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TahrPup64 still rocking the AMD proprietary fglrx driver for HD series gpu on dual screen and the latest Seamonkey web browser

On dual monitors, here's a little playing around in gimp with backgrounds for KLV-spectrwm, and some gtkdialogue scirpts with realtime cpu and mem monitors, as well as some hotkey lists showing just how well you can operate KLV-spectr without a mouse.

KLA-HyprlandCE

My next puppy

very minimalist theme

New desktop with the new image I just finished (practicing my graphic design). Have to remember though, it's "simple - fast - free" instead of "fast - simple - free"
If you like the image, you can download it here: https://ibb.co/86pJQPn - You might have to edit the image and make it brighter. Depends on your monitor. The desktop monitor I'm using displays the image just fine but a bit dark on my laptop.

KLV-HyprlandCE

A token of appreciation. A tribute to puppy linux and the community. Thank you!

jp734 wrote: Fri Jun 07, 2024 12:55 am

A token of appreciation. A tribute to puppy linux and the community.

Keen for a link to a big version if you have one. Great wallpaper!

Current daily driver - Xenialpup64 : highly-modified, heavily-upgraded & hugely-customized.

Kernel k6.9.1, glibc 2.31. Usual "Infocenter" on the right - gKrellM + pWidgets.......and a cleaned-up, streamlined, re-coloured, smoother "take" on the wallpaper I've been using for my equally highly-modded Slacko 5.6.0.

Same old, same old, really.....!!

[Click to enlarge:-]

Populated with the usual host of 'portable' browsers/apps, along with a smattering of Windows applications running under WINE v9.8 ATM.....

Mike.

greengeek wrote: Fri Jun 07, 2024 7:55 pm

jp734 wrote: Fri Jun 07, 2024 12:55 am

A token of appreciation. A tribute to puppy linux and the community.

Keen for a link to a big version if you have one. Great wallpaper!

@greengeek

Thank you. Here's the link: https://ibb.co/Nj6Qq81

KLV-Airedale-sr13:

Super-F96-CE_4 in action. Loaded with two separate complete web servers, it runs a copy of this forum in 3 versions for testing and assembling.
Using a complete backup restored in the versions running on a localhost. Using XAMPP with PHP8.2+ for Apache or then using the built in Hiawatha web server :

Spending time with the family and a question was brought up, "who doesn't like a puppy?", and it gave me an idea.

Wallpaper and a few others can be found here: viewtopic.php?p=123928#p123928

"The whole world could use a puppy... ...linux" -

BookwormPup64
Icon theme:Paper
cortile
picom
random wallpaper
10 workspaces: notifier in yad
no menu buttom, no labeled tasklist

Starting with EasyOs 6.0

Barry Kauler project, what else?

Surprised with the way it works, its speed and possibilities of use.

As I said at EasyOs subforum, I am starting working with it.... this summer I haven't got a lot of time, but I think It will satisfy my needs.

More or less, this is the default easyos desktop.

Congrats, Barry, CHEERS

Is this something like a @mikewalsh approach?

bigpup wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2024 12:37 am

Screenshot(1).jpg

Not exactly sure what is the mikewalsh approach.

It is a Star Trek style lcars wallpaper, a neon style icon set, deleted some desktop icons, and moved what was left around, changed location of the tray to top.
Adjusted location of the drive icons (Puppy Event Manager->Rox icons), and location of Conky (edit conkyrc), with some color changes to Conky (Conky Settings).

bigpup wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2024 7:11 am

Not exactly sure what is the mikewalsh approach.

It is a Star Trek style lcars wallpaper, a neon style icon set, deleted some desktop icons, and moved what was left around, changed location of the tray to top.
Adjusted location of the drive icons (Puppy Event Manager->Rox icons), and location of Conky (edit conkyrc), with some color changes to Conky (Conky Settings).

The @mikewalsh approach is to build and use a wallpaper with sections that look like windows and place the icons in those wallpaper "windows"

That's how yours looks, so I'd say yes, you're kind of doing the same thing.

@bigpup / @geo_c :-

I can see what @geo_c means.

I use "docks".......but those 'docks' are NOT applied by a piece of software. Rather, I modify, then draw my 'docks' directly onto the background wallpaper in the locations where I want them. This allows me to group certain classes/types of application together in the same place so that I always know where to find them.

I got into this habit many years ago, before I'd even heard of Puppy.....way back in my Windows XP days. This was when I first began using MooiTech's 'PhotoScape' (extremely good for this kind of thing, and I've used it ever since). I've always enjoyed graphic design - dates all the way back to my senior years at secondary school, encouraged by a very progressive art teacher we had - and during my last few years with XP I was part of a discussion group at DeviantArt on "human interface design cues" (long since disbanded, I'm afraid). 'Twas here that I evolved the early seeds of what would eventually develop into my Puppy 'look'.

I've always liked a 'busy' desktop, with stuff going on all the time. I intensely dislike digging down through multi-level menus to find what I want.....I frequently can't remember quite what IS installed, there's so much of it! My Pups have always been general workhorses, so they have to be able to cope with everything I throw at them.....

(*shrug...*)

Mike.

I like this OS a lot.

It gives me "emotion" again.

It takes a little bit to be used to it... but it is what I like (speed) although I miss some "beauty"

Give it a try. Recomended.

SPANISH.- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgrnYy55qn0

English.- https://mydistroreview.com/easyos/

@geo_c :-

I finally found it (after digging through several of my older albums from earlier times). The very first example of my drawing 'docks' directly onto the background wallpaper....

This is in Windows XP, all the way back in late 2010/early 2011. This is how the wallpaper originally looked:-

......and this was my very first attempt at custom 'docks' (at the time, using an older build of MooiTech's PhotoScape; v3.5, as opposed to the final 3.7):-

Really, things just developed from there. Little bit of "history" for you!

Mike.

mikewalsh wrote: Wed Jun 26, 2024 9:12 am

......and this was my very first attempt at custom 'docks' (at the time, using an older build of MooiTech's PhotoScape; v3.5, as opposed to the final 3.7):-

Really, things just developed from there. Little bit of "history" for you!

Mike.

Being that I tend to take things 'too far'

If I had done that dock thing, the next thing I would do is create a script to 'close and open' different docks by switching out the wallpaper with hotkeys that rewrite the config file.

Of course it would also need to clear the icons also.

@geo_c :-

Interesting idea! I can possibly see a way to do that with Puppy; back in my XP days, I wouldn't have had a clue how to do it. I was very much just a "user" at that time; the idea of actually writing my own stuff had never even entered my head....

At an earlier stage, I was using a software 'dock' with the same wallpaper.....but don't ask me where I got it, OR what it was called; I simply don't remember. (EDIT:- Winstep Nexus!)

That thing in the top right corner was another system process monitor (similar to gKrellM). I don't remember what that was called, either, though these particular skins - there was a whole community writing skins for this thing - were like an analogue chronograph in concept. I've been a watch afficionado all my life (ever since I got my first Timex for my 5th birthday).....and I've never really liked digital chronos. Always preferred analogue ones, because there's far more workmanship goes into them, and they just LOOK so much better.

I know it's dumb, but for some daft reason I have a hankering to set-up a totally off-line install of XP again.......just for the hell of it!

pp4mnklinux wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2024 7:08 pm

I like this OS a lot.

It gives me "emotion" again.

@bugnaw333 @pp4mnklinux I downloaded and tried easyos coz @pp4mnklinux said it's fast and I like speed but ran into a problem not finding easy.sfs file (and started a thread if you wanted to comment). Anyways, I'll continue using my very hard to leave bionicpup with my latest wallpaper "Life's better with puppy" theme

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jp734 wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2024 10:59 am

@bugnaw333 @pp4mnklinux I downloaded and tried easyos coz @pp4mnklinux said it's fast and I like speed but ran into a problem not finding easy.sfs file (and started a thread if you wanted to comment). Anyways, I'll continue using my very hard to leave bionicpup with my latest wallpaper "Life's better with puppy" theme

See Posted at

viewtopic.php?t=11991

New Noblepup64 setup with a ZoneMinder network video recorder, network camera security system on an Apache2 web server, MySQL and PHP8.3

I have the wallpaper from @RSH's LazyPup wallpapers. Fits the required parameters....good desktop icon contrast....

Installed using APT and Synaptic ->

Here's my easyos desktop... ...like Sunday morning. Have a GREAT Friday everyone. Keep puppying!

Remember, just be easy and take it easy.

Minimalist. Bionic64.