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Alevice, thanks for trying to get new information into my dullard brain, by "shell" do you mean a programme? For I am as a mere tadpole in the sea of information technology.
::tao::

Yeah, that is what I kind of thought of stardock products. I used windowblinds long long ago and it was a hog, just checking to see if it had improved. I am looking more for productivity enhancements than eye candy anyway (well, maybe a little).

Alevice, I am going to give one of those independent builds of LS a shot. One thing I missed immediately and can't live without is the quicklaunch or an equal alternative, at least it wasn't there by default wehn I was testing it out.

Tao: By shell she means the native windows user shell, explorer.exe - LiteStep is an alternative shell that will run in its stead. Gee, that probably doesn't help much. I guess a shell can be described as a program which controls the way you interact with your PC.



[This message has been edited by Ramasax (edited 02-15-2004).]

Desktop.

Well that nearly lasted 6 hours.
Jason, that active desktop you sent me is spot on to the kind of thing I had in mind. I've been having great fun with it. Eventually I had a good look at it in DW recognised how to change a couple of things. So here it is slightly tweaked.
Tweaked

Ramasex - Quick launch, huh? Well, don't really expect it to have something like that by default. The indie builds make you write everything by yourself, without the annoyance of already build themes that may just be purposeless for you.

Powerpro can emulate something liek that quite easy, tho (yeah, talk about having multiple crap to get stuff to work right, but its just Powerpo is so damn cool).

tao - There is acltaully plenty of already built html desktops around, I myself have one that bothered to recode, and get as inspiration for a couple of elements of my startup page.

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Ok, I'll bite (warning - big...) http://www.dmsproject.com/test/desktop.jpg

Currently running talisman wtih an old downloaded wallpaper, will probably skip it though, a resourse hog...
/Dan

{cell 260}
-{ a vibration is a movement that doesn't know which way to go }-

DmS, you have good eyes. Your font size looks so small to me.

while we are at it, what about Desk tops?


[antique sigs are us]

Sorry to not reading at all all you comment!

I can't understand, for myself my screen is always full of windows, stuff, etc...

I feel you are not so much hard worker and quite superficial people

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I am Canadian

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Sorry to not reading at all all you comment!

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Why are you sorry? Nobody asked you to read any comments!

I have found that I really like the xfce4 window manager. I like to use Xemacs for all of my coding, with XMMS for my music listening needs. Thunderbird and Firebird (until Firefox makes it way to freebsd) make up my email and browser clients, Eterm for all of my terminal connection needs, and no open source desktop is complete with out using The Gimp to acquire the screen shot.

-Dan-

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Why are you sorry? Nobody asked you to read any comments!

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Sorry to be sorry,... people in montreal are always sorry,... about nothing but most of the time....

He.... I will try to avoid to be sorry again for no reason, It's some kind of bad habit I will have to lose.

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I am Canadian

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I feel you are not so much hard worker and quite superficial people

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How perceptive of you.

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I feel you are not so much hard worker and quite superficial people

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Sorry you feel that way.

I feel that you are ignorant in saying so. Many people here have tuned their desktops to be more productive, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Alevice: Aston seems to be what I was looking for. Doesn't seem to be eating any more resouces than explorer would. Only downside is it isn't free, although if it lasts a month without any problems I may shell out the $28. Unless I find an alternative that is free and works as well. Still have some organizing to do in the menu, buthere's a shot.



[This message has been edited by Ramasax (edited 02-16-2004).]

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piss off

Later,

C:\


~Binary is best~

mine is boring
sorry for the link to DA, but my server is currently down
desktop


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viol: I'm running 1600x1200 on a 19" and I'd run even higher if my system allowed it
I just love beeing able to have lot's of windows open at the same time.
Usually I run 1-3 browsers, mail, trillian and maguma (an IDE for PHP) & MySQLFront at the same time.
I need more real estate perhaps 2x 21" flatscreens would suffice
/Dan

{cell 260}
-{ a vibration is a movement that doesn't know which way to go }-

[edited] double post, stupid me [/edit]
/Dan

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... aarghhh ... geek-sh*t!!

The Windows part of my world (resolution now improved to 3584x1344) - I normally use the Matrox Multidesk software (comes with the dual-header) to provide 4 stacked desktops - 1=general work, 2- graphics (fullscreen Photoshop/ImageReady), 3 - Code editing and testing (RealEdit - Zend Studio 3.0), 4 - monitor - VNC/Exceed sessions to all my other boxes) and I run about the same setup at work, just a different wallpaper.

My Linux Laptop (picture is redhat 7.3 kde3.0 - now upgraded to fedora core 1 - KDE 3.2) ... I use KDE's built-in desktop manager to give me 4 desktops, set up as per the windows box above

For visuals I run 2x21" Iiyama 451 crt screens via 2 x 4-way KVM switches (one for KV+M1 the other for just M2)

I couldn't screendump the other dual-header (my linux webdev box) because I'm at work and it's at home, but it would be boring anyway, 'coz it only looks like a 3584px x 1344px version of the laptop ... and the last box - the firewall/web/mail/ssh/shoutcast server - only has a text screen.

BTW - I got everything I have from junkpiles and closing-down companies except for the laptop, and that came as part of a redundancy package ... so the whole shooting match has cost me $0 so far ...


Bug-free software only exisits in two places
A programmer's mind and a salesman's lips



[This message has been edited by trib (edited 02-16-2004).]

hehe trip you play worms world party... good decision

If I had the money, this is the one monitor I'd buy. Just one would be enough for my needs, actually, more than enough.

Sony PremierPro

$2600.00????......man....that's one heck of a price for a monitor...
I don't think I could bring myself to spend that much money on a monitor. I'll just stick with my 2 ton boulder on my desk

Later,

C:\


~Binary is best~

I've been toying around with alot of program launchers and I like them. I'm seriously considering using litestep or hoverdesk, although I've heard that once you install litestep, it's hard to undo it, so I'm hesitant. Anybody know the differences between the two?

Mine

Anyone else a MacHall fan?

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Ramasax - There is a workaround on Aston's expiration, mail me if you want further info ;D

and Worms. Armageddon > Worms: World Party

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jive - neither the official ls distribution nor any independent build is hard to uninstall. I have not used hoverdesk tho.

oh and btw...KUPO!
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desktop.

"Nothin' like a pro-stabbin' from a pro." -Weadah

I have the uncreative green that comes with new PCs.

My desktop is just a simple slate blue color.

This is my desk's desktop

:::11oh1:::

Win2K.
Fedora.

Gentoo with Fvwm

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- the Golden Ratio -

I believe I've done a thread like this before.

So?

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what is the record for most replies to a post?

that would be the conundrum post...

I think it hit something like 200 replies.

trib vs fraxyl pong match was heading up to 150 when we closed it down ...


Bug-free software only exisits in two places
A programmer's mind and a salesman's lips

We must start another comundrum thread...that was fun


[This message has been edited by Skaarjj (edited 02-20-2004).]

I know, I know my desktop is mess ... hopefully you don't see the content of the folders labelled #XX bakup buro
And no, I don't play all those games ( except when I go to a LAN ), I simply let the icons 'coz they look cool here, and I play Q3 sometime.

I'm on a desktop rampage now. I installed litestep, (which seems ok), the trial version of hoverdesk, (seems pretty good). But I found a couple of really good apps: objectdock and Y's Dock (discontinued). They are skinnable applauncher that are alot alike the macs OSX's dock launcher. Best of all it's free! Anyways, I found it useful. Tell me if you do also.

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I didnt when i tried it some months ago :/

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