I know this is XP could Arch look something like this...?

Mr Green · 2008-08-30 18:28:56

Something I was looking at

http://lifehacker.com/5043712/roll-your … et-desktop

Hotkeys interested me

Conky would display stuff on right that's not a problem

Anyway just caught my eye :-)

MrG

haxit · 2008-08-30 18:38:36

Of course it can. It can look hundred times better. Its funny, I have a background almost exactly like that ;P

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moljac024 · 2008-08-30 18:43:57

If you ask me, I don't see anything SO great on that desktop. It's nice, but it's not jaw dropping...and yes, Linux can look like that and much better...

tonyisnt · 2008-08-30 19:02:56

Wouldn't xbindkeys do pretty much the same thing? The main problem that I've found with xbindkeys, though, is that I don't usually know the commands to do a lot of things. This is actually one of the reasons I can't stick with *box WMs for very long: I can't figure out how to bind some of the basic window actions that are default in DMs. I haven't used any of them for quite some time (I did use blackbox for probably a month almost 2 years ago) so I couldn't really list specifics.

Mr Green · 2008-08-30 19:06:51

struck me more was cheat sheet for hoty keys :-) us old people forget what button does what!!!!

XP / Vista users think there desktops are real sweet and like we have been doin' it Linux style for ages

Arch Linux Power Extreme!!!!!

MrG

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tonyisnt · 2008-08-30 19:43:18

I really liked the cheat sheet, too.

Mr Green · 2008-08-30 20:04:54

Gives me an idea :-)

mrcold · 2008-08-30 20:35:03

you could use one of those pop down terminals with the cheat sheet open in less or vi or whatever... that would be sweet. It could be auto started and then any time you need to remember something just bring it down

actually that is a really awesome idea (IMO)

peets · 2008-08-31 03:42:38

I've been running StumpWM for a few weeks now, and it comes with a function that displays the keybindings: you get a command name and the key it's bound to. It would be cool if all interactive programs could "export" something in a similar format to show an aggregate of what any key does at any given time.

mrcold · 2008-08-31 04:17:25

peets wrote:

I've been running StumpWM for a few weeks now, and it comes with a function that displays the keybindings: you get a command name and the key it's bound to. It would be cool if all interactive programs could "export" something in a similar format to show an aggregate of what any key does at any given time.

I just found out that xbindkeys has a program to display all keybindings.... (but i use openbox and it's built in keybindings, so it doesn't do me much good.)

smoon · 2008-08-31 08:09:09

mrcold wrote:

peets wrote:
I've been running StumpWM for a few weeks now, and it comes with a function that displays the keybindings: you get a command name and the key it's bound to. It would be cool if all interactive programs could "export" something in a similar format to show an aggregate of what any key does at any given time.
I just found out that xbindkeys has a program to display all keybindings.... (but i use openbox and it's built in keybindings, so it doesn't do me much good.)

I've once written a small Perl script that prints all your Openbox keybindings to stdout: http://nooms.de/files/openbox/ob_getkeybind.pl

You can, for example, use it with osd_cat to display your keybindings on screen:

ob_getkeybind.pl | osd_cat <your osd_cat settings here>

moljac024 · 2008-08-31 08:22:20

Hmm, why would you want to display your keybindings ? Don't you know them already ?

Or what about

cat ~/.xbindkeysrc

?

Mr Green · 2008-08-31 08:43:56

@smoon cool :-)

Lord Illidan · 2008-08-31 09:45:56

Very nice XP desktop indeed.

I think with google desktop/gdesklets/cairo-clock/screenlets/plasma you could get the clock part out of the way easily. Conky can take care of the cpu-monitor and the now-playing piece, as you mentioned. Launchy on KDE = gnome-do on Gnome. I use gnome-do myself, and it's excellent.

The To-Do list can also be generated by conky with a script, perhaps? Edit a file, and conky will pick it up.

The transparent background - compiz takes care of that easily, by setting the cube to transparent even while it's not rotating.

Mr Green · 2008-08-31 10:38:49

conky will pick up a file and display it so not a problem..... .todo :-)

Sure I have seen desktops as sweet as that done in Arch linux.....

Mr Green · 2008-08-31 18:00:31

Anyone got a clean .conkyrc I could mess around with in Gnome?

Shopping list on my desktop might be handy lol

MrG

moljac024 · 2008-08-31 18:24:51

Mr Green wrote:

Anyone got a clean .conkyrc I could mess around with in Gnome?
Shopping list on my desktop might be handy lol
MrG

Are you sure conky is the most practical way of achieving that ? There are programs specifically suited for that. Gnome has an applet called notes or something like that. Of course, there is also tomboy.

Mr Green · 2008-08-31 18:41:10

tomboy suks! sorry man.... applet notes cool

Lord Illidan · 2008-08-31 19:13:40

AFAIK tomboy doesn't display the lists on the desktop, though. I like tomboy, but it's a big program, for what can be solved by a simple script

mrcold · 2008-08-31 21:35:46

seriously... yeahconsole+RXVT+ gnu screen + console text editor of choice = awesome shopping list

Mr Green · 2008-09-01 06:11:23

sounds good to me, tried to get conky running but as always flickering away...

no a transparent term would do the trick

Lord Illidan · 2008-09-01 13:41:00

Mr Green wrote:

sounds good to me, tried to get conky running but as always flickering away...
no a transparent term would do the trick

Flickering..what are you using? Care to post your conkyrc here or in a pastebin?
Generally, it might be because you haven't enabled debuffering, for instance.

Mr Green · 2008-09-01 14:26:02

here goes one I grabbed from ubuntu.com forums....

# UBUNTU-CONKY
# A comprehensive conky script, configured for use on
# Ubuntu / Debian Gnome, without the need for any external scripts.
#
# Based on conky-jc and the default .conkyrc.
# INCLUDES:
# - tail of /var/log/messages 
# - netstat connections to your computer
#
# -- Pengo (conky@pengo.us)
#

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# fiddle with window
use_spacer right
use_xft no

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 3.0

# Minimum size of text area
# minimum_size 250 5

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Text stuff
draw_outline no # amplifies text if yes
draw_borders no
uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 3

# border margins
border_margin 9

# border width
border_width 10

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color grey

own_window_colour brown
own_window_transparent yes

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 10
gap_y 10

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
$color
${color orange}SYSTEM ${hr 2}$color
$nodename $sysname $kernel on $machine

${color orange}CPU ${hr 2}$color
${freq}MHz   Load: ${loadavg}   Temp: ${acpitemp}
$cpubar
${cpugraph 000000 ffffff}
NAME             PID       CPU%      MEM%
${top name 1} ${top pid 1}   ${top cpu 1}    ${top mem 1}
${top name 2} ${top pid 2}   ${top cpu 2}    ${top mem 2}
${top name 3} ${top pid 3}   ${top cpu 3}    ${top mem 3}
${top name 4} ${top pid 4}   ${top cpu 4}    ${top mem 4}

${color orange}MEMORY / DISK ${hr 2}$color
RAM:   $memperc%   ${membar 6}$color
Swap:  $swapperc%   ${swapbar 6}$color

Root:  ${fs_free_perc /}%   ${fs_bar 6 /}$color 

${color orange}NETWORK (${addr eth0}) ${hr 2}$color
Down: $color${downspeed eth0} k/s ${alignr}Up: ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${downspeedgraph eth0 25,140 000000 ff0000} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 
25,140 000000 00ff00}$color
Total: ${totaldown eth0} ${alignr}Total: ${totalup eth0}
Inbound: ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count} Outbound: ${tcp_portmon 32768 
61000 count}${alignr}Total: ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}

Its no too bad needs a little work more like complete rewrite... first I need a good font then......

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Lord Illidan · 2008-09-01 14:27:22

Are you using it on Compiz and Gnome?

Mr Green · 2008-09-01 17:05:58

No just Gnome.... its not too bad at the moment need to work on config part ....

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