nice shots, guys. i'd have trouble deciding which desktop to use, tiago, they all look so good. gnome is really stepping up to the plate these days -- i can't wait for 2.6. (crashed: that logo almost looks like a gentoo/gnome hybrid. )

> edit: joehill: i messed around with pekwm, and it massively corrupted my system! i don't know what it did, but i tried to open gedit in pekwm one time and got some weird error message. i clicked ok and didn't think too much about it, but after that, my gnome desktop and many apps were totally b0rked. i had to completely uninstall and then reinstall gnome. after that the icons came back, but the panels, windows, etc. were still a total mess and totally unusable. finally i traced the problem to some corrupted files in the /tmp directory, deleted those, and things were mostly restored (with a few minor annoyances that i had to fix). i think it had something to do with python, but i'm not sure. maybe when it matures a little more i'll give it another chance.

shadowed fonts! keewwwlllll...

http://www.orderinchaos.org/latestpek.png

nice shot joehill, I may have to try out Pekwm.

Hey what is the font in that screenshot?

The font is dungeon.

Mine's pretty plain. More comfortable with key-combos rather than icons.

Terminal running Screen, to get multiple shells without the clutter.

Fluxbox

no stoning please...its just some icons and a wp

current desktop

trinity

Hehe.... not stoning, stoned nor even close, though i would like to be, but that IS and has alwez been my desktop!

nope, no icons either, just a lil bar at the bottom which i don't use. Didn't have a wallpaper either before this. Just plain black

But the topic did say "link to your screenshot", it didn't say "put in a bunch of things that you don't use, make it look good, and post to for the world to see".... I guess i'm just too boring a person. Sorry to disappoint u ..

Yours is nice... though it's just a a task bar, some icons and a wp ... j/k


Cheers

now that is sweet, I gotta check out screen, are those remote hosts yer termed into?

I'm with ya on using the keyboard more, but I still got this thing for icons...can't seem to shake it ;-)

how would you feel about your WM supporting *keychains*...?

# Media
Chain = "Mod4 m" {
KeyPress = "p" { Actions = "exec gqview" }
KeyPress = "v" { Actions = "exec gmplayer" }
KeyPress = "g" { Actions = "exec gimp" }
KeyPress = "x" { Actions = "exec xmms" }
KeyPress = "s" { Actions = "exec sodipodi" }
KeyPress = "c" { Actions = "exec grip" }
KeyPress = "b" { Actions = "exec gcombust" }
}

KeyChains are pretty cool i guess (ala emacs), but i'm kinda more comfy with just plain key combos. It's true that you get more combinations using keychains, and you do avoid lotsa confusion between WM and apps that have their own key combo, but, well, who needs so many combos

I use combos for my browser, a couple of custion scripts, and a terminal. Anything else i need executed, i run from the terminal. With the BASH's autocomplete, i find that much faster than grabbing the mouse and hunting for the icon... or maybe it's just me..


And yeah, screen is cool. It's like having a multi layered terminal, where you bring forward whichever you need. You can also split the screen to show several shells.
What makes screen a real killer is that you can detach your session, log off, go home, ssh back into the machine, and reattach the screen!! You continue from where you left off, and stuff you left running continues to run when you detach the screen..

Oh,.. and screen uses "keychains" as well.. Ctrl+A+[ ]



Cheers

But how do you run screen from within a WM, I thought it was sort of a "WM" itself? Or can you use it as a simple term?

Sounds really cool, I gotta check that out!

....in the end tho, I'm I sucker for eye-candy, can't hehp m'sehf!

Screen is not a WM, it's a program that you run in your shell.

The WM that i'm using is FluxBox. Light and pretty customizable...


Cheers...

I'll check it out further and play around with it. It's just that i've heard of people actually using it as a complete environment, perhaps *instead* of a WM...the ultimate in light, no?

I guess that would be possible, but you'll have to be absolutely comfortable with using only Shell based progs... there are text-based equivalents for most of the essential apps for a techie's desktop, web browsers, mail clients, IRC, IMs, MP3 Players, P2P, and even for movies (using mplayer, you can see full video in your TTY by using framebuffer, or use aalib that generates the ASCII picture of the movie on-the-fly)

Another interesting prog you can check out is Twin, where you get a pseudo WM in text mode... with basic windowing, drag-drop and stuff..


Cheers

latest CVS of Pekwm, showing theme auto-generated by app which creates ION WM style themes with mouse-enter and mouse-leave events for borders indicating focus, and showing dynamic menus with a perl script which gives access to running processes and signals.

http://www.orderinchaos.org/dynamicmenu.png

and this guy is just getting started! aaaaah ha ha ha ha ha!

I've gone Pek mad...