This is my Slackware desktop...

Lysander666 · 07-20-2018, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by mralk3

I was connected to my LAN Slackware Mirror and ran head -n 20 ChangeLog.txt. It shows the top 20 lines of a file, in this case the Slackware64 14.2 change log.

Edit: montagdude beat me too it!

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Originally Posted by montagdude

head. Displays the beginning of a file. There is also a similar command, tail.

Ah, I thought the changelog was stored locally. Makes sense now. I normally use nano to view/edit. I presume head/tail is just view.

mralk3 · 07-20-2018, 08:46 AM

Sorry for the off topic posts everyone.

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Originally Posted by Lysander666

Ah, I thought the changelog was stored locally. Makes sense now. I normally use nano to view/edit. I presume head/tail is just view.

The change log is stored on the mirror site you use. I have my own mirror on my LAN because I frequently install multiple (containers, virtual machines) systems over the network using http. I do this to save bandwidth for remote mirrors. If you use slackpkg, or another package manager, the change log is downloaded to your system, and compared to the previous change log to see if there are updates.

head/tail are used to view the start or end of a file. check the man pages. A common use for tail is tail -f /var/log/syslog or tail -f /var/log/messages.

frankbell · 07-21-2018, 10:36 AM

Back on topic: RealPlayer playing on Windows Seven running in VirtualBox in seamless mode on Slackware 14.2 under the Fluxbox window manager. Note that you can see both the Windows menu from the virtual machine and the Fluxbox menu from the host machine.

http://pineviewfarm.net/weblog/wp-co...-07-20_500.jpg

bbKid · 07-21-2018, 02:33 PM

The screenshot of my desktop.

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Poprocks · 07-21-2018, 04:10 PM

Nice bbKid, is that just Fluxbox with a bunch of apps running in the systray?

bbKid · 07-21-2018, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Poprocks

Nice bbKid, is that just Fluxbox with a bunch of apps running in the systray?

No, it's OpenBox + Tint2.

phalange · 07-21-2018, 10:35 PM

Here's my current DWM setup; still have some scripts to add. Bar is slstatus and terminal is st.

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phalange · 07-21-2018, 10:39 PM

And here's my current ratpoison setup.

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Lysander666 · 07-22-2018, 08:40 AM

A bit more 'ricing' and getting the desktop looking cleaner with some help from the Whisker menu.

Slightly adapted Arne Hartherz's code in order to get the text RAM monitor in the panel there, to this:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
meminfo=`free -m | grep 'Mem:'`

used=`echo $meminfo | cut -d" " -f3`
total=`echo $meminfo | cut -d" " -f2`
cached=`echo $meminfo | cut -d" " -f7`

really_used=`expr $used - $cached`

echo "$used"

ChuangTzu · 07-22-2018, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by phalange

And here's my current ratpoison setup.

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Nice, but that also looks eerily similar to what I imagine Gnome 4 to look like.

coralfang · 07-22-2018, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Lysander666

A bit more 'ricing' and getting the desktop looking cleaner with some help from the Whisker menu.

That has to be the best/clean looking xfce desktop i've ever seen. Nice one.

Lysander666 · 07-22-2018, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by coralfang

That has to be the best/clean looking xfce desktop i've ever seen. Nice one.

Sam Hewitt's Paper Mono Dark icons deserve a lot of the credit, they look seriously good with dark Xfce themes.

Poprocks · 07-23-2018, 05:23 PM

https://i.imgur.com/BCsGJEZ.png

This screenshot is what I call "Clash of the Titans." Meant to be presented as an exact opposite of the minimalist screenshots posted in this thread, including the last one I posted which is of a minimal icewm.

This is Slackware Current, running Plasma5 version 5.12.6 from AlienBOB's ktown, completely vanilla and unconfigured, with konsole on the left, and Microsoft Office 2010 Word on the right, running under WINE downloaded from winehq.org.

This screenshot is provided to demonstrate the outstanding interoperability that is possible with Slackware.

In order to get the fonts to look the way they do under WINE, I had to recompile Freetype to enable the old subpixel rendering mode. This is probably only necessary due to a bug in WINE. See: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41639

qweasd · 07-23-2018, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by phalange

And here's my current ratpoison setup.

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Grayscale screenshot, wow, how did you do it? X.org visual option? Screenshot app filter? Or some devious artsy post-processing?

montagdude · 07-23-2018, 11:55 PM

I'm working on a weather script. Currently I have gotten it to display the current conditions in tint2. The next step is to also get the hourly and daily forecast data to display in an Openbox pipe menu.