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athelas

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Registered: 2010-06-16

Posts: 53

[Openbox] Margins and Screenlets, Settings Manager

Hi everyone!

I have a few openbox questions. I installed screenlets to use the Launcher for starting programms. Everything works fine and I added

/usr/share/screenlets/Launcher/LauncherScreenlet.py &

to my autostart. Then I defined a margin and moved the launchers inside the margin. But on next start they were moved outside the margin. I found that someone asked that question for conky and so I tried changing my autostart to

(sleep 5 && /usr/share/screenlets/Launcher/LauncherScreenlet.py) &

But that doesn't work either. Has anyone an idea how to get this done?

Next qustion, I couldn't find out how to change things like brightness and energy options, for example when the screen should turn off. Could I change everything with xfce-mcs-manager or gnome-settings-deamon or is there a better solution for it?

Cheers, Mario

bearman51

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Registered: 2010-04-18

Posts: 14

Re: [Openbox] Margins and Screenlets, Settings Manager

In regards to the energy options I use laptop-mode-tools, pm-utils, cpufrequtils to controls screen brightness and other low-energy settings on my netbook. Nice lightweight options if you don't have have Gnome installed.

Check out the power management section of the laptop wiki article
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop

Last edited by bearman51 (2010-07-21 19:29:49)