My Ubuntu 10.10 Dekstop



Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick.
Balanzan Themes with Oxygen Icons
Cairo Dock

Thanks mate for the heads up...
Got it running..

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Added on December 16, 2010, 1:06 amHi guys... just to share some outstanding conky theme..

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/12/13-brea...igurations.html

This post has been edited by scarxxx: Dec 16 2010, 01:06 AM

nice thanks for sharing

ahh maybe I am too old to configure conky to get it works perfectly. I am getting stars on my head reading those lines

you're welcome!!
sharing info and knowledge is the main priority over here!

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Added on December 16, 2010, 1:50 pmadditional info for Ubuntu customization.. Check them out: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/the-one...-customization/

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Added on December 16, 2010, 1:52 pmTo cocooh: I would like to suggest that to edit your very first post with those useful links that had been posted by all of us here. It is easy for others to search for info at the very first post.

That is just my 2 kupangs....

This post has been edited by scarxxx: Dec 16 2010, 01:52 PM

Thats cool o.O , will try XD

Nice first post!! Will be a great help for others...


This is my desktop.... A simple one..

nice wallie

My new desktop, I never did a customization before(lazy and I tried to keep it as simple as possible), so this is my first try.


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transparent gnome panel

Nice XD

i want this.

Ha yeah, that's looks really good right? I wanted to switch to AWN but I don't know how to get Lucido style.

I assume you're familiar with tiling window managers and cli apps?
If so, what do you need, exactly? Do you want my scrotwm.conf, .Xdefaults color-scheme, specific application configs/scripts?

This post has been edited by G-17: Dec 17 2010, 10:46 AM

You got a nice desktop but we can only navigate using keyboard? Or what? Looks like full text desktop.

Yes, you can use the mouse. I generally mostly run cli/terminal apps on my netbook, mainly because of the speed and it's what I'm familiar with. I still have a Graphical browser (Firefox or Chromium) which I use the mouse/touchpad for. I don't really have graphical file managers or media players (you can see my text-based file manager and music player in the screenshot).

I'm not using Gnome or KDE or Xfce or whatever, but a tiling window manager. Tiling window managers basically resize your opened windows automatically, for example, if you open one program, it's comes out full-screen, open another one, it splits the two programs side-by-side, 50-50, open another one and it splits the secondary pane by half again.... and so on. In a nutshell, you're maximizing your screen space. Of course, with a little knowhow, you can configure the behaviour however you want via the config files.

Here, I'm using a tiling window manager called ScrotWM:
http://www.scrotwm.org/

There are, of course, many other tiling window managers out there. Here's a comparison:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Compar...Window_Managers

You can run a tiling window manager on any distro that has an X11 backend, meaning any Linux or BSD distro. I even run a tiling window manager called Xmonad on my Apple OSX system from time-to-time. If you're on Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse..etc, you can find most of them in your repos, and then you can log out and boot into them via GDM or KDM. Other distros like Arch, Sid, Gentoo, Free-BSD...etc need a little more configuring (we usually don't use GDM and prefer startx/xinitrc)

Here, I'm using a distro called GRML.
http://grml.org/
I like it because it comes with a lot of text tools out of the box, is highly configurable, is based on Debian (the grandpa distro) and most importantly, comes with my favourite shell (I prefer Zsh over Bash). It's also very light, similar to an Arch or Gentoo install, but with much less time required for configuration, and the included kernel is pretty good, which saves me time recompiling.

I hope I didn't confuse you too much. I'm generally pretty bad at explaining stuff.

Tiling WMs aren't for everyone. You either like them or you don't. I'm not saying they're better then your usual floating desktop environments or window managers like Gnome, Xfce, Fluxbox, Openbox...etc. They're just different.

Cheers.

This post has been edited by G-17: Dec 17 2010, 11:36 AM

Actually I like it because it's simple and have the Linux feel. I'll install ScrotWM later. Can you share your config?

Thanks mate...
Hehehe.. I love simple wallie...

-Hzu-
My configs probably won't work for you, since I've hacked the source code to add some functionality to suit my own specific workflow. Also because I use the CVS dev version, which is a bit different from the stable version you get from your repos.

Tell you what, I'll grab the standard config and edit it for you. It'll be a bit later since I'm still at work right now.

In the meantime, can you check your repos or package manager and tell me what version you have installed? Also, you can "man scrotwm" in the terminal to read up first

Cheers.

This post has been edited by G-17: Dec 17 2010, 07:14 PM

man. i tried scrotwm and it feel sexy

just 1 problem tho.. how to enable my wifi connection?

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