GNU/Linux October 2005 Desktops

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markwolfe Veteran

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bluh XFCE desktops are so cool, but its to hard for me to install it.

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Hard?

Did you try apt-get install xfce (or whatever equivalent command is for your distro)?

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Alex Shenoy

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hey mark, I tried e17. It is .... <wait for it> ... AAAAWWWWWESSOOOOMMMEEEE!!!!!! It's incredibly nice. I loved it, but it wasn't stable enough for me. So, I moved back to flux for a while. Might give PekWM a try or see if I can't figure out FVWM. Whichever works.

--Alex

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ichi

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Gentoo linux

Enlightenment 0.17 (Clean-e17 theme)

Rox-filler (icons from some Matrix icon pack).

MPlayer (Corner skin)

Eterm (unsuccessfully trying to convert some mov videos from my trip to Japan to a PSP compatible format).

Milk gtk theme.

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PS: just solved the problem with mov->mp4 files.

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mitch00

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I've found E17 to be a lot of eye candy with not so comfortable usage. I just can't get the feel of it. FVWM/XFCE are better. Trying to get away from Gnome/KDE to something more lightweight. ;)

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me too :) I've also been trying for soemthing more lightweight than gnome and kde, i tried e17, very nice looking.. but i jsut didn't find it useable.. which kinda defeats the purpose... I find xfce to be the perfect DE, very useable, no bloat of KDE or gnome

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markwolfe Veteran

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Lets see your desktop Mark.  :p

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The only thing that ever changes are which apps I have open, and what background is shown (it selects randomly from a directory holding 8 or so images when I log in).

But, here it is:

desk13oct20055ex.th.png

Distro: Fedora

WM: Fluxbox (featuring the use of title-bar tabs in gaim)

WM Style: Flux-aqua (link)

Wall: my new love, Evangeline Lilly (from Lost) :wub:

Oh... And disregard which Neowin member I am warning in the warning control panel shown in that Firefox tab. :shifty:

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Prosidius

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The only thing that ever changes are which apps I have open, and what background is shown (it selects randomly from a directory holding 8 or so images when I log in).

But, here it is:

desk13oct20055ex.th.png

Distro: Fedora

WM: Fluxbox (featuring the use of title-bar tabs in gaim)

WM Style: Flux-aqua (link)

Wall: my new love, Evangeline Lilly (from Lost)  :wub:

Oh...  And disregard which Neowin member I am warning in the warning control panel shown in that Firefox tab. :shifty:

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That wasn't so hard was it? :p

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pixated

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The only thing that ever changes are which apps I have open, and what background is shown (it selects randomly from a directory holding 8 or so images when I log in).

But, here it is:

desk13oct20055ex.th.png

Distro: Fedora

WM: Fluxbox (featuring the use of title-bar tabs in gaim)

WM Style: Flux-aqua (link)

Wall: my new love, Evangeline Lilly (from Lost)  :wub:

Oh...  And disregard which Neowin member I am warning in the warning control panel shown in that Firefox tab. :shifty:

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You really need a change. :p

*hides to not get warned :happy:

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Sensayshun

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Link? Possibly, hope this works.

Wallpaper did used to have some copyright stuff but i removed it, I just found it on a google image search for vectors or something like that.

Using RoberTO's Milk 2.1,

Icon pack, I got it from the last link in the linux theming resources topic.

try again.

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Great lookin' SS's People..... :)

Here's mine.........

Mandriva Linux 2006 Beta 2

Superkaramba 0-37 RC2

Here is the wallpaper

The icons and widgets you can get from kde-look.org

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Click-it!!!

Would someone please kill the above post..... Sorry about that..

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matt74441

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Its been a while:

Distro: Gentoo Linux 2005.1, Kernel 2.6.13.4

Window Manager: Metacity

Desktop Environment: GNOME 2.12 (Unstable Gentoo ebuild)

Icons: Dropline Etiquette (from art.gnome.org)

Wallpaper: Some picture I've had floating around for a long time

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