Add volume icon to min-icewm

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all the time

Yes, consistently.
Others can easily test to confirm or refute.

Here’s the topic where I mentioned the issue in oldforums: tweaking/improving the desktop menu defaults
and placed a tip/comment within the fluxbox v1.38-ski default menu

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Dave wrote:

As the error says the /.config/icewm/startup file does not exist.

For that matter neither does any of the other files because the “~” is missing from the front of the file path. (should be ~/.icewm/startup not /.icewm/startup)

You will probably find better luck opening these files through the control centre.
Control centre -> Desktop -> Edit icewm settings
And
Control centre -> session -> user desktop session.

It’s when I open these files through the control centre that they are absolutely blank.

anticapitalista wrote:

If you want volumeicon in the toolbar, choose the icewm option and scaledown what you don’t want in the ¬/.desktop-session/startupfile

There’s nothing there to scaledown, as I’ve already said.

rokytnji wrote:

Here is how Rok runs Xcalc. A terminal only application in his taskbar.But I do this in my AntiX 15 laptop.

prog "Xcalc" /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/32x32/apps/accessories-calculator.png desktop-defaults-run -t xcalc

This has worked for me, too.

BobC wrote:

Ahhhh, so lxterminal is now the default in AntiX17. Ok, this is from a full AntiX17, so if it doesn’t work, you will need to change the icon to one that does exist. You can find out if it exists by opening a terminal and at the command line typing (yes, you can copy/paste it in).

ls -l /usr/share/icons/Faenza-Cupertino-mini/status/16/audio-volume-medium.png

in order to see if alsamixer exists and works you can then type

alsamixer

If both are good, add this line to the toolbar file (as shown above), save it, and then do MENU logout, hover over the arrow, and click restart icewm

prog “Volume Control-Mixer” /usr/share/icons/Faenza-Cupertino-mini/status/16/audio-volume-medium.png desktop-defaults-run -t alsamixer

$ ls -l /usr/share/icons/Faenza-Cupertino-mini/status/16/audio-volume-medium.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 678 Feb 23  2016 /usr/share/icons/Faenza-Cupertino-mini/status/16/audio-volume-medium.png

Alsamixer exists and works.

I have changed the toolbar as this:

# This is a default toolbar definition file for IceWM
#
# Place your personal variant in $HOME/.icewm directory.

### Commonly used applications
prog "Unplug Removable Device" /usr/share/icons/Faenza-Cupertino-mini/devices/32/drive-removable-media-usb.png unplugdrive.sh
prog "Xcalc" /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/32x32/apps/accessories-calculator.png desktop-defaults-run -t xcalc
prog “Volume Control-Mixer” /usr/share/icons/Faenza-Cupertino-mini/status/16/audio-volume-medium.png desktop-defaults-run -t alsamixer

I restart the session, but there’s not an icon for alsamixer.

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andfree wrote:

I have changed the toolbar as this:

# This is a default toolbar definition file for IceWM
#
# Place your personal variant in $HOME/.icewm directory.

### Commonly used applications
prog "Unplug Removable Device" /usr/share/icons/Faenza-Cupertino-mini/devices/32/drive-removable-media-usb.png unplugdrive.sh
prog "Xcalc" /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/32x32/apps/accessories-calculator.png desktop-defaults-run -t xcalc
prog “Volume Control-Mixer” /usr/share/icons/Faenza-Cupertino-mini/status/16/audio-volume-medium.png desktop-defaults-run -t alsamixer

I restart the session, but there’s not an icon for alsamixer.

If you look closely, you’ll notice that the line for AlsaMixer contains non-standard quotes. Use the same quotation marks as in the other lines, and everything will work alright.

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~/.config/icewm/startup file does not exist.

Aw, post #2 contained a typo… which carried through to later posts.
The correct path (and what ControlCenter would attempt to open in geany) is ~/.icewm/startup

when I open […] through the control centre that they are absolutely blank.

This would occur if someone logged into desktop session using root account.
So, let’s rule out that possibility:
Did you accidentally (or intentionally) log into desktop session using root account?

To continue troubleshooting:
verify that a ~/.icewm directory exists, and that the startup file exists, and all items are owned by your user (e.g. demo:demo)

(Also note the permissions. All should be readable+writable; the icewm startup file should be executable)

If the startup file exists, “OpenWith” leafpad or other text editor. If it is, in fact, blank… I’m not confident we’ll figure out “how that happened”.
If it is not blank, edit/save your changes then restart icewm to check the result.

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maroc wrote:

If you look closely, you’ll notice that the line for AlsaMixer contains non-standard quotes. Use the same quotation marks as in the other lines, and everything will work alright.

This was the case. Now it works. Thanks.

Anonymous wrote:

when I open […] through the control centre that they are absolutely blank.

This would occur if someone logged into desktop session using root account.
So, let’s rule out that possibility:
Did you accidentally (or intentionally) log into desktop session using root account?

Yes, this is what I did (with the toshiba laptop). But now I’m using the compaq laptop and I see that both ~/.icewm/startup & /.icewm/startup are blank, and I also see that both ~/.desktop-session/startup & /.desktop-session/startup are not blank.

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verify that a ~/.icewm directory exists, and that the startup file exists, and all items are owned by your user (e.g. demo:demo)

There is a ~/.icewm directory (at the user account) and a /.icewm directory (at the root account). Both of them contain a startup.disabled file.

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