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xenial wrote: Sun Feb 20, 2022 5:18 pm

Also we have emmerdale farm which is a supposed depiction of yorkshire but filmed in derbyshire if i recall.

I'll have to see if I can find that.

It ain't half hot mum was another one but sadly will not be allowed on main uk tv now because of this colonialist nonsense which is spreading everywhere.

I see the Brexit fallout and its stalwart contingencies, and the reaction to it, but otherwise not sure your interpretation of colonialist nonsense.

America is at subconscious civil war over similar issues.

@Grey especially when grouped it is generally easy in the English-speaking world to see European ethnic differences. Take a group of 10 English and 10 French and we all see the difference.

In America most Sub-Saharan Africans are from the West. Where I live half are more recent East-Africans, Ethiopia, Somalia, Egypt, etc. There aren't very many but they stand out for being different.

I once optimistically asked a Nigerian young woman here to study Biology if she could tell the difference between African-Americans based on how they look, i.e., Liberia vs. Nigeria vs. Cote d'Ivoire, etc., because they themselves don't have a clue.

Lulu just responded with superstitious fear like the subject was taboo or offensive, "Oh noooo."

I was disappointed. Hopefully she's good at Biology

JASpup wrote: Mon Feb 21, 2022 5:33 am

Where I live half are more recent East-Africans, Ethiopia, Somalia, Egypt, etc. There aren't very many but they stand out for being different.

I don't want to incur Mike's wrath on us... but I will answer again. I'm too lazy to write an answer on the desktop again

Everything is much simpler here. Slightly dark is a mulatto, and if a little darker is a negro. There are two old words that are almost not used: arap and moor (features of the former geography).

Ironically, the most important "negro" in Russia is the founder of Russian literature Alexander Pushkin His great-grandfather Abram Hannibal was originally from Eritrea (according to various versions, the territory of modern Ethiopia or Cameroon).

@Grey continued: http://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=5248

Simple yet beautiful .

Bionicpup32 and my city!

Beautiful wallpaper, BologneChe. Immediately recognizable and brought back fond memories of a couple of visits.

Plain desktop with a rather symbolic old icon of the uk..These were cast iron phoneboxes or pillboxes as we used to call them and quite a rare sight now.

@xenial a guy in my town bought one and had it shipped to Connecticut. Stands on a corner of his property.

Lots of fans of Doctor Who around here.

rockedge wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:56 pm

Lots of fans of Doctor Who around here.

I like the episodes with the Tenth Doctor the most. Maybe because I've seen them more often than the rest of the series. And the actor David Tennant was somewhat similar in appearance to my father (well, in his youth, when my father served in the army).

I liked Doctor number three the best. Jon Pertwee had style.....in spades. Hard to equate him as the same guy who played the scarecrow, Worzel Gummidge.

His son, Sean Pertwee, played young Bruce Wayne's butler-cum-sidekick Alfred Pennyworth in the US 'Gotham' series.....about the early days of the Batman story.

A promo still from Doctor Who Season 8, Story 2 - "Mind of Evil":-

[Click to enlarge:-]

Left-to-right:- The Master; Doctor Who; Jo Grant; Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart....

I was a firm fan of the original run up till 1989. The new run, from 2005, just lost.....something (don't know what), but it wasn't a patch on the earlier stuff. I very quickly lost interest in it.

At the tender age of 12, the Daleks & the Cybermen seemed a whole lot more menacing than when I was well into my 40s. I can remember hiding behind the sofa while watching the Doctor battle the Cybermen on more than one occasion..!

Great fun, though.

Mike.

mikewalsh wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:52 pm

I liked Doctor number three the best.

Eh, it's a pity that you didn't say that you watched "the first episode of the first season in the year of the film's release". I just had a typical joke about "you're so prehistoric as Doctor Who" and now the joke is wasted Well, never mind, next time

rockedge wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:56 pm

@xenial a guy in my town bought one and had it shipped to Connecticut. Stands on a corner of his property.

Lots of fans of Doctor Who around here.

That's great to hear rockedge.
At least someone is making use of these..there is a few left in london but very scarce.You had to have a pocket full of change to use them and had what was called a book of directories in them.

My Bionicpup64 / Openbox / Lxpanel!

@BologneChe, That desktop wallpaper is really good! Where did you get it?

Nice job on the overall design and look!

Thanks Rockedge for all the work you make here!!!!

Here the link for wallpaper https://wallpaper.dog/map

voilà!

BologneChe wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:31 pm

My Bionicpup64 / Openbox / Lxpanel!

I recently discovered after a lot of fumbling that menu's appearance is controlled by GTK (the default font tends to be too small).

@JASpup :-

JASpup wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 1:10 pm

BologneChe wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:31 pm

My Bionicpup64 / Openbox / Lxpanel!

I recently discovered after a lot of fumbling that menu's appearance is controlled by GTK (the default font tends to be too small).

If you're running JWM - I'm aware that you prefer XFCE - most of the Menu/tray customization is controlled by the file at /root/.jwm/jwmrc-theme. I've customized this file in all my Pups, to give preferred font/size/style for windows, font/size/style/background & foreground colours/highlights, etc, for the Menu, ditto for the tray/pager colour scheme, etc.

Here's my /root/.jwm/.jwmrc-theme file for 32-bit Xenialpup 7.5, which I'm in ATM:-

<?xml version=1.0?>
<JWM> <!-- adapted from CMB27's DarkGray -->

<WindowStyle>
	<Font>Exo 2-15:Bold:italic</Font>
	<Width>3</Width>
	<Foreground>#7f7f7f</Foreground>
	<Background>#333333</Background>
	<Active><Foreground>white</Foreground>
	<Background>#555555</Background>
	<Outline>#7f7f7f</Outline></Active>
</WindowStyle>

<TrayStyle>
	<Font>TrSah Dungeon-18:bold:italic</Font>
	<Foreground>#FFFFFF</Foreground>
	<Background>#333333</Background>
 	<Active><Foreground>#0D120D</Foreground>
	<Background>#54AF41</Background></Active>
</TrayStyle>

<PagerStyle>
	<Outline>#000000</Outline>
	<Foreground>#FFFFFF</Foreground>
	<Foreground>#DCDAD5</Foreground>
	<Background>#9898A8</Background>
	<Active><Foreground>#91DF88</Foreground>
	<Background>#43BB34</Background></Active>
</PagerStyle>

<PopupStyle>
	<Font>Sans-10</Font>
	<Outline>#0B0A01</Outline>
	<Foreground>#0B0A01</Foreground>
	<Background>#FAE304</Background>
</PopupStyle>

<MenuStyle>
	<Font>Exo 2-16:Bold:italic</Font>
	<Foreground>#ffffff</Foreground>
	<Background>#333333</Background>
	<Active><Foreground>#ffffff</Foreground>
	<Background>#54AF41</Background></Active>
</MenuStyle>

	<ClockStyle>
		<Font>Xolonium-16:bold:normal</Font>
		<Foreground>#f6e970</Foreground>
	</ClockStyle>

</JWM>

Green Menu highlights and green pager colours to match the green colour scheme of the desktop. Same goes for Tahrpup 6.0.6 (32-bit), 'cept there it's mostly red.....and Bionicpup64, where that stuff is mostly blue. And these all run with a GTK+2 theme ("SlicknesS-black"), which gives me a dark background for ROX-filer's windows, context menus, etc.

Takes a lot of patience & multiple re-starts of JWM to get everything right the first time around. After that first marathon session (!), you get to know which bits need modifying for whatever effect you want, and just edit accordingly to match colour schemes, etc.

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I'm guessing you figured JWM's settings out a long time ago.

I'd like to be able to say I could give similar advice for XFCE, but I'm afraid I don't know how you accomplish this stuff in that DE. The only OS I run that uses XFCE- KLV 'Airedale', where it's the default - I just tend to use it as it comes, OOTB.

Mike.

/root/.jwm/jwmrc-theme is how I matched Punk Gamma from geo_c's project: http://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.p ... c1a#p50253

My main JWM desktop is kind of a staid, Mallard Duck Xenial with Shiny kind of seen in my simplified menus project: viewtopic.php?t=5163

but I like the dark GTKs while sometimes preferring a more starkly white one like XFCE 4.0.

I appreciate @geo_c's artistic vision leaning towards one comprehensive look. I use his green or blue XFE theme on every dark desktop: viewtopic.php?p=50142#p50142

XFCE you do not need to edit the panels after choosing your GTK. One manifests that kind of matches and further customization is optional.

JWM is Puppy's home but XFCE is plainly easier to use.

There are only two reasons I see LXDE in Puppy. One is for access to default partition-mounting file managers: viewtopic.php?t=4597
(I imagine if advanced users used Thunar & PCManFM more they would work ootb). The other is peebea tends to include greater visual customization options one would not see always in JWM. LxPup is the easiest way to mount partitions by file manager in JWM.

I made my first LXDE desktop I like the other day, but only as part of a precarious habit.

@JASpup :-

Mm. That's not quite what I asked, though.....is it?

Have you actually experimented with directly modifying /root/.jwm/jwmrc-theme yourself.....as opposed to using one that somebody else has done all the work on?

Making those modifications myself gives me a far greater sense of satisfaction than simply making use of somebody else's hard work.....

Mike.

mikewalsh wrote: Sun Apr 03, 2022 1:02 am

@JASpup :-

Mm. That's not quite what I asked, though.....is it?

Have you actually experimented with directly modifying /root/.jwm/jwmrc-theme yourself.....as opposed to using one that somebody else has done all the work on?

Making those modifications myself gives me a far greater sense of satisfaction than simply making use of somebody else's hard work.....

Mike.

So you're not really reading for good-faith exchange. You write to others so you can attack them if they reply to you. Noted.

/root/.jwm/jwmrc-theme is how I matched Punk Gamma from geo_c's project: http://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.p ... c1a#p50253

@JASpup :-

Perfectly straight-forward question. And deserves a straight-forward answer, out of politeness if nothing else.

So you're not really reading for good-faith exchange. You write to others so you can attack them if they reply to you. Noted.

Who's "attacking" who...?? You've completely lost me...

Weird.

Mike.

Very interesting concept and site for Desktop users.

A repository of desktop presentations for Linux users.

Clarity wrote: Wed Jun 15, 2022 5:01 am

Very interesting concept and site for Desktop users.

A repository of desktop presentations for Linux users.

Very talented guy to make that kind of video and apparently it's his first made youtube video. Excellent work.

BologneChe wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:31 pm

My Bionicpup64 / Openbox / Lxpanel!

Very nice desktop.
Any idea what the red line represents?

Bit of colour for my aging eyes.
Brightens things up a bit .

Any idea what the red line represents?

The prime meridian?

"The base time zone is the time zone in which UTC applies and that extends around the prime meridian" (source: wikipedia)

greengeek wrote: Wed Jun 15, 2022 10:22 am

BologneChe wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:31 pm

My Bionicpup64 / Openbox / Lxpanel!

Capture.jpg

Very nice desktop.
Any idea what the red line represents?

Its International Date Line.

Feek wrote: Wed Jun 15, 2022 12:31 pm

Any idea what the red line represents?

The prime meridian?

"The base time zone is the time zone in which UTC applies and that extends around the prime meridian" (source: wikipedia)

The prime meridian passes through europe (specifically Greenwich in England).

I was thinking more on the lines of the international reference meridian which differes slightly from the greenwich meridian.
Just a guess..