Show off your Linux desktop

Ubuntu 9.04 x64 + LXDE:

 

sweet... all your jumping around with different distros and DEs is giving me the urge to ditch my comfort zone in gnome and venture out.

 

Xubuntu x64...except for the bug I posted, it's works pretty well:

 

Go Arch. Rolling release+pacman+no fixed DE=win

You can have gnome, kde, xfce, openbox, fluxbox, etc all in one system. Or none at all!

 

I'm with zephyrus17. (Surprise! )

Seriously, Arch meant the end of my distro-hopping days, and it's not just because I've become a total fanboy. Whenever I try one of the mainstream distros I get completely annoyed by the unnecessary complexities. I find this especially true in Debian and RPM distros. I dislike the /etc/rc.${INIT} structure, for one. Arch is more BSD-like in that regard by having a straightforward rc.d and rc.conf. It makes writing your own daemons easy and lets you manage your whole system environment out of a few easy text files.

The same goes for package management. Pacman is the most robust manager I've used, and I like how you can redefine its root so you can do things like, say, install packages into a sister OS that's currently not running. Also, it's easier to custom-compile packages and distribute them with Arch than with deb and rpm. The ABS and PKGBUILD systems borrow a lot from Gentoo's Portage, so you get the speed and reliability of a binary package system with the bleeding-edge customizability of Portage.

/fanboy rant

Back on topic: I ditched compiz.

 

Can I install arch without running a cable? i.e. with firmware on a flash or what? With Slack for example I have to install Wicd from my flash drive before I can get online. I can't really run a cable where I'm at. tks

 

Looks pretty awesome.

I just need to get conky configured to finish mine... BTW, do you have Gnome Do set to auto-hide, or what? It kind of bothers me when it takes up space that a window could be using.

 

Yes, you can grab the packages from the repos directly and put them in a flashdrive. Afterwards, just mount the flashdrive and install with pacman -U *.tar.gz

Code:

# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/stick
# pacman -U wicd-$NUMBERS-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

You could also download it all into another OS partition and mount that.

As far as firmware goes, everything you need is in the core installation disk. Assuming you have an Intel 5xxx series, you just need iwl-5000-ucode and your choice of wireless tools.

By the way, wicd has a cli client in ncurses, called wicd-curses. It comes with the arch wicd package.

EDIT: The Arch core installation comes with virtually nothing, so you will need to install wicd's dependencies as well and not just the wicd package. Oh, and make sure you have a backup OS before you play with Arch, because believe you me, you will need it.

 

Archer on your screenshot I saw no Cedega icon, where you hiding her?
BTW with what you just posted, hmm im not ready for Arch hehe..

 

Sorry for the late reply .. its actually kubuntu 9.04 running kde 4.3 rc2

Just installed the final release of kde 4.3.0 and it just got better

 

I haven't installed it yet since I'm running a new OS install. (This time it's encrypted ).

I used to be a KDE kid back in the (incredible) 3.5.10 days. I tried 4.2.x a few weeks ago and found it still halfbaked. Not to mention slow(er than gnome + ob).

 

No, I just leave it up all the time...thought about auto hiding it....btw, have you added the gnome-do repo and upgraded to the latest?

 

Thanks Archer...I keep the ucode on my flash....cool....that makes it easy....what directory do I drop in the ucode? tks

 

You don't need the ucode, just select it in the arch installer. What I was trying to say was that iwl-5000-ucode is in the "core" installation iso, but unselected by default during the package selection phase of the installer.

 

Okie.....it's late in Florida thanks ! Also, I just took a spin on Sidux the other day....had to drop in the firmware to a firmware directory....I got online, but let me say this, those are some 'brave' souls over there

 

Thanks for the reply! A very well-themed desktop.

Hmmm. I remember adding some repo recently, but I can't remember what it was for.

*boots into Linux*

Edit: And look where that got me... 1:30am and here I am installing Firefox 3.5 from some bloody repo, trying to get the 64-bit core for Gnome Do to work, and to do that I've got to update intltool first. Erm... I am given to understand that I must install 'gmcs' before I can install this Gnome Do tarball for 64-bit, but the only gmcs I can find anywhere is mono-gmcs, which I already have installed. Bed time.

 

Trying to get this thread to 2,000 posts.... Still playing with the desktop:

 

Link

 

Link to your wallpaper please?

 

shinybuntu........think I'll dim it down a bit.... bored waiting on GF ....

 

nice desktops roliath and zoid!

 

Wood Linux backgrounds are so classy. :GEEK:

 

I highly recommend TuxOnIce.

 

Archer...is TuxOnIce better than the regular power manager hibernate feature? I'm looking at it now...

Here's a fresh one....

 

Wow, very attractive and functional.

Share with me the secret of your Gnome Do skills.

 

Yeah, it's a lot faster with lzo compression, for one. And it has a bunch of nifty features like you can interrupt hibernation by pressing Esc. Applying the tuxonice patch might be a bit tricky, but someone already did, so it was easy for me. The fastboot patch is a bonus.

BTW, if you use hibernate a lot, you should definitely apply the drop_caches trick. That way you only have to hibernate a fraction of your ram usage.

 

Have you installed the latest gnome-do by added the repo? :

http://do.davebsd.com/wiki/Installing_Do

 

Remember THIS post?

But thanks for reminding me... I'll try again.

 

Caught up on work, so now I'm trying to create my own theme....can't get it right after endless changes...but it looks different, sort of anyway...

 

WM: Openbox only
Conky x2
Panel/Systray: tint2

I love that girl in the wallpaper. So beautiful, so youthful, so carefree, so happy. If only we could all be so at ease with the world.

 

Looks nice, if a bit strange on the bottom panel.

Very smooth.

 

Alright, I got it done... although I ended up having to go and manually replace my plugins folder to get back that functionality. It's all good now.

And the Intellihide feature is very nice.

 

wow, this one is cool man.

 

Beautiful Zephyrus, very nice combination.

 

^Thanks

 

Awesome smoothness, like finely-blended mocha with slow-churned ice cream. Mmmmm....

P.S. I want your wallpaper.

 

My kind of desktop....caramel and clean

 

Woot! Gradient goodness.

 

Here's mine.

 

Can't see much in the small picture, but what I see looks quite nice. I like the terminals. Have you tried transparent toolbars?

 

Nice setup. Can I see your tint2 config, so that I can use/adapt it with my #! 9.04 rig?

 

My current desktop on the Vostro. Yep, you get free pointers on schoolwork management.

I have my Compiz animations set to Beam for opening windows, Explode for closing, and Fold for minimizing. I'll switch to Magic Lamp if I can figure out a way to exclude the sticky notes.

 

Nice Enviro Pix'...... I haven't heard of 'Flogging Molly' in ages it seems!

 

it gets dark....semi shiny....

 

Thanks.

I'm trying to speed through 'How to Read a Book' since I misunderstood the assignment on Monday and only read the first two chapters instead of the first two PARTS (half the book). I was wondering why the assignment was so easy...

The sticky notes idea I borrowed from a guy in my class that had about the sweetest Mac desktop I'd ever seen, with transparent toolbar, customized hidden dock, no desktop icons (accessed through file browser shortcut), and a nice widget array including a sticky for each class. It turns out to be much more intuitive and productive than the one text file I'd been using.

Flogging Molly is awesome, especially late at night.

That's pretty sweet... how did you customize the icons like that? It seems to me quite a process the way I've been doing it: creating a shortcut (or borrowing from the system menu), specifying a custom icon, and then dragging into the dock.

 

Those icons are DDakji from gnome-look.org...."sticker icons" per the icon theme...need one for Kompozer though...yeah, i just add everything to desktop, drag it on over, then delete...

 

Here you go:

Code:

#---------------------------------------------
# TINT2 CONFIG FILE
#---------------------------------------------

#---------------------------------------------
# BACKGROUND AND BORDER
#---------------------------------------------
rounded = 0
border_width = 2
background_color = #000000 60
border_color = #ffffff 18

rounded = 5
border_width = 0
background_color = #ffffff 40
border_color = #ffffff 50

rounded = 5
border_width = 0
background_color = #ffffff 18
border_color = #ffffff 70

#---------------------------------------------
# PANEL
#---------------------------------------------
panel_monitor = all
panel_position = bottom center
panel_size = 100% 50
panel_margin = 0 10
panel_padding = 7 0
font_shadow = 0
panel_background_id = 1
wm_menu = 0

#---------------------------------------------
# TASKBAR
#---------------------------------------------
#taskbar_mode = multi_desktop
taskbar_mode = multi_desktop
taskbar_padding = 2 2 2
taskbar_background_id = 0

#---------------------------------------------
# TASKS
#---------------------------------------------
task_icon = 1
task_text = 0
task_width = 50
task_centered = 1
task_padding = 6 3
task_font = sans 7
task_font_color = #ffffff 70
task_active_font_color = #ffffff 85
task_background_id = 0
task_active_background_id = 2

#---------------------------------------------
# SYSTRAYBAR
#---------------------------------------------
systray_padding = 0 4 5
systray_background_id = 0

#---------------------------------------------
# CLOCK
#---------------------------------------------
time1_format = %H:%M
time1_font = sans 8
time2_format = %A %d %B
time2_font = sans 6
clock_font_color = #ffffff 76
clock_padding = 1 0
clock_background_id = 0
#clock_lclick_command = xclock
clock_rclick_command = orage

#---------------------------------------------
# BATTERY
#---------------------------------------------
battery = 1
battery_low_status = 10
battery_low_cmd = notify-send "battery low"
bat1_font = sans 8
bat2_font = sans 6
battery_font_color = #ffffff 76
battery_padding = 1 0
battery_background_id = 0


#---------------------------------------------
# MOUSE ACTION ON TASK
#---------------------------------------------
mouse_middle = close
mouse_right = shade
mouse_scroll_up = toggle
mouse_scroll_down = iconify

 

Not too shabby.

Sort of calls to mind a 90's vibe.

 

I desire this wallpaper.