Wish my desktop looked like this

Mr Green · 2008-10-07 12:04:47

dbimage.php?id=43776

:-)

dmz · 2008-10-07 12:10:21

I don't get it. Why don't you make it look like that then? oO

timetrap · 2008-10-07 12:24:58

Well the image comes from threadless:

http://www.threadless.com/product/94/Pe … _Pollution

And it looks like that's a windows desktop. (I see notepad, photoshop, gmail notifier, and a network connection icon)

Why don't you just use:

WM: Openbox
Tray: Trayer
BG: feh
Clock:dzen

That should work nicely.

molom · 2008-10-07 12:39:34

Yeah, that's definitely Windows, unless someone changed the icon theme on Linux to the Windows icon theme
How do you get Windows to look like that?

Yeah, that would be easy to do on Linux, using Gnome would make that an easy task and what timetrap is the best idea.

Mr Green · 2008-10-07 14:15:42

Yeah its a windows box, odd because it seems windows users want there desktops to run like ours under Linux?

http://emergedesktop.org/

Would be no problems to recreate [but I loves my gnome panel lol!]

Background is cool

MrG

Rasi · 2008-10-07 14:35:16

i dont think this is strange at all...

there are lots of shell replacements for windows. Even blackbox exists...

dhave · 2008-10-07 15:30:32

Rasi wrote:

i dont think this is strange at all...
there are lots of shell replacements for windows. Even blackbox exists...

Yeah, I think seeing BB4Win bring new life to my old laptop some years ago was what got me interested in trying Linux.

Mr Green · 2008-10-07 15:49:18

I think it would look better under Arch :-)

dav7 · 2008-10-07 15:58:15

You can easily orient GNOME panels vertically by dragging them to one of the sides of the screen.

Here's an example:

-dav7

molom · 2008-10-07 22:06:24

Rasi wrote:

i dont think this is strange at all...
there are lots of shell replacements for windows. Even blackbox exists...

Yeah... But apparently its impossible to reverse the procedure on Windows

Andy Mack · 2008-10-07 22:41:49

Impossible to go back to explorer after say blackbox?

In windows which I rarely use I use bbclean, much easier to navigate that explorer, smaller footprint too I found and just need to uninstall it to get back to normal explorer shell.

Ghost1227 · 2008-10-07 23:55:32

It's not impossible, I used to do it all the time on my work pc.

z0phi3l · 2008-10-08 00:22:33

Before just using Linux I used LiteStep on my Windows box, used it for quite a few years too

dav7 · 2008-10-08 02:46:55

I just used bb4win until I could figure out how to make explorer start at bootup, stop crashing, etc. Which was more or less "never".

-dav7

molom · 2008-10-08 04:33:16

Andy Mack wrote:

Impossible to go back to explorer after say blackbox?
In windows which I rarely use I use bbclean, much easier to navigate that explorer, smaller footprint too I found and just need to uninstall it to get back to normal explorer shell.

Well I don't know, I was reading a Linux vs Windows article and the author stated it was a lot harder to remove the replacement shell on Windows than removing say blackbox on Linux.

Mr Green · 2008-10-08 06:19:23

doing anything is vista is a lot harder than in linux

methuselah · 2008-10-08 06:50:27

Mr Green wrote:

doing anything is vista is a lot harder than in linux

Resizing the vista partitions is a complete pain. And the new disk dfragmenting app is so lame compared to the way it was in xp.

When ever I need to us my Vista partition, I get so frustrated by the amount of stupid tasks that I have to go through with the windows updates and virus updates..... and then the reboots......

molom · 2008-10-08 07:16:10

Vista still exists? I thought it was vaporware

methuselah · 2008-10-08 15:31:12

molom wrote:

Vista still exists? I thought it was vaporware

I'm poor and can't afford a new mp3 player..... so my iRiver T30 will only work on Windows, it's never worked with Linux.... even when changing the firmare to UMS using xubuntu it would not transfer song properly (out of order and mostly ruined). It won't even mount on Archlinux when I plug in the usb.

I also keep it on a partition because my HP webcam doesn't work good with the uvc driver..... I can't record properly with it using cheese, and the integrated microphone doesn't work at all.

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Paul-S · 2008-10-08 16:16:10

I used to use emergedesktop, one of my screenshots is there under the nick enabl,
Its a great little shell but not quite good enough to make me carry on using windows.
At the time my linux desktop was virtually identical to it, but then along came Xmonad.

lucke · 2008-10-08 17:41:18

<kinda offtopic>I'm using T30 in Arch, with UMS. There's also mtp support in Amarok, maybe others. You should be able to make it work.</kinda offtopic>

Mr Green · 2008-10-08 19:38:14

methuselah wrote:

molom wrote:
Vista still exists? I thought it was vaporware
I'm poor and can't afford a new mp3 player..... so my iRiver T30 will only work on Windows, it's never worked with Linux.... even when changing the firmare to UMS using xubuntu it would not transfer song properly (out of order and mostly ruined). It won't even mount on Archlinux when I plug in the usb.

errr http://mostly-linux.blogspot.com/2006/0 … y-way.html

lads you is going off topic lol....

MrG

Mr Green · 2008-10-11 05:50:41

http://lifehacker.com/5061970/who-needs-icons

Man they get better ......

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