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manyroads wrote: Thu Dec 26, 2019 4:06 pm
Vlad's work (wallpapers etc.) are always a joy.

That is true. It's the whimsical way he looks at the world in his art.

I downloaded quite a few of them some years ago and have no idea if he is still going strong or creating new works.

I posted this for Christmas 2016:

viewtopic.php?p=402586#p402586

Unfortunately that screenshot is no longer found on the hosting site.

But I still have the Santa+winged giraffes wallpaper from Vlad!

Hello darknetmatrix and everyone

Hi, here's my take on a MX-fluxbox desktop, with almost the same functionality and user experience as the regular MX-Linux...
I hope you guys like it, it shows how flexible Fluxbox desktop is... You can make it look almost anyway you want it to be, without having to be a professional programmer :-)

Notes:
- I don't use the toolbar on the left side, I just put it there for the screenshot.
- I don't mind not having desktop icons, but I posted a easy way to have the same desktop image and icons as you do on the regular MX-Linux, over on the MX-Fluxbox thread...
- I'm using skidoo's Fluxbox version, that allows for desktop shortcuts, and using a font (of my own creation) that displays glyphs than I can use as icons...
- I cleaned up a bit the Fluxbox menu, so it fits my taste...
- I'm also using my default Conky, I didn't even have to configure anything for that to work...
- technical side note and idea- if you use MX-Fluxbox because you have a low RAM device and even so you want the "pleasures" of using MX-Linux... This tip can help a bit- I'm not running the usb-ejector. The "Eject" button you see on my toolbar is only a quick launcher that uses no RAM, and fires up the usb-ejector itself... why wast RAM having that application running the entire time when a simple icon would do? :-)





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Hello darknetmatrix and Everyone

.MX-19_64
DE: Xfce
WM: Xfwm4
WM Theme: Matcha-aliz
Theme: Raleigh [GTK2], Adwaita [GTK3]
Icons: Tango [GTK2], Adwaita [GTK3]
Any little piece of Panel or Desktop has a Logout button.
Full Whisker menu in Panel, right-click Desktop full application menu, right-click Home icon full application menu, alt+F2 application finder, click Panel-WindowMenu or middle-click Desktop for window list all windows and workspace list, Workspace Switcher hide intelligently is drag and drop windows click to switch workspace.

I use two different workspaces daily and a third one about 2 - 3 times per week for our Online server related stuff. I like to keep them graphically separated, especially the one where I do my graphic work, in order to be a little less distracting than the other two. Only the primary workspace background changes every 24 hours. The other two stay as they are.
Uh, and, ah ... HAPPY NEW YEAR ... everyone !!! MX 19 (and its developers) ROCKS !!!

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I miss the old Dark Teal openbox/gtk theme by hhh from Bunsenlabs, which doesn't appear to have been updated.

So I fired up oomox to get something reminiscent of it, that works with MX19/Buster/gtk3.24.




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

https://imgur.com/nRmAuYl

Sober and somber -- nice!

OMG! What have I done? WHAT HAVE I DONE?

(Windows, anyone?)

JayM wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 4:52 am OMG! What have I done? WHAT HAVE I DONE?

(Windows, anyone?)

Haha.

You should package the whole icon/gtk theme package, or provide links and instructions to all you did, so that members who want to dress up MX that way - perhaps for the comfort of new users - can do what you did.