MulletRobZ Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 there's a howto somewhere there was one on the blackbox site i think :/ I did it once but then i switched to gentoo.Oh and Pysoulseek works just as well if not better than the windows ver imo, oh yea dtops ummm... ill post one in a bit i got a couple around here....ah HERE'S ONE (1600x1200 fyi) Link to that howto, please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kairon Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 You can really tell who is using the big distributions like redhat and mandrake because the fonts are horrible. They use the older freetype autohinter which results in horrible kerning and shape distortion. Many of you also seem to use the bytecode interpreter also, which is probably better. I'm personally looking forward to the freetype 2.1.4 that's in CVS. They appear to have merged David Chester's smooth patch, with options to turn off the various individual hacks too! Not only that, but the stem widths have supposedly been corrected, which leaves the kerning as the only remaining problem with the autohinter. Oh, and they do need to fix the blue zone calculations, too. By the way, why do so many of you use fluxbox? I personally don't really see what's so great about it, especially since blackbox draws the window controls much clearer, and because it IS the real thing. Sometimes I wonder if any of these bandwagoners have actually heard of some of the things like blackbox that we used back a while. I've also heard people criticizing the new fontconfig/Xft2 libraries, when they should be appreciating them. Geez, in my day we didn't have antialiased fonts! And that was only a few years ago! Oooh, optimization. Actually using higher degrees of optimization (-O6 and such) will just increase the iterations that the compiler uses looking for ways to optimize the code. -O3 is the cutoff for turning on/off features, if I'm not mistaken. If you really want to increase the runtime speed of the code, try static-linking or pre-linking, at your own risk of course. You all really have it easy. I suggest trying a real distro like Slackware, installing a bare-bones system and then compiling everything over by hand. Now that's the way to do it, and a whole lot of fun, too! Bah!! There was a point when RedHat had the greatest of fonts, and everyone at the Gentoo forums was begging the authors to work on it. Now it's nearly there. Fluxbox have TABS, damn you. Also it can have anti-aliased fonts, and - why not? Both BB and FB are very fast, and I like the smooth fonts, even more when running at 1600x1200 like now. And font support was absolutely crap in the past, but it is improving. In a year it will hopefully "just work" for everyone. And FYI, I am using prelinking. I was one of the testers of prelink in Portage. It doesn't do all that much for all applications, but KDE really benefits from it. And it's really not all that risky anymore. If not allready implemented, I think it will be when Gentoo 1.4 is released. And I've used Slack in the past, that was how I first started. I think Gentoo, which is the 133735t distro rigth now, is a lot harder. I learned a lot by installing it. And I even tried to make most of my system with CVS. That was just crap - a lot of things didn't work, becuse they weren't finished. Gentoo let you compile from scratch, but does all the dependancy searching for you. Also, it reduces the compile flags of applications that need it. You can always say "make your own", but Gentoo gives you the power of LFS with the power of Portage. But why all the noise in a desktop thread? :whistle: Yup, prelinking is very nice, I used this when I had gentoo, its that thing that speeds up compile time for apps in portage, right?This sure does help Mozilla and those kinds of big programs. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisArr Posted January 30, 2003 Share Posted January 30, 2003 Click for full size (2432x1024) Enlightenment 0.16.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tran Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 Damn, those are some great desktops! I want to install fluxbox but everytime I do so I get this: [Admin@localhost Admin]$ cd /home/Admin/fluxbox-0.1.14 [Admin@localhost fluxbox-0.1.14]$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes /home/Admin/fluxbox-0.1.14/missing: Unknown `--run' option Try `/home/Admin/fluxbox-0.1.14/missing --help' for more information configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH [Admin@localhost fluxbox-0.1.14]$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 Damn, those are some great desktops! I want to install fluxbox but everytime I do so I get this: [Admin@localhost Admin]$ cd /home/Admin/fluxbox-0.1.14 [Admin@localhost fluxbox-0.1.14]$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes /home/Admin/fluxbox-0.1.14/missing: Unknown `--run' option Try `/home/Admin/fluxbox-0.1.14/missing --help' for more information configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH [Admin@localhost fluxbox-0.1.14]$ Hmm, no gcc? Search to make sure you have gcc and if not, you'll need to get that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tran Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 Is the gcc suppose to come with the package? Cause if so mine doesn't have it. Sorry cause I'm sorta like a newb at this stuff. Can't wait to have great desktops like you guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pagal Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 you need to install the Development Tools from the installation cd so that you can compile the source. If you are using RedHat 8.0, I could give you the rpm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tran Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 Sure, that'd be great. But if it comes with the CD than I can install from there and save you the time. I'll try it now. Thanks for the help pagal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaMMa Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 Yea GCC should be somewhere on the CD, or you can find the .rpm somewhere on the net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wickedlester Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 new kde3.1 desktop.... 3.1 is definately worth installing imo. don't get me wrong i still love my simple fast fluxbox dt too :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tran Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 How did you get those huge icons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keldyn Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deron Dantzler Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 Yup... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wickedlester Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 Panorama... in kde3.1 go to Control Center-Appearance&Themes-Icons choose or add an icon set that comes with 128x128 icons under "Theme" then click on "Advanced" and under size change to 128. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Li_Lee Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 wickedlester: where can i get those icons from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiGhTfast Posted February 3, 2003 Share Posted February 3, 2003 my xbox running debian and kde3.1 gonna install it on my pc it looks so nice :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisArr Posted February 3, 2003 Share Posted February 3, 2003 Still Enlightenment 0.16.5, but with the k10k theme. Click for 2432x1024. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wickedlester Posted February 3, 2003 Share Posted February 3, 2003 cold... those are "Tux'N'Tosh" mac icons i got from here and converted to png. If you don't have a way to convert them let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dh3rm3 Posted February 3, 2003 Share Posted February 3, 2003 still waimea ... I'm fond of the transparency feature ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoke Posted February 3, 2003 Share Posted February 3, 2003 ChrisArr where did you get the background on the screen on the right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisArr Posted February 3, 2003 Share Posted February 3, 2003 ChrisArr where did you get the background on the screen on the right? Right here: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/1252059 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irasnyd Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 How do my fonts look? They're antialiased althought it may not look that way due to the 1600X1200 resolution...Screenshot showing antialiased fonts in Phoenix and Gaim How'd you get the fonts looking like that. They look really good. I've been playing with fonts, and the best I could get was to import some fonts from my WinXP partition. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ryan Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 not sure where this belongs. well, yes i do, but, it is really related towards linux desktop relatednessness.... anybody want to send me all the wallpapers from linux based operating systems? Ryan. ? calm down radish & whistlerxp, it isn't a request in the strictest sense. i'm sure these wallpapers all ready exist. i just need to know where to find them. thanks to whomever wants to help me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaMMa Posted February 6, 2003 Share Posted February 6, 2003 Here is how to get my cool free type fonts using Gentoo. All 'emerge <program_name>' things are installing a certain application, emerge doesn't work for non Gentoo systems so you'll have to find the package on the net yourself. I just imported my WinXP fonts to a directory and followed the instructions... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=2...tialiased+fonts Edit: Make sure you follow the phoenix instructions (word for word) and edit your config like theirs is. How can someone send you every Linux based wallpaper out there? It's like me asking for every single Abstract wallpaper out there... there are millions of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaQ Posted February 6, 2003 Share Posted February 6, 2003 just installed linux mandrake 9.0 my new system codenamed "northwood" ;) is now online... whoopie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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