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v3g4n wrote:MX 16 with mate 1.16 from Stevo's OBS repo and Arc icon and theme

v3g4n wrote:Is this what you are referring to?

v3g4n wrote:Are you using the version from Jessie or from Stevo's OBS repo? How did you install it? This is how I did

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apt-get install --install-recommends mate-desktop-environment
echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stevenpusser:/MATE-1.16/Debian_8.0/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mate-desktop-environment.list 
wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:stevenpusser:MATE-1.16/Debian_8.0/Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

I will try with an antix core install in a VM and see if I get the same

v3g4n wrote:Did you remove the block from any systemd packages from being installed because I'm not even able to install mate-destkop-environment without doing so?

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/home/v3g4n# apt-get install mate-session-manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mate-session-manager : Depends: libsystemd0 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Jerry3904 wrote:Your Torrent ratings are amazing!

tascoast wrote:Installs neofetch to keep up...

verynicechap wrote:Do not kill me :lipsrsealed:

asqwerth wrote:One question: what icons are you using for the notification area? I don't think those are standard Arc icons.

sunrat wrote:Sunrise photo I took at Ninh Phước beach, Vietnam a few years ago.

gnostalgia wrote:It wont stay this way for long. I am always changing the desktop. ...

sunrat wrote:Sunrise photo I took at Ninh Phước beach, Vietnam a few years ago.

KoO wrote:The scripts were not made by me i just edited them..

Coastie wrote: Sorry if this is in wrong place. I could not find where to post desktop screenshots.

Richard wrote:I like the blue/abstract.

cyrilus31 wrote:@antechdesigns : Elegant. I like it very much

asqwerth wrote: Antechdesign's teal cardboard wallpaper, startbutton and pulse apt-notifier icons.

Theme = Deco, WM theme = arc-dark

And the reason why I prefer the logo in the middle of the WP ... is that my weather conky for MX14 and now its successor MX16 is at the bottom right corner. The usual logo placement for MX clashed with it.

...nice vision who do I make the invoice out too?

antechdesigns wrote:
FULL SIZE: http://ant-ony.deviantart.com/art/Desktop-689017913

asqwerth wrote:

antechdesigns wrote:
FULL SIZE: http://ant-ony.deviantart.com/art/Desktop-689017913

antech, are those the Mint icons with their blue folder option? I always thought they were a nice variant of Faenza with a few original icons of their own (e.g. Graphics icon).

Faeanza-based icon theme with a few new app-icons, blue or green folders and new mimetype icons.
Primary developed for Linux Mint and Ubuntu GNOME. Limited support for KDE Plasma.

vamsi wrote:My Customized MX-16.1 Desktop with ARC-RED-OSX MAC Theme


https://ibb.co/ipiJtQ
https://ibb.co/d0iySk
https://ibb.co/nffnnk

Jerry3904 wrote:That looks great!

asqwerth wrote:Icons = Sardi-arc, but with Antechdesign's icons for MX-Tools, DefaultLook, Apt-Notifier and Start Button.
I'm using compiz, and the emerald theme for the window top and borders is Emerald Edge.
Otherwise, the gtk theme = arc-grey-dark

http://imgur.com/KyH23CM

antechdesigns wrote:
Would you like MX-Tools, DefaultLook, Apt-Notifier and Start Button Sardi icons to match ?

asqwerth wrote:

antechdesigns wrote:
Would you like MX-Tools, DefaultLook, Apt-Notifier and Start Button Sardi icons to match ?

Yes please!! for all but the Apt-Notifier icon. I think it should look a little different from the rest in the notification area so that I'll notice when there are updates.

Jerry3904 wrote:That is really fine!

Jerry3904 wrote:defaultLook

Jerry3904 wrote:I did like them all, in fact, but particularly the dL

antechdesigns wrote:Forgot the shadow on the start button
sardiStart.png

Are you able to export your emerald theme using Emerald Theme Manager?

i_ri wrote:hello Jerry3904
hi richb You got us thinking that faba iconset was your favorite and that nothing could pry you from it. purple with vivacious; Great, Crisp. how does faba look on that desktop of yours. you must have tried it by now. I just like vibrancy a bit more than vivacious. and hard to pry me off tango. You would be the first to say to each their own. ain't it great.

asqwerth wrote:Very nice, Curmudgeon. What icon set are you using?

asqwerth wrote:Welcome!

Very pretty first post. Default dark theme looks nice with Obsidian grey folders and that's a well matched wallpaper. Do you have a link to the wallpaper?.

richb wrote:Nice icon pack and integrates well with your wallpaper. Welcome to the Forum.

Stevo wrote:I like the icons, too. I'll try and package them for the repo.

Later...found and fixed a problem with the Mint theme appearing as a duplicate Gray theme instead of Mint in the settings, so I'm repackaging.

Stevo wrote:We've had quite a bit of discussion recently on the developer's forum about the Adapta theme, and the stock teal highlights version is in the MX 17 test repo, as well as System 76's "pop" variant. I also figured out how to build less garish highlight versions that use indigo and blue-gray as selection colors, as well as the monochrome adaptdark fork. However, it seems that only gtk3 desktops really get the full benefit of Adapta, and xfce is still gtk2. And we all agreed that the stark white light colored theme in xfce, as you can see in that screenshot, was really not going to work for us.The dark themes do look a lot better, though.

Building Adapta from source requires a newer gtk3 than we have for MX 16; I assume that the different colored variants in your link are just the finished builds that are put in the download. Adapta starts out with just vector svg files and then generates bitmaps using Inkscape, as well as all the css files for the supported versions of gtk 3 (3.18 is the absolute lowest that is supported), during a rather lengthy build. There is a way to use multiple cores during the build by using the "parallel" package, though--that speeds up the builds a lot.

miker107 wrote: I have just removed adapta, I see the incompatibility now as certain apps were looking horrible. Thanks for the very thorough education on the subject. I now understand just how complex these themes are. Oh, and I happen to love the "pop" theme as well, so it would be nice if these themes could be incorporated into MX in the future.

asqwerth wrote:

miker107 wrote: I have just removed adapta, I see the incompatibility now as certain apps were looking horrible. Thanks for the very thorough education on the subject. I now understand just how complex these themes are. Oh, and I happen to love the "pop" theme as well, so it would be nice if these themes could be incorporated into MX in the future.

Adapta and Pop themes are already in the MX17 repos, even though MX17 is still some ways from being released. However, the dark variants all look so much better than the light themes. The reason is that in the light variants, the XFCE panel and whisker menu show up as a blinding bleached white. It's almost painful in its whiteness. You could change your panel settings to set it to a fixed darker colour instead of having it follow the gtk theme, but I'm not sure how to do that for whisker menu.

Of course, if you knew how to tweak the files in the Adapta/Pop light themes to set dark panels/whisker, that would be great.

As for the dark themes, while they show up quite nicely, a lot of impressive animated effects you see in gtk3 desktop environments are lost because XFCE is still a gtk2 desktop at the moment, at least in Debian Jessie and Stretch.

Like Stevo said, we were discussing this in the Dev Team forum, and these were some of my observations about Adapta in XFCE:

Re: dark theme -

1. It's very cool, I love the strong colours, and it's great on Gnome, Cinnamon and Budgie (gtk3) desktops, but it might not have the most visible/identifiable GUI elements in XFCE (gtk2). For instance, in gtk2, you don't have a lot of the mouseover and animated effects you have in gtk3. So a lot of the visual cues are lost, making GUI elements less visible.

2. Look at tabs in Thunar (gtk2). Other dark themes have properly visible outlines for things like active tabs. In Adapta-Nokto, it's so dark you wouldn't know there is a tab if not for the neon blue indicator light below the tab text. If you mouseovered a tab in Nautilus or Nemo file managers (gtk3 apps), the tab would "light up" but not in Thunar.

3. In gtk3 apps, when you click on a tab, a "ripple" of light goes through the tab. You don't get that in a gtk2 app.

4. Same with mousing over items in a folder in Nautilus/Nemo. You don't get that in Thunar or any other gtk2 app.

5. you can compare the difference in MX:
- galculator and Archive manager are gtk3 apps. Open the Preferences dialogue window for these 2 and mouseover all the GUI elements
- do the same with Thunar, any of the other XFCE applications.

Paul.. wrote:@tas...I gotta have that jellyfish background...where from?

antechdesigns wrote:My custom desktop:



view actual size: http://ant-ony.deviantart.com/art/Scree ... 1498145335

i_ri wrote:hello Jerry3904 and everyone
lhb1142 called them "most beautiful" the wallpapers of MX-LINUX.
revisit and stomped out the 16 on a good one. "beach-rocks-resco-of-1812-"
the re:blankd png is 4.3MB. It cannot be shared here. wish we could; kinda proud of the cover-up dots. ...

always like using this machine. set-up with mx. xfce.
spoofing with the word Horizon on this mx-16 wallpaper. must be the pc'display that causes perfect comfort on the d800 with mx-16....

i_ri wrote:hello Jerry3904 and everyone
thank You asqwerth for pointing to the available no logo version
of the "Beach Rocks Resco of 1812" image. Thank You to Peter Roberts, contributor,
and Paul.. for this exquisite wallpaper is one of the "most beautiful" as that referred in posts about MX-Linux backgrounds.

asqwerth wrote: Wed May 16, 2018 1:30 pm Latest screenshot from my test MX15 (Jessie) partition that I'm still using.

The Lollypop media player running is the flatpak version since Jessie's gtk+ version is too old to run Lollypop otherwise.

It works but not for themeing. No matter what gtk theme you apply, flatpak Lollypop will just show up in standard Adwaita theme....

Artim wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 12:07 pm Playing around with MX-Clocky and Neofetch for the first time

asqwerth wrote:by @male

#!/bin/bash
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
#inspiration: jpdipsy help-scripting: daniel38100 idea: ragamatrix from forum ubuntu-fr
#Examples how-to
#syntaxe calling cartouche BG :
#~/bin/draw_bg_convert.sh crea_cart "BG" "715x105" "cadre" "red" "0" "blue" "5"
#crea_cart "BG" "715x102" "cadre" "#00000000" "0" "#00000060" "5" #BG without square
#crea_cart "BG" "715x105" "cadre" "silver" "0" "#00000040" "5" #BG with square
#			^name.png  ^size(x-y) ^frame   |    |	|		|		|
#									  color frame   |		|
#											|		|		|
#											thickness frame |
#													|		|
#													color background
#															|
#															corner radius
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#													
#You can change the reptemp path by your /pathes/choices you want																												  
if [ ! -z $9 ];then
    reptemp="$9"
elif [ -z $4 ];then
    reptemp=/tmp
elif [ $4 != "cadre" ];then
    reptemp=$4
else
    reptemp=/tmp
fi

echo $reptemp > ~/test.log
case "$1" in
    crea_cart )
        nom="$reptemp/$2.png" ;export image_"$2"="$nom" ;taille="$3";cadre="$4";couleur="$5";bordure="$6";couleurfond="$7";arrondi="$8"
        if [[ $4 = "cadre" ]];then
            # rectangle 1px de moins sur la taille
            L=$(echo $taille|cut -d x -f1);L=$((L - 1))
            H=$(echo $taille|cut -d x -f2);H=$((H - 1))
            convert -size "$taille" xc:none  -fill "$couleurfond" -strokewidth "$bordure" -stroke "$couleur" -draw "roundrectangle 1,1 $L,$H $arrondi,$arrondi" "$nom"
        else
            convert  -size "$taille" xc:none "$nom"
        fi

 ;;
esac

exit 

male wrote: Sun Jul 01, 2018 2:39 pm ....
I'd like to give you this script. The how-to is written at the beginning (you will understand it). It makes backgrounds for your Conky's in a simple way. I got it from a good friend

draw_bg_convert.sh

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#!/bin/bash
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
#inspiration: jpdipsy help-scripting: daniel38100 idea: ragamatrix from forum ubuntu-fr
#Examples how-to
#syntaxe calling cartouche BG :
#~/bin/draw_bg_convert.sh crea_cart "BG" "715x105" "cadre" "red" "0" "blue" "5"
#crea_cart "BG" "715x102" "cadre" "#00000000" "0" "#00000060" "5" #BG without square
#crea_cart "BG" "715x105" "cadre" "silver" "0" "#00000040" "5" #BG with square
#			^name.png  ^size(x-y) ^frame   |    |	|		|		|
#									  color frame   |		|
#											|		|		|
#											thickness frame |
#													|		|
#													color background
#															|
#															corner radius
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#													
#You can change the reptemp path by your /pathes/choices you want																												  
if [ ! -z $9 ];then
    reptemp="$9"
elif [ -z $4 ];then
    reptemp=/tmp
elif [ $4 != "cadre" ];then
    reptemp=$4
else
    reptemp=/tmp
fi

echo $reptemp > ~/test.log
case "$1" in
    crea_cart )
        nom="$reptemp/$2.png" ;export image_"$2"="$nom" ;taille="$3";cadre="$4";couleur="$5";bordure="$6";couleurfond="$7";arrondi="$8"
        if [[ $4 = "cadre" ]];then
            # rectangle 1px de moins sur la taille
            L=$(echo $taille|cut -d x -f1);L=$((L - 1))
            H=$(echo $taille|cut -d x -f2);H=$((H - 1))
            convert -size "$taille" xc:none  -fill "$couleurfond" -strokewidth "$bordure" -stroke "$couleur" -draw "roundrectangle 1,1 $L,$H $arrondi,$arrondi" "$nom"
        else
            convert  -size "$taille" xc:none "$nom"
        fi

 ;;
esac

exit