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Useless but **fun** eye candy
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 8:47 am
by manyroads
If you are looking for some fun and want to be super cool and look busy, you might check blessed-contrib out. I have attached an image of it running on my MX18.3 bspwm desktop:
https://i.imgur.com/QcsZIp7.png
If you want to install this highly questionable but fun 'thing' here's the url:
https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib
btw. it does work with the nodejs software from the MX testrepo.
edit moderator: image changed to link
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Re: Useless but **fun** eye candy
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 10:52 am
by Eadwine Rose
Uhm... remember the linked images thing?
viewtopic.php?f=133&t=48374
Re: Useless but **fun** eye candy
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 10:57 am
by manyroads
Re: Useless but **fun** eye candy
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 1:50 pm
by Sparky
Looks good! What panel is being used at the bottom?
Re: Useless but **fun** eye candy
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 2:50 pm
by Eadwine Rose
manyroads wrote: Tue Jul 23, 2019 10:57 am
I did link with
You're not supposed to link large images like that. Max sizes are indicated in that post I linked to.
Re: Useless but **fun** eye candy
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:12 pm
by manyroads
Eadwine Rose wrote: Tue Jul 23, 2019 2:50 pm
manyroads wrote: Tue Jul 23, 2019 10:57 am
I did link with
You're not supposed to link large images like that. Max sizes are indicated in that post I linked to.
The images consume no space on the forums (beyond the link characters, they even save network bandwidth because the forums don't store them & send them). I guess I don't understand any rationale for linking to marginally useful images. If the only benefit is scroll time, I'd argue (not that a soul would listen) that most people would prefer to scroll and have the option of viewing a decent image to not having any option but to get a poor image. But not complain further and I'll shut up and just not bother with images.
Re: Useless but **fun** eye candy
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:14 pm
by manyroads
Sparky wrote: Tue Jul 23, 2019 1:50 pm
Looks good! What panel is being used at the bottom?
The top panel is 'polybar'... the bottom is 'tint2'. The desktop is bspwm (a tiling window manager).
Re: Useless but **fun** eye candy
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:30 pm
by rokytnji.1
Cool Beans. Fastest I roll is just xsnow in icewm during Christmas.
Re: Useless but **fun** eye candy
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:25 pm
by manyroads
rokytnji.1 wrote: Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:30 pm
Cool Beans. Fastest I roll is just xsnow in icewm during Christmas.
+1 Certainly useless... but fun.
"Hollywood" is also pretty cool!
https://itsfoss.com/hollywood-hacker-screen/ Your grand kids will love it.
Re: Useless but **fun** eye candy
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:31 pm
by Eadwine Rose
manyroads wrote: Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:12 pm
Eadwine Rose wrote: Tue Jul 23, 2019 2:50 pm
manyroads wrote: Tue Jul 23, 2019 10:57 am
I did link with
You're not supposed to link large images like that. Max sizes are indicated in that post I linked to.
The images consume no space on the forums (beyond the link characters, they even save network bandwidth because the forums don't store them & send them). I guess I don't understand any rationale for linking to marginally useful images. If the only benefit is scroll time, I'd argue (not that a soul would listen) that most people would prefer to scroll and have the option of viewing a decent image to not having any option but to get a poor image. But not complain further and I'll shut up and just not bother with images.
When you have a link to an image hosting source without the [img] tags, one click will bring up the full image from that site. We do not care how large the image is on that site so legibility is not an issue. One click should not be a burden to anyone. Also large images are distracting to the flow of the thread.
Re: Useless but **fun** eye candy
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:37 pm
by richb
What Eadwine said about images. If you want to discuss further start another topic in Site Help or take it to a PM. We do not want to derail the topic.
Re: Useless but **fun** eye candy
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:39 pm
by manyroads
Nope. I'm good.
