topic title: Moon Phase in Icewm, Fluxbox,JWM Task Bars
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
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That little round grey circle in the r/h corner is my new moonphase icon

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The above is it's control center.

I grabbed it from here


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I got the idea from here


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In Antix. You can use Gdebi and open the download where you downloaded it to and let it install it that way. Or command line is for more savvy users is

cd into the directory the download is sitting in

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sudo dpkg -i moonphase<rest of name goes here so use the tab key for auto complete of the name>
After done installing. You need to make it start up when you boot up. This can be handled with antixcc and the appropriate Window Manager button you want to edit. EG: Edit Icewm settings, Edit Fluxbox settings, Edit JWM settings.

My ~/.icewm/startup file new entry on line 7 is

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sleep 3 && moonphase-qt &


My ~/.jwm/startup file new entry on line 8 is

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<moonphase-qt &>
lastly, my ~/.fluxbox/startup file new entry on line 32 is

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moonphase-qt &
Just a mention to Dave if he is reading this. I first tried in antixcc Session>Global Desktop Session>startup on line 7 my Icewm startup line. But after a logout. It would not load up for what ever reason. I did not study it too much. So hence my individual entries shown for each Desktop startup file in this thread. That method worked on all desktop taskbars. But JWM only shows a teeny tiny dot on the r/h side. For you JWM users. I guess some kind of adjustment is needed. I am not a full time JWM user, so I do not know.

Edit: It has now been added to the MX repo by Stevo

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Happy Trails, Rok __{{emoticon}}__
Posts: 452
Jerry
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
#2
That little item is actually a lot cooler than I expected, and very well written as far as I can see.