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Is this your desktop ? Well, it's the BBQ "Proof" release running on one of my test machines, so I guess it's one of my desktops. :) It's easy to get that transparent effect using the Xfce compositor. Just select "Window Manager Tweaks" from the main menu and then adjust the tra...

Hehe Pidsley, I know oh I know, I have given up on it tbh :) but.. I do really like the bit about it, that we can do what ever we want in that WM. Maybe too much choice in this case , does not work. It confuses and un-focuses people too much, I think to use it properly, a person needs to be very di...

simginBBQs wrote: I love the background window ( non focused one) almost faded to nothing, brilliant :)

You can fade any terminal to almost transparent if you configure it correctly.

fvwm can do almost anything, but you can spend hours, or days, or weeks, configuring it :)

Is that Fvwm ? :) No, it's wm2. A very simple stacking window manager, and about as far from fvwm as you can get -- it can only be reconfigured by rebuilding. :) It's in the repo if you want to try it, and you can read more about it in the wiki: http://linuxbbq.org/wiki/index.php?title=Wm2 Or did y...

"Proof" is an excellent release for testing window managers. Here is wm2.

All that in a 574M iso. Impressive work as always baconmeister.

yes, my home networks have a few Windows machines and family members need them to access network... i guess i need lots of support on samba. :( Well, some of the steps are still the same. You can still set the machine up to autologin to a console. You can still set up ssh so you can control it from...

a headless box, sitting at a corner, with one 1TB usb disk , and use it just to share files over home network with other computers can it be done? of course with lots of help from forumers here ???:):) help needed on how to do it.. Yes, this can be done. I have an even older machine doing exactly t...

Welcome to the BBQ kowloonboy.

paolo wrote:May I suggest E17 for the next dishes ? :-)

May I suggest "apt-get install e17"? :)

roald: Y U no add "wiki" link at top of page?

This is also interesting, if you are open to another opinion.

rhowaldt wrote:@bacon: well, i must say that your Proof is indisputable. however, i still know and love Openbox too much to switch over to XFCE. so call me bloated, if you must :D

We must. You're bloated.

For someone who does mind-expanding drugs, you have a very closed mind when it comes to your desktop... :)

Last chance wux, does the machine have any open expansion slots? PCI VGA cards are super cheap. Plus you could add a little more memory when you have it open.

But really, I think you like whining about your ancient machine... :)

FWIW, virgin runs at 1280x1024 on my test machine.

scrot is here: http://linuxnoob.freeforums.org/post8003.html#p8003

Proof installed and running well in 256M memory on the P4 test machine. Using 110M memory with roaster, deadbeef, and two LXterminals running. scrot is here: http://linuxnoob.freeforums.org/post8109.html#p8109

Downloaded and running well from the live session. I will install it on the test machine later today. The live session is using 104M with thunar, roaster, and 2 x lxterminal running.

thanks pidsley, means a lot, i'm really still a beginner. had to look up user* stuff... but it's nice. framebuffer is eluding me, very old hardware 8( i'm on 640x480x8 right now... so not much point having split windows 8) must add, although byobu is (c)canonical 8( i do like it 8) no winding up C-...

Nice work getting it all sorted out, wux.

machinebacon wrote: What it is not:
beginner-friendly

You are not a beginner :)

randiroo76073 wrote:Oh no-es, Making the usb stick worked great...except no wifi. Mine is a usb wifi adapter and it doesn't initialize at all, even before I go to gui, so wicd naturally tells me there is none.

Please post the output of the "lsusb" command.