superkaramba how-to?

busbarn · 05-15-2003, 07:35 PM

I just emerged suprkaramba and would like to experiment with different themes and stuff, but I can't seem to find any documentation on how to configure it or anyhting. When I run superkaramba, I window pops up asking for a configuration file. This looks like a sweet program but not if I can't do anything with it. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

tipaul · 05-15-2003, 10:01 PM

Go see the SuperKaramba homepage... It'll tell you more about the proggy!

(Hint: kde-look.org have a Karamba section in it...)

2nd Hint: Karamba & SuperKaramba are type of script interpreter that can customize info-bars or kicker-bars replacement... So you need to downloads modules and modify them to suit your needs! (Not a good newbie Soft ByTheWay!)

busbarn · 05-16-2003, 01:37 AM

I went to their website and I didn't find anything useful. I also looked at kde-look.org and they have all their themes and stuff but no info (that I could find) on how to use it. It would be nice if there was some sort of documentation saying: put config files here. COnfig files look like this. They do this. That would simplify it mucho. Maybe I'm sol and I just need to learn python and disect stuff other people have done.

jayakrishnan · 05-16-2003, 03:06 AM

u need to select a .theme file to use superkaramba,

its is just a prog which parses the .theme file

u can get a lots of theme from kde-look.org

pablob · 05-16-2003, 05:54 AM

Yeah, if you don't pass arguments to superkaramba, it will open that dialog, that's true. So what you need to do is just pass them:

# superkaramba /path/to/my/superkar_theme/kroller.theme

or maybe:

# superkaramba -f /path/to/my/superkar_theme/kroller.theme

I don't remember

busbarn · 05-16-2003, 12:28 PM

alirght thanks for the help. I got it working. I think I'm going to try and learn some python so I can make my own stuff.

BigBadPenguin · 07-28-2003, 07:32 PM

you shouldn't need to learn python before you can do anything.
I've been having fun with the .theme files, which exist outside the .py stuff. You can do a lot with plain text

Lostman · 02-22-2004, 03:11 PM

How do you get the themes to load on X startup? Is there a path I need to add to a file somewhere?

It sucks because I get everything where I want it, shut down X and have to re-do everything when I start X again.

pablob · 02-24-2004, 09:31 AM

if you use KDE, you can have a script done and place it under
your home directory and then .kde/Autostart

just leave it there.

Mine:

ext042@ext042 /home/ext042$ l .kde/Autostart/kroller.sh
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ext042 ext042 91 may 22 2003 .kde/Autostart/kroller.sh

And the content of the file:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/superkaramba /usr/local/superkaramba_themes/kroller-v0.91/kroller.theme