Re: Matchbox 0.5rc1 on Tuxscreen

on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:26:48PM -0500, Phil Olynyk wrote:
> Hi all -
>         Well, I decided to jump from mb 0.2x right up to 0.5 - and it 
> mostly worked after a bit of fiddling:

Cool :-)

>         1) configure doesn't believe the Tuxscreen has a working malloc... 
> I used vim config.h to fix that! I'll look at the test code later..

Hmmm, thats wierd. Were you building natively on the tux ?

>         2) the (remove,add,move,hide) menu has two diagonal lines through 
> it - maybe it is taking the underlying screen data and rotating it 45 
> degrees?? Wish I could show it to you!

Try removing the 'MenuTransparency' line in;

/usr/local/share/themes/bluebox/matchbox/theme.desktop  

That may fix it. 

>         3) When I added --enable-png to my configure line I got an error 
> about a missing "png.h" file. Any idea where I could find it - and any of 
> its friends?

Yes you need libpng , grab it from www.libpng.org or install
libpng12-dev deb if your using debian. 

>         4) the minisys icon is a little smaller than in 0.2, so it's 
> harder to see.

Im currently working on making the panel applets scale up/down with
the dock so there more workable on larger displays than 320x240 .

>         Overall I am happy so far. I mainly need to learn how to make rxvt 
> use a bigger font and nicer colors ---- tomorrow!

In my ~/.Xdefualts , I have the following for rxvt ;

rxvt*font: -*-lucida console-*-*-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
rxvt*background: cornsilk1
rxvt*saveLines: 300


  -- Matthew