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I've opted for a jwm and rox desktop theme for my 6.3 desktop setup
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In addition to base ...
jwm rox-filer firefox-esr libreoffice mpv galculator leafpad osmo mtpaint yad
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Colour is just a yad colour chooser script
#!/bin/sh
yad --color --mouse --init-color=red --title="Colours" &
Music is a mpv playlist i.e. runs
mpv --playlist=$HOME/Music/playlist
where that playlist file is just a listing of all the .mp4 files and order of play that I like to listen to/view.
Alarm is another yad script I wrote
#!/bin/sh
TITLE="Alarm"
SOUND='/home/user/bin/YAD/alarm.mp3'
ICON=/home/user/.icons/alarmclock2-128.png
GEO="--geometry 345x247+558+324"
# Prompt for delay in minutes before alarm
# Fractional parts of minute supported i.e. 0.0833 is 5 seconds
DELAY=$(yad $GEO --entry --text "Enter number of minutes before alarm sounds ..." --title="$TITLE"" $VERSION" --window-icon=$ICON \
--image=$ICON \
--button="Abort!$HOME/.icons/quit.png":1 \
--button="OK!$HOME/.icons/choice-yes.png:0" \
)
ret=$?
[[ $ret -eq 1 ]] && exit 0
if [ -z $DELAY ]; then
exit
fi
# Convert to seconds
DELAY=`echo "$DELAY*60"|bc -l`
# Make a proportion of 1/100ths
STEP=`echo "$DELAY/100"|bc -l`
# Show a progress/countdown meter
i=0
while [ "$i" -lt 101 ]
do
echo $i
echo "# Remaining wait time $((100-i))%"
sleep $STEP
i=`expr $i + 1`
done | yad $GEO --progress --center --title "$TITLE"" $VERSION" --text="Alarm Countdown progress ..." --button="Abort!$HOME/.twm/icons/quit.png":1 --auto-kill --auto-close
ret=$?
[[ $ret -eq 1 ]] && exit 0
# Use mpv to play the alarm sound put it into the background recording its PID
mpv --loop=inf "$SOUND" &
PID=$!
# Show a stop alarm dialog
yad $GEO --title "$TITLE"" $VERSION" \
--button="End Alarm!$HOME/.icons/quit.png":0 \
--width 300 --image=$ICON \
--window-icon=$ICON \
--text="<b>Alarm time is up!</b>"
# kill mpv
kill -1 $PID
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RE : BTW, Zeroinstall must die, it has no future. I'd create a ROX DE metapackage for all the BSD's/Linux distros
Rox AppDirs are nice http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/AppDirs.html
Without curl installed for instance, I can grab the curl executable and its associated libs (using ldd to identify those) and drop them into a folder. Add a .DirIcon (image to use as the icon) and create a AppRun file in that folder ... and then its all contained and portable to any other OpenBSD box running the same version/architecture. Somewhat like portableapps.
This image shows how I use curl and the wttr.in web site to retrieve the local weather forecast ... but where curl isn't actually "installed"
https://s31.postimg.org/729k9yhe3/roxapp-curl.png
Having created that folder and its content, I can just drag/drop it wherever, onto the desktop for instance such that its a clickable icon.
I guess another step might be to make it more contained, perhaps a chroot (runs as user anyway, but chroot would lock things down even more). Or you can even just hold the source and compile (or store multiple versions of the binary/libs and just use the ones appropriate for whatever architecture is being used.
Under Linux I did have LibreOffice running that way for a while, all just contained in a rox appdir that could be copied in or not as desired. Nice to be able to just run the base system and add things on top of that (or not) as desired. With linux I was also using sfs's, so entire filesystems could be contained within the AppDir and just mounted/unmounted as desired/needed.
Not sure about ZeroInstall. Other than a cursory look I know very little about it/them.
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wttr.in is a great little site/link. You can put pretty much anywhere in as the location including zip/postcodes
curl wttr.in/newyork
for instance and you get a quick overview of the next few days and across the days
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Just runs mpv in a xterm that plays LBC radio station (used to be just a London station, but is now UK national), primarily a talk/news station that I have on in the mornings (disconnect the headphones and listen to it via speakers).
xterm -T "LBC" -e mpv http://media-ice.musicradio.com/LBCLondonMP3Low &
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I prefer PCmanFM. Rox' shorcuts are kinda alien, as I never used RiscOS ;)
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If you X forward rox i.e. have it on a headless server with just rox-filer installed on top of base OpenBSD and have in /etc/ssh/sshd_config have
X11Forwarding yes
... and access that via your desktop using something like
ssh -XC user@123.1.2.3 rox
then generally you wont be able to drag/drop files between the servers rox (unless perhaps if you also forward dbus ...etc.) and your desktop's rox. With rox however you can create rox apps, basically a special folder into which you copy or link a icon (for the app) and rename it to .DirIcon, alongside two other files, AppInfo and AppRun. AppInfo is just a xml file that describes the 'application', something like
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<AppInfo>
<Summary>leafpad text editor</Summary>
</AppInfo>
and AppRun (that should be executable) might contain something like
#!/bin/sh
exec leafpad "$@"
When the folder containing those files is dragged/dropped onto the desktop you can then drag/drop files onto that desktop icon and it will look and operate like how it was configured/designed. i.e. drag a .html file onto the leafpad desktop icon (rox app directory) and it will open in leafpad.
The AppRun content can be revised to account it being on a different system i.e. server, so perhaps run a scp $@ user@10.0.0.2:/home/user/. type command or ftp or whatever. Such that in your desktops X window of the servers rox window you can drag/drop to transfer files to your desktop or vice-versa.
rox is a highly drag-n-drop concentric type filemanager/desktop. Shame that its no longer being developed (AFAIK). I came to like it through my first transition away from XP (after MS withdrew support) and into Puppy Linux, that tends to use jwm and rox as defaults.
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Loving the jwm/rox combination experience. Have set up multiple pinboards so can flip between them and have desktop icons (links) to whatever, nice way to group things. Could for instance have one pinboard for each client and all of their data/details etc. ready to be flipped to at any time. I've set up one as a web bookmarks type pinboard which avoids having to use firefox bookmarks.
I've also moved a number of programs into APPDIR's so now my OpenBSD base + others is relatively light, things like mpv, mtpaint, leafpad, osmo, curl etc. are all static APPDIR's, owned and run by USER so additional security also :)
https://s31.postimg.cc/e0uq07tuj/smart.png
Love the drag/drop from filemanager to rox-panel to open/execute files (left of screen in my case). I have jwm panel set to autohide and the date also serves as a showdesktop (if left mouse clicked) or it shows the menu if you middle or right mouse click the date.
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