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Re: Show Us Your Desktop
That is of course the nice thing about computers in general, irrespective of the platform involved. The user is at liberty to use as much, or as little "eye-candy" as they want.
Of course, despite the fact that Windows actually started before Linux, Linux eye-candy was way ahead of its vastly larger rival at even an early stage of the game. Windoze users seem to think they have proprietary 'rights' as far as tarting-up their OS goes; the famous Compiz desktop 'cube' & 'wobbly windows', etc, spring to mind.....
Mind you, I've always believed that you need a certain mind-set to make regular use of the last couple of items.
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Re: Show Us Your Desktop
hi mike,
I am a bit of a minimalist at heart and don't like the desktop too busy..i can't see the wallpaper otherwise.
I do find linux far easier to customise than windows,Puppy is even better.
But some of us are of the artistic flair and like to glamourise everything..i am approaching 50 years of age and my glamour days are done,
Re: Show Us Your Desktop
The default settings for JWM windows may look a bit crappy (this is especially true for older Puppys). Changing the size of the titlebar and the windows borders for example are things you can do to make it look much nicer.
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Agreed!
I regularly modify /root/.jwm/jwmrc-theme so that all my windows, menu, tray, etc, look exactly how I want them. F'rinstance, I even modify the pager's fore-ground/background active/inactive colours so they match the general desktop theme colouring.....
(Jeez, I need to get out more...!! (*shakes head.....*))
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mikewalsh wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 9:57 amAgreed!
I regularly modify /root/.jwm/jwmrc-theme so that all my windows, menu, tray, etc, look exactly how I want them. F'rinstance, I even modify the pager's fore-ground/background active/inactive colours so they match the general desktop theme colouring.....
(Jeez, I need to get out more...!! (*shakes head.....*))
Mike.
I ditched the title bars by making them transparent using window effects, and just big enough to still be able to grab the window and move it around by clicking just above the visible window.
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EasyOS Dunfell64 3.0
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The things you do not tell us, are usually the clue to fixing the problem.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be older.
This is not what I expected
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I rly like all UI color choice i see you use openbox but some more details. This Rly nice looking OS All i like...
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Re: Show Us Your Desktop
32 Hirsute Hippo XFCE
Whisker Menu (installed)
Task Manager
PCManFM
xvkdb (installed)
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Hi, gang.
My "take" on Barry's slightly older Easy OS Buster64:-
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Despite all the dire warnings about not being able to install normal packages under EasyOS - or perhaps, because of that! - I have the 2nd partition chock-full of portable applications.....and in fact, Easy runs sweetly like this. Knew I'd find a use for 'em all eventually.....
Nothing surprising, or particularly new about the layout; bog-standard for me, TBH.....
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@mikeslr the application list I'm hovered over is Favorites populated by intentional bookmarks.
The Whisker menu essentially obviates the need for a 2nd panel/tray, not to mention the builtin menu search with which I've only had limited problems (e.g., XFCE Control Panel tends to display different apps from AppFinder, so in X-series you need/use both).
So long as menus are easy enough to populate with any app there are high hopes, not to mention how good it looks.
Of course it can also be white.
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32-Tahr JWM remaster
Launchers top-center are Rox folders for more launchers (browse open).
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My JWM desktop....
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The latest desktop with my neo-console theme. Two minimal ROX windows, JWM-menu, conky with an on/off toggle in the tray, cairo-dock, and two ROX panels with launchers in each panel to toggle them on and off as well as toggles in the tray and cairo. The bottom panel has most of the built-in puppy utilities that I use, and the side panel contains my most used applications/portables, and both contain wmctrl scripts to launch and set file-managers and applications at exact positions and sizes.
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I prefer to think of it as DOS Shell, that I used on an original PC-XT.
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Re: Show Us Your Desktop
Although still in beta, peebee has done a phenomenal job developing VoidPup. viewtopic.php?t=4741. Much tanks must also go to wiak for inspiring it, rockedge for a great deal of 'heavy lifting', and MikeWalsh and other 'testers'* for exploring its possibilities and moving it forward.
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* My apologies if you were not named. It's lunch-time and I don't want to scan through all the pages of the Voidpup and KLV threads, viewforum.php?f=120
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@mikeslr All the really hard work and all of the details creating VoidPup was done by @peebee !!
He is the designer and woof-CE engineer who made it possible.
I only had some ideas while going forward trying out distro designs with Void Linux and WeeDog supported by borrowing a lot of technology from Puppy Linux
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Note to Self: don't do anything before you've had 2 cups of coffee. Don't write anything when you're too hungry to proof-read.
Sorry peebee. Attribution corrected in my previous post.
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Re: Show Us Your Desktop
It turned out that program icons can be neatly placed AROUND the tail (antenna) of Robopup I solved the problem with the system tray overlapping the picture. Whether it is necessary to remove the disk icons, they don't seem to interfere much.
Fossapup. The icons theme is JQ8raised:
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I like that!
I feel like you could use one of these:
https://postimg.cc/WddmfPdZ
And I remembered that I also had one of these in the archives @rockedge
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with the bottom tray set to auto hide so when I run QEMU virtual machines I can have a full screen for the VM and still have the tray pop up when I need it ->