Openbox + Tint2



This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Apr 8 2011, 08:38 PM

Natty in Unity



In GNOME 2.x



On KDE 4.6.2



This post has been edited by FlameReaper: May 6 2011, 11:42 AM

Global menus in KDE oh yeah!

Still buggy but at least it works for now.

It's a window manager.

A desktop environment contains more than just a window manager. It includes panels and everything that's on it, and probably some more stuff such as bundled applications that comes with it.

A window manager is, well, the framework that draws window borders, and are included with a desktop environment. Without them it'll be a pain to organize programs that are running.

For more details ask Sifu G-17.

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: May 10 2011, 10:29 PM

For the more new users who're used to having a desktop environment before making the jump into having a Linux distribution installed on their computer, a DE is more suited for them because the majority just can't live without it. One thing great about the *NIX distributions of today (be it BSD, GNU/Linux etc) is the availability of choice (although there's also the argument this is the main problem why critics say that *NIX will never surpass Windows on the desktop) and users can choose what they want, but there's also this need of idiot-proof easy customization that can be done with one single tap of the mouse button instead of inserting new lines in a configuration file, and most new users who just transitioned from any other OS (say, Windows itself) would rather go clickety-click rather than go Ctrl+??? because they are more familiar with it - because people recognize things that they can do rather than recall what they could.

I had to agree with these uninterested people, though, because for some people, a vanilla ScrotWM (as how I see it) lacks the aesthetics they want to see. Which I can empathize with. But from what I deduce, ScrotWM really isn't for these people as well so I guess the choice is there, they can just pick another one they'll more interested in - which is why I'm ridiculed by the amount of hate for Unity, I guess they just didn't know choices other than Unity are always available, but no they just had to slam Linux in general to the ground and be so disappointed they went back to Windows. Derp!

I do have some little interest in trying to use ScrotWM in order to experiment with it (I do hope I won't end up having too many DEs/WMs installed just because I feel like it), but apparently I guess there's some self-configuration which needs to be done - by editing the configuration files as from what I know, which is quite the turn-off for me. Not that I can't do that, but if there's a way for me to skip doing that and get to running an application straight away with zero configuration (aka vanilla config), please do let me know, I might try again later. Then again I guess the aesthetics for ScrotWM is really isn't for me

Probably you'll expect more users to be more courageous to jump into using minimalist window managers when they're more experienced with the *NIX world

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: May 11 2011, 07:04 AM

KDE 4.6.2 on 11.04

Plasma theme: H20 with XBar installed

I think I just had a seizure caused by the bright colors.

Unity


GNOME 2.x Classic


KDE 4.6

I wouldn't bank too much on getting it very, very personal, so exclusive only I can use because... reasons.

Else I'll get my laptop destroyed even though it's mine. And I have parents who're on the other scale of IT awareness compared to me. Figure the math

It all boils down to one's own preferences, to me there's no such thing as mainstream, it's only "The desktop I want to use for various things including work."

And when "work" includes graphics editing, working on them in particuluar WMs/DEs somehow feel a bit destructive

Just my two cents.

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Jun 9 2011, 07:03 PM

Well, I do have moments where I had to deter someone from using my laptop (one of them being my annoying eldest sister... shhh). Well, at least until that person gives up trying.

Solution? Ctrl+Alt+F1.

Now if only I can take screenshots of a TTY... in which I don't know how. Scrot doesn't work, since it requires itself to be run in X as it runs.

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Jun 9 2011, 07:21 PM

I run Byobu, though.

Now that you said it... I recalled about reading the use of Alt+PrtScr somewhere before. I'll test it now.

EDIT: Ah, Alt+PrtScr doesn't work, but I have installed fbgrab sometime ago and apparently forgot about it. Thanks!



Aaaand there we go. Nothing much, but I'm pretty comfortable with just a TTY+Byobu.

I think I gotta read up more on making it a bit more colorful though.

But at least this makes good chances to joke around in screenshot threads

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Jun 9 2011, 10:29 PM

Take it easy. It took me almost a whole semester to know what I'm doing myself. And still learning.

You just don't stop learning there

^ That sounds like something I'd only be daring to run in a TTY session, since it seems to remove X as well...

*cough* Wbar, dude. Although I have no idea how to configure it, the vanilla install of it looks so plain it could use some proper configuring

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Jun 12 2011, 09:47 PM

Yep. Depending on the login manager used, you'll see an entry named ScrotWM.

Back to Openbox, and re-creating a simple conky setting for it.

Clean.


Busy.


GTK theme: Hope
Icons: Faenza-Dark
Openbox: Mire Grey V2

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Jun 15 2011, 01:21 AM

Added Audacious / Amarok configuration on Conky to display current song playing on it. If neither of these two runs, no Now Playing will be shown.

(... Don't ask me to tap into Lua. I had enough headache figuring out vanilla Conky by itself >_>)

Audacious running and playing:


Amarok running and playing:


Oh, and also, enabled RGBA transparency. Sweet.

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Jun 15 2011, 05:42 PM

Hmm? Well, I don't really care about drop shadows of the terminal not being drawn.

I'm using a Kozuka Gothic Pro (which was actually copied off my Windows installation), but I guess the Linux equivalent would be something like Droid Sans? Well, since I use only one font for the whole Conky display (not just limited to the Now Playing)...

Well, I actually have been looking for a... uh, perfectly ordinary font to use with it. Arial doesn't look too attractively ordinary

Ah, I see what you meant.

... No idea. It seems to come with Audacious's skin... and I don't have any idea how to dissect the skin and find where it resides, if the font exists in my disk.

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Jun 15 2011, 08:32 PM

^ Nice, although... feels a bit too "jambu" for me

Even if I like these "moemoe" stuff I don't think I'll dare to touch that

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Jun 19 2011, 03:45 PM