GNU / Linux March 2008 Desktop Thread

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GNU / Linux March 2008 Desktops - Posting Guidelines

* If you plan to img-embed your desktop, please try to keep it under 100k (It's recommended that you link it, externally).

* Stay within the board rules, no matter how yummy you may believe it to be.

* If you are going to quote, there isn't a need to quote an img-embeded picture - Just don't do it. Please just reference the post by page number/page link/etc.

* Off Topic Posts will be edited or removed.

* The desktops thread is not to be used as a means to post images of a pornographic or otherwise provocative nature. We do not support a babes forum and neither will we in an unofficial capacity. Please help to keep the thread relevant and safe to browse for everyone.

* The moderators of this forum reserve the right to edit or remove your posts as necessary so they may comply with our Community Rules.

* 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).

* Please use reduced-size thumbnails, where possible, out of respect for people running on lower bandwidth or screen resolutions.

Important Note: Any image posted that is over 800 x 600 will be removed! Use a thumbnail or use a text link to your image. If your image is removed, this is why.

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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)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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