Thanks Snake Eyes!
Yes, the Openbox version was pretty light but not very well received, I
had actually removed xfdesktop and xfwm from XFCE4 and replaced it with
Openbox and it shaved around 200 hundred Mb of RAM consumption from
XFCE4 but Enlightenment actually weighs in about the same as
XFCE4/Openbox and is a much nicer presentation with the smooth
compositing. I've never checked out E-16, obviously on Debian nobody is
going to outdo Elive for an E-16 presentation. I'm in over my head as it
is time wise and E-25 has been a lot for people to get used to... lol. I
won't be adding E-16 to the mix but I might give it whirl in a VM for
fun.
Firewire does work with PipeWire but it's not as straightforward as the
JACK/FFado days of old, you're going to be leaning on the ALSA Firewire
drivers and they are a bit hit and miss..
Thanks for the reply,
Best, Glen
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On 2024-11-21 16:01, Φ SNAKΣ ΣYΣZ Φ wrote:
Hey Glen,
Great distro! I seem to recall you used to do an ultra light version
with openbox. Have you checked out Enlightenment E16? Still receiving
updates and has a really great 'dragbar' feature I've not seen on
other window managers which is great for audio work. For example, you
can put it on the right and then if you want to concentrate on the bus
mixes, drag the whole mixer to the left and reveal the desktop below
with relevant bus plugins/audio visualisers etc with just the bus
mixer channels on the left. Or put it on the left and drag the mixer
to the right, loosing the bus channels to concentrate on the
individual mixer channels, revealing the track edit channels on the
desktop below. You can completely remove the window boarders as
well. Could be a good option to have as an alternative option at the
login screen.
Cheers for your efforts and contributions to linux audio, I hope I get
the time to take a look at your new update. Great to be able to keep
old tech going, including firewire audio devices.
All the best...Snake Eyez
On 20/11/2024 23:22, i...@bandshed.net wrote:
Hi Carsten,
Wow, a reply from the big man!
Thanks very much for the detailed info, the more the better for an
illiterate like me! I wasn't sure where the blocks began and ended so
that is very helpful to know. Stefan from the Bodhi project took pity
on me and also was very helpful so all in all I learned some new stuff
and got the iBar Icons to stop flashing. I'm sure I will pick away at
other details in the future but for now things are at a good spot..
I've pasted the code hints in my beloved text notes folder for future
refs.
Thanks again!
Glen
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On 2024-11-15 05:17, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 13:09:41 -0500 i...@bandshed.net said:
Hello E mailing list,
I am the maintainer of AV Linux which is an independent specialized
Audio and Video Linux Distribution based on Debian Stable and using
the
build toolchain of MX Linux. AV Linux has been around since 2007 and
up
until last year I used LXDE and later XFCE4 Desktop Environments but
since moving to Debian Bookworm and MX-23 I've been using
Enlightenment
as the Desktop Environment. I could be wrong but I believe AV Linux
is
the only Distribution habitually in the Distrowatch rankings that is
using pure Enlightenment 0.25 as it's DE. I will say that it's
pretty
obvious E is not designed to deploy in a turnkey state on Live Media
but
with some determination and assistance here and there most of those
issues are ironed out..
Now to get closer to my point, I can't say that adopting E has been
a
terribly popular decision and I've taken a lot of flack about it but
personally I think it has been a good move and I'm very happy with
it's
smooth Desktop presentation and miser-like RAM usage and with every
built ISO I'm able to make the experience a bit smoother but I have
one
constant User complaint that has been persistent enough that I need
to
ask some help to fix it. The complaint is about the Icon animations
in
the iBar and it irks people to almost comical proportions. I'd like
to
ask for some help and guidance to disable it in the default FLAT E
theme. I am NOT a developer, I know my way around building ISO's,
hacking configs, doing some Debian Packaging and some light
scripting
with YAD and wading into to something like writing or modifying EDC
code
is currently a bridge to far for me both time-wise and skill-wise.
Yes,
I have made some minor light modifications to the default FLAT theme
but
after a few hours of messing with the iBar edc code and getting
nowhere
I thought I'd ask for some help. The only change I want is for the
iBar
Icons to not to be animated and to simply highlight and display
their
tooltip label. Beyond that and the changes I've already made I'm
very
happy with the default E theme and I have 3 sets of palettes and
matching GTK color themes to accompany it.
in default theme - find the fle:
ibar-ibox.edc
in this file find:
group { name: "e/modules/ibox/icon_overlay";
and in that group, inside the programs find this one:
program { name: "go_active";
^^^ that is where you want to start looking at.
if you want no REPEATED pulsing to show it's active (only pulse once
on mouse
over) look at
program { name: "go_active2";
right below "go_active" then comment out the sequence {} block in
that program.
it won't repeat the animation then and just pulse once. (commenting
out is the
usual c/c++/java/c#/rust/js etc. commenting out like adding // at the
start of
the line - you can also use /* ... */ comments too). "blocks" in edje
ed are:
blockname {
...
}
they don't have to be over multiple lines - like c/c++/java/js etc.
they are
newline agnostic, so commenting out a block is
// blockname {
// content here;
// ...
// }
for example. or
/*
blockname {
content here;
...
}
*/
if you want it to not even do the first pulse then back in the
"go_active"
program, comment out the
after: "go_active2";
line (put // at the start of the line). this will mean the
"go_active" program
that is triggered by the "e,state,focused" "e" signal never goes on
to run the
"go_active2" after the "go_active" program has finished (that's what
after:
does - after his program finishes, run this other one - programs can
take some
period of time to run or can be instant. if they have a transition:
LINEAR 0.5
like "go_active2" has then this program takes 0.5 seconds to run and
will do
the transition to the hidden state over a period of 0.5 seconds,
doing a
linear interpolation of properties (e.g. fading in or out or changing
size
etc.))
since you've made small mods to the default theme already, this is
just
another small mod to make. :)
I would be willing to offset the time and effort required for
assistance
with a PayPal donation if there are any developers or advanced users
who
are interested in helping. I'm pulling together an ISO update so
although it isn't a rush a timely solution would be pretty handy.
If interested info on AV Linux is here:
http://www.bandshed.net/avlinux/
My current modified FLAT theme is here in a Deb Package:
https://bandshed.net/packages/AVL_MXe-23.X/SYSTEM_DEV/CORE/enlightenment-default-avl-theme-20241113-bookworm1-1_all.deb
GTK Themes and matching E Palettes in a Deb Package:
https://bandshed.net/packages/AVL_MXe-23.X/SYSTEM_DEV/CORE/enlightenment-skeuos-gtk-themes-20241008-bookworm1-1_all.deb
Thanks for reading and I look forward to participating give and take
on
the list in case any of the AV Linux Enlightenment customizations
are
useful to other Users.
Best Regards, Glen MacArthur - AV Linux Maintainer
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