nosami
Member
3 posts
Hi,
Pypanel isn't repainting itself and the text is blurry. I get the error "Failed to create background image in ppshade!" if I start pypanel from the shell.
Searching google led me to the following page (the only result!) http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/2761cf126e19256c but I'm not too sure what the best way of dealing with this is.
Think I'll try a different panel for now.
corenominal
root
251 posts
Hi nosami :)
As I understand it, pypanel is no longer being actively developed. This is a shame as in some situations it works really well, unfortunately though, it other situations it does not perform so well. I am currently rethinking its deployment as the default panel and I am looking into alternatives.
At the moment I am running lxpanel on all my systems. I am fairly pleased with it, but admittedly, it needed some customising (IMHO, some of its default applets and icons are just plain ugly). It is available from the repositories and can be installed with the command:
sudo apt-get install lxpanelPlease let me know if you come across any other alternatives which you like/prefer.
nosami
Member
3 posts
Hi Corenominal,
Thanks for the reply. First of all, I should point out that pypanel was working flawlessly the other night until I did an upgrade. Thanks for the great distro. :)
It's very much like what I put together for my eee 701 (debian + openbox + pypanel + conky + urxvtc) although that only uses around 84mb ram when booted up and only takes 23 seconds to boot (took me a few days of tweaking ;) ). I should point out that that doesn't contain any xfce or gnome stuff though... it's very minimal.
I found your site by accident and thought that crunchbang would be a great distro for my desktop machine and I wouldn't have all the setting up to do myself :)
I just tried lxpanel. It looks very much like fbpanel which I tried last night. Haven't tried configuring either of them yet. They both seem very similar (in looks) to gnome-panel. It's a shame as I really prefer the minimal look of pypanel. I suppose I could try without gnome-settings-daemon (don't use that on my eee)
Do you have lxpanel looking like pypanel yet? If so, I'd love to have your config to try out :)
I'm going to give tint2 http://code.google.com/p/tint2/ a go for a while I think. Looks to be the closest to pypanel from what I can tell.
Thanks again!
corenominal
root
251 posts
Do you have lxpanel looking like pypanel yet?
Not really, only in positioning and by removing everything apart from the pager, task bar and system tray. Actually, I am currently running with a fairly dark mist/rezlooks GTK+ theme and when set to transparent the panel does not look too bad -- I kind of like it :)
Regarding tint2, I have tried it and I like it, although its only downfall for me is its lack of a system tray :( Hopefully the developers will add one soon.
susikala
Member
1 posts
Hello,
I just wanted to say that I've recently downloaded the latest PyPanel version and started learning the source code and hacking it.
I've been fixing some bugs and I've also applied a nice volume-add patch (I changed it a bit since it was somewhat in bad taste), but there's a lot of work to do. The code needs a clean-up, many routines are obviously old and Python 2.5 recommends not using them anymore.
Eventually I plan to either rewrite the panel in Python, or move to C. I've tested tint2 but for being written in C, it's not significally less memory or CPU heavy than PyPanel, which is what I'd be aiming for. Features only come in second place, imho, after stability and speed.
In accordance with that, I have also disabled the 'SHADOW' feature in PyPanel 2.4. I might reintroduce it when the code gets stable.
If you guys'd be interesting in testing at some point, please inform me.
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