PPC
Hi, Marcelo- as far as I know, anticapitalista included the desktop file for a jwm tray icon manager but the script is not finished yet… so it does not exist.
You have to manually add icons to the jwm toolbar by editing it’s config file- I’ve done that in the past.
I created Icewm’s Toolbar icon manager, and I didn’t get around to doing the same to jwm- because it uses a completely diferent way to add icons to the tray, not so easy to automate as Icewm’s…
As far as I know, from the 3 antiX default desktops only Icewm includs a graphical way to add remove toolbar icons (I did that so users could save RAM by not running a desktop managed by rox or spacefm to have desktop icons, but still have icons easily available without the need to edit config files). The standard Fluxbox desktop does not include the possibility to add “launchers” to the tray- but skidoo’s version allows users to add “text” launchers (that can use a font with glyphs that mimic application icons- a quite complex process just to add toolbar icons)
P.
Edit:
Small how to add/remove icons to JWM toolbar:
1-Menu > Control Centre > “Desktop” Tab > Edit Jwm Settings
2- Select the “Tray” tab
3- Search for the lines that start with “<TRayButton label= …”
4- Read the example for the icons that already show up
5-…and add/move/delete (where ever you want it to show up) the icon you want using this formula:
<TrayButton label=”” icon=”[full_path_to_the_icon]” popup=”[aplication_name_you_want_to-Show]>exec: [command to run aplication]”
6- Save the text file
7- Menu > Log out > Restart JWM
Edit 2:
Off topic and also unsolicited advice:
Marcelo- if you and any users you support come from Windows (or Windows like systems) for now, Icewm is the best bet- all 3 desktops icewm, jwm and fluxbox, use almost the same ammount of resources.
Icewm has the best Graphics Users interface to add/remove icons to the toolbar (which saves resources, because users don’t have to run rox to have icons directly available on the screen- with it’s Toolbar Icon Manager- Icewm works in a very similar way to a “dock”- add and remove icons without any need to edit files, just by selecting aplications on a menu
JWM is theoricaly a bit lighter (it was the case in the previous antiX version, it ran on abour some less 10 Mb of RAM)- and it has some good points- like a more configurable toolbar/tray- see the “power” button near the clock? Icewm does not allow users to do that. JWM may save some resources with some small tricks (example: don’t run a volume manager icon on the system tray- just add an icon before the clock to call for a volume manager when needed ( like “yad-volume”- run that from the terminal to get a fell for it )
Fluxbox once again is veryyy light on resources (I think it was the lightest os the 3 on the previous antiX version- now the difference faded a bit)- it’s great- has capabilities far above icewm – like tabs, and out-of-the-box setting window positions for each application ( there’s an antiX script for icewm that now also does that- 🙂 ).
You can take a look on our “younger brother” MX linux forum, http://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=143&t=55055 to see how confirurable Fluxbox is.
If you want to emulate in antiX Windows 10- simply install Tint2 , skippy-xd and Driller appimage; correctly configure Tint2 toolbar and, with the cost of about 3-4 Mb of RAM you get 99.9% of all functionality that Windows 10 offers- move mouse pointer above an running app to see it’s preview (that comes out of the box with Tint2, you just have to search the configuration menu and activate the “preview”), skippy-xd is a tiny app swithcer that shows a real time preview of all non minimized applications. Drill- acts both as app launcher and basic very fast file searcher (by name, not content- it does not index anything).
Skippy-xd and Drill appimage are not memory resident apps- that means that you can install them and only use them when you want to, without any idle RAM cost…
antix Fluxbox with tint2 is, in my opinion, as close to the most used system in the world as you can get, and still use far less than 200Mb of idle RAM
P.
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