Never underestimate the mono, man!!

Getting started...

nice one patent .
simple !

gnome 3

guys, help me out pls .
i already configured conky color for my ubuntu 11.04
but the problem is that conky wont stay running .
whenever i click on the desktop, the conky disappear .

how to resolve this ?

nvm, solved it guys .
change own_window_type desktop to own_window_type normal

am used ubunttu 10.10 more stable then the newest one...in my opinion

yeah sincerely .
i think so too .
i dunno y this 11.04 always say problem occur when i update .
after recheck, it says updated .

and sometimes it just hang when i see properties of a file or something like that .
it happens randomly .

any comment guys ?

Me not using ubuntu so I don’t have any comments about that, you should tried something else apart from the mainstream,

let's say opensuse 11.4 with KDE running it

Pfft .... That's just as mainstream.
Actually, I'd say it's even more mainstream considering Novell's history with Microsoft plus KDE's shiny widget blingy-blingness.

Grml Sid + Ratpoison, Arch + xMonad, Slitaz + Openbox .... now that's what you should be talking about.
The key to Linux is to have an installation that uses less than 5% of your total RAM at boot and a setup that nobody other than yourself can use.

This post has been edited by G-17: Jun 9 2011, 06:54 PM

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

I work in the graphic arts/design and I have no problems on the Openbox install on my workstation. Actually, I've never had any problem with any WM and graphic applications. Sure, I needed to set-up float variables/quirks for multi-pane apps like Gimp or Bibble Pro on the tiling WMs, but that's about it. They're actually much faster on WM's in my experience, one hand on keyboard while the other on the mouse or Wacom Pen, switching between palettes, windows or workspaces.... YMMV, obviously.

You're right about it being personal, though. My preference is to deter as many stinking humans away from my comp as possible. There's a certain sense of satisfaction when the girlfriend asks to borrow your laptop to check her mail, only to spend the next few minutes blindly clicking about everywhere on screen and nothing happens. A noob's frustrated look = Citibank Priceless Moment.

This post has been edited by G-17: Jun 9 2011, 07:17 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

Alt+PrtScr, though I'm not quite sure if it's enabled by default in most modern distros.

Apps that can do that are fb2png, fbgrab, fbdump.
I think fbgrab is still in Debian repos. The other two are very old and might be depreciated already.

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Added on June 9, 2011, 8:32 pmHere ya go:



TTY1 running Screen on my GRML setup. Multiplexer is DVTM (yes, you can run dvtm inside Screen.... genius, isn't it?). fbgrab man on left, 3 ncmpcpp views on right.

Edit: Damn!! ... I should've opened htop to show memory use!! >_<

This post has been edited by G-17: Jun 9 2011, 08:32 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

i dun have much skill in linux bro .
even wif uBuntu i dun really know what to do other than conky .
heh

Most of us here start from zero too. Welcome to the world of jigsaw puzzle, the more you match the pieces, the more you'll getting excited.

'The key to Linux is to have an installation that uses less than 5% of your total RAM at boot and a setup that nobody other than yourself can use. '

I love this,thought I'm still with openSUSE Tumbleweed. Dreamed that one day someone see my desktop with shocked face,then shout:'You're hacker!!!' and dial to police hotline........
Well just dreamed,coz I gave up Scrotwm on previous Debian Squeeze after 2 hours of dwelling........ya I'm lazy.....

@MarcosLai
Hah!! ... You should've seen my old laptop from 8 yrs ago. The touchpad died, so I covered it with a big Ratpoison sticker, to match the WM I was running at the time. I'm pretty sure even thieves eyeing my laptop back then would've lost interest when they noticed that sticker and a screen full of CLI gibberish.... Good times


Today's nonsense. basically the same as always, I guess.



This post has been edited by G-17: Jun 10 2011, 02:57 AM

i dont get it what is this scrotwm and what sort of OS is that G-17 ?