I'm an Arch user as well, though not as often as I used to be. I've gotten a bit disenchanted with Arch recently, particularly the package quality in AUR (most recent was some terrible breakage with AwesomeWM and Cairo). I still like Arch a lot, but currently prefer Debian Sid/Experimental/GRML (I'm a long-time Debian contrib, so I might be biased), Free-BSD (it's ports and jails system is sublime) and Gentoo if I really feel like tinkering with bootscripts and setting flags.

ScrotWM is rather simple compared to many other tiling WM's out there, but it's simplicity is it's strength, as I found out. I won't say it's my favourite WM (a floating Openbox is what I prefer on my workstation), but it's definitely the first choice for my netbook and server, mainly due to its lightness and speed. Other tiling WMs I like are Musca, DWM and Ratpoison. Currently experimenting with CWM and Subtle as well.

Hope to see more lightweight WM/CLI setups posted here, so I'm looking forward to your screenshots.

Cheerz.

This post has been edited by G-17: Jan 11 2011, 08:43 PM

not as cool as you guys.. screenshot on my dell inspiron 11z..
ubuntu 10.10 somehow kinda look like a mint

@zy_xcup
Very nice and clean. Only thing I would remove is that small graph (cpu load box) in your panel, since conky already displays that in a nicer fashion. Other than that, it seems a really comfortable setup. Good wallpaper as well.

Just made a new wallpaper and tweaked my .Xdefaults a tad on the netbook.

@g-17 since use laptop and bringing it everywhere i need to boot faster into os.. thats why i just use a minimal setup...

in terms of minimal yours still is the best

nice n simple hows tweetdeck performance ? mine always lagg behind and eats my ram

tweetdeck?? fine i think... not that i use it that much...

hmm , coz im finding a decent desktop app for FB n Twitter

continue my search

yooo G! nice wallie, almost the same design as my kain pelikat that I am wearing now

Tweetdeck is the best IMO. But a bit over-functional. ?

The recent Twitter for Mac is just nice.

Interesting, mind to show how?

at terminal if im not mistaken :



then,after installing all netbook features,time to install unity...



correct me if im wrong...coz im remove all of this to get desktop edition...

u can also install netbook features or on the other word activate netbook session at synaptic manager...just search ubuntu-netbook...

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oh,btw...im not use software centre..coz i wanna be 'pro' using terminal...

This post has been edited by wanfaris: Jan 13 2011, 01:15 PM

my BSD desktop is just plain BLANK

Nice...


U customized it perfectly...btw, wut is the thing on the above? Where to download it?

its conky...

i dunno too how to setting it... n still learning...

http://conky.sourceforge.net/

Conky....quite a weird name. But it looks like windows gadget, where we cn see anything bout our cmputer.

Maybe i'll try to learn it too....

anyway wan faris...if by a chance u knew how to do it, dun forget to teach it to me.

Finally after doin some Photoshop to create the resource for my new custom based conky , here's the result :


This conky configuration is based on this Deviant Artist - Garbriel

It seems that she wont release her custom conky , so i went and re-create a similar conky as hers (coz i luv it XD)

Might wanna release my own custom conky configuration as well

haha...ok...

woo...u make ur own config??how cool u..

mind sharing please...

owh,im still stuck at how to config to make it adorable...im only know how to install it...haha..

Here's the zip download , read the read me , set up and enjoy

Might provide some updates for it

It is now on version 0.1

WARNING : In order for the pics to appear , please change the image path at the end of the conkyrc script

 conky___peace.zip ( 10.23k ) Number of downloads: 6


This post has been edited by cocooh: Jan 14 2011, 07:12 PM

haha...thanks bro for sharing...if hv any prob,will PM u...

This post has been edited by wanfaris: Jan 14 2011, 07:18 PM

Some basics to conky :

TEXT - type this and everything below it will appear as text until another argument is typed

offset - controls the distance of x axis

voffset - controls the distance of y axis of an object

font - specify a font for an argument EG : font Ubuntu - this will display the argument with the font Ubuntu

Bold/Italic etc - makes the font appears as alternate font EG : font Ubuntu:Bold - this will display the argument with the font Ubuntu Bold

size/pixelsize - controls an argument size EG : pixelsize=90 - makes the argument size at 90 pixels

CPU/RAM and other commands to display various computer status can be obtained from here  config_settings.html ( 19.79k ) Number of downloads: 3
and here for the variables  variables.html ( 96.15k ) Number of downloads: 4


What are config settings ? - How an argument is being displayed EG : Pictures , background , alignment etc

What are variables ? - What/Which to display EG : battery , ram , cpu etc

How to learn conky ? - I suggest to launch any downloaded conky with ALT + F2 : conky ~/.conkyrc (depends on the conky configuration) and tweak/modify the .conkyrc file with any variables or settings that you wanted by relating the changes with what you have typed

Good Luck

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This post has been edited by cocooh: Jan 14 2011, 07:29 PM