your KDE (screenshots)

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@ rfakhrai

You've got a nice temperature there! Just switched on or you got your machine in a fridge?

[rfakhrai]

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I finally got my conky fully transparent. I'm pretty happy with my desktop now.

[img width=400 height=250]http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/6253/desktopscreen.png[/img]

[BubbaBlues]

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Vintage Strat desktop
[img width=400 height=250]http://i46.tinypic.com/nq1efo.png[/img]

[BigCityCat]

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Whooooo, apart from the obvious showing off (shame upon you!) bloody nice You must have a decent GPU to get the folding of the window done so smoothly - which one if I may ask?

Am also impressed by conky doing the different wallpapers. What is it with me? I tried dibl's solution but it renders _only_ the default wallpaper in conky and it looks #&%$e on my other activities...

Oh, and show us the hidden panel, will you?

Hey thanks toad! (of toad hall fame?)

The only thing I don't like about the dark themes is how you get black and white stripes in certain programs if you use a dark background.

Actually my GPU is quite old now, but it was fairly powerful in it's day - Nvidia 6800 GS using Nvidia driver. It seems to get along very nicely with kwin, compiz works well in a LXDE setting and the E17 ecomorph compiz-style also works well.

Like you, I realised that conky looks pants when trying to do the feh workaround with different wallpapers on different desktops, so I opted to use translucency instead, with a background to match the plasma theme. For kwin you can now set that in window behaviour > window specific and there are similar options for compiz users.

Hidden panel is just a panel - nothing special

Hey BigCityCat - If you're anything like me, even when you get something you're pleased with, there's always something else that can be tweaked a little

Cheers,

Steve

[sithlord48]

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@ sithlord48

Out of interest, how do you switch between desktops, CTRL + Fx?

that is exactly what i do, i think i might add a 3rd and 4th desktop to the machine too (one for NX client and one for vm )

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@ stevek

of toad hall fame?

Guilty as charged.

I've thrown conky out again - I've got a rudimentary version in openbox but I asked myself whether I really needed it in kde with all them plasmoids flying about anyway... But I'll bear your solution in mind, especially as it might work (for me) - cheers!

[stevek]

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Whooooo, apart from the obvious showing off (shame upon you!) bloody nice You must have a decent GPU to get the folding of the window done so smoothly - which one if I may ask?

Am also impressed by conky doing the different wallpapers. What is it with me? I tried dibl's solution but it renders _only_ the default wallpaper in conky and it looks #&%$e on my other activities...

Oh, and show us the hidden panel, will you?

Hey thanks toad! (of toad hall fame?)

Actually my GPU is quite old now, but it was fairly powerful in it's day - Nvidia 6800 GS using Nvidia driver. It seems to get along very nicely with kwin, compiz works well in a LXDE setting and the E17 ecomorph compiz-style also works well.

Like you, I realised that conky looks pants when trying to do the feh workaround with different wallpapers on different desktops, so I opted to use translucency instead, with a background to match the plasma theme. For kwin you can now set that in window behaviour > window specific and there are similar options for compiz users.

Hidden panel is just a panel - nothing special

Hey BigCityCat - If you're anything like me, even when you get something you're pleased with, there's always something else that can be tweaked a little

Cheers,

Steve

[toad]

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@ sithlord48

Out of interest, how do you switch between desktops, CTRL + Fx?

[sithlord48]

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thats my net books settings,
the first desktop is for general purpose stuff.. i have rssnow,fuzzy clock , and toplike plasma's (as well as a microblogger on my panel)

the second desktop is ONLY for firefox (it will always start there fullscreened)

[BigCityCat]

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Yes Stevak those are sweet.

Okay I promise this is it. I'm sticking with this for a while.

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/k.../snapshot9.png

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Whooooo, apart from the obvious showing off (shame upon you!) bloody nice You must have a decent GPU to get the folding of the window done so smoothly - which one if I may ask?

Am also impressed by conky doing the different wallpapers. What is it with me? I tried dibl's solution but it renders _only_ the default wallpaper in conky and it looks ****e on my other activities...

Oh, and show us the hidden panel, will you?

[stevek]

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Bespin Style - In Action:



Showing off the Alpha:



Clock is BeClock, Kwin effect - Not a plasmoid. Conky makes another appearance and the block at the bottom right is Smooth Tasks and the Quicklaunch Widget contained in a tall, short panel.

There is also a hidden panel at the bottom containing YAWP, Kickoff (only for D&D purposes), Toggle-Panel (experimental widget to hide the block if necessary), Conky on-off switch (homemade script), Toggle compositing plasmoid, Translator plasmoid, Device Manager/System tray, 4 screen pager and a traditional application launcher (for practical use if there's no quicklaunch).

Edit: I forgot to say there's an XBar widget on a 1/2 screen panel at the top left to show the menu stuff if needed.

That's it

[BigCityCat]

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Coolio Many thanks for the detailed description!

No problem, The window frames are Xairon-Compiz black+dark from compiz-themes. I modified the colors a little in the edit themes section in emerald.

The colors I used all around are #090C10. I think it gives the black a blue tint.

This may give you a better look at what I mean about the colors.

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/k.../snapshot8.png

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Coolio Many thanks for the detailed description!

[BigCityCat]

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What are the settings for the dark theme?

I found the wallpaper on deviant art under customization/wallpaper/linux.

The style is a new theme from kdelook.org called dark air but some of it's settings are not very good so I used desktop settings to modify it. The things that I changed are; color I used glassified, tasks I used proffesional, analog clock is used glassified, dialog I used glassified, tooltips I used glassified. Don't change the logout because there is a bug and plasma will crash. The panel is really cool though.

I'm using compiz as my default window manager and I use emerald for the window decorations but I'm not at home right now. When I get back I will tell you what they are.

The colors are just colors I selected. I'm using them with qtcurve using the dark pearl theme from KDElook.org