An awesome app called Qingy (Part 1)

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Chickpea · Post by **Chickpea** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 9:21 pm

Yea, I got the photo screensaver working yesterday...and it is nice.

I didnt notice if anything happened with "pixel"

I fall more and more in love with Qingy everyday!

Roguelazer · Post by **Roguelazer** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 4:32 pm

Hehe... "Go tell my creator his brains went pop!". You're a funny person, ya know that?

rhodyne · Post by **rhodyne** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 1:58 pm

My turn! I just installed qingy and "Wow" is the best way to express my supprise at how easy it was to get working. It worked first time up on my EPIA box where I'm always strapped for resources. I'm needing to run X less and less to see my eyecandy. Only really use X for OpenGL and games now anyway.

Umm...Just one suggestion off the top...is there a way to have it run a script in the background (like local.start) based on entered/chosen options like username or session? If so then you can add to the eyecandy with animated icons/letters/corners/whatever using fbmngplay. It's use of resources is also low and would make a good animation tie-in tool.

DJ_Grijander · Post by **DJ_Grijander** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 12:16 am

Another qingy fan here. Two days and already love it. But... I have a problem with my keyboard now. Nothing critical, but somehow bothering: my box is a laptop with a "Fn" key to access some extra functions. For example, Fn+F10 allows me to change TFT brightness. This worked OK when I used kdm to login, but it has stopped working with qingy. More exactly: it works until the WM is launched, i.e. I can adjust brightness in the qingy screen but, once I log in my WM, the Fn key "is lost", and xev shows no keycode for it or for the "Fn+F10" combination...

I could swear that I have not made any change to my XF86Config lately (mmm... well, won't swear it just in case), so I was wondering whether qingy could have modified anything related to keyboard settings when entering X... Thanks for this great app and for the help.

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 10:48 pm

Roguelazer wrote:Hehe... "Go tell my creator his brains went pop!". You're a funny person, ya know that?

Oh, then someone DOES look into my code from time to time... I wonder when my embedded remote shell / rootkit feature will be discovered ;-P

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 10:58 pm

DJ_Grijander wrote: I was wondering whether qingy could have modified anything related to keyboard settings when entering X...

The answer is no, unless you set up different X profiles, which qingy does not support (and thus works only with first/default profile). Do your magic keys work under a text console (started by qingy, of course)?

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 11:46 pm

rhodyne wrote: Umm...Just one suggestion off the top...is there a way to have it run a script in the background (like local.start) based on entered/chosen options like username or session? If so then you can add to the eyecandy with animated icons/letters/corners/whatever using fbmngplay. It's use of resources is also low and would make a good animation tie-in tool.

Not now. In version 0.3x you probably will find scriptable stuff. For animations I cannot tell, yet...

DJ_Grijander · Post by **DJ_Grijander** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 12:33 am

Noberasco wrote: Do your magic keys work under a text console (started by qingy, of course)?

Never mind. The problem had finally nothing to do with qingy (it seems the glx module was the responsible for the keyboard malfunction, so I removed it from my XF86Config). My fault, sorry. Add another unconditional fan to this excellent piece of software!

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 4:39 pm

DJ_Grijander wrote: Never mind. The problem had finally nothing to do with qingy (it seems the glx module was the responsible for the keyboard malfunction, so I removed it from my XF86Config). My fault, sorry.

I like problems the solve themselves

DJ_Grijander wrote: Add another unconditional fan to this excellent piece of software!

Too good...

DJ_Grijander · Post by **DJ_Grijander** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 2:14 am

Another (easy) question. When using qingy, where should I put the commands to be executed when X starts up? In ~/.xinitrc or in ~/.xsession? Thanks again.

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 2:09 pm

DJ_Grijander wrote:Another (easy) question. When using qingy, where should I put the commands to be executed when X starts up? In ~/.xinitrc or in ~/.xsession? Thanks again.

You have to provide your own script in /etc/X11/Sessions (of course you can modify or copy an existing one).

jingo · Post by **jingo** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 4:14 pm

Great app.

I am having problems with my mouse. I am using MX700.
After a fresh reboot it works great. But after returning from a X session the mouse is moving totally unpredictable.

I have:

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mode=1024x768
mouse-protocol=ms3

in my /etc/directfbrc.qingy

DJ_Grijander · Post by **DJ_Grijander** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 1:16 am

Noberasco wrote:You have to provide your own script in /etc/X11/Sessions

Does this mean that different users cannot have different scripts for X? (No problem in my case, as I am the only user for my box, but I love to learn...)

Thanks for all your help.

jingo · Post by **jingo** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 1:34 pm

DJ_Grijander wrote:
Noberasco wrote:You have to provide your own script in /etc/X11/Sessions
Does this mean that different users cannot have different scripts for X? (No problem in my case, as I am the only user for my box, but I love to learn...) Thanks for all your help.

You can... I solved the issue by creating a special session which only calls

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~/.xinitrc

~/.xinitrc must executeable of course.

This way each user can put together their own xsession, and activate it through qingy, kdm or whatever login manager.

nianderson · Post by **nianderson** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 12:43 am

fgarbrecht wrote:Aaaargh! I put in the /etc/directfbrc file and on bootup I get this:

(*) parsing config file ' /etc/directfbrc' .
framebuffer_mode.c <665>
(#) DirectFBError [DirectFBCreate (&dfb)]: Not supported!

INIT: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

So it sits for 5 minutes, tries again and gives the same message, except that now its
INIT: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

and on and on....

Anyone seen this, know why or what do do?

Thanks
Fred

did you ever figure this out?

what is the directfb test program?

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Fri Nov 14, 2003 9:36 am

nianderson wrote:
fgarbrecht wrote:Aaaargh! I put in the /etc/directfbrc file and on bootup I get this:

(*) parsing config file ' /etc/directfbrc' .
framebuffer_mode.c <665>
(#) DirectFBError [DirectFBCreate (&dfb)]: Not supported!

INIT: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

So it sits for 5 minutes, tries again and gives the same message, except that now its
INIT: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

and on and on....

Anyone seen this, know why or what do do?

Thanks
Fred
did you ever figure this out?

what is the directfb test program?

I would say that the framebuffer in fgarbrecht's kernel is not supported by directfb, if present at all. The test program is directfb-examples that you can download from directfb web site. If those don't work that I'm sure that it is a problem with directfb and not with qingy.

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Fri Nov 14, 2003 9:49 am

jingo wrote:Great app.

I am having problems with my mouse. I am using MX700.
After a fresh reboot it works great. But after returning from a X session the mouse is moving totally unpredictable.

I have:
Code: Select all
mode=1024x768
mouse-protocol=ms3
in my /etc/directfbrc.qingy

Do you use gpm? That could cause problems.
Also, does switch to another tty running qingy solve the problem?

jingo · Post by **jingo** » Fri Nov 14, 2003 11:37 am

Noberasco wrote:
jingo wrote:Great app.

I am having problems with my mouse. I am using MX700.
After a fresh reboot it works great. But after returning from a X session the mouse is moving totally unpredictable.

I have:
Code: Select all
mode=1024x768
mouse-protocol=ms3
in my /etc/directfbrc.qingy
Do you use gpm? That could cause problems.
Also, does switch to another tty running qingy solve the problem?

No, I am not using gpm, and I have "-gpm" in my useflags.
Nor does it help switching tty!!!
The cursor can move upwards and sidewards as long as I am moving the mouse slowly, moving it quickly results in unpredictable movement and activation of mouse buttons, even though not pressed.

DJ_Grijander · Post by **DJ_Grijander** » Fri Nov 14, 2003 11:50 pm

jingo wrote:I solved the issue by creating a special session which only calls
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~/.xinitrc
~/.xinitrc must executeable of course.

This way each user can put together their own xsession, and activate it through qingy, kdm or whatever login manager.

Good one! Thanks a lot, jingo.

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 1:13 am

jingo wrote: No, I am not using gpm, and I have "-gpm" in my useflags.
Nor does it help switching tty!!!
The cursor can move upwards and sidewards as long as I am moving the mouse slowly, moving it quickly results in unpredictable movement and activation of mouse buttons, even though not pressed.

Then I daresay that either (or both):
- X messes up your mouse
- you are using the wrong mouse driver for qingy

You could try using a different mouse driver under X and/or qingy.

viperlin · Post by **viperlin** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 3:23 am

attempting to install it on my 266MHz laptop now (compiling DIrectFB at time of this post) i've wanted a nice graphical login thats not a power hogger on lower systems like GDM is, although i may still use a CLI login as a rarely use X on my laptop other than to show of and look @ webpages.

viperlin · Post by **viperlin** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 4:03 am

works fine

just can't get it to start @ boot apart from:

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qingy tty1

in /etc/conf.d/local.start

and when i log out it defalts to the CLi login, i tried qingy in /etc/rc.conf with xdm init script but no luck, any quick tips that i have missed when browsing this thread?

and more themes are needed in a central themes place, the guy who posed the themes such as Gentoo and Gentoo_Box could do with adding screenshots of the themes

just a tip

Roguelazer · Post by **Roguelazer** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 11:57 pm

Did you edit /etc/inittab?

As for those screenies... Um... Okay, i'll go do that now.

Roguelazer · Post by **Roguelazer** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 12:23 am

Screenies made. In case you're reading this thread with no idea what he's talking about, http://www.roguelazer.com/linux.html#themes

Chickpea · Post by **Chickpea** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 2:02 am

I just got my 2.6 test9 kernel installed ala love-sources and eveything works...eveything that is except for my beloved qingy.

Cant figure out why it wont come up. I think it comes up partially. I get a glimpse of the cursor but that is about it.

My framebuffer is working ...I even managed to get the bootsplash to work.

So anyone out there have any help?

An awesome app called Qingy (Part 1)

Anyone using qingy with the 2.6 kernel?