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Screenshot your Linux desktop

Originally posted by: bersl2
Bah, GIMP is too heavyweight for just taking a screenshot. ImageMagick is faster.

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Ummm....X_1_5_0_2_RELEASE mozilla/modules/libpr0n? I didn't know pr0n required modules. :Q 😕 I like the fan and voltage readings though. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: xtknight
Originally posted by: bersl2
Bah, GIMP is too heavyweight for just taking a screenshot. ImageMagick is faster.

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Ummm....X_1_5_0_2_RELEASE mozilla/modules/libpr0n? I didn't know pr0n required modules. :Q 😕 I like the fan and voltage readings though. 🙂
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The voltages aren't all calibrated correctly. One of the few things I will waste resources for is a fancy program that tells me how much resources I have to waste. 😀

libpr0n is Mozilla's image library. I only have the source because I need a version of the Mozilla SDK to build mplayerplug-in, and the only way to do that is to build one from the source.
 
imo those all look to plain/blah.. would love to go straight linux soon but it's so ugly compaired to windows with a shell app like DesktopX.. When the next version of Ubnutu is released I'm going to switch completely over, delete all windows in the house. Maybe after a week or so it'll grow on me.
 
Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
I wonder who's going to be the first to post their XGL/Compiz desktop. 🙂
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I just completely formatted and installed SUSE so I'm going to give that a try. 😉
 
imo those all look to plain/blah.. would love to go straight linux soon but it's so ugly compaired to windows with a shell app like DesktopX.. When the next version of Ubnutu is released I'm going to switch completely over, delete all windows in the house. Maybe after a week or so it'll grow on me.
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They're not ugly and simple is good, keeps the machine fast and easier to work with.

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Originally posted by: pcthuglife
Mine isn't quite as fancy as all of yours, but it's close 😉

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That's a nice background pcthuglife!

Would you mind posting the jpeg of the background only? I'd like to use it for my desktop.
 
Hmm, well I got Xgl installed. Sort of. It's hard to catch its beauty in a single screenshot because it's mainly just effects. The window decorations aren't anything special (yet). Plus I'm having trouble getting OpenGL acceleration working. gdm isn't listening to what it says in gdm.conf for the server command. It just goes off and adds its own 'vc7 something nolisten crap' to Xgl instead of my the Xgl command I give it to enable acceleration. If I kill gdm and run Xgl by myself, it just hangs at a black and white dithery-looking screen. glxinfo reveals direct rendering is off even after installing nvidia driver. But besides that it actually works well. The fade effects are sweet. It makes SUSE seem a lot more consumer-oriented with all the effects, and minimizing windows reveals a Mac OS X-like effect. Alt+tab is also awesome but it only works in certain windows for some reason. So, a little buggy, but I might keep it. Here's a screenshot of what I've got right now. If you guys could help me with the above issues I'd be grateful. After messing around with it a bit here's what I've come up with.

Screenshots of Xgl/Compiz in action:

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OpenSUSE 10.0 x86_64, nvidia Linux Display Driver AMD64 Version: 1.0-8756, GNOME, Xgl x86_64 cvs_060419-2
GTK2 theme: Clearbox Titanium
Icons: Industrial
Desktop background: Ocean
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
imo those all look to plain/blah.. would love to go straight linux soon but it's so ugly compaired to windows with a shell app like DesktopX.. When the next version of Ubnutu is released I'm going to switch completely over, delete all windows in the house. Maybe after a week or so it'll grow on me.
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They're not ugly and simple is good, keeps the machine fast and easier to work with.

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con whores! woot!
 
i don't use linux so...
but xtknight, good for you for using opera! Opera 9 beta is out and it rocks. (ok so no major differnece but still, love the content blocker as well as integerated bit-torrent dl's! check it out. i tried FF and like opera much better.
 
Originally posted by: ForumMaster
i don't use linux so...
but xtknight, good for you for using opera! Opera 9 beta is out and it rocks. (ok so no major differnece but still, love the content blocker as well as integerated bit-torrent dl's! check it out. i tried FF and like opera much better.
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Indeed. 😉 I need to get Opera installed on SUSE before I start having withdrawal symptoms.

Yeah I like Opera 9 beta as well, the 'lock tabs' and site-specific content filters specifically, but it is missing the option to tweak how fast your pages are rendered, last time I checked. So that was kind of a deal breaker for me but I'll probably install it anyway because the other features are more important now that I think about it. Now all I need is to start Proxomitron under wine so I can have an ad-block proxy. Shouldn't be too hard, as Proxomitron is a rather compact program. I'll provide a quick HOWTO write-up if I manage to get Proxomitron to install, but that'll be in another thread.
 
I have 2 shots.

The first one is a shot of my desktop in action. Drag-n-drop a playlist from Amarok to K3b to burn as a audio disk I just ripped using Grip.
http://img89.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot12bd.png

It's some KDE apps in Gnome. I have one panel at the top MacOS 9-style. Drop down window selection in the upper right hand corner, and a drawer in the upper right hand with the gnome menu and currently-most-used apps in it (open in that shot). For convience the corners of the screen are nice. You just throw your mouse cursor up in the corner, it's basicly impossible to miss those corners so that makes for very quick access to my apps on one side and windows on the other. Then the windows-style windows list in the middle.

The second shot..
http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=session18jh.png

Thats what It normally looks like when I am not doing much on it. I have the apps and such open on desktop 2, this is showing desktop 3. Notice how the window list doesn't show any apps.. it only shows apps on the current desktop. The drop down window selection shows them on all desktops though. So for finding windows on the current workspace it's easy using the windows-style system, but when I forget were I put a paticular windows I can find it easy and quickly with the mac-os style drop down list.

Also have my desktop search bar open showing a search for 'anandtech'.

It's basicly nothing more then a gnome desktop with the bottom panel removed and a drawer containing the gnome 'start' menu, rather then the menu in the upper left corner like it usually is. Nothing fancy. Also using openbox window manager instead of the default metacity, but that's not apparent in the screen shot.
 
Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
I wonder who's going to be the first to post their XGL/Compiz desktop. 🙂
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I posted a few a month or two ago I think 🙂

Stupid ati driver updated killed that though. Oh well.
 
Actually I was able to play an OpenGL-accelerated game (Quake 3) in windowed mode on Xgl with a medicore, playable FPS. A little buggy (lightmaps don't work, must use vertex lighting) but it was fine. It's worth sacrificing for how cool this thing is on the desktop. I suggest everyone try it. 😀 It looks better than my XP could ever hope to.
 
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