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    other cool programs besides beryl?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by atyrrell, Jul 25, 2007.

  1. atyrrell

    atyrrell Notebook Consultant

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    I love beryl on my new-to-me ubuntu. What are some other programs to help make the interface more personalized? I would like to change the menus or shortcuts to something different, possibly like mac osx. So if you have any cool,, or popular programs lemme know.

    thanks
     
    atyrrell, Jul 25, 2007
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  2. Lysander

    Lysander AFK, raid time.

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    Avant-Window-Navigator is a nice OSX-like dock. And the SLAB menu is pretty funky too.
     
    Lysander, Jul 25, 2007
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    Ethyriel Notebook Deity

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    Ugh, SLAB is the most god awful, unusable user interface element I've seen in a long long time. They seriously need to consider splitting it from the menu system, and just use it for recent documents, search, system controls, and maybe a few common apps. I'm with you on AWN, though.

    Check out Pyro Dekstop and Enlightenment DR17. Both are far from stable, but very cool stuff. Pyro is kind of a different take on the Mezzo concept, Enlightenment has been doing a lot of the things compositing has opened the door for, only in software and for much longer.
     
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  4. atyrrell

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    hows kiba-dock? i watched a video on it and it looked pretty good.
     
    atyrrell, Jul 26, 2007
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