Show off your Linux desktop

Muchos gracias Penguino!

 

That is gnarly.

 

Yes, very nice. Mind sharing the wallpaper? I'm not always a synthetic wallpaper fan, but this is good. BTW, what's that on the right? I like how it monitors your playing song. :GEEK:

 

Pix, http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=4311260#post4311260

 

AWN and conky? Is that what Amranu's using?

 

Wallpaper: http://andrei030.deviantart.com/art/Clear-sky-wonderful-stars-105355371

The thing on the right is Conky, it can monitor my music usage cause my music player is MPD, it can also monitor xmms I believe

 

True, here are the XMMS conky code variables (among others) or better yet, start with the conky home page.
Cheers and have fun.

 

Thanks!

Very cool.

 

I'm about to get my KDE4 desktop fired up again. Been using Gnome for a couple of months but seeing some of these shots is making me jealous.

 

First Intrepid screenshots! The Skydome is this, and the wallpaper is this. Enjoy.

 

Conky is very neat. Here's my conky

battery
temp
cpu
ram
used % in root
used % in home
used % in Windows XP partition

oh dear, my XP is gonna explode

 

Looks pretty smooth.

What's wrong with XP?

 

Can't you see it's 92% full?! Might need to gparted and give it some more space again....

 

nah, it needs less

 

Ah, I see.

Hmmm....like NONE!

 

It needs to be DBAN'd, then you'll be safe and sound.
Cause you know, it could eat your linux partition at any moment, like it did to me(true story).

 

What's "DBAN"? Well, I need to have XP for my Pro/E Wildfire, and my games. I've just increase it's size a while back by 10G, and now it's taken it all up already!

 

zephyrus17, have you tried clearing your system restore volumes?

 

eh? Teach me, Sensei.

 

For his XP? Just did it today in Vista. Freed up 10GB (I'd been installing lots of stuff)!

 

*kicks little brother off the gaming rig*

So, Windows has the habit of collecting large system restore points as it goes along. You can use the built-in Disk Cleanup utility to get rid of them.

First, open up Explorer or My Computer, then open up the "Properties" window for Local Disk (C: ). On the "General" tab, click Disk Cleanup, then wait for it to fully analyze your disk. Afterwards, the disk cleanup window should pop out. Go to the "More Options" tab, then click the "Clean up..." button on the "System Restore" section, and all the other sections if you wish.

 

Ahhh.. That old chestnut. Thanks for the tip. I've actually never noticed the "More Options" tab before. Maybe because the items on the first tab itself was horrifying enough.

 

It's really quite useful. Probably more than the first tab.

 

I know. All together I cleaned off 5Gb (5Gb!) of stuff. Windows is such a hoarder

 

on the gnome-look.org site... which option on the left do i choose to find different window borders, and for a different launch bar (the bar that has Applications, Places, System, etc.) im on Ubuntu, and really need something other than this brown border stuff.

thanks

 

gtk2

(10 char)

 

In pursuit of simplicity...

 

You inspire me to work on learning Ubuntu better. When it comes down to it, I have very little Linux knowledge.

 

ok thanks. so what exactly is gtk2... or what does it mean?

 

Check this page for information.
With Ubuntu, you can change to another color scheme with Appearances.
You'll find there are already other color schemes available there, the ones you've downloaded from Gnome.art can simply be dragged and dropped into the Appearances window, they will automatically be installed.
Cheers.

 

gnome integration of rTorrent



rTorrent runs under dtach and can be called anywhere with 'dtach -a /tmp/rtorrent.dtach'. So you can shut down X and still have it running. Credit for the daemon goes to roog. The silly little script that puts torrents into the watch folder is mine.

The more fun you (try to) have, the faster you'll learn.

 

Nice! Here's a new one with mac4lin and a conky (a configuration I scrapped together from various people on this thread , the only thing I added was the CPU freq section)

 

Pretty wicked awesome. :yes:

 

Been F'n around with tiling window manager Ion ( this is version 3 ) for the last few days. I haven't configured it or anything, this is the default 8.10 configuration.

 

Perfect for my situation:

 

OH MAN. I do not miss doing journal responses. Hahaha.

 

archer7 - What desktop environment and add-ons are you running there? That looks very close to what I think would work great for me as well.

Also, are you running ArchLinux?

 

That looks really nice. What dock?

 

This is Gnome with Compiz. That's gnome-panel on top with the "Expand" option off, and AWN (avant-window-navigator) at the bottom with a bunch of launchers. You can get exactly the same setup with just a wm, but I opted to go with Gnome for easy samba support. And yes, I am using my beloved Arch Linux

Here's my gnome-panel setup (pipes stand for separators):

| [Main Menu] | [Workspace Switcher] | [Battery Monitor] | [System Monitor] | [CPU Freq Mon] [CPU Freq Mon] | [Hardware Sensors Monitor] [Notification Area] | [Clock] | [Volume Control] [Tomboy Notes] |



The Icon theme is Black-White 2 Style (available here). GTK theme is Nodoka-Silver. It should be available in your package manager somehow; otherwise, installing it manually can be a pain.

And it keeps getting worse.

 

Just one more thing....where'd you get the background with the girl in that last one?

Thanks.

 

I got it from socwall. The title is embryonic, and it has the name of a deviantart artist on it, so I'm guessing that's where it came from originally.

 

Simplicity once more...



Conky is awesome.

 

Agreed!

Here's an SS with an updated conky/icons/VLC skin.

Also attached my .conkyrc if anyone's interested

 

Lookin' good, guys. :smile:

 

Simplicity is lovely. One of the reasons I don't use kde is that it's too 'functionally cluttered'. It's not a bad thing, but it doesn't look clean.

@archer7: what file browser is that? And are you running default gnome?

 

I couldn't agree more. As they say, a cluttered desktop is indicative of a cluttered mind.

The file browser is nautilus with the Nodoka-silver GTK theme and the Black-White 2 Style icon theme. I'm not sure what you mean by default gnome. It's unmodified binary from the repos ( gnome gnome-extra). I did modify the UI a lot though. The metacity theme in that last screenshot is Milk 2.0 and the system fonts are Arial size 7. The basic UI configuration that ships with gnome is unreasonably ugly.

Below, a slight modification of my conkyrc



View attachment conkyrc.txt

 

Conkyrc stolen

I'm gonna use some of that for mine...whenever I get my new laptop.

 

It's hard to get one better than this lol. Not sure if that counts as being too bored or not.

 

I'm just discovering how much you can come up with by catting text files in /proc. And by the way, I totally stole that nVidia clock line from Dire NTropy

Mind blown, now what do I do with all these bricks?

 

@archer7: I was just meaning if you use gnome alone or with a -box, etc.

/proc? What's /proc for?