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Is your PC currently on LifeSupport? LOL. Not that I'm the minimalist fanatic that I used to be but how in blazes can you get anything done with only 13 parent processes. If I get below 20 my system is nearly useless... well, for being in X in the first place. Actually, just checked and I currently have 22 processes in Runlevel 3. WTF?
Haha, well this box is at work, and it's really only used for a couple of simple tasks, such as streaming music with soma and editing text files with nano, so it doesn't need much.
@rkfb
I like that. Is that cwm? I've been thinking of trying that.
It's actually twm, been using it as my main desktop for two or three years now.
If you start it up from a stock install you would probably think 'I can't use this!' but there's actually quite a lot you can achieve with a bit of reading and a lot of trial and error!
The wallpaper is without a doubt superb and not just because it is a gorgeous face with unusual emphasis (the eyes) but wallpapers that feature a brighter section (up to 0.5 but usually better in the 0.3 - 0.4 area, like yours) and a darker section I find most pleasing to work with. However I wonder if you can modify or select a different mode for the icons where 80% of each one isn't indistinguishable from another and rather fuzzy and drab? It seems to me that color recognition assisting text differences would make it more intuitive and faster to find a selection (I HATE searching LOL) but then again some people have high sensitivity to location and order possibly more exclusive than color.
Whatever the case it is obvious that you have an eye for detail and seem willing to put in the work so it's just an idea for a little tweaking, even shades of grey (no innuendo intended).
I can't remember where the wallpaper came from, it's been my desktop background for many years now, you're right about the mix of light and darker section though, it does work quite well.
The fuzzy 'T' icons* are the stock twm terminal icons. Pretty much everything you see is running in a xterm. They changed to this when Pat last upgraded twm, I think they were previously a basic line drawing of a terminal. The borders and backgrounds I styled in the .twmrc file but you are right in that I could probably do a little more to style them by this process, I'm quite happy how they are though. You can actually style different icons by application name or type for instance. I guess each one could be different in some way if you put in the time.
I did spend ages setting this up :-) - particularly the icon regions and positioning (yes you're right, location and order are more important to me). They all start up in order on login too, done via the xinitrc file.
*being an Englishman who has become hooked by the baseball bug I'm quite happy with the icons as they are having chosen the Texas Rangers as my team when I first started tuning in about two years ago :-)
It's actually twm, been using it as my main desktop for two or three years now.
If you start it up from a stock install you would probably think 'I can't use this!' but there's actually quite a lot you can achieve with a bit of reading and a lot of trial and error!
While I don't end up using it much, twm is what I default to on a fresh install. But it doesn't take long to get bspwm (or any of the stuff I use with it) built, so I never end up getting around to configuring twm. You achieve a very clean, functional, and pleasing look to your desktop. If ever I tire of tilers, I will give twm more screen time. Thanks, and kudos!
Pretty old school and non interesting here. I have been using the same desktop for as long as I can remember... I don't like change in my user environment much. I started using XFCE a long time ago (It used GTK+ 1.x and made boing boing sounds when you clicked stuff lol), and configure it similarly to the first release of XFCE4. (It got more Gnomish with its defaults soon after that... blech). I like a large auto hiding panel with all my stuff as panel launchers, or launchers in tear off menus. Some duplication on the panel for things I want quick access to without having to traverse the whole screen. I also use "wrap workspaces at screen edges" which lets me move to other desktops with the mouse in addition to the big graphical pager. Fortunately, XFCE is good at migrating configs between versions.
Anyway, the distro is Slackware Current from around April (with packages mostly all rebuilt and some stuff replaced... I tend to go my own way for a few years between Slack installs, once I get out of sync)
Last edited by TheRealGrogan; 08-19-2015 at 09:27 PM.
Well then, mine one
Xfce + GTK and Qt apps. Generally, I use whichever application suits my needs, not paying attention to the toolkit being used (on the other hand, I pay a lot of attention to the look&feel). Konqueror for file management, Terminator for terminal emulator.
There are literally 3 icons on my desktop, unless there is some drive mounted. Right monitor has keyboard layout for touch typing learning (at work my right monitor has C operators precedence chart...). Xfce has become my desktop of choice since the KDE3 -> KDE4 transition, well, I really love the way the menus were made in the W2K era, so here it is.
As for the typography? The UI font is Source Sans Pro. The terminal font is Source Code Pro. FreeType has been built with both subpixel rendering and subpixel rendering. Fontconfig is applying the default LCD filter and slight hinting.
(Yes, those two icons between the activities and the task manager are really tiny. Not sure what I can do about that).
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