Tint2 configuration questions

Kochiya · 2016-06-03 10:59:27

Is there a way to place the clock menu at the centre of the panel like in gnome?

I also have issues making panels transparent. I've installed and placed compton in the openbox autostart file, but sometimes when I login, the panel isn't transparent and the colour is dark like when I didn't have a composite manager.

damo · 2016-06-03 13:11:11

Kochiya wrote:

Is there a way to place the clock menu at the centre of the panel like in gnome?
I also have issues making panels transparent. I've installed and placed compton in the openbox autostart file, but sometimes when I login, the panel isn't transparent and the colour is dark like when I didn't have a composite manager.

What is the "clock menu"? Are you referring to the tint2 systray?
All tint2 settings are explained in the menu link: "Menu -> Help -> Tint2 Wiki..."

Are you running BunsenLabs? Compton is pre-installed and already set up in the default autostart. You should have something like

bl-compositor --start &

## Start the tint2 session (the default tint2 will run if no sessions have been set)
(sleep 2s; bl-tint2-session) &

Perhaps you may need to increase the sleep time.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-06-03 19:33:53

Change the "panel_items" line and re-order the items as you like ("C" is the clock):
https://github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-co … int2rc#L62

I've installed and placed compton in the openbox autostart file

You should post the entire configuration file.

Kochiya · 2016-06-04 05:18:34

Apologies for the lack of info. I'm running openbox from a netinstall of Debian 8.4 stable. My autostart file is simply this:

compton &
tint2 &
nm-applet &
alsamixer

Is there a guide somewhere that explains the syntax of this file? Obviously mine is crude compared to what damo had posted.

I've followed this guide for configuring tint2: https://code.google.com/archive/p/tint2 … igure.wiki

I have tried moving the clock settings before the system tray and increased the horizontal padding to force it to the middle of the panel. Unfortunately this removes the space available for the task bars.

Change the "panel_items" line and re-order the items as you like

My tint2rc file doesn't have this line. It is not the SVN version, I can't find the deb package for the SVN version.

damo · 2016-06-04 05:41:35

Kochiya wrote:

Apologies for the lack of info. I'm running openbox from a netinstall of Debian 8.4 stable. My autostart file is simply this:
compton &
tint2 &
nm-applet &
alsamixer
Is there a guide somewhere that explains the syntax of this file? Obviously mine is crude compared to what damo had posted.

Have you thought about using the Openbox wiki?
The BL default autostart can be seen in our github sources: https://github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-co … el/.config

I've followed this guide for configuring tint2: https://code.google.com/archive/p/tint2 … igure.wiki

The current wiki is at https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/wikis/home

Change the "panel_items" line and re-order the items as you like
My tint2rc file doesn't have this line. It is not the SVN version, I can't find the deb package for the SVN version.

The svn version is v0.11, and is in the jessie/main repo. The newest version (v 0.12) has been backported and is in our jessie-backports bunsenlabs repo.

Tint2 includes tint2conf, which is a gui configuration utility. IIRC the old version was no good, but it has been improved in the new release.

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Tint2 configuration questions

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