GNU / Linux March 2008 Desktops - Posting Guidelines


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* In the interests of keeping the thread on topic it is strongly urged that you format your posts in the following order:

Themes: Name/where you got it (with link would be nice).

Wallpaper: Name/where you got it (with link would be nice).

Icons: Name/where you got it (with link would be nice).

Programs: Name/where you got it (with link would be nice).

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Barney

Clean (Pro-Click Zone)


Dirty (Pro-Click Zone)


Solaris Nevada snv_76
Gnome 2.20, Compiz Fusion 0.6
Metacity: Candido Vista
GTK (Murrine): Eternal Blue
Wallpaper: Green Tea
Icons: Ubuntu Human
Fonts: Segoe UI (Interface), Helvetica (Title, Icons)

ArchLinux
Xmonad

Ubuntu 7.1 with various goodies

Arch Linux. Xfce. As you can see I'm trying to put Conky in the gap between the panels at the top. Hopefully I can figure out how to add a background image to conky so it actually looks like the panel...

My Ubuntu desktop

Theme: Dark-ice Modded by me (NFR)
Wallpaper: My Room

Well I can't edit my previous post, but I've just managed to do what I wanted with Conky. I now have it drawn on top of an xfce panel. It works great, better than I thought it would actually. It's not easy to do, I can post a guide if anyone is interested, it probably works for Gnome and KDE panels too.

changed it up for this month (info in shot):

I've stopped using AWN for some reason, it was just starting to get on my nerves. So I made the top panel bigger to act as an application launcher. Here's the clean version:



And the dirty:

Fedora 8
just started using xfce4

I'm hoping to switch to archlinux. Anyone got any advice for the switch?

be prepared to learn

oh oh and since you are switching distros, why not try something new and switch up desktop environments or window managers? big changes often end with great results. if you dont like it, you can always go back to xfce.

Hehe, Yeah thats the idea! Well I have always used gnome, since way back in RH5 or something, I tried KDE but it was to shiny and bulky for my liking. I am trying different window managers, I like XFwm. and I also like xfce4. Nice, light, minimal... Any window managers you could recommend? also anything in specific I should learn before ARCH? I know its all going to be command line stuff at the beginning with the text based setup and all so I'm doing everything in a terminal window, using runlevel 3 more.

ArchLinux
Xmonad



CABHATSMARSP6776a I've been using linux since 98-99 mostly redhat/fedora with xfce for the last 5 or 6 years. And for last few years with ubuntu fedora etc the installation is so nice and easy, with Arch it was nice to have a distro that asked a bit more of you during the install and getting the config and everything set up nicely. Give it a go you won't regret it.
Plus theres a nice Arch forum with all the help you could ever need.

just changed the wallpaper .... im totally loving ubuntu

Well I Have quickly looked at the website, I found an installation guide and some other handy stuff for setting it up. Haven't had a look at the forums though. I'm holding off the switch till the end of this term so I don't interrupt my Uni program if something goes wrong or I take days to finish configuring stuff(which is guaranteed coz I'm hella picky with how things work/look)... Just wondering, I could set it all up on a virtualbox no?

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Wall: http://badboythemer.deviantart.com/art/Mobo-78997757

ubuntu gutsy - mar08
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Wow!! Some of these desks are absolutely awesome. Ive only been using Linux for a week now ( Ubuntu 7.10 ) but this is what I have so far ......

Elegant Brit.

Pip'

LOL, I've already changed my desk...
Thanks to Pippin - nice theme this one

ubuntu gutsy - mar08 new:

clean:
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dirt:
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Here is a an update:



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Btw if anyone knows a good name for the nowplaying screenlet, let me know it!

I just installed Ubuntu (I've installed it before, but only for very short periods, so I'm really a first-time user), so my desktop is nothing special.

Strange that you say that, I totally changed mine.



Pip'

I like the Elegent Brit theme, I was using it at the start of this month, but my menu in firefox is just blank.
Made me sad coz i really like the theme

OMGWTFBBQ AMZING WALL!!!!!11 Can I pweez has teh linkage?

Archlinux
Awesome 2.2rc3 with a very slightly altered config of PhrAok's theme from the Archlinux forums.
Conky
Ncmpc-svn
Wallpaper from Stuck In Customs

Engine: Murrine
GTK Theme: MurrinaNeo
Metacity : Murrina

Click Here!

Wait what? New Murrine with RGBA is already out?

Only installed today so have a lot to learn lol anyway here it is nothing special

ok found a theme i like as just been playing around and fav seem to be dark themes and doesnt look too bad with aquatint black gloss theme for firefox

no, but it's available from the svn repository.

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Wall: Sonica
Gtk2: Luminance
metacity: perfect gnome
icons: ultimate gnome

Busy looking:-



Clean looking:-



Emerald theme:- http://fratrip.deviantart.com/art/Aurora-L...-Suite-77225475
Icon :- Gnome-look.org Mac_OSX_For_Fedora
Wallpaper:- seriously old one , got from deviant art i guess.

Yes, good idea. I switched from Ubuntu and Gnome to Arch and Xfce and I am loving it.

With regard to switching to Arch, be prepared to install everything manually. If there apps that you consider essential that come with your distro (like the task manager or device viewer) make sure you know the names of these apps because they won't be included by default with Arch.

Also be prepared for things to break! But remember Arch's philosophy: Keep It Simple. There are not a million config files included with Arch, almost everything you will need to change is in the rc.conf file. If you break something, don't start thinking about huge radical changes like reinstalling the whole system, just check your config files, you probably made a slight error.

And if something does go wrong, and you end up not being able to start X, just switch to another tty, like tty5 (ctrl-alt-F5), run irssi and join #archlinux on freenode. When I installed Arch the first thing I did was get irssi running in screen so I could keep asking questions if I wasn't sure about something. It's a very friendly channel.

@kyro: that desktop looks awesome

Linkage to wall please

Thanks!

Here is my current desktop, used the shift theme etc



Edit: Used smaller sized image

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yess,Thanks, I hugz my desktop.

Here.

already posted mine in the regular march one however here it is again.
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Desktop computer - Clean on dA / Dirty on dA
Laptop computer - Clean on dA / Dirty on dA

March 2008

Installed ubuntu just a few nights ago, and I'm loving it.

My new theme Qryso.

REcently installed Ubuntu (about a week), fairly basic looking theme so far, but I love it.

Clean:



Dirty:

Can you give me a link to that wallpaper please? Thanks!