Wbar is a light mac-os like launcher. It looks very cool on the AA1 and is also quite useful since it gives you a quick access to your the apps that you use more often. (have a look here: http://www.linux.com/feature/128982)
1- The first thing we need to do is download the Wbar file and its dependencies:
Get the Wbar here http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/ ... 6.rpm.html
and the needed dependencies from here http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/ ... 6.rpm.html
and here http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/ ... 6.rpm.html
2- Install first the imlib2-1.4.0.46, then the imlib2-loaders and finally the wbar-1.3.3 (to install them right click on them and select the software manager).
3- Now you should have the wbar installed in your machine. To test it press Alt+F2 and type “wba”r or “wbar -above-desk -pos top-center -isize 40 -nanim 5 -bpress” if you want it at the top or “wbar -above-desk -pos top-bottom -isize 40 -nanim 5 -bpress” if you prefer it at the bottom (note you don't have to include “ in your command).
You'll see that you may not need many of the default icons or you may want to add your own; to do these open a terminal as root (on the terminal write su and enter your password you'll see that the sign on the command line changes from $ to # that means that you are the root now – which also means that you could break your computer if you are not careful with what you do), and type “thunar /usr/share/wbar” press enter and you'll find yourself in the folder where the configuration file for wbar is.
To change the icons on the bar you need to edit the dot.wbar file. Write click on the file and choose open with Mousepad. The document looks something like this
i: /usr/share/wbar/iconpack/wbar.osx/firefox.png
c: firefox
t: firefox
where i: is the path to the icon, c: is the command to launch the app and t: is the name of the app. Now if there are some icons that you don't want you can do 2 things; you can stick a # in front of every field ( like for example #c:firefox), this will make the icon not to show on the bar, or you could change the icon and the app that they launch, to do this:
on the i:filed write the path to the icon that you want to add to the bar (a tip is to copy and paste the icon that you want into the wbar.osx folder, in this way you only need to change the name of the icon).
On the c: field write the command that launches the app (e.g. thunar etc ) if you don't know the command to the app in kde you can drag the app that you want from the menu into the desktop to get and icon for it, then right click on the icon go to properties and check the application tab where you'll find the command. I dont know how to do it in xfce.
Now if you save the document and open the wbar (or right click on it if is already running) you should get the new icons showing. If the wbar doesn't turn up that means that you didn't type the path for the icon correctly, check and try again (it'd be a good idea to leave the conf file open until things are looking how you want them this will save you having to open the file if it doesn't work.
Have fun!
1- The first thing we need to do is download the Wbar file and its dependencies:
Get the Wbar here http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/ ... 6.rpm.html
and the needed dependencies from here http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/ ... 6.rpm.html
and here http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/ ... 6.rpm.html
2- Install first the imlib2-1.4.0.46, then the imlib2-loaders and finally the wbar-1.3.3 (to install them right click on them and select the software manager).
3- Now you should have the wbar installed in your machine. To test it press Alt+F2 and type “wba”r or “wbar -above-desk -pos top-center -isize 40 -nanim 5 -bpress” if you want it at the top or “wbar -above-desk -pos top-bottom -isize 40 -nanim 5 -bpress” if you prefer it at the bottom (note you don't have to include “ in your command).
You'll see that you may not need many of the default icons or you may want to add your own; to do these open a terminal as root (on the terminal write su and enter your password you'll see that the sign on the command line changes from $ to # that means that you are the root now – which also means that you could break your computer if you are not careful with what you do), and type “thunar /usr/share/wbar” press enter and you'll find yourself in the folder where the configuration file for wbar is.
To change the icons on the bar you need to edit the dot.wbar file. Write click on the file and choose open with Mousepad. The document looks something like this
i: /usr/share/wbar/iconpack/wbar.osx/firefox.png
c: firefox
t: firefox
where i: is the path to the icon, c: is the command to launch the app and t: is the name of the app. Now if there are some icons that you don't want you can do 2 things; you can stick a # in front of every field ( like for example #c:firefox), this will make the icon not to show on the bar, or you could change the icon and the app that they launch, to do this:
on the i:filed write the path to the icon that you want to add to the bar (a tip is to copy and paste the icon that you want into the wbar.osx folder, in this way you only need to change the name of the icon).
On the c: field write the command that launches the app (e.g. thunar etc ) if you don't know the command to the app in kde you can drag the app that you want from the menu into the desktop to get and icon for it, then right click on the icon go to properties and check the application tab where you'll find the command. I dont know how to do it in xfce.
Now if you save the document and open the wbar (or right click on it if is already running) you should get the new icons showing. If the wbar doesn't turn up that means that you didn't type the path for the icon correctly, check and try again (it'd be a good idea to leave the conf file open until things are looking how you want them this will save you having to open the file if it doesn't work.
Have fun!
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