FVWM: get dropbox status

Discussion:

Vince Forgetta

2011-11-30 03:25:05 UTC

Hi,

After a few years away from fvwm I am glad to say I am back. I forgot
how wonderful this window manager is! Nice and quick, and easy to
customize (at least to me).

I am using dropbox and would like to know how to check the status of
the synchronization (downloading, uploading, idle). Usually there is
an icon in the taskbar of other WM/DE. Is there a command I can run or
a way to get the icon in the button bar?

I am running Arch Linux with kernel 3.1.3-1.

The dropbox daemon is running in the background (dropboxd).

Thanks in advance for the help.

Vince

Jaimos Skriletz

2011-11-30 04:52:42 UTC

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Post by Vince Forgetta
Hi,
After a few years away from fvwm I am glad to say I am back. I forgot
how wonderful this window manager is! Nice and quick, and easy to
customize (at least to me).
I am using dropbox and would like to know how to check the status of
the synchronization (downloading, uploading, idle). Usually there is
an icon in the taskbar of other WM/DE. Is there a command I can run or
a way to get the icon in the button bar?

I'm assuming the other WM/DE display this in a system tray.

Stalonetray is a stand alone system tray which should work for you. You can either place it in its own window or swallow it into FvwmButtons. A quick search should find the info you need to swallow this. There are a few issues with swallowing the tray you'll have to look into if you go this route.

jaimos

Markus Hutmacher

2011-11-30 07:37:49 UTC

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Post by Jaimos Skriletz

I'm assuming the other WM/DE display this in a system tray.
Stalonetray is a stand alone system tray which should work for you. You can either place it in its own window or swallow it into FvwmButtons. A quick search should find the info you need to swallow this. There are a few issues with swallowing the tray you'll have to look into if you go this route.
jaimos

I had some issues with stalonetray some month ago, we've already
discussed this here. Thanks to Thomas Adam I ended up with the following
lines for stalonetray:

*MyFvwmButtons: (28x5, Swallow (UseOld,Close,Kill) `stalonetray` \
`Exec exec /usr/bin/stalonetray --geometry 6x1 --no-shrink \
--kludges force_icons_size -i 24 -bg black -d none -f 3`)

Note that this works for me on Slackware and Arch.

Markus

Vince Forgetta

2011-11-30 14:34:47 UTC

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Thanks for the help. I also found a CLI scipt at
http://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx (direct download:
http://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/dropbox.py) that allows
one to check the status of dropbox. I will try both the stalonetray
version as well as the CLI script. I was also thinking of adding a
poll of the CLI script to conky.

Vince

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Markus Hutmacher

Post by Jaimos Skriletz

I'm assuming the other WM/DE display this in a system tray.
Stalonetray is a stand alone system tray which should work for you. You
can either place it in its own window or swallow it into FvwmButtons. A
quick search should find the info you need to swallow this. There are a few
issues with swallowing the tray you'll have to look into if you go this
route.
jaimos

I had some issues with stalonetray some month ago, we've already discussed
this here. Thanks to Thomas Adam I ended up with the following lines for
*MyFvwmButtons: (28x5, Swallow (UseOld,Close,Kill) `stalonetray` \
`Exec exec /usr/bin/stalonetray --geometry 6x1 --no-shrink \
--kludges force_icons_size -i 24 -bg black -d none -f 3`)
Note that this works for me on Slackware and Arch.
Markus

source liu

2011-12-01 08:21:22 UTC

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Hi, list.

I've come to an issue that when i start iceweasel ( debian with kernel
3.1.0-1 amd64), my FVWM quit abnormally , and come to kdm login
session ( I use kdm to switch KDE and FVWM). (not always, but more
often than sometimes), though i can login easily after that crash
happened.
ocassionly some other application would cause this problem, too, but
iceweasel does it more frequently.

I knew it's better for me to past additional information such as log
or error message, but be mercy on me for i just don't know where to
start.

Any suggestion on it?

best regards,

you are always helpful.

Source Liu