Monday, July 25, 2011

Working Memory free in the title now

More fiddling with the source code resulted in some extra text in the title bar. A little bit more like the original Amiga OS but more importantly, a way for me to easily watch the battery life and volume.

The way I achieved this is to have amiwm read a text file and display the result in the menu. Then I have another script that populates the file with what ever I need at the time. Ugly I know, but it means flexibility and works for me in the short term. Eventually I'll polish the code and make it more user friendly and cleaner.
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4 comments:

  1. gacoSeptember 24, 2011 at 6:08 AM

    Hi! Good work! How did you do this? I've got Linux Debian with amiwm now. Can you give me a amiwmrc-file? How to set a background? Please help me :) gacojdm@gmail.com

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  2. DomSeptember 24, 2011 at 10:03 PM

    Good to see someone else experimenting with AmiWM. I've posted some information on the configuration. Hope it helps.

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  3. judgenMay 6, 2013 at 3:23 AM

    How did you achieve the battery status in the bar? i would love to have that. Also how do you get things like full screen flash (youtube) to not draw borders? In vlc i can use the SDL output and that works fine for fullscreenm but not so much luck with flash.

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  4. DomMarch 26, 2014 at 1:11 AM

    Minor hacks at this stage. Found where the title bar code was and added my own battery code to it. For Fullscreen, that is a very poor hack where I added a fullscreen check box to the menu and then check (once ticked) for any window which is full screen and just prevent the window borders from being drawn.

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