MX Fluxbox Screenshots

[AVLinux]

@Melber

That's a great cohesive look!

[Melber]

@AVLinux thanks, glad you like it.
Pretty much just based on stuff from the default install; style is just recolored MX-Comfort, panel is a reworking of the mx-workspaces tint2. Only new things are the close-active button and the wallpaper.

In case someone's interested, the Materia theme can be installed directly from MXPI,

[AVLinux]

@AVLinux thanks, glad you like it.
Pretty much just based on stuff from the default install; style is just recolored MX-Comfort, panel is a reworking of the mx-workspaces tint2. Only new things are the close-active button and the wallpaper.

In case someone's interested, the Materia theme can be installed directly from MXPI,

Materia is a very nice theme, sadly discontinued and as I recall it behaves badly with certain apps on occasion (I think I had menu issues with Ardour a while back) I'm sure something that could be fixed in CSS but I didn't dig that deep. Materia and Arc are two 'greatest hits' GTK themes, maybe somebody will fork and continue them if they haven't already...

[kobaian]

First fiddlings with mxfb 23.
I am really liking the Materia gtk theme at the moment, so took that as inspiration for a flat look.

It looks nice, fresh and modern.
In spite of that I still prefer dark themes or a little bit darker grey themes for my everyday work. I think it will be great having the accent color alternatives for MX-Comfort and MX-Comfort dark in the MX-repo in the future.

[Melber]

In spite of that I still prefer dark themes or a little bit darker grey themes for my everyday work.

I'm the opposite. While dark themes can look great I find them too visually oppressive to use for any length of time.

I think it will be great having the accent color alternatives for MX-Comfort and MX-Comfort dark in the MX-repo in the future.

MX-Comfort tool...

[Freja]

First fiddlings with mxfb 23.
I am really liking the Materia gtk theme at the moment, so took that as inspiration for a flat look.

So Great.

If story. This is MX LINUX 23 "Libretto" Final.
I think the world was excited, saying, "This is epoch-making!"

But MX-23 UI-theme is also similar with MX-21 or MX-19 style.
I Think MX-25 needs refresh to modern UI-theme...
That's my(our) next goal.

MX forums have all kinds of cool UI-themes.
We need to consider which is the most 'elegant and efficient'.
It's also important to unify wallpaper and UI-themes, like Melber's flavor.

PS. If Dev team held "UI-theme competition for MX-25" in long term,
Submission and selection will be heated.
(I want to see the strongest UI theme that survived at the end.)

[wdscharff]

I think I'm really boringly conservative.
I do try out new themes, but like a boomerang I always end up with similar, dark ones. I find it impressive how some themes are pimped here, for me it's mostly round corners, if not already there, and resizing the fonts to fit my monitors/eyes. I also can't really distinguish between "modern" and "old-fashioned", these are subjective terms of personal perception, without relevance for me.

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OS: MX x86_64 
Kernel: 6.4.11-x64v3-xanmod1 
Locale: de_DE.UTF-8 
WM: Fluxbox 
WM Theme: BlueNight 
Theme: mx-comfort-dark [GTK2/3] 
Icons: gnome [GTK2/3] 
Packages: 2163 (dpkg), 6 (flatpak) 
Host: B550M S2H 
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X (12) @ 3.8GHz [54.7°C] 
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 
GPU Driver: nouveau 
Resolution: 3840x2160 @ 60.00Hz, 2560x1440 @ 120.00Hz 
Memory: 2208MiB / 31991MiB (6%) 
Song: Dougie Maclean - The Origin - The Search 
Music Player: mocp 
Disk (/): 28G / 243G (12%) 
Disk (/media/evo850): 464G / 916G (54%) 
Disk (/media/crux2tb): 934G / 1.8T (54%) 
Disk (/media/qvo): 337G / 916G (39%) 
Disk (/media/evo500): 343G / 458G (79%) 

Most of my "pimp me up" is under the bonnet, keys, submenus, scripts, it's all about my comfort and 80% of what you can see are my attempts to create attractive wallpapers for dual monitor operationSometimes the Tint2 panel is on suto hide, sometimes not, sometimes a second panel is visible as a fake icon bar, sometimes not ...etc..
Executors, funny, makes no sense to my eyes, I prefer conky when I want to look at workloads and technical values.
And usually the result is fluxbox images like this one, which always resemble each other over the years.

[kobaian]

Executors, funny, makes no sense to my eyes, I prefer conky when I want to look at workloads and technical values.

For me conky is only a nice looking toy and executors are useful tools in a large variety of situations. When I commit some problems, I'd like to solve, for example I'd like to decrease the resources-consumption while playing YouTube videos by changing the browser settings, I need to have executors on the panel that don't hide under maximized windows. I don't have any idea, how conky could replace the executors.

[wdscharff]

Different hardware: Konky is on my secondary monitor, examinations of any kind take place on the primary monitor. Conky is therefore not covered up on my monitor.
Everything that fits into a bar, I still know from xfce, is too small for my eyesight! I have over 6 diopters and my astigmatism is also in the uncorrectable range (in other words, I live in a world of ellipses, because there are no circles) So everyone has what they need... and for me, exacutors are not one of the things that I could need.

[Melber]

I think I'm really boringly conservative.

Not really, just a different approach. Your focus is taking and presenting great photos, I'm more into fiddling config files to complement an abstracted graphic image. Both are valid ways of doing a desktop.

I live in a world of ellipses, because there are no circles

Circles are just ellipses with no imagination...