This is my Slackware desktop...

marcdw · 05-08-2020, 05:20 AM

Been out of the computing scene for half a dozen years. Stay-At-Home caused me to come back and reacquaint myself.

NsCDE (Not so Common Desktop Environment) is my current DE at the moment on this laptop.

Bindestreck · 05-08-2020, 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by marcdw

Been out of the computing scene for half a dozen years. Stay-At-Home caused me to come back and reacquaint myself.

NsCDE (Not so Common Desktop Environment) is my current DE at the moment on this laptop.

What is the difference between NsCDE and CDE? And how did you install it?

JWJones · 05-08-2020, 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Bindestreck

What is the difference between NsCDE and CDE? And how did you install it?

I posted about it recently...

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...de-4175671496/

phenixia2003 · 06-04-2020, 01:30 PM

Hello,

slackware-current (VM) running fluxbox-git with development version of flaxx configuration.

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For more about upcoming flaxx version, you can watch this video.

Note that currently, flaxx supports only english and french languages.

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SeB

rkelsen · 06-04-2020, 04:57 PM

Hey, that looks great! I'll be giving it a go at the first opportunity.

Gerard Lally · 06-05-2020, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by phenixia2003

Hello,

slackware-current (VM) running fluxbox-git with development version of flaxx configuration.

Great work again, Sébastien, and documentation as usual is well done, putting bigger projects to shame.

Surprised -- and pleased -- to see work resume on Fluxbox. I'm spending a bit of time configuring Openbox at the moment. I'll give flaxx a spin when I'm finished.

phenixia2003 · 06-05-2020, 01:34 PM

Hello,

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gerard Lally

Great work again, Sébastien, and documentation as usual is well done, putting bigger projects to shame.

Thanks. However, the documentation currently online is not up to date.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gerard Lally

Surprised -- and pleased -- to see work resume on Fluxbox.

yeah. From time to time there are new commit. But it would be better to have a new stable release, even if the -git version works really well.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gerard Lally

I'm spending a bit of time configuring Openbox at the moment. I'll give flaxx a spin when I'm finished.

I'll publish new Flaxx version soon, but don't know exactly when. So, if you want to test Flaxx, go with the development version:

Code:

$ hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/flaxx/code flaxx-source
$ su -
$ cd /path/to/flaxx-source

# It's better to specify a version since I didn't update the slackbuild yet.
$ VERSION=2020.0405 ./flaxx.SlackBuild
...

The upcoming Flaxx version has the minimum runtime dependencies below. :

fluxbox (obviously) 1.3.7 or -git (better)
Note that if you want to associate an action to the clock on mouse event (ex. display a calendar as you can see on the video I sent), you'll need to apply this patch (don't know if it works with 1.3.7), then, in ~/.fluxbox/init, add this :
Code:
```
session.screen0.toolbar.clock.commands: <THE_COMMAND_TO_EXECUTE>
```
On my side, I use the following command :
Code:
```
Exec wmhelper --calendar TOGGLE
```
dtfilemon (source - slackbuild)
wmhelper (source - slackbuild)
wmpamgen (source - slackbuild)
wmsvmgen (source - slackbuild)
xdgmenumaker
yad
feh

Once flaxx and required dependencies are install, proceed as stated here to install Flaxx configuration.

Hope this helps.

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SeB

keithpeter · 07-11-2020, 01:58 PM

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Yes, it has been raining

Xcalendar came from FreeBSD ports and compiled straight away. The rest is base or slackbuilds basically. Troff/groff is amazing when you spend an hour or so with it. Google 'groff mom'.

igadoter · 07-11-2020, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by keithpeter

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Yes, it has been raining

Xcalendar came from FreeBSD ports and compiled straight away. The rest is base or slackbuilds basically. Troff/groff is amazing when you spend an hour or so with it. Google 'groff mom'.

How did you manage pseudo-transparent xclock?

keithpeter · 07-11-2020, 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by igadoter

How did you manage pseudo-transparent xclock?

By cheating.

I just set the background colour of the clock (.Xresources) to the same as the desktop (xsetroot in .xinitrc) and set a special border colour for xclock in .twmrc.

Code:

.twmrc
Color
{
    BorderColor "WebMaroon"  {"xclock" "Gray50"} # same as desktop and clock background
...other colours...

Code:

.Xresources
! xclock styles
XClock*foreground: #fbfbfb
XClock*background: Gray50
XClock*update: 60
XClock*geometry:          -0-0
XClock.Clock.majorColor:  Gray20
XClock.Clock.minorColor:  Gray40
XClock.Clock.hourColor:   WebMaroon
XClock.Clock.minuteColor: WebMaroon
XClock.Clock.secondColor: WebMaroon

https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...d-winding-road

As I said it was raining for days last week.

Gerard Lally · 07-11-2020, 07:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by keithpeter

Troff/groff is amazing when you spend an hour or so with it. Google 'groff mom'.

Very much underrated. Typographically, TeX is undoubtedly better, since it does paragraph-at-once adjustment, while groff does only line-at-once adjustment[1]. But groff is just a couple of megs, in contrast with TeX's hundreds. And for most purposes what groff outputs is more than satisfactory.

[1] There have been efforts to do paragraph-at-once adjustment with heirloom roff, but I don't think they have progressed as much as I had been hoping.

Well, it appears I spoke too soon. I've just seen that an improved paragraph formatter was included in the October 2019 release. Must give this a go.

anthk · 07-13-2020, 09:58 AM

Hello

.

Fluxbox + Rox on -current.

A tip, run optipng -o7 on screenshots,
it will allow you to post full sized images.

I usually use CLI tools, but I always loved ROX
based setups, the tiny drag and drop utilities
are amazing. Just install RoxLib under ~/lib,
and set the addons in the same directory.

sxy · 07-14-2020, 03:57 AM

Switched to bspwm (on -current) recently. A little resource-heavy with transparency and blurring effects, but I like that look and feel.

wm: bspwm
compositor: picom
screen locker: i3lock-color

EDIT:
color scheme: gruvbox
status bar: polybar

ennepath · 07-14-2020, 10:59 AM

@sxy, like your color scheme. What's the name?

sxy · 07-14-2020, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by ennepath

@sxy, like your color scheme. What's the name?

Hi, it's gruvbox. Officially it only supports vim/neovim as a plugin, maybe you can find ports to your favorite apps here. Also I typed out the palette (dark version) into a text file, I've posted it here.