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dimension9

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Registered: 2011-05-30

Posts: 4

pacman - Syu upgrade broke wbar

Hi all,  I have an old pIII laptop running Arch with Fluxbox.  It was all good and running fine and my wbar was setup perfectly with a wbar oriented vertically on the left edge of the sceen.  After I did my Pacman -Syu upgrade command however, the wbar startup command in .flubox/ startup no longer starts wbar correctly.

Now, the wbar starts horizontally in the center of the screen with none of my specified configurations applied, the first and last icons are missing, and the far right is tucked under my conky.

re-running from a terminal gives:

problem load font file aterm
invalid bar position
set default bar position

...which of course IS being set in the command line, and as I mentioned above, always worked flawlessly before the update

Here is the .fluxbox/startup command as is (which always worked fine before):
wbar -config ~/.wbar -above-desk -isize24 -idist 0 -zoomf 1.001 -jumpf 1.0 -pos left - dblclk 0 -bpress -vbar -balfa 0 -falfa 100 -filter 0 -fc 0xff00c800 -nanim 21 & # -nofont &

the .wbar config for the font (which also always worked flawlessly before) is:

# The Bar && Font

i: /usr/share/wbar/iconpack/wbar.osx/osxbarback.png
t: /usr/share/wbar/iconpack/comic/8

...this is followed by the entries for all my icons and programs, (which do still come up except for the first and last ones as mentioned above - which I think is because of the size and position parameters not being applied)

Now, a bit of investigation revealed that although  the /usr/share/wbar/iconpack/ folder appears in a locate command for 'iconpack,' the folder seems to no longer actually exist.  Of course, this means that the sub folders 'comic.' and wbar.osx also no longer exist.

So, I am theorizing that the entirety of my .fluxbox/startup  command line invocation to start wbar is failing on the first few lines of the .wbar config file, since the folders it is looking for are now gone, and therefore it is exiting without applying the rest of the command line switches.

I tried re-installing  wbar,  also tried copying comic.ttf to the wbar folder, also tried re-creating the iconpack/comic folder and putting the font in there.  Nothing seems to work.  ...and I cannot locate osxbarback.png anywhere anymore.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I might fix this?

Thanks. and Best Regards,

-d9

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,652

Re: pacman - Syu upgrade broke wbar

Cross post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=119972

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