Share Your Desktop

abarbarian · September 5, 2019, 2:23pm

I made a valiant effort to create a moving wallpaper as my background which would load on booting Window Maker. I had some success but it was not a perfect effort. I will try again at some future date. Meanwhile here are the result, for some reason dropbox will not play the files on site so you have to click on them to download and then open them in your favorite .mkv player.

Bates moving wallpaper

Girl moving wallpaper

An here is a short clip showing the ease of use of Window Maker, highlighting Theme changing ease,

easy theming in Window Maker

Enjoy.

keith · September 5, 2019, 2:55pm

I like the Arch-Floyd wall!

abarbarian · September 5, 2019, 3:16pm

the_arch_side_of_the_moon_by_slavik262-d57oke4

Here is the original.

Enjoy

keith · September 5, 2019, 3:17pm

Thanks for the share!

Yeah, this works very well with an xfwm I made many years ago.

Arch-Floyd-DT

Arch-Floyd-DT-02

This shot is on my Xubuntu 16.04.

The gtk is MediterraneanDarkest, and the icon theme, unfortunatrly not available in any of the Arch sources, is Gnome Brave Icon Theme.

So what. There’s no law that says I can’t have an Arch wall on a Ubu-Deb system!

DevNul · September 5, 2019, 4:41pm

Lain - great anime. Nearly forgot about that… Welcome to the wired!

csteinforth · September 5, 2019, 5:54pm

I tend to the latter.

MormonJesus69420 · September 7, 2019, 6:54pm

Well I finally got Endeavour running on my PC, and am done setting it up. So here’s my desktop.
2019-09-07_20%3A49%3A25
As you can see from the Neofetch I am running KDE as my desktop environment. I am using some custom setup to make it look clean and sleek.

UncleMez · September 7, 2019, 7:44pm

Beautiful !
i like the neon like coloring.

ricklinux · September 7, 2019, 7:50pm

Very nice. Did you end up removing Xfce? I have never really gotten the hang of KDE Plasma. What did you install? I know there is kde desktop, plasma and or something else. Also on your Nvidia are you just running the Nvidia 435.21drivers or are you using Optimus Bumblebee setup. Oh and what is that background? Very nice.

MormonJesus69420 · September 7, 2019, 8:56pm

Yes I did remove XFCE and installed KDE using:
sudo pacman -S plasma kde-applications
I uninstalled a fair bit of the applications, around 88 which were mostly games and extra apps that I didn’t need, but kept a good amount left, since I like them.
I am running both the drivers and Optimus Bumblebee, though I think that Bumblebee might be unnecessary. I installed it just in case, since on Antergos I needed to have antergos-prime installed for the GPU to function properly. However it’s not a big deal for me, as I don’t need the GPU to run all the time I just need it for running 3D applications that I develop at my University.
Background and general setup of KDE is based on that: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/cb1czt/kde_plasma_retro_forest/
It is quite pretty, though I changed to video background which I find more appealing. You can see it in action here: https://youtu.be/cvE9xW2xHTU

anon77235960 · September 8, 2019, 9:16am

boring sundays. time for a screenshot.
tiling wm with 3 smaller floating windows on top of vim. mod -v and vim is on the top layer and those 3 windows will be hidden behind vim. just an easy way to take advantage of all space available. and yes ofc mod - shift - v will return those 3 windows again.

Wallpaper #181818

2019-09-08-110711_1920x1080_scrot

joekamprad · September 8, 2019, 10:32am

thats is looking real cool

MormonJesus69420 · September 8, 2019, 10:49am

Thanks a lot! I think it’s really cool too.

anon77235960 · September 8, 2019, 11:14am

looks freakin great with the background changing all the time. What is that? some kind of live wp or a movie running fullscreen?

edit: maybe @MormonJesus69420 is the right guy to answer this?

MormonJesus69420 · September 8, 2019, 11:31am

It’s KDE with Video Wallpaper plugin installed. Videos I used are https://vimeo.com/221313907 for normal wallpaper and https://vimeo.com/117890578 for lock screen. I have them both on my PC and they are used by the plugin.

Resiliencia · September 8, 2019, 11:36am

@MormonJesus69420

I didn’t know gotop, very good find of you.
Very pretty. gotop

gotop --help
Usage: gotop [options]

Options:
  -c, --color=NAME      Set a colorscheme.
  -h, --help            Show this screen.
  -m, --minimal         Only show CPU, Mem and Process widgets.
  -r, --rate=RATE       Number of times per second to update CPU and Mem widgets [default: 1].
  -V, --version         Print version and exit.
  -p, --percpu          Show each CPU in the CPU widget.
  -a, --averagecpu      Show average CPU in the CPU widget.
  -f, --fahrenheit      Show temperatures in fahrenheit.
  -s, --statusbar       Show a statusbar with the time.
  -b, --battery         Show battery level widget ('minimal' turns off).

Colorschemes:
  default
  default-dark (for white background)
  solarized
  monokai
  vice

keith · September 8, 2019, 2:54pm

“How I Spent My Weekend.”

I have XP on another desktop all by itself. So, I bought a new hard drive, cloned my XP, then installed EndeavourOS and Xubuntu 18.04. Now I’ve got everything in one place, on one box.

~ Still looking for a good gray icon theme.

new

anon77235960 · September 8, 2019, 3:02pm

I truly love your screenshots.

Newaita-dark is a pretty nice gray icon theme
or if you want something more minimalistic - Clarity-dark-canus

keith · September 8, 2019, 3:14pm

Thanks, @anon77235960. Downloading both now.

keith · September 8, 2019, 3:36pm

@anon77235960 OH YEAH! Newaita-dark. That’s a keeper! Thanks for your help.

newaita-shot