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droog

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Re: August 2007 Screenshots

Jekkonidae

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Registered: 2007-08-06

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Re: August 2007 Screenshots

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/ … shot-1.png

Just installed Arch first time and it's still really really basic. Trying to get things going
I am a bit curious as to why the vast majority of people here use openbox?

thayer

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: August 2007 Screenshots

fwojciec: thanks for the tip and pypanel is now patched... it's funny because the Simple theme is one of my all time favourites.
babypuncher: great work, it's one of my fav's as well.

http://www.cinderwick.ca/files/shots/20 … 644_th.png

How do you get your fonts to look like that?  What font?  I'm guessing you have a fonts.conf file I could have..please?   Can I have a copy of you .pypanelrc as well?

I meant to post all that info... my bad.  The GTK theme is using Arial, urxvt is using terminus, and the bitmap font (as seen in the obmenu, pypanel and titlebars) is 'nu' which is part of the artwiz-fonts package in the repos. I actually don't have a font.conf, but I do have the following values in my .Xdefaults:

Xft*hinting: full
Xft*antialias: true

The .pypanelrc can be grabbed here: http://www.cinderwick.ca/files/shots/20 … .pypanelrc

Also, I found that mirage works great for setting wallpapers with feh. Just go to Edit -> Custom Actions -> Configure and add a new custom command for feh, such as this (bound to C+A+w): feh --bg-scale %F

Last edited by thayer.w (2007-08-25 04:58:04)

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justin

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From: Philadelphia

Registered: 2007-04-18

Posts: 132

Re: August 2007 Screenshots

http://two.xthost.info/droog/2007-08-24 … _thumb.png

Very nice!

toms

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Registered: 2007-06-12

Posts: 6

Re: August 2007 Screenshots

ratpoison ftw

th

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-08-16

Posts: 34

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Re: August 2007 Screenshots

.Xdefaults - .pypanelrc - wallpaper - Openbox theme: Onyx2

Last edited by th (2007-08-25 21:12:54)

Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: August 2007 Screenshots

http://nano.fooo.org/screenshot/desktop … -thumb.png

Share _all_ please. I think thats what my laptop will look like.
Also noob question how do i start screen when i launch urxvt? just put it in bashrc or what?

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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: August 2007 Screenshots

Also noob question how do i start screen when i launch urxvt? just put it in bashrc or what?

You can generally do :

<term> -e <cmd>

so in this case, try :

urxvt -e screen

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th

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From: Germany

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Re: August 2007 Screenshots

Share _all_ please. I think thats what my laptop will look like.

I edited my post and you find my configs there.

Kamino

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From: Georgia

Registered: 2007-08-25

Posts: 4

Re: August 2007 Screenshots

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd71 … 082507.jpg

An Arch newbie here. Just installed a few days ago.

Still working on my conky. Not where I want it to be.

finferflu

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2007-06-21

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Re: August 2007 Screenshots

My gnomish KDE
I love emulating stuff, and I actually love the Gnome layout

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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

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Re: August 2007 Screenshots

My gnomish KDE
I love emulating stuff, and I actually love the Gnome layout

http://xs218.xs.to/xs218/07340/250807.png.xs.jpg

Wow, amazing great stuff.

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upsidaisium

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From: Vietnam

Registered: 2006-09-16

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Re: August 2007 Screenshots

My gnomish KDE
I love emulating stuff, and I actually love the Gnome layout

http://xs218.xs.to/xs218/07340/250807.png.xs.jpg

where'd the wmii go?   (by the way: if you did like wmii, you ought to give dwm a try too)

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oksana

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From: a forest of popsicles

Registered: 2007-08-01

Posts: 15

Re: August 2007 Screenshots

I'm really enjoying Arch with Openbox, here's my first screenshot:

Openbox
Conky
(urxvt)
Htop
Screenshot Info Grabber version from ProzacR
Irssi
Rtorrent
Ncmpc
Hellanzb
WM Theme: Gilouche

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Don-DiZzLe

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From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-03-31

Posts: 233

Re: August 2007 Screenshots

What's with urxvt/rxvt-unicode, everyone seems to be using it. What's so attractive about it? Why is it better than all those others terminal emulators?

Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: August 2007 Screenshots

Share _all_ please. I think thats what my laptop will look like.

I edited my post and you find my configs there.

Thanks (both th and shining) but need screenrc and is that vimrc / theme too

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Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

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Re: August 2007 Screenshots

What's with urxvt/rxvt-unicode, everyone seems to be using it. What's so attractive about it? Why is it better than all those others terminal emulators?

Unicode, looks (transparency), config, some extra options like highlighting / url opening...
Well urxvt just seems to do the job... Dunno if its that much better than anything else tho.

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finferflu

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From: Manchester, UK

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Re: August 2007 Screenshots

@ shining
Thanks!

My gnomish KDE
I love emulating stuff, and I actually love the Gnome layout

http://xs218.xs.to/xs218/07340/250807.png.xs.jpg

where'd the wmii go?   (by the way: if you did like wmii, you ought to give dwm a try too)

I have quit wmii after the second time it froze my keyboard, I hate switching off my machine using the ON button. It's really a pity, since I hate cascade windows on the widespread DEs like KDE. What I do for the time being, is tiling everything manually... sounds stupid huh?
If dwm has a similar tiling method as wmii, then I'll give it a go

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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

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Re: August 2007 Screenshots

I have quit wmii after the second time it froze my keyboard, I hate switching off my machine using the ON button. It's really a pity, since I hate cascade windows on the widespread DEs like KDE. What I do for the time being, is tiling everything manually... sounds stupid huh?
If dwm has a similar tiling method as wmii, then I'll give it a go

Did you consider reporting this issue on wmii ML ? I think you could give it a try at least.
And otherwise, yes, you should probably try the other tiling wm out there

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Loke

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2005-10-21

Posts: 139

Re: August 2007 Screenshots

I'm really enjoying Arch with Openbox, here's my first screenshot:

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/9919/screeniedb3.jpg

Openbox
Conky
(urxvt)
Htop
Screenshot Info Grabber version from ProzacR
Irssi
Rtorrent
Ncmpc
Hellanzb
WM Theme: Gilouche

Very nice.
Would you mind sharing wallpaper?

Last edited by Loke (2007-08-26 14:03:50)

alexmatos

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From: Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Registered: 2007-08-06

Posts: 124

Re: August 2007 Screenshots

I'm really enjoying Arch with Openbox, here's my first screenshot:

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/9919/screeniedb3.jpg

Openbox
Conky
(urxvt)
Htop
Screenshot Info Grabber version from ProzacR
Irssi
Rtorrent
Ncmpc
Hellanzb
WM Theme: Gilouche

Do you have an automatic way of positioning and resing windows to fit screen or did you do that manually?

shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: August 2007 Screenshots

Do you have an automatic way of positioning and resing windows to fit screen or did you do that manually?

That's what I asked him on irc Here is the link he gave in answer :
http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/He … ettings.29

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alexmatos

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From: Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Registered: 2007-08-06

Posts: 124

Re: August 2007 Screenshots

Do you have an automatic way of positioning and resing windows to fit screen or did you do that manually?

That's what I asked him on irc Here is the link he gave in answer :
http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/He … ettings.29

Thanks! I've always used per application settings, but I don't see how I could achieve the automatic positioning by using this feature. Setting size and position for specific apps is quite manual work. I would like to know if there's a more general approach to this? Anyway, thanks for your answer!

oksana

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From: a forest of popsicles

Registered: 2007-08-01

Posts: 15

Re: August 2007 Screenshots

Loke: Thanks, here's a link to the wallpaper, I can't remember where I found it though. http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/8914 … 280xi9.jpg

alexmatos: I did the positioning with per application settings, then just add everything to the autostart file. Any programs I may use but don't want autostarted I can pre-position with per application so after editing the xml files it's "virtually" automatic positioning/sizing. I don't see how one could make it check the positioning of other windows and then move a window to a free space or resize existing windows (like tiling WM's) but that doesn't seem necessary to me, since I always know what programs I have installed and what I may use potentially and where I would want it to be, position and size wise. It's really easy to edit the xml files each time you install something new or want to change something. I like how they state it on the openbox website "It can be like a video game for controlling windows."

shining: Last night I was talking about global no decorations 'n stuff, sorry if I misread your question.

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nica939

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Registered: 2007-08-26

Posts: 3

Re: August 2007 Screenshots

hello this is my first post so here it goes

hope this works its the forum img number 1 on imageshack

i have been changing how my desktop looks since i first installed mandrake in 03...(was better then windows ME i was stuck on before)