eriefisher mentioned that wbar had a set up gui in this thread and posted a pretty desktop as well:

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So I have some questions:
First it looks like eriefisher is using xfce with a bar of some sort at the top and wbar at the bottom. I know in fluxbox I could have the fluxbox toolbar at the top, and also add rox panel at the bottom. Can I do this with wbar in fluxbox - have both?

But can I use wbar with icewm? If I turn off the icewm toolbar, how will I get an indication of open apps?

The wbar gui is in python. I run python apps in a terminal usually. But can I add the commands to open the terminal and run the script from an icon? I think I may be able to edit the fluxbox menu to do this. Would the same commands work with the icon?

Thanks!

Hi mariel77,

Yes you can run wbar in fluxbox. I have it set up on another machine(I think). I had/have the flux bar at the top and wbar at the bottom just like my xfce setup you saw.

As for IceWM, you should be able to either move or turn off the task bar. Wbar is also capable of sitting on the top of the screen so you could leave the icewm bar on the bottom if you wish.

Setting up wbar is easy when you use wbarconf. You just enter the title, command and path to the icon. You can even select the position on the bar where it sits.

OU812 may be of more help with setting up IceWM as he seems to have the most experience with it. To start wbar for each wm I placed a command in my .xinitrc. You have to delay it so it starts after the wm or it will not render correctly and you need to restart it.
Let me know how you make out.

I installed the debs for wbar and wbarconf. They seem to be working great. I added to ~/.fluxbox/startup just before the line so it only opens with fluxbox.

I changed some of the icons to open my apps, but now I have to look for more; I think I'll try the rox icons. And I haven't tried it with icewm yet, maybe later today. But so far I like it; a little eye candy never hurts. __{{emoticon}}__

Post a shot so we can see how it looks.

It works well with IceWM too. That's what I am running right now!

Love to see screenies mariel77 and JawsThemeSwimming428

Here is a screen shot (using zenscreen, of course) of my wbar /conky set up. I don't have all the icons going to my apps yet; I still don't know what to do with the cow, but it's kind of cute, so I left it. lol

Looking good Mariel77. I thought you wanted to run it in IceWM though?

Looking good Mariel.
I love seeing shots that show low RAM use even after 5 hours of use.
How well does antiX work with 128MB RAM?

Thanks!

I was using icewm, but I was having to learn too much for the time I had - to configure everything. I love it out of the box compared to fluxbox, but I already had fluxbox mostly set up from when I used 7.01. With wbar added, fluxbox is pretty easy to use. Also I had never used conky; I used to turn it off right away. It's really useful though and so I wanted to spend some time on it. I'm going to get back to icewm later on though. __{{emoticon}}__

The PII runs OK most of the time, as long as I try not to open too many apps at once. The things that are really slow though are using gimp with larger graphics files which is understandable and using the internet which really should be faster. Dillo is not loading pages that I need right now, so I've been using iceweasel with images off, and that helps.

But antiX really keeps this old laptop going! Thanks!

For a browser, have a look at Midori. It's a lot lighter than iceweasel but still in heavy development. You might get the occasional crash but it looks good.

Thank you so much for suggesting midori. I had forgotten where I saw it (It must have been here.), but I have been trying to install it this afternoon.
I just can't seem to get the dependencies figured out. I think I have everything, but Unique 0.9 and GTK 2.6.
Unique is not in the repos, but I found an rpm; is that what I need?

And I don't know which package is actually meant by gtk; synaptic has a lot of packages for gtk. (It looks like I need a few other packages too.)
Thank you!

Edit: Well, duh... It's in the unstable repo; it's installing now. I should have thought of that earlier. lol!

@ eriefisher,
Well, I tried midori. It looks great and seems to load pages faster unless they have javascript in them. Then midori is so slow it's basically unuseable. A lot of pages I use regularly use javascript, and if I turn them off, the page doesn't work - my google start page for instance. I'll keep my eye on it for the future though.