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robmaloy

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-05-14

Posts: 263

theminator - desktop settings packager

browsing the screenshots thread   ( http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=49536&p=3 )
i thought it might be nice to import/export your desktop styles, either to share it with other users or to "copy" it to another machine or to have a backup of your fancy desktop setup in case you want to reinstall arch or try another distro
and because it can have this really cool name

so i started writing some stupid "script" which is basically just a frontend to other scripts copying etc information of specific desktop settings:

http://pub.kingofnerds.net/theminator/theminator

copy this somewhere (preferably into $PATH)
run "theminator --install" as root to download some files (plugins.list, plugins for xfce4 and conky)
they will be stored in /usr/share/theminator  (you can change the path, its the 2nd line of the script)

theminator -h
to show usage

xfce4 plugin seems to work (didnt test it that much) but font and qt theme settings are not implemented yet (maybe it would make more sense to write a seperate plugin for that)
conky too since it just copies .conkyrc

for those who'd like to write a plugin, i wrote up a small readme here: http://pub.kingofnerds.net/theminator/write_a_plugin

things i still need to do:
write more goddamn plugins
something like .theminatorrc support

replace plugins.list with a plugin directory
split xfce4 and xfwm4
qt theme and font support for xfce4

Last edited by robmaloy (2008-06-05 09:47:19)

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