Re: Matchbox 0.5rc1 on Tuxscreen

At 04:25 AM 28-03-03, Matthew Allum wrote:
>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 ?

No, I cross-compile on an x86, using the tux buildroot system. I'll look 
into the test code this weekend.


> >         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.

Ahh! Yes that did 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.

Ok, I've got libpng. Now I just have to set up make.linux to cross-compile 
within the buildroot scheme. It's gonna be a busy weekend!



> >         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

Thanks, Matthew, I'll keep you posted on progress -
         Phil


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