Show off your Linux desktop

Arch Linux with Awesome window manager. I used Openbox as my window manager until recently, but then I started trying tiling WMs. It was a little awkward at first, but I definitely prefer them now.

 

That's looks pretty slick Sisyphus....that is OpenBox?

 

It's "awesome" a tiling window manager. It's pretty neat, note that you don't have to have all the terminals running, you can run gui apps just fine.

 

My current desktop:

What do you think?

 

Nice, the theme coexists peacefully with the wallpaper (didn't know any other way to say it lol and was watching Bush's coexisting fish speech so yea). The wallpaper is really nice

 

cool....like that wallpaper, what window manager?

 

Compiz Fusion.

 

It's unclear what you're asking for. Is it this? The first part of the blog describes how to create a KDE Desktop Launcher for launching programs, (like Konsole).

 

EDIT: left the 'wood' for subsolo, conky transparent:

 

My Arch Linux Desktop:



DE: Kdemod (default theme)
conky, lucida grande font

 

Cool, transparent conky....does your conky use much in the way of resources?....I cut my displayed items down because I thought it was running up the cpu a little....I'm down to this now and it is autostarting.

 

Very nice! Looks quite polished.

Looks pretty good. :smile:

 

Yes I do see a lag in my system, especially when using flash(youtube etc).Thats why ill be switching to superkaramba or something else.

 

I really need to install FF2 in Hardy. I'll do that when I get time...

 

I've got SuperKaramba.....trying to figure out what to do with it now.....

 

I want to make my Ubuntu install look like a cross of OS X and Ubuntu.....

 

Death to OSuX!

 

Hey, don't hate OS X, that's your cousin.

 

Apples grow on trees, too......lol

 

Cousin my foot! OSuX is a locked, expensive, piece of software.

 

Hmm, but you still use Windows......
Strange, don't you think?
OS X- $129
Windows- $300

 

Well, I can certainly find Windows for near the price of OSuX, and since I can hack it, run software galore, and play DOS games on it, it's the obvious choice for me.

 

Yes but there's these:
fugly
viruses
expensive
have to install drivers

 

Check out the Windows Desktop thread.
I have never had a virus.
No more than OSuX.
So? I love installing drivers.

 

We can go on forever, so let's stop ok?

 

Ok.

(filler)

 

so says the guy with a Windows XP/Ubuntu graphic in his footer? What's the world coming to? When a linux guy has to defend the OSX realm? *GASP*

 

Hey, I like OS X Just because I'm a ubuntu nerd doesn't mean anything

 

Shucks, give me one of each !! But I'll stay in Linux until it's game launch time, then it's the big rebooooooooooooot

 

Owning a Mac has made me appreciate Windows and Linux more than ever.

 

You rock, Lysander. I will rep you for that when I can.

 

I'm liking this SuperKaramba.....got a cool theme running....how do edit the theme config like font color, etc? Looking now.....

EDIT: with a couple of Karamba themes running upper right...

 

@ Thomas, you need to patch gtk with gtk mac, then install the mac menu applet. This will give you a mac menu type tool bar on the top

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Is it me or just my eyes, the fonts on KDE look crap compared to Gnome, no matter how much attention you give to configuration, I just dont think the subpixel thing works in KDE even after activating it.

 

That's exactly what this project is all about. I used it on my Gentoo install, and here's a youtube video of an Ubuntu user who installed it as well.

Good Luck..

 

zoid, go to ~/.kde/share/apps/superkaramba or something.Find the theme file and edit it .

 

I know, but I', posting what I have so far(it's a fusion type of theme) later.

I know about mac4lin

 

Thomas....ever get your hands on SymphonyOne? If so, curious what you think....I've got it in a virtual machine....wish I could harddrive it....too much invested in Kubuntu to do that. Maxxed on Partitions.

 

66.4% over here.
I'm thinking of installing Dream Linux, anyone used the ''add to current GRUB'' thingy?

 

It's done, I'll slap it in Virtual Box tomorrow.

 

Anyone have any idea if they have Elegant Mine for KDE? I just switched to KDEmod for Arch.

 

One of the reasons I switched back to gnome

KDE doesnt have a lot of choice in terms of good themes
KDE is clunky and gets in the way
Most apps I use are GTK based; pidgin, firefox, gimp, openoffice.
KDE fonts are absolute ****e no matter how much you mess with them.
Gnome is much more stable and most apps are now gtk based.

 

Is that a theme....I take it you've been to KDE-look.org? I'm gonna have to part ways with my friend blackbird....I've got this KDE environment looking better than any gnome environment I've ever had, fonts included, in terms of pure usability. I also find it faster, which is odd, because I'd always though gnome was faster going way back.....this is Ubuntu/Kubuntu I'm comparing here. Apps launch faster, don't turn dark and 'think', very snappy....maybe it's more agreeable with my hardware. I run Evolution as my main PIM, it's gtk.....Karamba is cool, it's a K app.....underlying engine really doesn't matter IMO.....they're all meeting certain standards per freedesktop.org to be interoperable.

 

Elegant brit/mine are not available for kde, the default kdemod theme is pretty ugly ey?

theZoid, what theme you using, post a pic plz lol, I found it incredibly hard to find decent themes (for default window manager, not compiz)

Also there are other reasons I dont like KDE that much;

-when you rename a file it highlights the whole name and the extension where as in gnome it highlights the name by default, you can change the extension too if you want to.

-when you hover over music files in gnome it plays them, in kde it doesnt.

 

blackbird...don't have theme per se, I've changed everything individually including the Kmenu....there are lots of themes, but they're not drag and drop installable like in gnome. The desktop I'm using is this one right now: think I've posted it....I'm going to try some themes later, and play around with compiz/ccsm....it's not on right now....quirky with KDE methinks. EDIT: I am using the snowish icon theme, that's it.

 

hmmm. have you tried the oxygen icon theme, I liked it.

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen+Icon+Theme+for+KDE3?content=79046

 

I'll see what that looks like....don't remember if I've tried it or not, too many distros......LOL looks good though, think I'll give it a go whilst I'm wasting time... EDIT: Oxygen

 

looks good, i really like the folder icons of oxygen.

 

So do I.....think I'll keep them for a while.....

 

Ok zoid i removed the system lag by removing the feh command from .conkyrc and then put in a separate script.I hope that helps.I love conky

 

Time to install a new distro. Sabayon is bugging me.