders at the side? ![Uploading Screenshot_2023-11-18_17-19-58.png…]()

[rozniak]

Change the icons, or do you mean the programs that are listed?

Also your image doesn't seem to have uploaded!

[MrMegarich]

[MrMegarich]

Notice the ugly borders at the sides of the windows logo

[MrMegarich]

I'm at a family gathering sorry I couldn't get back to you sooner

[MrMegarich]

[MrMegarich]

the my computer icon still has the linux mint logo !!!!!

[rozniak]

I figured this might be what you meant - it's a bug I need to sort out with winver when you have fonts larger than the original. I need to redo the whole dialog really because I made it when I knew far less about GTK.

the my computer icon still has the linux mint logo !!!!!

This made me laugh, I've not seen that before. Perhaps somehow the vendor icon gets priority? I'll have to fire up Linux Mint again to investigate. :laughing:

[MrMegarich]

cheers

[MrMegarich]

also what is wintc-desktop?

[rozniak]

It is the program the spawns the desktop window. Though at the moment it simply paints with the default blue colour and has no functionality. The plan is to have it replace xfdesktop4 eventually (so the desktop behaves the same as Windows XP).

[MrMegarich]

Are there any plans to add the windows xp shutdown menu?

[MrMegarich]

[rozniak]

178

[MrMegarich]

Thank you!

[MrMegarich]

Did you work out the my computer icon?

[rozniak]

No since I've been busy on #205 , I'll have to create a Linux Mint VM to investigate

[MrMegarich]

Ok thank you

[rozniak]

Sorry about the wait mate, I'm just setting up a Linux Mint VM to investigate atm

[rozniak]

@MrMegarich Seems okay on mine, perhaps you have something under ~/.icons that could cause it? If you had any other icon themes maybe? It should just use the computer icon, so it has to be being overridden somewhere.

[MrMegarich]

All good, I actually worked it out between now and the last time we chatted, so pretty much, the computer.png icon somehow got replaced in icons/luna/devices with the mint logo and I had to manually go in and change it.

[MrMegarich]

strangest part is that I install the theme on 2 different Linux Mint themes and it did the same thing twice!

[MrMegarich]

I hate to bug you so much, but how do I install "liblightdm-gobject-dev" and "libwintc-msgina" ?

[rozniak]

I don't mind answering questions! :grin:

The package names ./chkdeps.sh -l gives you, you can bung straight into apt. So in this case you want sudo apt install liblightdm-gobject-dev

(the -l switch is to say 'only check for third-party dependencies', anything *wintc* comes from this repo as part of the build, so you're only interested in third-party libs)

libwintc-msgina is a new library used by logonui. I'd recommend doing another ./buildall.sh and install everything outputted because there were some changes made to a few other libs too.

To use logonui, you will need to edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and set greeter-session=wintc-logonui and sudo systemctl restart lightdm

I would suggest testing in a VM first though!

[MrMegarich]

xfce-winxp-tc/packaging$ sudo apt install liblightdm-gobject-dev [sudo] password for user:
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package liblightdm-gobject-dev

I type sudo apt install but it just returns an error. please help

[rozniak]

Bollocks, I tested Arch and didn't test Ubuntu downstream... fail. Looks like the package name is different so I'll fix that.

[MrMegarich]

cheers

[rozniak]

Please pull latest master, it should provide you with the correct package name :sunglasses:

[MrMegarich]

Thanks dude!

[MrMegarich]

Another question: How to I get the custom bootvid?

[MrMegarich]

All good, I actually worked it out between now and the last time we chatted, so pretty much, the computer.png icon somehow got replaced in icons/luna/devices with the mint logo and I had to manually go in and change it.

This is so annoying! It seems that whenever I restart the computer (after fresh install of wintc) it automatically changes to the mint logo!

[rozniak]

Another question: How to I get the custom bootvid?

It seems to be slightly different to what I'm used to - on Ubuntu and derivatives it seems to use the 'alternatives' system for setting the Plymouth theme:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/bootvid/bootvid.plymouth 100
sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth
sudo update-initramfs -u

This should work - btw if you want to use a different SKU than 'Professional' you can pass the -s switch to buildall.sh to change it. The screenshot I took above was compiled using ./buildall.sh -s dnsrv-sbs . It affects the banners and boot screen atm.

[rozniak]

I can confirm Linux Mint replaces all instances of computer.png on reboot under the theme, but I really haven't got a clue why it would be doing this

[MrMegarich]

Another question: How to I get the custom bootvid?

It seems to be slightly different to what I'm used to - on Ubuntu and derivatives it seems to use the 'alternatives' system for setting the Plymouth theme:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/default.plymouth default.plymouth 100 /usr/share/plymouth/bootvid/bootvid.plymouth
sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth
sudo update-initramfs -u

This should work - btw if you want to use a different SKU than 'Professional' you can pass the -s switch to buildall.sh to change it. The screenshot I took above was compiled using ./buildall.sh -s dnsrv-sbs . It affects the banners and boot screen atm.

I copy the commands you gave me into the terminal and it just asks me for an integer. Also thanks for the buildall tip, I was wondering how you got winver to say "Windows xp for small business"

[MrMegarich]

user@users-Nitro-AN515-56:~/Desktop$ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/default.plymouth default.plymouth 100 /usr/share/plymouth/bootvid/bootvid.plymouth sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth sudo update-initramfs -u [sudo] password for user:
update-alternatives: priority must be an integer

Use 'update-alternatives --help' for program usage information. There are 2 choices for the alternative default.plymouth (providing /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth).

Selection Path Priority Status

0 /usr/share/plymouth/themes/mint-logo/mint-logo.plymouth 200 auto mode 1 /usr/share/plymouth/themes/bgrt/bgrt.plymouth 110 manual mode

• 2 /usr/share/plymouth/themes/mint-logo/mint-logo.plymouth 200 manual mode

Press to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:

[MrMegarich]

Copied straight from the terminal

[rozniak]

Edited to amend my error, rerun those commands - when it prompts you for a number, one of the available options should be bootvid :grin:

[MrMegarich]

I copy and pasted the commands again into the terminal, and now the bootvid is changed! ... to the ubuntu one

[MrMegarich]

at least it has my oem logo XD

[rozniak]

That's with bootvid showing as selected for default.plymouth and updated initramfs? It worked when I tested on Mint 🤔

[MrMegarich]

[MrMegarich]

At the moment mate, Windows Classic, Professional/Watercolor, and Windows XP Style (Blue) are the only ones that get packaged. 😮

The other themes atm only have XFWM4 borders done, I haven't gotten around to doing their GTK themes yet (been busy working on #205 lately).

Hey seeing as how you've finished the greeter, does that mean that you now have time to work on the other themes? Or are you putting all your attention into the installer?

[rozniak]

The first command is wrong - the 100 needs to be the last argument -- notice it's complaining priority must be an integer

[MrMegarich]

So what would be the correct command?

[rozniak]

Move the 100 to be the last parameter, take another look at my comment earlier - I edited it to have the correct commands. :stuck_out_tongue:

[MrMegarich]

Damn Dag Nabbit! Now it's givin' me this error update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/share/plymouth/bootvid/bootvid.plymouth doesn't exist

[MrMegarich]

[rozniak]

I guess it is /usr/share/plymouth/themes/bootvid/bootvid.plymouth

[MrMegarich]

What a silly little typo, and thanks to you I got it working!