umm... install it, then enable the video drivers?
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| herzeleid Dec 11, 2009 7:26 PM EDT |
Seriously, install linux, enable the OpenGL video drivers, enable compiz options, and select wallpaper/theme. Badda bing, badda boom! |
| tracyanne Dec 11, 2009 8:37 PM EDT |
The Emerald glass theme doesn't look too bad, depending on the window decorator theme you have it's nowhere near as obnoxous as the Windows Vista/7 glass effects. In fact with the decorator theme I'm using, I think it looks quite tasteful. |
| Alcibiades Dec 11, 2009 8:58 PM EDT |
Yes, we must be getting old. Looking at those supposedly awesome desktops the only thing I feel is hearfelt joy that fluxbox comes without any of that stuff! |
| gus3 Dec 11, 2009 9:08 PM EDT |
@Alcibiades: For the ultimate old-school look, disable font anti-aliasing. Screaming fast and ugly! |
| herzeleid Dec 11, 2009 9:10 PM EDT |
@Alcibaldes - dunno, last time I tried fluxbox it just looked kind of... well, drab, not to put too fine a point on it. For a nice looking lightweight wm I like e17 - and here's hoping that it will reach release 1.0 RSN |
| gus3 Dec 11, 2009 9:59 PM EDT |
@herzeleid: How many of the themes did you try? I'm particularly fond of the Nyz theme: dark gradients, medium-contrast fonts, nothing to cause eye-strain on an empty desktop (important for us aging types). |
| herzeleid Dec 12, 2009 1:26 PM EDT |
@gus3 - it's been so long that I don't remember the names of the themes - I just remember a lot of dark blue and brownish hues. Maybe I'll have to take another look at it. |
| Alcibiades Dec 12, 2009 4:45 PM EDT |
I seem to have it set up with something called bloe. Its a sort of pale bluish purple backdrop, then the task bar, and that's the only obtrusive thing around, is a slightly paler shade of the same color. A couple of panels, one each side of the task bar, are white. One has the number of the desktop you are on, the other has the clock. As a well known agony columnist in the UK, Virginia Ironside, once said "I've done fascinated, I've done curious. I want to wind down. I want the blissful relief of not being interested" Yes, my feeling about fluxbox in a nutshell. I hardly know its there, and we like it that way. But I am getting old! At first I thought this article was going to be about a window manager called awesome, there is one I think. Its the minimalists minimal. Right clicks are a distraction. Not really, but its, whatever we can get rid of, out it goes. Horses for courses. |
| Alcibiades Dec 12, 2009 4:51 PM EDT |
You know what's funny about fluxbox? I set up a lady with it, because she has a rather slow old computer. I was quite apologetic, told her this was very different, she might not like it, if not we could change it. It certainly is amazingly fast. Anyway, we sat down, I edited the menus with her to get her apps conveniently placed. After a few minutes she said to me (and this is a totally non-technical person), this is great, this is what I always thought linux was going to be like, just get rid of all this junk that you don't need. Quite an eye opener when you think about all the preconceptions we have about how people expect to work. |
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