DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Rox-filer



I'm playing with puppy and noticed that it uses rox-filer pinboard for the background. This is one of the features i been trying to get to work in dsl but can't get it working right because i wasn't sure how to set it up.

Anyways i think DSL will benefit greatly by using rox-filer in this kind of setup it could replace both emelfm and xtdesk. the drag and drop type of icon making is great.
(example: I downloaded firefox from the site,untared it, then just draged the firefox executable to the desktop,then right clicked it>set icon and draged the icon in the firefox/icons folder and thats it done)
Okay, i got it to work in DSL 3.0. Pic->
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/6461/proof2gi.png
But i've noticed one problem. If i open something up on top of the icons it pics up the image in the background.pic->
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/3300/proof19hy.png

I'll have to look at the puppy setup more closly and see how they avoid this happening with there's. To be continued, may be a how to...
Okay i got it. The command to set rox-filer in pinboard mode is->
rox -o --pinboard=MyPinboard

To have it start all the time you can add it to .xinitrc->

case $DESKTOP in
 fluxbox )
   fluxter &>/dev/null &
   wmswallow -geometry 70x80 docked  docked.lua &
   exec rox -o --pinboard=MyPinboard &>/dev/null &
   exec fluxbox 2>/dev/null  
 ;;

So much easier to make icons now, it's simple drag and drop the executiable to the desktop. plus you can drag them to any postion you like on the desktop.
loaded rox.dsl and tryed your line in .xinitrc, it works!

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This is the only thing to add to. xinitrc that's not already there...
rox filer is a nice alternative to emelfm..

exec rox -o --pinboard=MyPinboard &>/dev/null &


:p



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