gOS Help & Support • View topic - Missing Wbar

So I ran into a problem with WBar and found this posting that solved it immediately. It really helped to explain what had happened.

gOS Help & Support • View topic - Missing Wbar: "Re: Missing Wbar

Postby trdofMSoft on Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:48 am
You should have two .wbar files (not folders). The first should be in your home folder. the second will be found in /etc/skel.
(In order to see these files you will have to select [view hidden files] in both folders)

The one in /etc/skel is a copy of the original configuration. . You can copy and paste from /etc/skel to your home folder, which will restore all the original icons

Here are some common reasons why wbar disappears:

1. It is not enabled as a startup option in system preferences -> sessions
(If you need to build a launcher, the command is wbar_delay.sh)

2. The link to the background is broken, try picking another background in WbarConf
(look in /usr/share/wbarconf/wbarbacks)

3. I can't explain this one, but it happened to me....One of the links to an icon pointed nowhere. for some reason this one broken link to the icon caused the whole bar to vanish! When I picked a new icon for the application in WbarConf and hit [save] and [refresh] it all came back again....odd

4. I have a 'friend' who did this: :oops: tried to be clever and decided to delete the background so that the icons just floated on the desktop...What I, er I mean he, got was a perfectly unhindered view of the desktop!"

Test using Gnome's blogger applet

Just a quick test.

I am trying out several of the Linux bloggi ng tools. The first I looked at B! GTK looked nice and functional but was unable to login correctly. The same was true with the Drivel Journal editor as it gave error messages of unable to connect. The third, Gnome-blog, resulted in this post. While it functioned as designed, I do not like the interface for switching blogging accounts and further more it was limited in the posting ability and only gave text options, no image or html (at least no immediate editing tools to support it).

Update on my Ubuntu experience

So, I've just read an interesting article that Dell is now going to be offering Ubuntu as an option to some of their newest PCs. I don't follow these trends that closely, but did not think that Dell would be the first to attempt this (although they've tried previously according to the article).

Well, I've been playing around in Ubuntu for a few weeks now and why I find the interface pleasing and have gotten used to navigating around the platform a little better, I am still having a little difficulty getting a few items working. I have yet to successfully get Beryl working, fortunately the crash recovery works well. The instructions found (will need to edit this in Ubuntu as I have the link there) here were pretty good.

Linux Ubuntu Dual Boot with XP

I decided to finally take the plunge into installing a Linux OS on my home PC. After reading a very good review from Ferdy Christant, on his success and how it seemed to be a pretty painless process, I decided to give it go. After a minor issue during the install ( batteries died on wireless mouse and I thought my system was completely unresponsive for 15 minutes and then decided to leave it for morning and left for work...), all went well and I been playing around with getting a few customizations done.

Don't quite have the room to do the same dual boot on my lap top, but depending on how much I use it here, I may be persuaded to continue.