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lxskllr said:
That picture's interesting to look at, but way to busy for my desktop. Save a file to the desktop, and it'll take you a half hour to find it :^D
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Agreed! It was a New Year's Day party treat -- that's all.

Here's how my desktop looks now... 😉


Ubuntu 12.04 a1 / Conky 1.8.1 / ACYL / Unity 5.0 / nVidia 290.10 / Liquorix 3.1

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That's more like something I'd use :^)

Here's my latest. As usual, little has changed. Still snowy on my desktop, if not my house :^D

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Ya know what would be interesting? Skew your desktop icons so they looked like they were hanging on the wall. You'd be limiting your desktop choices to surfaces that would work with the skew you used, but it would be a nifty effect.
 
lxskllr said:
Ya know what would be interesting? Skew your desktop icons so they looked like they were hanging on the wall. You'd be limiting your desktop choices to surfaces that would work with the skew you used, but it would be a nifty effect.
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I like that vintage Ubuntu desk. The old wallpapers are my favorite, and I still use them every so often. I much prefer the brown and orange scheme over the current eggplant :^/

This is my latest, warts and all. I usually like to keep a clean desk, but I have a couple projects I've shelved for the time being, and there's crap everyhere :^D

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Decided to show you guys my laptop screen. It's Debian Squeeze. It's running Gnome 2 but both the bottom and top panels are autohidden. I've been debating putting conky into it somehow but I don't know how much I really want on my desktop, as you can tell I'm a hardcore minimalist.

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alyarb said:
none of these sweet themes will work as a VM, right?
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Sure they will. You have to do a GNU/Linux virtual install first, but then you just customize. You may or may not get all the fancy compositing effects like you can do with some distros, but otherwise it's all fair game.
 
alyarb said:
No transparency or anything like that though right? Every linux vm I've used look like crap....
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You should get transparency. I guess a lot of it has to do with the way your vm is setup. I honestly don't have much experience in that regard. When I'm running a vm, it's more for utilitarian purposes, so I'm not trying to make it look its best. I know I've gotten fake transparency, but I'm not sure about real. If you're using VirtualBox, you can enable 3D acceleration. It's a little experimental, and may not work as expected, but it's something to try. I don't have personal experience with that.
 
At the risk of asking too much, is there a way for you to package your config for me or do a P2V? I know absolutely nothing about the level of customization you guys do. I really like your desktop in particular
 
alyarb said:
At the risk of asking too much, is there a way for you to package your config for me or do a P2V? I know absolutely nothing about the level of customization you guys do. I really like your desktop in particular
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I'm not sure of an easy way to package everything, but strip out the personal information. The key elements to the style I'm currently using is the buuf icon theme, Ubuntu font, screenlets desktop widgets, and conky.

This is my conky config, but it may require tweaking to work right on your setup. I also STRONGLY discourage studying my config as an example of conky scripting. I have a bunch of mistakes, and general bad practices with my config, but I got what I wanted, and left it. Some time, I want to go in, and get everything cleaned up, but I'm a big proponent of the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it school" :^)

Code: 
background no
font Ubuntu:size=11
#xftfont Ubuntu:size=14
use_xft yes
xftalpha 0.9
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 0
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 220 5
maximum_width 220
draw_shades yes
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
default_color #C7B69C
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color green
alignment bottom_right
gap_x 12
gap_y 35
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no
uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

TEXT










#${color #555753}SYSTEM ${hr 1}${color}

${color #C7B69C}Hostname: $alignr$nodename${color}
${color #C7B69C}Kernel: $alignr$kernel${color}
${color #C7B69C}Uptime: $alignr$uptime${color}
#${color #C7B69C}Temp: ${alignr}${acpitemp}C${color}
${color #C7B69C}CPU: ${alignr}${freq} MHz${color}
${color #C7B69C}Processes: ${alignr}$processes ($running_processes running)${color}
${color #C7B69C}Load: ${alignr}$loadavg${color}

${color #C7B69C}CPU1 ${alignr}${cpu cpu1}%${color}
${color #555753}${cpubar 4 cpu1}${color}
${color #C7B69C}CPU2 ${alignr}${cpu cpu2}%${color}
${color #555753}${cpubar 4 cpu2}${color}
${color #C7B69C}Ram ${alignr}$mem / $memmax ($memperc%)${color}
${color #555753}${membar 4}${color}
${color #C7B69C}swap ${alignr}$swap / $swapmax ($swapperc%)${color}
${color #555753}${swapbar 4}${color}
${color #555753}Highest CPU $alignr CPU%  MEM%${color}
${color #C7B69C}${top name 1}$alignr${top cpu 1}     ${top mem 1}${color}
${color #C7B69C}${top name 2}$alignr${top cpu 2}    ${top mem 2}${color}
${color #C7B69C}${top name 3}$alignr${top cpu 3}      ${top mem 3}${color}

${color #555753}Highest MEM $alignr CPU%  MEM%${color}
${color #C7B69C}${top_mem name 1}$alignr${top_mem cpu 1}     ${top_mem mem 1}${color}
${color #C7B69C}${top_mem name 2}$alignr${top_mem cpu 2}       ${top_mem mem 2}${color}
${color #C7B69C}${top_mem name 3}$alignr${top_mem cpu 3}       ${top_mem mem 3}${color}
#${color #555753}Filesystem ${hr 1}${color}

${color #C7B69C}Root: ${alignr}${fs_free /} / ${fs_size /}${color}
${color #555753}${fs_bar 4 /}${color}
${color #C7B69C}Home: ${alignr}${fs_free /home} / ${fs_size /home}${color}
${color #555753}${fs_bar 4 /home}${color}
#${color #C7B69C}Swap: ${alignr}$swapperc% $swap/$swapmax ${color}
#${color #555753}${swapbar 4 /swap}${color}
#HDD0: ${alignr}${fs_free /media/HDD0} / ${fs_size /media/HDD0}
#${fs_bar 4 /media/HDD0}

#${color #555753}NETWORK ${hr 1}${color}
${color #C7B69C}Down     ${downspeed eth1}  ${alignr}Up     ${upspeed eth1} ${color}
${color #555753}${downspeedgraph eth1 25,107} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth1 25,107}${color}
${color #C7B69C}Total ${totaldown eth1} ${alignr}Total ${totalup eth1}${color}

#${color #555753}WEATHER ${hr 1}${color}
#${execi 1800 /home/tux2/Scripts/weather.sh SWXX0006}
#${color #555753}Date ${hr 2}${color}
${voffset 4}${font Ubuntu:size=12}${color #C7B69C}${alignc 80}${time %A}${font}
${voffset 6}${if_match ${time %e}<=9}${font DroidSansFallback:bold:size=19} ${color4}${alignc 85}${time %e}${font}${else}${if_match ${time %e}>=10}${font Ubuntu:bold:size=22}${color #555753}${alignc 80}${time %e}${font}${endif}${endif}
${voffset 8}${font Ubuntu:size=12}${color #C7B69C}${alignc 80}${time %B}${font}
${voffset 10}${font Ubuntu:size=12}${color #C7B69C}${alignc 80}${time %Y}${font}
###### Uncomment the following line for Conky 1.8.0 ######
${voffset -95}${font LiberationMono:size=9}${color #C7B69C}${execpi 60 VinDSL_Cal_6=`date +%-d`;cal|sed -e "1d" -e 's/^/${offset 75}/' -e 's/\<'$VinDSL_Cal_6'\>/${color4}&${color #C7B69C}/'}${font}
## Uncomment the following line for Conky 1.8.1 ##
##${voffset -75}${offset 100}${font LiberationMono:size=8}${color3}${execpi 60 VinDSL_Cal_6=`date +%-d`;cal|sed -e "1d" -e 's/\<'$VinDSL_Cal_6'\>/${color4}&${color3}/'}${font}
#${voffset -97}${font CutOutsFor3DFX:size=64}${color8}${alignc 97}2${font}
####DeaDBeeF####
${color #555753}   ~~~~~~~DeaDBeeF~~~~~~~${color}
${font Ubuntu:size=9:bold}${color #C7B69C}${execi 2 deadbeef --nowplaying "%t"}$font
${execi 2 deadbeef --nowplaying "%a"}
${execi 2 deadbeef --nowplaying "%b"}
${font Ubuntu:size=8:bold}${execi 2 deadbeef --nowplaying "%y"}$font                                        ${font Ubuntu:size=8}${execi 2 deadbeef --nowplaying "%e"}${offset 2}/${offset 2}${execi 2 deadbeef --nowplaying "%l"}$font
#${texeci 20 ~/.config/conky/db-cover.sh}${image ~/.config/conky/#conkyCover.png}

Edit:
I missed some of the code copy/pasting. It's corrected now.
 
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Here's mine. I had a catastrophic failure, and am now running Debian testing. Trying to get things back on track with an unfamiliar desktop :^/

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