show off your desktop

by **Crusher** » 05.11.10

Laptop

by **natirips** » 05.15.10

Finally, I represent you the gnome-panel-less GNOME:

After a millenia of searching the web, pointless considerations of modifying the GNOME source, asking many people and what not, a lightbuld flashed above my head:

Lightbuld wrote:Wait...

Code: Select all: natirips@nati-lap:/razno/progr/laxni-gnome-panel$ ls gnome-panel gnome-panel.c natirips@nati-lap:/razno/progr/laxni-gnome-panel$ cat gnome-panel.c #include<unistd.h> int main(){while(1)sleep(50000);return 0;} natirips@nati-lap:/razno/progr/laxni-gnome-panel$ echo This shows how to hack GNOME and "remove" gnome-panel from your interface. I've done this since they didn't allow me to this normally, so I used this dirty hack :). I use lxpanel instead becasue it saves CPU, memory and screen space. It is so sleak that you can hardly even see it (it's in the middle of the bottom of my screen). I like the rest of GNOME though. I once tried gnome-shell, has some nice concepts but is a piece of s**t all in all. bash: syntax error near unexpected token `)' natirips@nati-lap:/razno/progr/laxni-gnome-panel$ echo Noooo, the error. Noooo, the error. natirips@nati-lap:/razno/progr/laxni-gnome-panel$ cc gnome-panel.c -o gnome-panel;sudo cp `which gnome-panel` `which gnome-panel`-therealone;sudo cp gnome-panel `which gnome-panel`

by **Unclefragger** » 05.15.10

what is it you like about gnome that you go through all that hassle instead of just switching to a more lightweight wm/de?

by **natirips** » 05.15.10

Unclefragger wrote:what is it you like about gnome that you go through all that hassle instead of just switching to a more lightweight wm/de?

For a start, the fact that touchpad's settings actually take effect (I haven't observed such a phenomenom on any other WM/DE so far including KDE and Xfce /! (I guess I have a very strange touhpad)). Also, I love eog's "set as desktop background" function, than there's a neat Appearance Preferences, compiz can run with it (this is practically an absolute must to me), it's not falling apart (KDE and Xfce never worked well for me), and I had no objections to it(GNOME) other than gnome-panel eating insane amount of memory and maybe the curable (by "killall nautilus;nautilus") nautilus issue when it doesn't free memory after it's not needed anymore.

ATM, my system takes less than 256MB of ram after bootup with compiz, ftp, ssh, etc. servers and all my background toys running.

by **Rylius** » 05.17.10

gnome-panel started up with using very few ram for me, but after 12 hours it always was at 180mb

http://imagesload.net/img/desktop6.png
left ubuntu behind, needed a new system anyways

Now I realised how much I screwed up my previous installation :shock:

Microphone, UrT, speakers - work

Isn't a great difference, Mint is based on Ubuntu

by **AimMe** » 05.17.10

Rylius wrote:gnome-panel started up with using very few ram for me, but after 12 hours it always was at 180mb

http://imagesload.net/img/desktop6.png
left ubuntu behind, needed a new system anyways
Now I realised how much I screwed up my previous installation
Microphone, UrT, speakers - work
Isn't a great difference, Mint is based on Ubuntu

Might try but i'll wait for new version to be fully released

by **natirips** » 05.20.10

And the girly edition

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by **dmmh** » 06.01.10

modifying my desktop as we speak, this is the most current version. Not quite done, need to make more icons for my applications, wanne get rid of all the image based application icons and replace them with the text versions for in the dock

by **dmmh** » 06.01.10

natirips wrote:And the girly edition .
girly desktop lol 20100520.png

omg, aside from the pic...the colors...the icons...the horror!

how can you bare to look at that man! :lol:

by **Rayne** » 06.02.10

dmmh wrote:
natirips wrote:And the girly edition .
girly desktop lol 20100520.png

omg, aside from the pic...the colors...the icons...the horror!

how can you bare to look at that man!