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.

Early progress using amiwm and ubuntu 10.04

I managed to compile the latest snapshot of amiwm which has a launcher plugin that I've used for workbench icons linked to rox-filer for home, root and ramdisk.

Although it is a bit rough, I've modified amiwm to check for usb drive insertion and places an icon on the desktop when this occurs. The eject is via the workbench menu and when selected, makes the icon disappear and un-mounts the drive correctly.

This screenshot shows amiwm set up with two screens, shell, rox-filer, minimized application (deluxe paint clone) and a usb drive.

I've also made a video of some of the features I'm testing;

NB: I had to hit eject twice because umount does not work while you have drawer open.

Introduction

As a Commodore Amiga fanboy, I regularly (until recently) bushed the dust off my old A600 and had retro gaming days. That was until it decided to die. I mostly run Linux Ubuntu now and hoping to make my system capable of running old games easily and seamlessly while giving it an Amiga look and feel.

I know of a number of applications which will help be achieve my goals but many of these were written years ago and abandoned. I'm not really a coder but hoping to make minor fixes and enhancements to these to firstly, make them stable and secondly add valuable features that are common in other OS's and Windows Managers.