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Alfredo Fernández Díaz

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Re: ArcaOS 5.1.1 is out.
« Reply #15 on: February 21, 2025, 12:20:24 pm »
Now, Spanish doesn't look as spectacular visually with no funny letters <g> and the stock ArcaOS look, but if you pay a little attention*, you will see quite some effort has been put into this NLV. Not only are (almost!) all new, non-IBM components fully and properly localized, but IBM's old MCP2 core translation is slowly but surely being revamped too. This is not finished yet, but I can tell you the user experience is already better than it ever was, and you can expect it to remain so in upcoming releases. Seeing a freshly installed system show an improved translation compared to previous versions is always a plus to me, but I'd like to see what other Spanish speakers have to say!

*You might even find a couple of Easter eggs ;-)

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Re: ArcaOS 5.1.1 is out.
« Reply #16 on: February 21, 2025, 01:44:09 pm »
Thanks Alfredo

Both pictures look great. I had include those on the wiki: https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=ArcaOS_5.1.1_Screenshots

Alfredo, which are the name of the two widgets that you have at the bottom? the one on the left with the icons and the one on the right with the hour?

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« Reply #17 on: February 21, 2025, 08:02:32 pm »
which are the name of the two widgets that you have at the bottom? the one on the left with the icons and the one on the right with the hour?
For my own standard setup I move the one XCenter I keep to the upper part of the screen, so at the bottom I don't have any widgets, but standalone floating windows. On the left, lSwitcher (standalone version); on the right, SysBar/2, still good unmodified after 21 years of service. This screenshot should illustrate my main configuration lines for both.

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« Reply #18 on: February 21, 2025, 09:17:23 pm »
How did you change the colors on the clock portion of Xcenter?

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« Reply #19 on: February 22, 2025, 12:32:43 am »
Actually I do it programmatically for every installed system, deleting the XCenter and creating a new one with the following setup string:

POSITION=TOP;BORDERSPACING=0;REDUCEDESKTOP=YES;WIDGETS=XButton(),TasksWidget(),ObjButton(OBJECTHANDLE%3D<XWP_LOCKUPSTR>%3B),ObjButton(OBJECTHANDLE%3D<XWP_FINDSTR>%3B),ObjButton(OBJECTHANDLE%3D<XWP_SHUTDOWNSTR>%3B),Pulse(WIDTH%3D154%3B),Tray(BGNDCOL%3DCCCCCC%3BWIDTH%3D134%3BCURRENTTRAY%3D0%3B){Tray  1[ObjButton(OBJECTHANDLE%3D<WP_DRIVES>%3B),ObjButton(OBJECTHANDLE%3D<WP_CONFIG>%3B),ObjButton(OBJECTHANDLE%3D<WP_PROMPTS>%3B)]},WindowList(BGNDCOL%3DCCCCCC%3BTEXTCOL%3D000000%3BFILTERS%3DSysBar/2 Pipe Monitor#~^°@lSwitcher#~^°@FTP server%3B),Power(BGNDCOL%3DCCCCCC%3BTEXTCOL%3D000000%3BWARN%3D15%3BREPEAT%3D5%3B),ObjButton(OBJECTHANDLE%3D<WP_ASSISTANCE>%3B),ObjButton(OBJECTHANDLE%3D<C:\Sys\bin\calendar.exe>%3B),XWLANMonitorWidget(),Time(BGNDCOL%3D000000%3BTEXTCOL%3D00FF00%3B),AN_RemMedia();OPEN=26599;OBJECTID=<XWP_XCENTER>;

but you can also do it by hand, dragging colors from the Solid Color Palette (folder Appearance under System Setup) to drop them onto the Time widget. Ctl+drag to change the foreground, simple drag for the background.
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« Reply #20 on: February 22, 2025, 12:41:46 am »
AHHH, thank you for the info. I wasn't aware you could do that.

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« Reply #21 on: February 22, 2025, 09:42:53 am »
How did you change the colors on the clock portion of Xcenter?
Usually drag and drop colors from the "Farbpalette" (color palette?) is the OS/2 way to do such things. Dropping without any key is usually background I think and with <SHFT> is text color. I've ever try it out cause I don't remember. With the xwidgets this works.

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« Reply #22 on: February 23, 2025, 09:41:28 am »
ArcaOS 5.1.1 in "Deutsch" ...

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« Reply #23 on: February 23, 2025, 03:23:41 pm »
Has anyone used the "new VNC Server" which is said to be "available"?
I cannot even find it or the client.

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« Reply #24 on: February 23, 2025, 06:22:34 pm »
Has anyone used the "new VNC Server" which is said to be "available"?
I cannot even find it or the client.

I have two test installs and neither had it. I booted the AOS installer and found that the VNC option is not selected by default (I thought it was in past versions). Regardless, it's easy to install after-the-fact:

Double-click on the ISO to mount it. On the newly mounted drive navigate to 'x:\CID\SERVER\ARCAPKG', then dbl-click either 'VNC-P4.WPI' or 'VNC-I686.WPI'.

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« Reply #25 on: February 23, 2025, 06:30:26 pm »
Has anyone used the "new VNC Server" which is said to be "available"?
I cannot even find it or the client.

There. The outside system has the viewer connected to another system running at a lower resolution, with the server properties notebook open.

Did you check "VNC server" during installation? I can't recall whether it is selected by default.

Edit:
[...]dbl-click either 'VNC-P4.WPI' or 'VNC-I686.WPI'.
I remember now that it is not, and this is probably why.
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« Reply #26 on: February 24, 2025, 06:13:16 pm »
Now I see it. I have loaded this vnc server and client. I had been using two different java vnc clients for different servers. Both worked but would get rendering issues from time to time. This new vnc client looks like a native OS/2 client and has a clean window. The only odd thing I see is the mouse prompt is a strange blurb. Also the documentation is rather short and does not list some of the finer points on usage. One is the the host display number can actually be a full port number instead. What I have not tried is how the new client handles the encryption used in some new Linux servers which break the java clients.

Double-click on the ISO to mount it. On the newly mounted drive navigate to 'x:\CID\SERVER\ARCAPKG', then dbl-click either 'VNC-P4.WPI' or 'VNC-I686.WPI'.

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Re: ArcaOS 5.1.1 is out.
« Reply #27 on: March 06, 2025, 07:29:52 pm »
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