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[LEARNER_LEARNER]

Look my simple Desktop.
*img208.imageshack.us/img208/1503/snapshot9zs8.png

My distro is FC6.
bye bye brothers.

 

[mehulved]

*img103.imageshack.us/img103/4663/fluxboxyj4.th.jpg
WM - fluxbox
centericq for IM's
WeeChat for IRC
idesk for icons
conky as system monitor

Please suggest some more customisations for fluxbox. I need some good theme. And is there anyway to enable any kind of transparency in fluxbox or any other light WM?

 

[mediator]

^^ I haven't experimented much with fluxbox. But I had saved some info on enabling transparency with "aterm"! Here u have it
*thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=387100&postcount=80

 

[gxsaurav]

@ mehul

Flubox looks ugly, why r u using so dated UI. There are many good themes for Gnome or KDE, even lite.

 

[eddie]

1) First of install artwiz fonts because they look great on this WM and most of the Fluxbox themes use them.

2) For themes either look at fluxbox site itself or boxwhore.org. One of my fav themes is alexpress from boxwhore. Look at the screen
*www.boxwhore.org/modules/wfdownloads/images/screenshots/me.png
Fluxmod is down since I don't remember but lots of distros have archived their themes. They had some very good themes before they went down. Look in the repositories of your distro for them.

3) Install rox filer and use it as your file manager. Any other manager if used will probably nullify the very reason behind using Fluxbox i.e. being light on resources.

4) For transparency look at composite extension to X server and xcompmgr. IIRC there was an article about it on fluxbox wiki. You can look for it.

 

[mediator]

@ mehul

Flubox looks ugly, why r u using so dated UI. There are many good themes for Gnome or KDE, even lite.

It depends on how u configure it! It is light on resources and if configured nicely can look even better than Kde or Gnome! U can search for "fluxbox" in image section of google and experience how nicely people have configured it. It becomes a total piece of art and involves imagination to decorate it!

 

[mehulved]

1) First of install artwiz fonts because they look great on this WM and most of the Fluxbox themes use them.

OK installed.

2) For themes either look at fluxbox site itself or boxwhore.org. One of my fav themes is alexpress from boxwhore. Look at the screen
*www.boxwhore.org/modules/wfdownloads/images/screenshots/me.png
Fluxmod is down since I don't remember but lots of distros have archived their themes. They had some very good themes before they went down. Look in the repositories of your distro for them.

Having a look there.

3) Install rox filer and use it as your file manager. Any other manager if used will probably nullify the very reason behind using Fluxbox i.e. being light on resources.

I have already installed rox-filer and am using it. Though I need to still set it up.

4) For transparency look at composite extension to X server and xcompmgr. IIRC there was an article about it on fluxbox wiki. You can look for it.

OK will have a look around.
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^^ I haven't experimented much with fluxbox. But I had saved some info on enabling transparency with "aterm"! Here u have it
*thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=387100&postcount=80

Will check fluxbox wiki and then your post too.
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@ mehul

Flubox looks ugly, why r u using so dated UI. There are many good themes for Gnome or KDE, even lite.

Something for you gx *jk.yazzy.org/screenshots/fluxbox/fluxbox.jpg
Search for more.

 

[phreak0ut]

@ mehul

Flubox looks ugly, why r u using so dated UI. There are many good themes for Gnome or KDE, even lite.

Ahem, this is my friend's Fluxbox on Slackware. *img293.imageshack.us/img293/9861/fluxboxby6.th.jpg

 

[mediator]

Latest!
*img515.imageshack.us/img515/8315/screenshot4cp2.th.png

 

[mehulved]

*img117.imageshack.us/img117/1753/screenshotxw7.th.png
Gnome on gentoo running beryl with fadeout theme.

*img170.imageshack.us/img170/3856/vmwaregentookz9.th.png
Running FreeBSD in VMware.

 

[mediator]

Here's some more customization of fluxbox!
*img139.imageshack.us/img139/3971/fluxboxvj3.th.png

 

[eddie]

Here is what I am running these days
*img443.imageshack.us/img443/7329/snapshot20dq5.th.png

Wish I could show you a video of rotating cube with Lunscape skydome image. Looks simply awesome...anyways...here is a screenshot
*img443.imageshack.us/img443/3553/snapshot18yz1.th.jpg

Beryl with rotating list (makes you remember Vista's Flip 3D?
*img365.imageshack.us/img365/4715/snapshot21ci4.th.jpg

 

[mediator]

How did u bring transparency in that cube?

 

[mehulved]

How did u bring transparency in that cube?

Change Desktop cube => Transparency => 'opacity during move' to as low as possible

 

[mediator]

^^Thanx !

 

[mehulved]

*img411.imageshack.us/img411/2966/deskywq4.th.jpg
WM - Fluxbox
Theme - Bluenight

 

[anarchist]

here is my simple ubuntu desktop. XP type desktop using gconf-editor


*img144.imageshack.us/img144/8246/screenshothm4.th.png

 

[gxsaurav]

to me flubox still looks ugly & unbalenced. Gnome is much better in UI

 

[phreak0ut]

to me flubox still looks ugly & unbalenced. Gnome is much better in UI

Its just a matter of choice and available resources

 

[mehulved]

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Enlightenment on Debian Etch.