Inspired by a feature request in our forums, and because it was interesting to implement, you can now use a 'signature image' of your PC details and username.
Here's an example of mine:
It will set the background icon to the distribution you have selected, cool eh! If no distribution has been selected, it will use the traditional tux icon. Although I need a bigger version of tux which I will sort out soon. I might use the design Cheese made for that one.
It will only work if your PC info is set to public, I've made sure of that for the people who don't want theirs public for whatever reason.
You can find the information for it on the refreshed PC Info page on your User Control Panel.
This is a first attempt, feedback is welcome to help improve it. I am thinking to remove the "64bit" part, since nearly everyone uses that on Linux now for gaming, and the space could probably be better used for the desktop environment.
I've seen a few different signature images over the years and they seem like a popular thing to use on forums in your signatures, so I am happy to give you the chance to use one and show off a bit.
I guess I should allow forum signatures on GOL sometime, do people want forum signatures here? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Here's an example of mine:
It will set the background icon to the distribution you have selected, cool eh! If no distribution has been selected, it will use the traditional tux icon. Although I need a bigger version of tux which I will sort out soon. I might use the design Cheese made for that one.
It will only work if your PC info is set to public, I've made sure of that for the people who don't want theirs public for whatever reason.
You can find the information for it on the refreshed PC Info page on your User Control Panel.
This is a first attempt, feedback is welcome to help improve it. I am thinking to remove the "64bit" part, since nearly everyone uses that on Linux now for gaming, and the space could probably be better used for the desktop environment.
I've seen a few different signature images over the years and they seem like a popular thing to use on forums in your signatures, so I am happy to give you the chance to use one and show off a bit.
I guess I should allow forum signatures on GOL sometime, do people want forum signatures here? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Let's try again. I thought it was permanent sig. also apparently I can't edit posts on iOS...
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johndoe86x 13 Oct 2016
Rock on!
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could you make the source public so we could potentially tweak with it?
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Logo on left is very good idea for long name descriptions
^_^
^_^
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linux_gamer 13 Oct 2016
Works!
[](https://www.gamingonlinux.com)
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could you make the source public so we could potentially tweak with it?Possibly, it is of course heavily tied to GOL's code so it won't be all that useful by itself and GOL is not even close to be ready to be opened itself.
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Skimmed the thread, surprised no one has suggested the ability to freely edit what of our specs shows up in this image. For example, also have the image show our number of monitors, or display Ram in a line instead of Graphics card.
Last edited by FireStarW on 14 Oct 2016 at 2:02 am UTC
Skimmed the thread, surprised no one has suggested the ability to freely edit what of our specs shows up in this image. For example, also have the image show our number of monitors, or display Ram in a line instead of Graphics card.
Last edited by FireStarW on 14 Oct 2016 at 2:02 am UTC
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Here is mine I hope you like my CPU :P
Here is mine I hope you like my CPU :P
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Kuduzkehpan 14 Oct 2016
nice addition thx devs ;)
nice addition thx devs ;)
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walther von stolzing 14 Oct 2016
Here is mine I hope you like my CPU :P
'something something IDK' is just as informative as Intel's official model names.
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nice, could the list of windowmanagers be increased or allow user-input.
I use openbox
I use openbox
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great stuff :) needs some background image though:)
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Joeyboots80 7 Nov 2016
I for one like it. But I'm a sucker for stuff like this.
Last edited by Joeyboots80 on 7 Nov 2016 at 7:21 am UTC
Last edited by Joeyboots80 on 7 Nov 2016 at 7:21 am UTC
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