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Googling for 'MX19 KDE' I saw that there is still my screenshot for... MX-14! So we have to update this.
Here comes my recent screenshot for MX-19 KDE in a classic 'Mepis Style' (as usual on my computers).
The actual screen is 1920 x 1080, but this screenshot has been resized to 1280 x 800, so it becomes lighter.
Enjoy!

Nice!

You see, the legacy Mepis Style but with a grain of pepper: MX on its purest state.
The antiX Conky is one of the best, and very useful for me.

Nice to chat with you also, Jerry!

Eduard.

One of the DEs I've used recently and really enjoyed using is Crunchbang Plus Plus. I just love the simple greyscale elegance and minimal design. So, I decided yesterday to install MX-KDE to metal and see what I could come up with in terms of replicating the aesthetics of #!++ and the utilities of KDE. It's still very much a work in progress but in about 30-40 mins I got this far:

https://i.imgur.com/VtkyM8L.png

I'm not 100% happy with the choice of Conky but I'm not an advanced enough user to come up with my own. The shortcuts I copied and pasted from a Bunsenlabs .config file I found online and at the moment isn't accurate in regards to my actual shortcuts. The top panel is Tint2.

I'm a big fan of Krusader file manager, the Excalibur menu, Oxygen window decorations and the Waterleaf icons. I made the bottom Plasma panel autohide but here's the effect with everything visible:

https://i.imgur.com/miYROms.png

There'll be a bit more tinkering to come but I'm very happy with the results thus far. And very happy with MX-KDE which allows me to actually run Conky on Plamsa

Looks impressive, good work :)

Very minimalist. Very utilitarian. I like it.

I used Crunchbang from version 9 to 11, and I used to love their minimalist overall look as well as their wallpapers.

I still have the crunchbang 9 WP collection, and some time ago I asked Auro to make an MX version of their "architectural drawing " WP.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/aurokumar ... 672882131/

asqwerth wrote: Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:48 am I used Crunchbang from version 9 to 11, and I used to love their minimalist overall look as well as their wallpapers.

I still have the crunchbang 9 WP collection, and some time ago I asked Auro to make an MX version of their "architectural drawing " WP.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/aurokumar ... 672882131/

Ha - nice. Thanks for sharing!

With thanks to Auro: that's his wallpaper and he introduced me to the Simple Menu plugin, which is reminiscent of Whisker menu, except Favourites (and all categories of apps) are displayed as icons instead of as program names.



https://imgur.com/XilCiib

asqwerth wrote: Tue Oct 13, 2020 12:19 pm

https://imgur.com/XilCiib

Nice Conky. Is it from MX Linux or is it your own creation?

It's modified from a very old " Google Now " conky variant from the days when the Yahoo weather API still worked ( 2013 or earlier). After that I signed up for a openweathermap api key (you need to have an API key to call on openweather info), and adjusted the conky to read the weather for location from openweather.

Also added the weather forecast for 3 days to that said conky, instead of it just displaying current weather .

I'm not at my home computer right now but see this:

viewtopic.php?p=452190#p452190

viewtopic.php?f=95&t=38885&p=386873&hilit=Yahoo#p386873

That related to a mod I did of a different Google Now variant from that time.
https://www.deviantart.com/satya164/art ... -366545753

Weather portion of that adjusted conky of mine is provided, as well as the renumbered weather icons.


Openweather may not be as accurate for some places as , for instance, AccuWeather, but at least openweather isn't engaged in a constant struggle to prevent users from accessing its info for free (see teobigusgeekus' thread on weather conkies on bunsenlabs forum where he has to keep changing his script for AccuWeather).

PS. I do use the TBG AccuWeather scripts as well in other conkies but they stop working once in a while and have to be changed.


[ADDED: so in my first link above, forum member male posted really nice weather conkies in that thread for Eadwine Rose using accuweather script. None of those conkies will work now without changing the previous TBG script, and in certain cases also adjusting the conky itself to refer to different data reference numbers for the various bits of weather data being called up, due to accuweather changing the order of their information. Meanwhile all my conkies that use openweathermap data continue to work fine]

hello eselma and everyone

asqwerth wrote: Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:08 pm It's modified from a very old " Google Now " conky variant from the days when the Yahoo weather API still worked ( 2013 or earlier)...

Thanks for detailed info. The Conky colors and rounded features reminded me of early Ubuntu, circa 2006 - 2009. Nice font too.

The round corners and background are drawn by a lua script, which is beyond my understanding to be honest. I just use it.

The font is Open Sans. All the Google Now conkies from that period seemed to use it, but then I guess most of the conkies were variations of the same original Google Now conky which was inspired by Android's weather info display style.

MX-19.3_KDE_x64 patito feo

Changed from XFCE to KDE. Never used KDE before, but I really like it. I followed a 'LinuxScoop' KDE customization video to achieve this result.

Images are: Desktop / Busy Desktop / Desktop with music playing in the background

Well here is my old laptop and the customizations I gave it:

https://imgur.com/a/qcui9AE

Here is the wallpaper featuring characters from a comic book series I hope to launch someday featuring anthro rabbit cyborg superheroes:

https://www.deviantart.com/soulment/art ... -869204456

Its not my art as i cant draw, more of a writer but have a plan to get around that by hiring artists for my project.

hello eselma and everyone