JWM 460-patched

A little while ago I announced JWM version 464 patched by shinobar with i18n support for the menu:

http://bkhome.org/archive/blog2/201001/jwm-464-with-i18n-patch.html

Retrovol problems
However v464 was found to be buggy. My own experience with 464 is that pizzasgood's retrovol caused a problem -- with only the tray applet icon in the tray, JWM thought a window was running and displayed a window in the tray labeled "Retrovol" -- this was there permanently, which was annoying.

Earlier versions of JWM, 460 included, are still not quite right with Retrovol. When I click on the icon a volume bar appears, and JWM thinks a window is running and displays a window entry in the tray -- this does not disappear if I click elsewhere even though the volume bar disappears, and I have to click the window-entry in the tray to make it vanish. A bit messy, but I guess have to live with that for now.

Shinobar rolled back to v460 and patched that for i18n support for the menu. I have compiled that for Quirky.

Shinobar's forum thread:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51847

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Comments

retrovol and jwm
Username: shinobar
> this does not disappear if I click elsewhere even though the volume bar disappears hum... i am using retrovol with JWM 460-patched on Puppy-431JPqs3 and there is no problem. JWM displays a window entry in the tray when the volume bar appears. click again or click another window then the the volume bar disappears, same time the window entry in the tray desappears.

Re Retrovol problem
Username: BarryK
"shinobar, Ah ok, I looked at it again. If I click on the sound icon, the volume bar pops up and a window entry named "retrovol" appears in the tray taskbar. If I then click the window entry in the taskbar, the volume control bar disappears but the window entry remains. If I click the window entry again, it disappears. ...that's probably not really a bug, I was just trying to get rid of the volume control in a strange way. But, perhaps not so strange -- if there are no other windows open, then the "retrovol" window fills the entire taskbar, and it would be quite natural for someone to click somewhere in the tray when wanting to remove the volume popup bar -- and they might click on the retrovol window entry -- the volume bar will then disappear, but the retrovol window entry will remain there indefinitely until they click on it.

Re Retrovol
Username: BarryK
"Really, JWM should not display any window for retrovol at all, when the volume control popup happens.

jwm groups
Username: technosaurus
"I had implemented a jwm category description for retrovol and gave it a nolist attribute...hopefully just a temporary hack http://joewing.net/programs/jwm/config.shtml#groups

Retrovol mixer
Username: BarryK
"technosaurus, The problem with doing that is then the Retrovol mixer also has no window entry in the taskbar. Perhaps we should approach pizzasgood and ask if the mixer can be run as a different window/task name? Like, "Retromix"!

Retrovol
Username: Pizzasgood
"I'll add that to my list of things to look into the next time I work on it. I ought to be able to have it just not create the entry in the first place. [b]duke93535:[/b] You can already do that. Right-click on the icon and it will pop up the full window. Then go to File->Configure. If you scroll down there is an entry named "Tray Slider" on the left that has a dropdown menu on the right which lists every volume control it can locate on your system. I just tested and that seemed to work on my system.

Retrovol 0.3
Username: Pizzasgood
"Okay, I just released version 0.3, which fixes the taskbar problem, adds a -v/--version option, and replaces the -show option with -hide. Along with that, the default behavior has changed so that running just "retrovol" will pop up the main window in addition to creating the tray icon. To have it start with only the tray icon like it used to, use the -hide option when launching it. [b]People who are upgrading will need to make that adjustment to their ~/.xinitrc file.[/b] http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=50744 http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=399055#399055

Retrovol 0.4
Username: Pizzasgood
"Okay, the bug is fixed and version 0.4 is up. (Only change is the bugfix). http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=50744

Tags: quirky