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#1 2009-02-01 14:17:13

eDio
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Specific desktop look. What choose to realise it? [noob question]

Here is the look of my windows' desktop, made with bbLean (blackbox for windows) and bbInterface (plugin for bbLean).
bbleandeskul5.th.jpg

Now I want the same (or as much similar as possible) under linux.
I have already tried openbox+panels (tint, bmpanel, lxpanel) then gnome and kde.
kde is too huge and unstable. It's own WM provides "On top" button, but kde panels don't look good if they are small.
gnome have... mmm... strange tray. It shifts left, if icons appear in it and stays at shifted position even when icons disappear from it. gnome, maybe, is the best way to do, what I need, but I really don't like that the same settings (f.ex. fonts) are in different places. Also I don't need ESD, gnome-vfs and other things installed with gnome. I just need a panel.

So now I decided to use lxpanel+openbox. I need:
* desktop switcher, that displays not only a number of desktop, but it's name instead.
* keyboard layot indicator
* system monitor, that does not display loads of ram and cpu as line charts (f.ex. in percents is acceptable)

Maybe there are some other good panels?
In general, what you can suggest?

TNX in advance.

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#2 2009-02-01 14:22:40

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Re: Specific desktop look. What choose to realise it? [noob question]

You can use conky as your system monitor and have it display everything in percents, although it is also capable of doing bar charts.


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#3 2009-02-01 14:27:34

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Re: Specific desktop look. What choose to realise it? [noob question]

For the desktop switcher, first have you tried pypanel, it displayes the name of the desktop and has a switcher, so does bmpanel. What did you not like about that panel? Otherwise look at the openbox wiki
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ope … and_Pagers which has a few papers you can try.

For system monitor I would use conky
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Conky
there are good instructions there, and links to various configs and set ups. Plus you can configure it anyway you like.

For the keyboard layout indicator,
I would use xxkb

pacman -S xxkb

Also a good choice is to browse the screenshot topic as people post a lot of nice openbox setups with corresponding configs, or you can ask them for them. The openbox topic is also a good location as well

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=62104
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45692

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#4 2009-02-01 14:33:31

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Re: Specific desktop look. What choose to realise it? [noob question]

Not sure I understand correctly, but why don't you try Blackbox for Linux? It's in [community].


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#5 2009-02-01 14:57:32

eDio
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Re: Specific desktop look. What choose to realise it? [noob question]

finferflu
As far as I khow, openbox is near the same, as BB. But it is newer and more popuplar and so on...
By the way, I'll try it some later.

tetonedge
I just have a quick look on bmpanel. AFAIR I didn't like how it looks (all that skinnable elements) and was annoying to search other themes, that looks clear.

[size=1]offtop: On bb4win forum (it is special for me, because it is English, as the archlinux forum) I get answers only on the next day after posting a topic, because most users of bb4win are in the other timezone and when it is day in Kiev, they have night big_smile . Thought here will be the same... Thank you for quick replies wink[/size]

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#6 2009-02-01 15:19:51

eDio
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Re: Specific desktop look. What choose to realise it? [noob question]

tetonedge
I have a strange bug with pypanel [not solved, afair]: clock displayed twice

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#7 2009-02-01 17:45:04

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Re: Specific desktop look. What choose to realise it? [noob question]

the one from arch repositories? Mine does not, can you please post your pypanelrc

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#8 2009-02-01 18:06:34

eDio
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Re: Specific desktop look. What choose to realise it? [noob question]

tetonedge
No, I can't, because I have deleted it already sad ... By the way, there was a topic on this forum, where someone said, that such behaviour caused by update interval = 1 sec. Dunno exactly, what caused this, but clock doubles on the left side of panel, stay visible under other elements, so text can't be read... And I'm using lxpanel now. Have installed xxkb. And now thinking about some standalone tray, pager, etc.

finferflu
BB under linux is not the same as BB under win (and have to say, win version is far ahead). So openbox is my choise.

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#9 2009-02-02 05:41:46

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Re: Specific desktop look. What choose to realise it? [noob question]

well good to know you are moving forward, let us know if you have any other questions.

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#10 2009-02-02 08:34:47

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Re: Specific desktop look. What choose to realise it? [noob question]

I have a realy slim bmpanel, check http://xprsyrslf.be/upload/bmpanelshot.png to view it. (may be large :-))

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#11 2009-02-02 13:53:58

eDio
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Re: Specific desktop look. What choose to realise it? [noob question]

Duologic
Looks good! Thanks.
I have to try this panel smile

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#12 2009-02-02 15:19:50

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Re: Specific desktop look. What choose to realise it? [noob question]

I just found the time to put that theme into a tarball: http://xprsyrslf.be/upload/Tiny.tar.gz
Just unzip it into ~/.bmpanel/themes and run 'bmpanel Tiny'.
You can adjust the colors of the text in the file and the color of the image to fit your theme

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#13 2009-02-02 15:23:04

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Re: Specific desktop look. What choose to realise it? [noob question]

eDio wrote:

tetonedge
I have a strange bug with pypanel [not solved, afair]: clock displayed twice

I had that problem, but I solved it... if only I remembered how I did it!!! I scrapped OB for Awesome quite a while ago...

Duologic wrote:

I have a realy slim bmpanel, check http://xprsyrslf.be/upload/bmpanelshot.png to view it. (may be large :-))

Nice looking!

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#14 2009-02-02 15:24:00

tetonedge
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Re: Specific desktop look. What choose to realise it? [noob question]

@Duologic

what is the arch icon with the checkmark in your tray?

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#15 2009-02-03 08:57:24

eDio
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Re: Specific desktop look. What choose to realise it? [noob question]

Duologic
Thank you. Now I use this panel wink

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#16 2009-02-03 19:50:52

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Re: Specific desktop look. What choose to realise it? [noob question]

tetonedge wrote:

@Duologic

what is the arch icon with the checkmark in your tray?

It is Archassistent, I  use it as a netcfg front end. check AUR for more smile

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