August 2009 Screenshots

OneEyedPimp · 2009-08-20 02:11:27

LeoSolaris,

Care to tell how you got the openbox menu transparent?

Thanks!

Ranguvar · 2009-08-20 03:28:06

If I could hazard a guess, with xcompmgr and transset

OneEyedPimp · 2009-08-20 04:01:38

Well I got that far. haha. I just can get the menu to work. And I have searched.

dannytatom · 2009-08-20 04:20:19

tlvb wrote:

http://solstorm.doesntexist.com/images/ … 9small.png
Wallpaper is plain black, for two reasons actually.
1) I have a tiling wm, so as soon an app is running it covers the whole screen.
2) I frequiently change between running only 1280x800, 1280x1024 and 2560x1024 and finding a wallpaper that I want that looks good on all these is somewhat difficult (and I like to create them myself too).

Can I get your .Xdefaults?

Daisuke_Aramaki · 2009-08-20 04:28:44

dannytatom wrote:

tlvb wrote:
http://solstorm.doesntexist.com/images/ … 9small.png
Wallpaper is plain black, for two reasons actually.
1) I have a tiling wm, so as soon an app is running it covers the whole screen.
2) I frequiently change between running only 1280x800, 1280x1024 and 2560x1024 and finding a wallpaper that I want that looks good on all these is somewhat difficult (and I like to create them myself too).
Can I get your .Xdefaults?

Didn't you read his subsequent reply? He has posted his .Xdefaults right there!

dannytatom · 2009-08-20 04:39:00

Daisuke_Aramaki wrote:

dannytatom wrote:
tlvb wrote:
http://solstorm.doesntexist.com/images/ … 9small.png
Wallpaper is plain black, for two reasons actually.
1) I have a tiling wm, so as soon an app is running it covers the whole screen.
2) I frequiently change between running only 1280x800, 1280x1024 and 2560x1024 and finding a wallpaper that I want that looks good on all these is somewhat difficult (and I like to create them myself too).
Can I get your .Xdefaults?
Didn't you read his subsequent reply? He has posted his .Xdefaults right there!

Hahaha. Saw how pretty it was and got ahead of myself!

RaisedFist · 2009-08-20 07:40:04

@OneEyedPimp: he said it in the post:

LeoSolaris wrote:

I discovered xcompmgr-dana... now OB has transparent menus and a really slick fade in and out when I iconify or close windows! The trick is to not use the -c switch. The -C is fine, but the -c will put shadows around conky.

vlearner · 2009-08-20 07:41:37

omg <3 <3 Gnome-shell

heazky · 2009-08-20 08:42:40

RaisedFist wrote:

@OneEyedPimp: he said it in the post:
LeoSolaris wrote:
I discovered xcompmgr-dana... now OB has transparent menus and a really slick fade in and out when I iconify or close windows! The trick is to not use the -c switch. The -C is fine, but the -c will put shadows around conky.

I'm also using xcomppmgr-dana, yet can't manage to get a transparent obmenu . LeoSolaris, could you provide more information please?

karabaja4 · 2009-08-20 13:58:31

LeoSolaris wrote:

I discovered xcompmgr-dana... now OB has transparent menus and a really slick fade in and out when I iconify or close windows! The trick is to not use the -c switch. The -C is fine, but the -c will put shadows around conky.

Yeah, because -c draws shadows around windows in general.

Using -C avoids drawing shadows around docks and panels (but draws them on other windows because of -c). So, there is no point in using -C when not using -c.

There is no way to draw shadows and avoid drawing them on conky with xcompmgr-dana, which is a shame because it is less buggy then standard xcompmgr (especially with urxvt shadows).

Someone should make another fork of xcompmgr to fix the known problems (maybe I'll take a look at it sometime soon).

mjheagle8 · 2009-08-20 14:31:58

karabaja4 wrote:

LeoSolaris wrote:
I discovered xcompmgr-dana... now OB has transparent menus and a really slick fade in and out when I iconify or close windows! The trick is to not use the -c switch. The -C is fine, but the -c will put shadows around conky.
Yeah, because -c draws shadows around windows in general.
Using -C avoids drawing shadows around docks and panels (but draws them on other windows because of -c). So, there is no point in using -C when not using -c.
There is no way to draw shadows and avoid drawing them on conky with xcompmgr-dana, which is a shame because it is less buggy then standard xcompmgr (especially with urxvt shadows).
Someone should make another fork of xcompmgr to fix the known problems (maybe I'll take a look at it sometime soon).

i use straight up xcompmgr.
idk if it works with dana too, but you can have shadows on windows and not conky by just adding this to your conky:

own_window_type desktop

karabaja4 · 2009-08-20 14:44:46

mjheagle8 wrote:

idk if it works with dana too, but you can have shadows on windows and not conky by just adding this to your conky:

xcompmgr-dana draws shadows regardless of the own_window_type setting (thus my it's a shame comment ).

OneEyedPimp · 2009-08-20 15:40:06

RaisedFist wrote:

@OneEyedPimp: he said it in the post:
LeoSolaris wrote:
I discovered xcompmgr-dana... now OB has transparent menus and a really slick fade in and out when I iconify or close windows! The trick is to not use the -c switch. The -C is fine, but the -c will put shadows around conky.

Contrary to popular belief, I do excel at reading. :-) Just like heazky I am running xcompmgr-dana as well as transset-df, yet I can't get the openbox menu to be transparent. That is the only thing I want to be transparent...

karabaja4 · 2009-08-20 18:15:40

OneEyedPimp wrote:

Contrary to popular belief, I do excel at reading. :-) Just like heazky I am running xcompmgr-dana as well as transset-df, yet I can't get the openbox menu to be transparent. That is the only thing I want to be transparent...

transset-df is not needed for menu transparency (in fact, I think it's impossible to get menu transparency that way).

It's the -m flag in xcompmgr-dana:

 -m opacity
      Specifies the opacity for menus. (default 1.0)

It only works if you have fades enabled, so set fade steps to 1 (if you don't want fades):

xcompmgr -I1 -O1 -Ff -m.75 &

OneEyedPimp · 2009-08-20 18:24:10

@karabaja4 Man, I thought I was soooo cool figuring that out like two seconds ago. haha Thank you for the info.

heazky · 2009-08-20 19:16:57

karabaja4 wrote:

It's the -m flag in xcompmgr-dana:
 -m opacity
      Specifies the opacity for menus. (default 1.0)
It only works if you have fades enabled, so set fade steps to 1 (if you don't want fades):
xcompmgr -I1 -O1 -Ff -m.75 &

Aha, so that was the magic, thanks ! Looks like it's not in the manpage, but it shows the option when doing a -h.

flamelab · 2009-08-20 19:36:22

GNOME desktop after a loooong time with KDE4

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1546/g … ug2009.png

esters · 2009-08-20 19:44:28

@ flamelab

What font are you using in the menu bar ? : >

flamelab · 2009-08-20 19:46:36

esters wrote:

@ flamelab
What font are you using in the menu bar ? : >

Trebuchet

Mountainjew · 2009-08-20 21:13:15

Never really liked the Air theme before now...

geoisis · 2009-08-20 21:38:51

Mountainjew wrote:

Never really liked the Air theme before now...
http://imgur.com/akeAEl.jpg

what's the now playing thingy on the desktop ?

Mountainjew · 2009-08-20 21:50:50

geoisis wrote:

Mountainjew wrote:
Never really liked the Air theme before now...
http://imgur.com/akeAEl.jpg

what's the now playing thingy on the desktop ?

It's a conversion of cdartdisplay with a theme called ThaFrame...Here's instructions on how to install it http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … ost7407017

karabaja4 · 2009-08-20 21:53:49

thanks to heazky for the /var/log/messages.log conky idea.

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geoisis · 2009-08-20 21:58:47

Mountainjew wrote:

geoisis wrote:
Mountainjew wrote:
Never really liked the Air theme before now...
http://imgur.com/akeAEl.jpg

what's the now playing thingy on the desktop ?
It's a conversion of cdartdisplay with a theme called ThaFrame...Here's instructions on how to install it http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … ost7407017

thank you sir

vlearner · 2009-08-20 22:55:02

flamelab wrote:

esters wrote:
@ flamelab
What font are you using in the menu bar ? : >
Trebuchet

Can I have your wallpaper flamelab, thanks a lot

I just tested gnome-shell yesterday and indeed it wasnt that great as i thought, it was freaking slow for some reason maybe because of my Intel graphic chipset, so i went back to my Xmonad

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