noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

[franksinistra]

Have you tried dkeger, mate? Those colors aren't healthy for the eyes

[noo_b_nomnoms]

I have tried it, but I don't know which colors are for the fonts or how to change that :(
That's what I've been reading up on, but I have never played with fonts outside a gui control center, and I am seriously scratching my head. I know I need them lighter so I can at least see them. Also for some reason when dkeger writes out it shows a missing colon on line 26 of xrdb ( I swear I haven't touched it- because I don't know where to find it, lols), and it ignores that line.

[pidsley]

Check ~/.Xresources.

If you are wondering how dkeger works, just open it in a text editor and look at the code.

[noo_b_nomnoms]

^Thanks!

[noo_b_nomnoms]

A Violator scrot with a picture I took of the Arizona desert as a background.

[wuxmedia]

I like the lo-fi desert shot...
I see you managed to install dropbox then :)

[machinebacon]

^^ Do you *need* bluetooth support?

[noo_b_nomnoms]

I have a BT speaker, and was thinking about moving some phone pics. I can't figure the BT out,though :( Wasted space. The best I have ever done with BT on Linux is move a few files on some distrowatch (can't even remember which) and once I connected a speaker. I think I should give up on the BT, lols

[noo_b_nomnoms]

Distrowatch, lols. Autocorrect on my phone :-/ Dropbox was a snap with gdebi, wux :)

[machinebacon]

I would transfer files with ssh/sftp/scp, much quicker than bluetooth. On the phone I use ES File Explorer for this. No idea what to do with the bluetooth speakers, though. Usually, you would install pulseaudio, pulseaudio-module-bluetooth and paman, I guess. There might be an easier, CLI-ish way to do this, but honestly, I have never used BT on the computer, at least not for audio.

[rhowaldt]

imo, bluetooth speakers are a pain. i find it is a seldom situation where you actually *need* them, and cannot just go with wired. unless you have a SO who bitches about too many wires, but you should basically just tell her to fuck off cause computers have wires, sorry.

[machinebacon]

Bluetooth is the Betamax of 2016. Flush it.

[noo_b_nomnoms]

The speakers had an aux input, so really no need at all to use BT, I just wanted to see if I could, and you are both correct- BT is a serious pain, lols. The only problem with ssh and the others is that they require me to use my data plan on the road if I can't find a decent wifi, but I have used my phone as a ftp site and it works great!
Right now I am bloating the heck out of a Mate desktop that I installed over Break on my "new" Lenovo T500 Thinkpad. Yay! I have also installed i3wm and will be working on that later. I love this laptop! :)

[simgin]

^ looks good Nomnom. Damn it, I think that I am the only one not with a Thinkpad in this forum :S

[noo_b_nomnoms]

My usual overkill. I will cry about the results later- alone in a corner somewhere....lols.
The wallpaper is another of my desert shots that I just liked. So I changed my colors to something softer.
Today I am going very basic with the Egeszsegedre on an empty partition on one of my usb drives, so I can learn there. MY idiot box is ready for those times when I am just too lazy to think, so my world is back right again, lols.

[ChefIronBelly]

You had me at Hello :)

[noo_b_nomnoms]

^Thanks :) Keep your fingers crossed that some of the wisdom I've been trying to soak in around here has stuck, lols :)

[Theo]

@Simgin, you're not the only one. All my laptops are HP-types :)

@nomnoms if you like the look of mate, perhaps JWM might be an alternative.
You can create the 2 panels which looks pretty much the same.
I found this years ago in *I believe* the Puppy Linux forum, not that I was a Puppy linux user, but so now and then I looked there for JWM-themes.

This is the jwmtray code (example):

<JWM>
<Tray autohide="true" valign="bottom" insert="right" x="0" y="-1" border="1" height="28" >
<TrayButton popup="show desktop" icon="mini-desktop.xpm">showdesktop</TrayButton>
<!-- Additional TaskList attribute: maxwidth -->
<TaskList maxwidth="120"/>
</Tray>
<Tray autohide="true" valign="top" halign="center" height="28" >
<TrayButton label="menu" popup="arf" icon="mini-dog.xpm">root:3</TrayButton>
<TrayButton popup="run command" icon="gexec.xpm">exec:gexec</TrayButton>
<TrayButton popup="console" icon="mini-sh.xpm">exec:rxvt</TrayButton>
<!-- Additional Pager attributes; width, height, ? -->
<Pager/>
<Dock/>
<!-- Additional Swallow attribute: height -->
<Swallow name="blinky">blinkydelayed -bg "#555555"</Swallow>
<Swallow name="asapm">asapmshell -u 4</Swallow>
<Swallow name="xload" width="40">xload -nolabel -fg red -hl white -bg "#35215B"</Swallow>
<Clock format="%T ">minixcal</Clock>
</Tray>
</JWM>
..bearing in mind newer versions of jwm may have different attributes (I know for sure the pager has a new bunch for layout format) and your swallows are probably different (I used most of the values from an old p420) .. your sound mixer and other systray stuff should show in the Dock/ (opera, xpad, a few players and wine things). Some of my attributes may be useless in this example (not in a pup atm, so Embarassed ) - in any case a quick jwm reload should refresh and show tray changes after you edit/save.

___additional-'120603___

Actually the jwmconfig,JWMtab->Tray Management->Tray Configuration Options->Tray Placement should go as bottom for the more-or-less default tray if no valign attribute is specified Rolling Eyes

width attribute works for Swallows if the tray is horizontal rather than vertical

freememapplet and freememappletshell have been deprecated in favor of freememapplet_tray (or freememapplet-tray which is sort of a retro look), both of them showing in the systray rather than as swallows

for side trays insert="down" or "up" (for window buttons in the TaskList), layout="vertical" usually makes more sense for side trays

x and y attributes can fine-tune position if the corresponding *align is left out. fiddle with border if you like.

pager is another story now - jwm >5xx can do arrays in rows, columns or both if the number of desks supports the logic. see jwmconfig,JWMtab->Tray Management->Tray Configuration Options->Virtual Desktops (>2 rows isn't on the dropdown, but it enters ok)
bonus sample Wink
Code:
<JWM>
<Tray autohide="true" x="1" y="150" halign="right" border="0" width="180" layout="vertical">
<!-- Additional Pager attributes; width, height -->
<Pager/>
</Tray>
</JWM>

I'm not telling you to use a different WM, but it's perhaps an idea that you might like :)
I used it an edit some things on my old Delicate Linux machine and this was the result:

[ivanovnegro]

The second shot looks already better, specially the colors. But man, you have an awful taste in fonts. :) Why using italics?

[simgin]

^^ Is that on a netbook? Just thinking of the screen size :)
Or of course if you use massive icons and fonts, it would be a different matter :D