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stu90 wrote:Lucid Puppy 265.
Crunchbang conky, tint2 panel with a mygtkmenu launcher, transparent urxvt terminal - no rox pinboard as default for clean look, can be switched on / off on the fly for quick access to normal puppy desktop icons / drives.


full res:
http://i.imgur.com/WZXTW.jpg

stu90 wrote:no rox pinboard as default for clean look, can be switched on / off on the fly for quick access

Q5sys wrote:
as always... I love your work.

sc0ttman wrote:

stu90 wrote:no rox pinboard as default for clean look, can be switched on / off on the fly for quick access

How are you achieving this? I wanna compare notes!

TITLE="Desk Set"
VER="0.1"
TEXT=" <b>Turn desktop and icons On?</b> "
TEXT1=" <b>Turn desktop and icons Off?</b> "

PINFO="`cat /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/pinstate`"
if [[ "$PINFO" == "OFF" ]]; then

### turn desk and icons on ###
    ON=$(yad --title="$TITLE $VER" --text="$TEXT" --button="gtk-quit:1" --button="gtk-apply:0" )
    RESULTS=$?
   
    case $RESULTS in 
    0)
    rox --pinboard=/root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin
    echo "ON" > /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/pinstate
    echo "Turned desk and icons ON" && exit
    ;;
    1)
    echo "Exit" && exit
    ;;
    esac
    
else    

### turn desk and icons off ###
    OFF=$(yad --title="$TITLE $VER" --text="$TEXT1" --button="gtk-quit:1" --button="gtk-apply:0" )
    RESULTS=$?
    
    case $RESULTS in 
    0) 
    rox --pinboard=
    echo "OFF" > /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/pinstate
    echo "Turned desk and icons OFF" && exit
    ;;
    1)
    echo "Exit" && exit
    ;;
    esac

fi

stu90 wrote:

sc0ttman wrote:

stu90 wrote:no rox pinboard as default for clean look, can be switched on / off on the fly for quick access

How are you achieving this? I wanna compare notes!

Hi sc0ttman,
I use a Yad script in /root/my-applications/bin
and a pinstate text file in /root/Choices/ROX-Filer with ON or OFF in it depending on desktop state.
This is not persistent though as default is set to no pinboard in .xinitrc

stu90 wrote:

Q5sys wrote:
as always... I love your work.

Thanks Q5sys

To be honest i wasn't to happy with the conky - i like this one more and it also does the weather as well.


full res:
http://i.imgur.com/j8Ja2.jpg

lowrider wrote:@stu90
so nice, reminds me of my crunchbang.

@all
we all know puppy is great, but is it ok to post a screenshot of other OS here in this thread or is there perhaps a other thread here on the forum for this? i have searched a bit around with no success. anyway, dont want to mess up this fine thread so i post 2 screenshots of my crunchbang only as a url:
clean: http://i55.tinypic.com/ehf8nr.png
dirty: http://i55.tinypic.com/2eldu02.png

so, look on the ram-usage on the conky and keep in mind there is a chromium running in the back. not bad for a fullfeed lightweight distro...

sc0ttman wrote: Nice, I may give my own script a change or two...

And what is the "not conky" thing that you're running to show system info over the wallpaper? Is it a root-tail thing, like PMConky (from goingnuts)? Cos I can't get that to work with later versions of JWM, but if your method is different I may give that a go..

Q5sys wrote:
I was never a fan of conky either. I usually stick with Gkrellm. However those fancy lua themes for conky have me thinking twice...

stu90 wrote:Hi Q5sys,

Yes there are some pretty impressive conky setups about - i think Dejan555 posted about using the above on dpup?

Q5sys wrote: yea thats where I found it. there are a ton of other nifty setups people have done with lua and conky like

btw... what tint2 config are you using? would you mind upping a tar.gz of it?