ColeBee Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 I have used every major desktop environment and various other window managers in the past few years. Basically, my laptop is just a testing tool. I always seem to come back to Xfce. I just love how modular it is. Running the same programs as I was in Openbox, it is using about the same amount of RAM. You may notice that I am only using one partition now. That is because if I truly wanted to reformat everything but my home directory, I could still do that. I only recently learned that, hehe. I love how your Xfce panel looks exactly the same as your tint2 panel :p More info on only having one partition though? I guess for simplicity's sake it makes it easy.. I just can't get enough of Openbox and tint2, it's so simple. cultavix 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorak Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 I love how your Xfce panel looks exactly the same as your tint2 panel :p More info on only having one partition though? I guess for simplicity's sake it makes it easy.. I just can't get enough of Openbox and tint2, it's so simple. Very similar, yeah. I have a very specific taste, lol. Tint2 was great, but there is a bug with it not honoring tray icon order settings. That was bothering me. To quote the ArchWiki Partitioning page, "Separating out /home allows / to be re-partitioned separately, but note that you can still reinstall Arch with /home untouched even if it isn't separate - the other top-level directories just need to be removed, and then pacstrap can be run." Makes perfect sense, I just did not think about it before because I have always done a clean install. Are you using xterm? I would recommend rxvt-unicode-patched from the AUR if you want to have some fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColeBee Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Very similar, yeah. I have a very specific taste, lol. Tint2 was great, but there is a bug with it not honoring tray icon order settings. That was bothering me. To quote the ArchWiki Partitioning page, "Separating out /home allows / to be re-partitioned separately, but note that you can still reinstall Arch with /home untouched even if it isn't separate - the other top-level directories just need to be removed, and then pacstrap can be run." Makes perfect sense, I just did not think about it before because I have always done a clean install. Are you using xterm? I would recommend rxvt-unicode-patched from the AUR if you want to have some fun. Hum, guess it does. Honestly have never reinstalled Arch ever, also usually just do a clean install. Never have enough personal files on here worth really keeping, been sticking everything on the cloud or another drive on my network. And yeah, haven't bothered with my terminal yet, still a rather clean install. I do enjoy urxvt, but don't think I would have caught the patched version, thanks for that. Something new to theme after I finish up ncmpcpp :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cultavix Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Some awesome desktops guys... Here is mine Conky Cinnamon with theme Fedora 19 64-Bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cultavix Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 I know this one isn't mine but its just simply awesome. Find the details here: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/09/the-elementary-desktop/ +Zlip792 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted September 27, 2013 Veteran Share Posted September 27, 2013 I know this one isn't mine but its just simply awesome. Find the details here: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/09/the-elementary-desktop/ that is lovely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Some awesome desktops guys... Here is mine Conky Cinnamon with theme Fedora 19 64-Bit haha what a wallpaper! :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichi Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Trying Gnome Shell 3.10 on my work laptop (yeah, bleeding edge at work :wacko: ) I manually edited the Numix CSS to change the GTK theme color to blue. So far 3.10 seem to be quite an improvement over 3.8, although if you didn't like 3.8 because of it's design rather than it's flaws then you won't like 3.10 either. It's a lot more polished but still the same... and then they are introducing "client side decorations", so if you didn't like 3.8 you might actually dislike 3.10 even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Trying a new setup again. Arch + XFCE4 + Kwin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devmer11 Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 My Current Elementary OS desktop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted September 30, 2013 Moderator Share Posted September 30, 2013 You have an Elementary picture, yet in your sig, you have Microsoft. Opposites attract? :laugh: Devmer11 and medhunter 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devmer11 Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Haha yeah I use both operating systems :) Linux is more of a learning thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syanide Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 My Current Elementary OS desktop We have the same wallpaper. High five! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joao Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 My old HP NC8430 has been given a new lease of life: Updated to a mainline PPA kernel (latest that doesn't M.D.K Cinnamon 1.8.8) to resolve numerous HP BIOS caused ATI / Intel core2duo APM/ACPI issues e.g. Crash on shutdown/reboot, >83C CPU, intermittent blue-tooth, Apple keyboard LED's flashing like an X-mas tree & locked 40% fan speed hilarity. Installing tlp as well is a must! Runs Windows 98SE via VM Player with hardware pass-through for parallel port (via HP docking station) for old school PlayStation communication via Blaze Xplorer X-Link (Memory card access, dis-asm, break point, cheat codes, etc) which offers no timeouts compared to it's previous Windows XP VM Player host life. Doesn't do too bad at running the same games emulated @ 1080p via PCSX-R as required when certain actions cause a real PlayStation / X-Link to die. Very happy with Mint 15! Can you tell me the link for the wallpaper please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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