eye candy corner

[avernus]

this is a neat one

http://xdesktopwaves.sourceforge.net/

[syouth]

http://www.breedart.org

nice wallpaper materials and xmms/bmp/amp skins.
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[Tuomaz]

When I run Skippy-xd in Gnome DE, windows get maximized over the the Gnome panel. Standard behaviour (when skippy-xd not is running) is that windows get maximized to cover the whole desktop but the panel??

How to fix?

[Xamindar]

[gtr-xu1]

*excellent thread btw*

I have seen a little Desktop System Monitor running on a gentoo box at my Uni - It basically is made up of maybe 5 or 6 Horizontal bars - each one representing a different part of the system. It integrates nicely into wallpaper and does not look like it would use as much precious resources as Gdesklets or Karamba.

For the life of me I cannot remember what its called, I figured somebody in this thread would know. Thanks guys

Laters

[Darkael]

[Dead-Bum]

Here is a neat little trick that I started using a few years ago. It's a way of making Eterm be more than just tinted and transparent. using the --viewport-mode with eterm you can have anything that you can do in gimp be applied to your terminals. See this screenshot for examples of what I'm talking about:

Complex Terminal Tinting Screenshot

The Eterm on the lower right (next to the log) is how I normally keep them, a cool blue tint and a slight ripple. The other three are a little more adventurous but are just to provide an example of how extreme you can make it. Here's how to do it:

The background you are using MUST be exactly the same dimensions as your desktop resolution. So if you're running 800x600, open your background in GIMP and right-click->Image->Scale Image and set it to the right dimensions.

Now, all you have to do is apply something crazy to the image and save it as whateverTint.jpg. So if you wanted the cool blue ripple you could add a blue/green transparent gradient (the gradient tool), then right-click->Filters->Distorts->Waves and set the waves to be have a long wavelength. Save the new image as whateverTint.jpg and exit the gimp.

Now to put that image in our Eterms, you have to issue at least two flags with Eterm, --background-pixmap /the/path/to/the/tinted/image and --viewport-mode so that you can move it around and see different parts of the image depending on location. I keep my tinted pics in the same directory I keep my enlightenment backgrounds, so for instance to launch my eterms I issue the following command (I've got a hotkey for it and an enlightenment menu entry)

[Bigun]

That last tip was badass. And since it's not a script doing the effects (it's a predone pic), it doesn't eat processor power.
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[someguy]

http://thegraveyard.org/skippy.php
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print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<>
)]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`
while [ 1 ] ; do echo "*" | telnet ip.of.print.er 9100 ; done

[Bigun]

[pmatos]

Does anyone has the problem of Skippy-XD and 3ddesktop being toooooooooooooooooooo damn slow? I start one of them and they show up 5-10 secs later and are too slow. Skippy-XD can be even slower, it's sooooooo slow that sometimes get painful! Any tips on getting these babies to run faster? Otherwise they are not usable. I have an intel pentium 4, 2.2Ghz, with an ati radeon mobility 7500 with DRI on!

Any tips?

Paulo Matos

[ph03n1x]

Someone forgot to mention:

adesklets [adesklets.sourceforge.net]

Way more stable than gdesklets here and also beautiful

[Dead-Bum]

[Bigun]

It's 2017, and I still reference this thread.
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