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Mmmmmmm you'll be hard pushed to find a GUI for it - WRONG
Typed this reply out and then found this in momentshttp://www.webupd8.org/2010/06/conkywizard-gui-to-set-up-conky.html
Looks good but recommend the other method mentioned below as well
As can be the case Youtube can be your friend here. A link to just one of many which shows you how to install and set up this system monitor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXe2TFjAm7A
It's finitely customable so you can spend hours tweaking it to get it just how you want it.
As mentioned, already, conky colors seems to be a simpler variant and may be a better starting point?
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Amateur attempt on a Laptop running Ubuntu 10.4 LTS + custom Cairo dock
EDIT
Need to clean my screen
What's this dock???
Little bit of a bump.
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Recently decided to put Crunchbang back on my laptop as W7 is getting slower and slower on the poor old thing, it's happily running #! 10 Statler though, did some tweaks on it to make it better for me.
Dropped to one window/desktop as I don't use two.
- Changed Conky's look and information.
- Changed theme.
- Changed window theme.
- Made various applications have transparent backgrounds.
- Drastically cut down the application menu as I don't use half of what there was.
Just realised I still have the time/date Conky, might as well remove that really as the taskbar clock is visible.
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How do you get the system info in the top right corner?
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It's Cairo Dock ... using the square theme and I've added a few of my own preferences to the dock layout
If you read Invaders post again you will see that he's using Conky to display the info
If you read Invaders post again you will see that he's using Conky to display the info
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Anyone installed Gnome 3 yet?
I've been having a play with it tonight on a fresh Arch install. It is really really nice. It still has a bit to go, slow and laggy in places, but it beats KDE and Gnome 2 by miles for pure usability IMO
Couple of screenshots
I've been having a play with it tonight on a fresh Arch install. It is really really nice. It still has a bit to go, slow and laggy in places, but it beats KDE and Gnome 2 by miles for pure usability IMO
Couple of screenshots
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Damn.. i was after one that was infiniately customable
Ohhhhh bother and b*m did I really type that?....LMAO
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Anyone installed Gnome 3 yet?
I've been having a play with it tonight on a fresh Arch install. It is really really nice. It still has a bit to go, slow and laggy in places, but it beats KDE and Gnome 2 by miles for pure usability IMO
To be honest .... No
I'm a bit lazy so will probably wait until it's included in a distro or update.
Was it hard to install and try out?
Nonetheless, great looking Desktop russ0r
Depends what distro you're running.
I haven't tried anything except Arch. Arch only took 5 minutes though.
See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_3
Really like this system info in the top right corner but I cannot get it working on mine. I installed Conky and when my netbook starts up, it is displayed as a line at the bottom of the screen but then disappeared when my desktop wallpaper loads up. Any advice?
Here's my latest linux screenshot
Running Archlinux + Openbox
Is that your motd in the terminal in the top left?
How did you do that?
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My Gnome 3
only thing ive really changed is the backdrop
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/3776/screenshotvvv.jpg
only thing ive really changed is the backdrop
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/3776/screenshotvvv.jpg
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Not really customised my linux install before so this is what little customisation I have done; I like mine nice and simple:
How do you get the text of stats on the desktops? I have heard of screenlets before, is that what people are using? - any tutorials?
Also - how do I make the scroll bars bigger - is it possible?
Thanks.
How do you get the text of stats on the desktops? I have heard of screenlets before, is that what people are using? - any tutorials?
Also - how do I make the scroll bars bigger - is it possible?
Thanks.
Soldato
I believe what you're talking about is Conky, i'd explain it but you can probably find a guide that would do it 10 times better than i ever could... especially considering i haven't actually got it to work how i want it to yet 
Finished building my new compy last week, several hours of messing with portage & config files and finally...
Gentoo, Openbox with tint2 for the panel, and Scummvm running Day of the Tentacle!! Nice simple desktop
I found the wallpaper from browsing the Windows desktop thread, posted here if anyone wants a copy.
For some reason firefox shows up as Namoroka (it's project name?).
Gentoo, Openbox with tint2 for the panel, and Scummvm running Day of the Tentacle!! Nice simple desktop
I found the wallpaper from browsing the Windows desktop thread, posted here if anyone wants a copy.
For some reason firefox shows up as Namoroka (it's project name?).
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From the Arch Wiki - 'The Firefox package in Arch Linux is compiled without official branding, which means that when Firefox is started it will use an alternate icon and will be named after its release series' codename. This has to be done because a distribution may use the name "Firefox" and its artwork only if there are no unofficial modifications, including security patches'.
I guess since Gentoo is very similar to Arch then this will be why it is called Namoroka.
I guess since Gentoo is very similar to Arch then this will be why it is called Namoroka.
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Wow... just checking in on this thread made me realize i'm still using TWM. Sometimes all we need really is a browser. Now, choices... wmfs, dwm or openbox? Bearing in mind i have no idea how to customize or even use any of them 
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Fairly standard bt4 install
