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Notice: The tarball for the upcoming 7.3 release has been uploaded here.
I'll still continue development in this thread. If anyone has scripts for parsing json,xml content from financial, weather and news sites, they would be appreciated as replies to this thread. This thread is for BareGUI development and was started for the following reasons. I found myself continuing to make edits to the BareGUI thread. New users would be frustrated to find an error and not have it addressed. Although I appreciate feedback/code contributions, it tends to spread out what should be concise content. Part of this is my fault as I have not explicitly set project goals. Goals:
What's been done so far: Since 7.2, work has gone into migrating apps; python2->python3 and gtk+2->gtk+3 x11/openbox, x11/tint2 recently updated to gtk+3/python3. OpenBSD is working on gimp and the package install list has gimp-2.99 (development) which is in testing. x11/tray-app is still gtk+2 and the maintainer has emailed me that he is working on it. The Russian/Ukraine war is impacting his work so other options for a gtk+3 volume slider should be looked at. I have a x11/yad (gtk+3) script which generates an audio volume slider. Other options are importing the FreeBSD gvolwheel(gtk+3) port to OpenBSD sndio and using pnmixer with pulseaudio. I would prefer to utilize OpenBSD sndio server rather than pulseaudio but Gnome/KDE/Xfce4 volume controls are all pulseaudio based. The openbox menu.xml file was throwing alot of xsession-errors and was removed. OpenBox and Tint2 configuration files were moved to DejaVuSansMono which is in the base xorg install. The arc-theme-solid was added in an attempt to migrate from gnome-themes/gnome-themes-extra. The gnome themes currently have a gtk+2 dependency. There is an openbox-arc-theme for consistency. 18Nov2022: Developed a sndio, system tray slider using {oport]x11/yad[/oport]. The relevant scripts are: ~/Scripts/ Code:
yad_sndioctl.sh yad_tray_audio.sh monitor resolution you may have to adjust --posy in the yad_sndioctl.sh script. This script also controls audio levels through OpenBSD's sound server, sndio, rather than pulseaudio. Also removed gnome-mplayer (gtk+2) in favor of multimedia/mpv (gtk+3) With this BareGUI, with the alt packages, is fully migrated to gtk+3/python3. BareGUI_recommended_gtk3_apps are mouse driven apps that meet gtk+3/python3 criteria. An alternative BareGUI_recommended_ncurses_apps replaces some apps with ncurses applications. The chosen ncurses applications are highly functional and in some cases more functional than the gtk+3 apps; eg calcurse will import Calendars using a standard format. Many College computer science departments still provide instructions for alpine although development/unix popularity is not on pace with mutt/neomutt. Some consideration is being given to mutt as the ncurses email client but setup is far more challenging for new users. editors/nano was chosen over vim/vim-gtk3 as it is essentially the same editor included with alpine. If this is being used in current, www/ungoogled-chromium is getting frequent updates. It remains to be seen if releases will get the same updates. Ungoogled-chromium does have one quirk, it does not write imported Bookmarks to ~/.config/ungoogled-chromium/Defaults/. If you have pre-existing chromium/ungoogled-chromium, you can copy ~/.config/chromium/Defaults/Bookmarks over from a working system. 29Nov2022: jgmenu updated to 4.4.1. This provides internal menu generation and is faster than using menu-cache. The syntax was changed in ~/.config/jgmenu/jgmenurc for 4.4.1. The old syntax was commented out for those who want to apply the development snapshot to 7.2 release. x11/menu-cache removed from core pkglist. www/ungoogled-chromium works but will not start after an upgrade unless ~/.config/ungoggled-chromium is deleted and rebuilt. Replaced ungoogled-chromium with firefox-esr in recommended_apps and recommended_ncurses_apps. Will reconsider ungoogled-chromium if it settles down by release 7.3. Replaced lxappearance with xsettingsd in BareGUI_recommended_ncurses_apps and provided ~/.config/xsettingsd for arc-solid theme and paper icons. Added xsettingsd in ~/.config/openbox/autostart. Changed ~/.config/tint2/tint2rc panel background to flat dark grey to match arc theme. Added a system configuration to provide a system wide openbox arc theme. 01Dec2022: General cleanup. Renamed recommended alt_apps to recommended_ncurses_apps. Provided *.desktop files for all ncurses apps. If you choose to not install a particular ncurses app, you can either delete the corresponding *.desktop file or append NoDisplay=true to the desktop file. 04Dec2022: More cleanup. Removed recommended_gtk+3 app list. Trying to accommodate to many options and was straying from the main goal of simple, lightweight and classic unix applications in a modern desktop. Added nano, calcurse, abook to recommended_ncurses and provided *.desktop files, Scripts/*_start.sh and basic ~/.config/*. Removed tray-app and menu-cache and modified ~/.config/jgmeu/jgmenurc for v4.4.1. Added Arcbox openbox theme and provided copy/paste instructions to install system-wide. In README.txt, also provided web url's instructions for keybinding touchpad toggle script and setting up alpine. 09Dec2022: Tweaked Script/yad_sndioctl.sh. Corrected desktop_files/xcalc.desktop. recommended_apps_ncurses reverted cups-filters to cups. lpr printing seems to be broken not just in OpenBSD but in Debian/Devuan testing - something to do with cups upstream and a perl script. Removed redundant "&&" in config/openbox/autostart for mpd. Test neomutt/mutt-wizard. It sets up only neomutt and only with isync. The initial sync is slow and imap downloads attachments. To me, mutt-wizard setup does provide a very secure, modular setup with separate mail sync and smtp agents but does so with an increased footprint and non-openbsd tools. Will stick with mail/alpine for now. 16Dec2022 Resized alpine and mc xterms 144x44. Cleaned up mpd. Instructions for user sndioctl.sh. More detail on using ImageMagick to build the wallpaper. Removed cups. Plan to provide /etc/printcap, ghostscript ljet4 filters along with brief instructions for usb and network printing. Added missing Scripts/calcurse_start.sh. Used --mouse position for Scripts/yad_sndioctl.sh slider bar. User no longer has to adjust vertical position as a function of screen size. 07Mar2023 Added missing nano editor and provided default ~/.config/nano. Added ~/Scripts/yad_abook.sh and moved configuration files and addressbook files ~/.abook -> ~/.config/abook. Moved alpine configuration files from ~/.pinerc -> ~/.config/alpine/pinerc. At this point, all configuration files, with the exception of ~/.mozilla/firefox, will be in ~/.config. 26Mar2023 Added xorriso.desktop with NoDisplay=true but optical disk will be a second step in the BareGUI7.3 install thread. Tested install with 7.3 Beta. Projects:
The latest BareGUI tarball: BareGUI_26Mar2023.tar.gz Ongoing community development/testing would be useful. If there is enough interest, set up a git repo. Last edited by shep; 23rd July 2023 at 07:13 AM. |
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