GNU/Linux January Desktops

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jack_canada

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Woohoo! Congrats on Mod-status, Rezza :punk:

.. just noticed :p

:cake:  :fun:

edit:// @ Jack Canada:

sleep 5s; xwd -root -out root.xwd

or

sleep 5s; import -window root screenshot.jpg

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thx, btw

what does sleep 5s do? wait for 5 secs before taking the screenshot?

EDIT: I tried "sleep 5s; import -window root screenshot.jpg" but it says "import: command not found".

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Cute kid! He your son, Mark?

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Yup. Thanks!

That is Jeffrey, and he is my #3 (out of 4) son. He was just over a year old in that pic - he is 4 now.

He is the one on the left. :p

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hornett

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Looks nifty. Would you be up for sharing the pixmaps to enable porting to other WMs?

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I would be more than happy, but the only pixmaps are the close/min/max buttons. The rest is drawn on the fly so it adapts to your current GTK2 theme :)

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roberTO

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http://img73.exs.cx/img73/4486/screenshot2thumb4zb.png

Linux 2.6.8.1

Gnome 2.6.0

GTK Theme: Milk 2.1

Metacity Theme: Milk 2.1

Icon Theme: Aqua

Wall: Longhorn Bliss

Apps: Engage, ROX-Filer, Gnome-Terminal, Firefox

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Hi please send me your engage config!!!

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Knight'

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Dom could you send my your ~/.icons folder and engage config? And what did you use for the Media Player I see in your Panel? And how the heck did you get Firefox so damn sexy?

I have to say that is THE best, really the BEST, Linux desktop I've seen!

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Dominatus

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Thanks guys for the comments, makes a guy feel good about his desktop :-p

Anyway, as for the questions about the desktop:

engage is launched as follows:

engage -s 64 -T 0 -I 1 -i 1 -W 1400 -H 250 -t none

xcompmgr is launched as follows:

xcompmgr -t -3 -l -12 -nc -r 8 -F

The icons are located at osx-e, they are all standard OS X icons, with the exception of the harddrive icon, which I found on deviantart, Im sorry I forgot the link :(

As for firefox, it's a milk theme. Again, I found it on deviant art about 6 months ago or longer and am not quite sure where it's at :(

As for the media player in the top bar, it's actually very simple but it's cool and very functional. Basically they are icons I made (not really made, 'stole' is a better word hehe :-p) and gave them the following commands:

rewind: xmms -r

pause: xmms -u

play: xmms -p

foward: xmms -f

You could do something similar for rhythmox if you use that, or probably any other media player for that matter.

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Feil

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Unfortunately nothing new here, just going to stick the same ol screeny up :(

Wall: More Fun Than Tekken -- Linky

Icons: Unknown, really.  I'll look it up if someone wants them, which I'd highly doubt ;)

luckly, I have found this icon theme today :)

its named Cezanne, it can find in http://www.kde-look.org

Download Link

I enjoyed it...

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