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EyeCandyOS 1.0

Dark theme. HD animated boot. Compiz with experimental plugins. My Switcher app, with 28 themes that turn your desktop into an underwater seascape, a balloon race, a magical forest, a snowy day, or even full-on nuclear armageddon.

Based on BookwormPup64 10.0.10, so has working apt and access to the Debian Bookworm repositories.

Comes with 'Install to PC' installer.

EyeCandyOS-1.0.iso
md5sum

Switcher-0.91.deb Switcher app Debian package. Automatically pulls in all dependencies from apt.
md5sum

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.

RSH wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 10:19 pm

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.

Edit: I wrote a new shutdown manager, and integrated it with XFCE panel.

Ya, I could have removed jwm, but its so small, might as well just leave it.

Good to hear you're alive, RSH!

@RSH,

Good to have you back.

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.

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

RSH wrote: Sun Nov 24, 2024 1:47 am

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

No just the kernel that comes with BookwormPup64:

uname -a
Linux puppypc30018 6.1.106 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC

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.

I have noticed that EyeCandyOS does not recognize my ethernet, only wifi. I haven't checked to see if Bookworm64 behaves the same way, but I'll try to remember to pay attention next I boot it on this desktop.

AmStaff wrote: Sat Nov 30, 2024 3:44 am

I have noticed that EyeCandyOS does not recognize my ethernet, only wifi. I haven't checked to see if Bookworm64 behaves the same way, but I'll try to remember to pay attention next I boot it on this desktop.

I didn't change the kernel or modules or anything related to Internet, I just installed Compiz and an app.

@l0t3ch

AmStaff wrote:

"'I have noticed that EyeCandyOS does not recognize my ethernet, only wifi. I haven't checked to see if Bookworm64 behaves the same way, but I'll try to remember to pay attention next I boot it on this desktop.'

(l0t3ch responds:) I didn't change the kernel or modules or anything related to Internet, I just installed Compiz and an app."

(But then I say:)

It figures. Bookworm64 also ignores my ethernet. But since the Wi-Fi works, I really have no complaints. Except with my ISP, but that's another story for another day and is actually...off-topic! Shhhhhhhh!

1.0 release, updated first post.

So the aliens gave you superpowers, but you can't use most of them because you lost the instruction manual. Sounds like the plot to a bad 80s TV series, but that's how I feel trying to remember Compiz keyboard shortcuts.

But I had a great idea. I changed the "comment" line in the compiz-fusion-icon .desktop file, so that it shows a handy list of compiz shortcuts whenever one hovers over the icon. Makes it so easy.