[OpenIndiana-discuss] [solarisx86] For those nostalgic fellas

[Marc Williams]

On 01/10/11 05:24 PM, Nikola M. wrote:
>
> You can put it on the center of the screen, that is for sure.
> Maybe you could ask someone on xfce list or something.
>
> I have been using Xfce for 3+ years with Xubuntu and I mostly make it
> look like win95 bar with one extra panel.
> Anyway Xfce is greatly configurable as I know, it has a lot panel addons
> etc. so you cna make it look in many different ways (not like gnome that
> is mostly sticked to default look) and also can use gnome addons inside
> of him, through xfapplet addon.
>
Today I was just jumping around at Wikipedia, reading all things Solaris
and wound up at the Common_Desktop_Environment page.
There, in a single-line paragraph, was the answer to my question about
Xfce and whether or not it can mimic the old CDE panel. Nope. Not anymore.

I had Xfce on OpenSolaris (snv_111b) which worked out fine. Haven't yet
put it on OI. I do have WindowMaker and AfterStep though (the latter has
some problems).

Regarding the original topic, opencde, that thing has some problems.
I was surprised to find it was available via Arch Linux's package
system so I installed it. When run it kept complaining about icons and
widgets or whatever that it couldn't find. Paths to various bits are
in the source code as well as in some files.
It looks in PREFIX/etc/opencde/ and PREFIX/share/opencde/ and wants to
write to ~/.opencde/.
The Arch package omits the opencde dirs (so you get etc/dtpanel, 
etc/dtfile, usw).

So I figure I'd create the opencde dirs and symlink into it.
(I didn't want to move anything in case I needed to uninstall)
But that didn't quite work either as opencde wouldn't write properly
to the home dir (it would copy say a 'dtpanel' to my home dir but
would still balk because it wants ~/.opencde/dtpanel or something.
Even if I created .opencde/ before hand it wouldn't work.
I believe it was copying just the link itself.

So I download the debian package to have a look inside and see
they fixed the problem with dupes. Individual directories and
file are in etc/ and share/ but must also be in etc/opencde/ and
share/opencde/ (symbolic links into opencde don't work. Not sure
about the other way around).
Once I did that opencde started correctly and also created the
~/.opencde/ tree.

Anyhind, that was a week ago but I'm sure that's how it happened. :-)
Either way once it ran it looked pretty ugly. It uses wxmotif.
At the moment I have no idea how to tweak its look.

Marc