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Hey man what is that thingy below the upper panel? is that some sort of conky thing or what is it? i liked it!



http://forum.notebookreview.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=39067&d=1254633492

 

Yeah its conky. His config is in the .conkyrc thread(post #36)

 

Thanks man, i'll be cheking it...

 

What browser is that showing NBR?

 

Got the Vostro 1220 today...putting Linux on it....guess I'll post up some screenies soon...(always do when I get bored anyway...LOL)

 

Karmic came out today, might wanna put that on it.

 

Did just that...servers slowwww

 

Yeah a guy on IRC said it took 10 hours + to install xchat :O. I suggest switching mirrors.

 

Opera 10 Just upgraded to 10.01 a few minutes ago.

Tell him to switch to irssi lol. (I admit though x-chat has some nice features)

 

He was using irssi to chat with me, lol. And Opera 10? looks liek Chrome + Firefox + Heroin to me.

 

I torrented it.

 

Me too! Servers were telling me 3 hours on average. Tried the torrent and it said 8 mins, with like 3000 seeds. lol

But if you upgrade from 9.04 you have to use the servers right? Or is there a way to use torrent as well?

 

I dunno. I upgraded over night, and it did fine.

 

Ubuntu 9.10. this is my simple desktop for right now. would like to work with new themes..have more customizing to do..

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My new theme:

 

He he, that's pretty good. Having it look like 7 (or Vista, I can't tell). Wanna share that theme?

 

it's the Azenis theme..found on gnome-look.org
i also have gnomenu for customizing the menu and screenlets app..for of course the screenlets..
thanks btw :]

 

Try apt-p2p out.

Looks very nice!!!!! I like it

 

thanks thomas..
been comtemplating about adding a dock..idk..kinda like it more open like this.
anyways..
it's my first time playing with themes..dind't really do much costomizing in 8.04 and 9.04..

 

Yeah you can make it look awesome with a bit of theming A dock might be cool....maybe Gnome-Do's docky?

 

i used cairo dock in 8.10..i liked that one the best ..for me..out of all the ones i tried..:].
may have to work on that tomorrowor later tonight and see what i else i can do with it.

 

I'm sorry if I offend anyone, but I personally don't understand why someone would trying to make their Linux look like a Mac or Windows. I don't mean that one should just purposely avoid using common themes for the sake of it. But purposely making your Linux look like the others is just pretty silly

 

ha..i've heard that one before..i used to have a problem with it too..
linux..u know is its own OS..and therefore should have its own look..
but i like the colors! it's purrty! though everything can be easily undone and replaced back to the linux panel look... whenever i want to change it..


no offense taken..its just to each their own..

 

great desktop

 

I'm not saying it shouldn't be done (hey, it's Linux. There's nothing as 'impossible' Order Pizza Through Unix), but I don't see the point.

 

Why not. Hell, if I could make Windows 7 look like UNR I would. If you like the way something looks and works, then I say "have at it!"

 

Here is mine.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=40658&stc=1&d=1258086449

 

mmm..interesting.^^very colorful

 

Openbox with a previous version of conky I did and default tint2. Haven't had time to start tweaking it.

Issues:
1) conky starts up above other windows and I have to killall -SIGUSR1 conky
2) It can't recognise some of my keyboard multimedia keys.

 

You could try using a sleep command to make conky wait to start, then maybe it wouldn't be above other windows.

 

Looks nice and clean. I love OpenBox and I hate OpenBox.

 

Hey everyone, what is the best dock in Linux Ubuntu? I am still discovering Linux so something simple is preferred.

 

Why the love-hate?

There isn't any 'best dock' because different people have different opinions and choices. Some go for a very dynamic Kiba dock, or a very smooth Avant Window Navigator or go for extremely themeable Cairo dock, or something really simple like Trayer or Launchy. There's plenty more out there. These are only the ones I've tried. It's all about experimentation.

I started with Kiba, but found it too 'messy'; then moved to Cairo, but thought it was too buggy; then to AWN but by that time didn't like docks anymore so just stuck with a simple gnome-panel or tint2. That said, many moons have passed since I've used those other docks, and all of them have most probably improved.

 

Try Docky.

 

IMO? Docky (gnome-do in repos), Wbar (takes some config, but once it's there, it's great), the rest like Cairo and Awn I'll leave to someone else's opinion.
Anyway, Karmic 64 on my Vostro 12 incher:

 

Very beautiful desktop.

 

Thanks. Oh, that sleep method fixed the conky problem. Now on to the keyboard.. urgh

 

Nice Desktop Zoid...

i've experimented with cairo..awn and docky.
awn was my least favorite..
cairo had a lot of customizations and was easy to use..i liked docky b/c of the search bar..
anyways..just experiment..
you have your choice of AWN, Cairo, docky, engage dock, simdock, and kibadock..

 

lol....thought I needed some diversity in my 'buntu-ing.....

 

Which dock is that? I'm in the process of rebuilding my wallpapers library and have nothing to post atm...

 

That's gnome-do's Docky. I'm transitioning to Xubuntu on this Vostro unless Mint wow's me this time around

 

with built-in karmic themes and wallpaper.

Makes me wish I had one of those 13'inch HP w/ matching colour
I thought about adding more to the desktop, but i decided to keep the desktop space relatively empty/dark though so i can see the text through transparent terminals

-love the new karmic tray icons.

 

I use that wallpaper also....like it. I've switched to Xubuntu x64 on this Vostro 1220 12 incher:

 

Well I don't have a sexy desktop ( it usually looks like cr@p)
but I guess I'll show my "working" desktop anyway.

From VirtualBox OSE (Open Source Edition)

 

Rocking this out on my little Acer AS1410!

XP running Visual Studio on VMware Workstation 7 in Unity mode.

 

Hulu'ing again, as always....

 

Hey! what's that panel applet that monitors sound level??

 

This is Xubuntu...that's an Xfce panel applet that monitors the CPU levels. I've got it set to LED/Gradient Color because it looks slick....

Just noticed...it looks B & W in the screenie for some reason...it's very colorful....here's a better shot of it....I find it useful when running virtual machines.

 

http://imagebin.ca/view/mRfshSpM.html

http://imagebin.ca/view/XTfe63i.html

KDE 4.3.3 on Fedora 12.