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Windows XP stuff for XFCE
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A couple questions #350

Open mollybdenium opened 2 months ago

mollybdenium commented 2 months ago

Hi! I love your project! I have been learning to use/ navigate linux. I was able to figure out most of the implementation, however I have a few issues with setting up that I cannot seem to figure out:

1) Desktop - I cannot figure out where the right directory for the background would be, as I cannot right click to add anything to the desktop. Also, it seems like the desktop background resets after every shutdown?

2) Start menu - Is there anyway to change which programs show up on the left side of the start menu? Like I installed chromium but I mainly use the firefox esr browser, yet its showing as my main web browser?

3) Battery percentage - Is there anyway to show this on the taskbar? I never used the original version of xp so I'm not sure if there was a way to display before the later versions.

Thank you so much, and I was wondering, is there anywhere I could contribute as someone who is fairly inexperienced? I would love to help!

rozniak commented 2 months ago
  1. It recursively scans /usr/share/backgrounds (/usr/local/share/backgrounds on FreeBSD) for wallpapers, the same place the XFCE ones live :grin: As for the reset... unsure unless regsvc isn't saving for some reason? :thinking: Assuming regsvc is running and you're able to set a wallpaper, it should write the registry changes to disk (in ~/.config/wintc/registry/ntuser.db, which is an Sqlite3 database)
  2. The web browser and email client entries in the Start menu are retrieved via xdg-mime for the MIME types x-scheme-handler/http and x-scheme-handler/mailto
  3. Incomplete - #265 is open for battery indicator still :weary: