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    Show off your Linux desktop

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by pixelot, Mar 22, 2008.

  1. zoryfl

    zoryfl Notebook Enthusiast

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    kdemod, sorry for not mentioning~
     
    zoryfl, Oct 26, 2008
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  2. Ethyriel

    Ethyriel Notebook Deity

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    Well, I'm using Ubuntu for now since I can't get my wireless working well anywhere else. Here's what I settled on after finding Nodoka-Midnight. It's the first dark gtk engine/theme that doesn't have some little thing that drives me crazy, so I'm pretty excited about that :D
     

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  3. Ayle

    Ayle Trailblazer

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    That's gorgeous. :)
     
    Ayle, Oct 27, 2008
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  4. Ethyriel

    Ethyriel Notebook Deity

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    I like it :)

    I give myself a week before I decide I need to change it (and get sick of Ubuntu) Actually, Fedora is really interesting me for once, if my wireless works well.
     
    Ethyriel, Oct 27, 2008
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  5. Emor

    Emor Notebook Consultant

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    May I recommend the Ubuntu Studio 7.04 theme? I'm using it, and it's REALLY awesome!
    EMZ=]
     
    Emor, Oct 27, 2008
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    theZoid, Oct 31, 2008
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  7. thomasg_gpm

    thomasg_gpm Notebook Guru

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    thomasg_gpm, Oct 31, 2008
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  8. Amranu

    Amranu Notebook Consultant

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    :O

    wow, slight understatement there :p
     
    Amranu, Oct 31, 2008
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  9. Ayle

    Ayle Trailblazer

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    Ayle, Nov 2, 2008
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  10. theZoid

    theZoid Notebook Savant

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    Ely....it looks much better in person.... :D :D
     
    theZoid, Nov 2, 2008
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  11. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10
    Ubuntu Dust + Compiz + Dust Firefox theme.
    I think it's quite nice :D
     

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  12. Amranu

    Amranu Notebook Consultant

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    not bad, though I have to wonder why ubuntu users insist on using the cube to show off their desktop... makes it a lot harder to see how well the theme works
     
    Amranu, Nov 2, 2008
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  13. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    I dunno really, just looks cool I guess.
    Ahh well, here's another :D
     

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  14. Cin'

    Cin' Anathema

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    Looks good Thomas! :D

    Cin ;) :)
     
    Cin', Nov 2, 2008
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  15. Ayle

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    Would you prefer them using the sphere instead? :D
     
    Ayle, Nov 3, 2008
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  16. theZoid

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    If it's not an inverse octagon, it ain't nothin'..... :D
     
    theZoid, Nov 3, 2008
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  17. Bungalo Bill

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    That would be compiz users ;)

    and what other way would we do it.


    Themes are getting to the point where you need to have desktop video threads, not screenshot threads.
     
    Bungalo Bill, Nov 3, 2008
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  18. xTank Jones16x

    xTank Jones16x PC Elitist

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    How do you get the widget thing on the right? I'm new to Linux, so go slow. :D

    Love the wallpaper. Link?
     
    xTank Jones16x, Nov 4, 2008
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  19. Baserk

    Baserk Notebook user

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    I-t-'-s c-a-l-l-e-d c-o-n-k-y. :D
     
    Baserk, Nov 4, 2008
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  20. xTank Jones16x

    xTank Jones16x PC Elitist

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    Haha, very cute. Guess I had that one coming :D

    After a little research, I got mine done. :eek:
     

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  21. Amranu

    Amranu Notebook Consultant

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    That's not conky, anyway here's my current desktop, not much has changed from my last screenshot other then the background and it being a different distro and whatnot

    [​IMG] [​IMG]
     
    Amranu, Nov 4, 2008
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  22. Baserk

    Baserk Notebook user

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    Huh? Then what is it? :confused:
     
    Baserk, Nov 4, 2008
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  23. Amranu

    Amranu Notebook Consultant

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    I meant on that other guy's desktop
     
    Amranu, Nov 4, 2008
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  24. Ethyriel

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    Ethyriel, Nov 4, 2008
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  25. Amranu

    Amranu Notebook Consultant

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    Amranu, Nov 4, 2008
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  26. Ethyriel

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    See post #1118.
     
    Ethyriel, Nov 4, 2008
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  27. xTank Jones16x

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    xTank Jones16x, Nov 4, 2008
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  28. Thomas

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    http://gnome-look.org/?xcontentmode=175

    There ya go, hehe, I'm using the Ubuntu Dust Theme if you want to know that.
     
    Thomas, Nov 4, 2008
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  29. xTank Jones16x

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  30. xTank Jones16x

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    Heres mine updated. The last one I had I didn't like so much. Thanks again Thomas for the Wallpaper link. ;)

    [​IMG]

    P.S: Was to big to upload, go figure. :rolleyes:
    P.S.S: I HATE Photobucket, took me like 9 times to get the picture to look right. :mad:
    P.S.S.S <-- No, I'm not kidding: And yay, 200th Post! BooYa!
     
    xTank Jones16x, Nov 5, 2008
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  31. zephyrus17

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    Oh, hey, the wallpaper looks brilliant. Where did you get the wallpaper?
     
    zephyrus17, Nov 5, 2008
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  32. xTank Jones16x

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  33. zephyrus17

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    Thanks! :D
     
    zephyrus17, Nov 5, 2008
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  34. Bungalo Bill

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    Yeah, I think I play video games too much...

    I have to turn off my fancy stuff to run steam. It's kind of lame.
     

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  35. zephyrus17

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    Steam? Native on Linux already? I thought they were still in development?
     
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  36. Bungalo Bill

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    Wine ;)

    Actually, I got crossover when they were giving it out free. Crossover just uses the wine files to install windows apps. It's a fairly easy process just using wine. Runs about the same as on my vista partition. As of yet, no mic support or AA.
     
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  37. zephyrus17

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    Ahh.. You'll have to play around with the winecfg. There's a part about letting the destop manager control your windows or something.
     
    zephyrus17, Nov 5, 2008
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  38. Bungalo Bill

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    Weird. I can get it to pop up with every tab except for the games tab. I can open it in another tab and switch to the games tab though.
     
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  39. zephyrus17

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    tab? You lost me at "t"
     
    zephyrus17, Nov 5, 2008
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  40. Bungalo Bill

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    Hahah. I mean the different tabs on the steam window. Store, Community, Games, Media...

    If I right click the panel icon the tab list comes up. You click one and it opens steam on that tab. It won't open on the games tab.

    It's just being generally glitchy...sometimes it comes up right, sometimes it doesn't. If it to not be touched by my window manager the opacity gets turned up to where it comes up almost invisible. Oh well, I usually turn off fancy effects to game anyways.
     
    Bungalo Bill, Nov 5, 2008
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  41. zephyrus17

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    Hehehe... Steam is like that. Ever seen the .gifs with the Steam loading something?
     
    zephyrus17, Nov 5, 2008
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  42. Bungalo Bill

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    Hahaha, yeah. Steam is buggy enough in windows. Can't expect it to be better in wine. ;)
     
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  43. zephyrus17

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    May the Force be with you, Jedi Knight Bill. You'll probably see Yoda die from old age before Steam loads.
     
    zephyrus17, Nov 5, 2008
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  44. thomasg_gpm

    thomasg_gpm Notebook Guru

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    There's plenty of windows software running far better under wine than under native windows. :)
    But hey, if I'd be a windows program, I'd rather run under wine, too. :p
     
    thomasg_gpm, Nov 5, 2008
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  45. araharja

    araharja Notebook Consultant

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    how did u get all those widgets? (like the calendar and weather)

    are they yahoo widgets?
     
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  46. Emor

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    I'm pretty sure it's Screenlets.
    EMZ=]
     
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  47. theZoid

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    Captain, there be Screenlets here!
     
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  48. araharja

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    btw how d u managed to get 4 desktops in ubuntu?

    i only got 2 in my ubuntu 8.10
     
    araharja, Nov 5, 2008
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  49. Thomas

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    4,304th post! :D
    Nice desktop, using screenlets, right?
     
    Thomas, Nov 5, 2008
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  50. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Just right click it and add it....
     
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