EyeCandyOS

[l0wt3ch]

Introducing EyeCandy Linux OS!

It uses Compiz to animate the desktop, with 28 different themes to choose from.

Based on BookwormPup64!

EyeCandyOS-0.9.iso

EyeCandyOS-0.9-no_komorebi.iso No Komorebi, so 200 mb smaller.

switcher.deb Everything in one package! Needs working Compiz with experimental plugins installed. Compatible with other Debian-based distros with XFCE4.

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[RSH]

Hi.

I was offline for some longer time after I had to change my home. I moved twice in between the end of 2022 and September 2024. Big trouble in the house, but not based on my faults.

However: I downloaded the .iso. It's really a nice OS.
But it won't shutdown or reboot when using the GUI.
Only the taskbar disappears and the nothing.
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and entering poweroff or reboot into the prompt worked.
So, I could save the settings made in first session.

Since it doesn't use JWM, may I ask why not removing all that unused stuff?

As you see: I was able to re-use my old username.

[l0wt3ch]

Added Komorebi so you can have video backgrounds like this:

[l0wt3ch]

Hi.

I was offline for some longer time after I had to change my home. I moved twice in between the end of 2022 and September 2024. Big trouble in the house, but not based on my faults.

However: I downloaded the .iso. It's really a nice OS.
But it won't shutdown or reboot when using the GUI.
Only the taskbar disappears and the nothing.
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and entering poweroff or reboot into the prompt worked.
So, I could save the settings made in first session.

Since it doesn't use JWM, may I ask why not removing all that unused stuff?

As you see: I was able to re-use my old username.

Did you reboot from the xfce whiskermenu at the bottom left of the screen? You should use 'shutdown' from the top left.

In the update I just uploaded, the xfce4-panel is started in .xinitrc, with code to start it if the window manager is compiz. If the user logs out and uses 'xwin jwm' JWM will start, without the xfce panel. JWM is the default wm when not running compiz.

Good to hear you're alive, RSH!

[mikeslr]

@RSH,

Good to have you back.

[l0wt3ch]

I first made the 'falling skulls' compiz theme back in 2009, along with my 'futuristic' 'glowy' Emerald themes. Of course you could make the 'snow' textures into whatever you wanted, and the skulls falling in front of a mushroom cloud was pretty cool, or at least I thought so at the time.

Then compiz died, and we've all been living without burning windows and desktop cubes ever since. A couple weeks ago, for whatever reason I tried installing Compiz from apt, and to my surprise everything worked! (Thank the Compiz Reloaded project for that.) I said, 'Sweet, I can get my 'skulls' theme working again!' So I went to gnome-look.org and dug it up, along with my Emerald themes, and made a Puppy remaster which loads Compiz at boot with no configuration required.

Then I was like, 'hm what else could you use the snow plugin for?' and thought of the hot air balloons, downloaded the images from unsplash.com and edited them in GIMP. The snow plugin settings allow you to change the textures to moving upward instead of down, and turn off rotation. So that was how I made the 'balloons' theme. Looks pretty realistic, hey? Similarly, the settings allow you to go left-to-right or right-to-left, so I used that to make the undersea 'fish' theme. Etc.

Then I made the Switcher app, which changes the compiz settings with a push of a button, and uses gsettings to update the desktop, so you can switch between themes on-the-fly, without restarting Compiz or logging out. Are there any other theme selector apps for Compiz?

The .deb detects if you are running Puppy, and if so installs the config files to /root, and if not (i.e. a regular Debian system) installs them to ~/. Speaking of which, the switcher.deb has been tested on another popular Debian-based distro with XFCE, and can use XFCE4 commands if one is using that distro. For Puppy, it uses set_bg. It is also supposed to use 'feh' if available, but I haven't tested.

Oh, and before anyone says anything, if you use Komorebi for the video backgrounds, you have to right-click the desktop to access its settings or turn it off. Works great with compiz, though. Only bad thing about it is it doesn't detect the desktop shortcuts created by eventmanager, so you can't see your drives without turning it off.

[l0wt3ch]

I just tested this, and Komorebi works with JWM. So you can have the real northern lights in the background, in JWM, without compiz. Might be useful if you can't run compiz because of your hardware or whatever.

'xwin jwm' at the command line when you're logged out, then 'Komorebi' in the menu, under System.

Just an afterthought.

[RSH]

I don't know how to find out.
Does it have a real-time kernel?

[l0wt3ch]

I don't know how to find out.
Does it have a real-time kernel?

No just the kernel that comes with BookwormPup64:

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uname -a
Linux puppypc30018 6.1.106 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC

[AmStaff]

I'm happy to report that I have tried your EyeCandyOS, and I really like it. I'm not sure it will become a daily driver for me, like stock Bookworm, but I loved seeing Compiz in action again. It was like a blast from the past! I actually felt younger...for a moment, anyway.
I was anxious to see your work again, 10wtech (I probably spelled that wrong). I was also a fan of Puppy Studio when it came out, and it was in that distro that I first played synth from my typing keyboard. None of the other av distros do that ootb, but yours did. I'm sorry there was so much controversy around your work, because I thought I could see both sides.