Ubuntu Queries by MetalheadGautham

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ray|raven

ray|raven

Think Zen.
^Yea rating's arent what they seem always,
But you should understand that people have different tastes,
and what you might find lovely, isnt the same for everyone.

Personally, I find analyzing the screenshot for a minute, more helpful than the rating.
 
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MetalheadGautham

MetalheadGautham

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rayraven said:
^Yea rating's arent what they seem always,
But you should understand that people have different tastes,
and what you might find lovely, isnt the same for everyone.

Personally, I find analyzing the screenshot for a minute, more helpful than the rating.
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you expect me to go through each and every theme's screenshot ?:rolleyes:
 
ray|raven

ray|raven

Think Zen.
^How abt going through a selected set,
say perhaps, the ones with the highest rating or perhaps the highest downloads?

Frankly , i dont remember what i did when i started using linux,
these days, its kinda easy for me to check the new themes that are added.

If you were using gnome/xfce i could've recommended you quite a few nice themes.
But for KDE,i never really used it long enough to start theming it.
But do try baghira, its sorta like mac4lin for kde.
*www.opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Baghira?content=8692
 
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MetalheadGautham

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^^KDE is hardly themed.
crystal is one of the most beautiful themes, bettering both Aero and Aqua.
so people just try to replace indivudual icons, etc.
and only window borders are changed, but they too are plenty to choose by default and customise.
 
ray|raven

ray|raven

Think Zen.
^Yeah , i guess so. I see frequent additions of window decorations , but few additions of kde widget themes or whatever-you-call-it.
GTK has way more options.

But, i tend to disagree about the Crystal part.Personally i think its too bland.Tango is way better.
But,then again , its just my opinion.
 
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MetalheadGautham

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crystal vs tango ?
don't mean to be rude, but you are waaaaay off the mark.

And I have another question for you guys: what do you name your workspaces ?

I call them Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta.

sometimes, I call them Work, Fun, Utility and Reserve.
 
ray|raven

ray|raven

Think Zen.
^Dude, Even I use four workspaces,
Got a terminal running permanently on one,
I dont need to name workspaces.

Oh, wait, dont tell me you lose track of em , if you dont name em now :p
 
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MetalheadGautham

MetalheadGautham

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rayraven said:
^Dude, Even I use four workspaces,
Got a terminal running permanently on one,
I dont need to name workspaces.

Oh, wait, dont tell me you lose track of em , if you dont name em now :p
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I just hate the words Desk 1, Desk 2, etc.
And for a permanent terminal, I use yakuake. Just press F12 to have a terminal drop down.

another question: do any of you shut down your ubuntu ?
I prefer hibernating as it results in a 91% decrease in startup time.
But in window$, there are issues like lagging after hibernating.
I heard they don't (and can't) exist in linux.
Is it true ?
Will my performance drop due to not shutting down for a few months ?
 
ray|raven

ray|raven

Think Zen.
^Nope, no decrease in performance.
But for me , the difference between a cold boot and hibernate isnt much,
What's the cold boot time from grub to desk on ubuntu?
Its abt 20 secs on my zenwalk running on 256megs of RAM.

And , yeah yakuake is supposedly very good, too bad it needs kdelibs.
EDIT:Just found Tilda which is sorta like Yakuake for kde, anyone has any experience with it on Gnome/Xfce?
 
gary4gar

gary4gar

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make sure you have adequate SWAP space in according to your RAM to enable hibernation.

btw, you should try and normal way, it much better
 
ray|raven

ray|raven

Think Zen.
Also, it depends on what you do on the system , I got arnd ~250 megs of swap - for my 256 meg system ,Coz i rarely do any intensive stuff on my system, Other than gimp.
 
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