For May Day some nice crimson red:
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As you can see I had to switch away from my old Adwaita Elements theme as it has not received any new updates in almost a year and is now broken with later versions of GTK. I am now on a slightly modified Zukiwi theme which gives me dark bars and shiny buttons.

Speaking of those updates, I am actually liking the new gEdit far more than I was first expecting. Now that they are actually getting certain things polished the direction that GNOME is going with their applications does not seem to be as jarring as it first appeared.

And here comes June:
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Main changes apart from the new wallpapers are the presence of an icon for FTL: Faster Than Light and the fact that I have now arranged my launchers based upon year of original release. I am also now using Zukitwo proper rather than Zukiwi as my GTK theme.

Those wishing to know where I found my new wallpapers can discover them from here:
http://www.sapphiregd.com/2013/07/fondo-de-pantalla-archlinux-xfce/

For July I felt it was time to go back to my old habit of having my wallpapers reflect what game I was currently playing through:
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Not that I actually have A Machine For Pigs installed yet; I have just finished going through the first Amnesia again as a recap, but have yet to be able to get the AMFP installer downloaded.

Excluding the addition of a LIMBO launcher, there are no other notable changes to report.

A little late in coming, but here is my desktop for August:
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As you can see, there is nothing all that elaborate when it comes to the backgrounds this time, as I just grabbed a few more generic Tux wallpapers.

I do however have A Machine For Pigs installed now and have it coupled with its own custom Faenza icon that took ages for me produce after originally wasting my time on a different design that never looked right.

One can now also see a rounded Duke Nukem 3D icon in with my DOSBox and WINE titles; that launcher actually points to the GOG.com release of the game, which was grabbed during their Linux Launch sale.

So once again I am a little late in posting in this, but this time I at least have the excuse that I have spent the past week doing full out honey extractions.

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Seeing as I am still quite poleaxed, I got lazy and just used a pleasant gradient using two colours I nicked from my window border. My launchers have also stayed the same as they were last month as I have been too busy to make much progress when it comes to my gaming.

My work space 2x Monitors

 

Screen 1 Screen 2

And here is teh background for the people that may want it


Background

My desktop:

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Duke Nukem Forever wallpapers?

Yep

My Gentoo

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So for October I was once again feeling lazy so I just grabbed two of the blue wallpapers that Arch supplied me with by default since they go so well with my custom window border.

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Other than that the only other difference as far as I can see would be my new Glare launcher using the custom Faenza icon I made for it this morning. So I guess I will see if it deserves the praise that Samsai was giving it when it came out about a year ago. :)

Long time with no Update here:)

**dropbox links gone**


Arch with MATE + xfwm + compton

Border: Numix Darker
Controls: Bleu Fear
Icons: F-Darkest Black

In an unusual move, I have decided to change my wallpapers a little over halfway through the month as I had an inspiration for how they could be made more seasonally appropriate.

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Specifically I grabbed a few wallpapers made from Death Note, which is an anime series I went through for the first time in September. I think a god of death and a mass murderer are reasonable things to display as we approach Halloween, wouldn't you say?

In an unusual move, I have decided to change my wallpapers a little over halfway through the month as I had an inspiration for how they could be made more seasonally appropriate.

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Specifically I grabbed a few wallpapers made from Death Note, which is an anime series I went through for the first time in September. I think a god of death and a mass murderer are reasonable things to display as we approach Halloween, wouldn't you say?

Nice desktop! The character on the left looks a bit like the Joker from Batman :D

I like my desktop to be simple, so nothing too fancy here.
Cinnamon theme: New Minty
GTK theme: Adwaita
Icon theme: Faenza

Nice desktop! The character on the left looks a bit like the Joker from Batman :D

I suppose Ryuk could be compared to the Joker... Watari from the show is a lot like Alfred as well.

I don't think I've posted a desktop screen shot, so here it is. I don't change backgrounds too often because there is not a huge selection of 5760x1080 wall papers and I'm not artistic enough to make my own. I tried separate backgrounds for each monitor and I just couldn't do it.. it bothered the neat freak in me for some reason.

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I don't think I've posted a desktop screen shot, so here it is. I don't change backgrounds too often because there is not a huge selection of 5760x1080 wall papers and I'm not artistic enough to make my own. I tried separate backgrounds for each monitor and I just couldn't do it.. it bothered the neat freak in me for some reason.

can i have your conky script pls :) i like your desktop a lot.

I don't think I've posted a desktop screen shot, so here it is. I don't change backgrounds too often because there is not a huge selection of 5760x1080 wall papers and I'm not artistic enough to make my own. I tried separate backgrounds for each monitor and I just couldn't do it.. it bothered the neat freak in me for some reason.

can i have your conky script pls :) i like your desktop a lot.

Thanks! Ill tar up my conky folder when I get home and then update this post.

EDIT* I cleaned it up a little, there are things hardcoded for my user dir (/home/damadone/) some of it from being lazy but mostly because I found it necessary for some things IIRC. It has been a while since I set all of this up so I don't remember all of the specifics.

I'm sure you can figure most of it out, but ill outline some things anyways.

I left in the lua scripts for making things clickable(/lua/lua_functions.lua & /lua/rss_button_script.lua) from when I was trying to make the pause/play/skip buttons on the .pithos_conky actually work and clickable links in .rss_conky, while I did get them "working" it caused more system usage (was constantly polling to look for a click) than I liked and they were iffy to begin with. So I removed their usage from the conky scripts. If you know of another way to make things clickable please fill me in :P

The /lua/draw_bg.lua script is what draws the background(duh) with the rounded edges. The color and transparency of the background can be edited in that script along with the radius of the edges.

The .pithos_conky that displays media info from pithos (Pandora player) is coded with pithos in mind but when I made the mpris.php script I did my best to make it pretty darn universal so it should be trivial to use .pithos_conky as a base for another media player or get crazy with the conky scripting to make it work for multiple media players at the same time.. I really only use pithos for music so I never went that far. Also I didn't know ANY PHP when I made it so if you do and can offer ways to make it better please let me know. I put in usage examples in the top comments in the mpris.php script.

The /scripts/1d script is just one I found on the net to grab weather info from rss.accuweather.com, the address line(ln 94) will need to be edited for your location.

The .sys_conky_ob is the same as .sys_conky but with the lua stuff stripped out to keep it as simple and lean as possible for my Openbox session I use for playing games. I don't use the other conky's in openbox, just .sys_conky_ob.

I am using the conky-lua-nv package from the AUR also. Official Arch conky doesn't support lua or nvidia specific stuff. Pretty sure Xpander is an Arch user but for anyone else who may try these I had to make quite a few adjustments when I moved from Xubuntu to Arch/XFCE so expect to make adjustments if not using Arch and the AUR package I linked.

I THINK that about covers it, feel free to drop me a PM or whatever if you have anymore ?s

Get Conkys HERE!

EDIT* I forgot that the conkyweather.ttf fonts are needed for the .accu_conky script so I redid the upload and changed the link. If you already grabbed this you may want to grab it again. The .fonts folder contains picture "fonts" that can be used with conky. The only one necessary for my conky's is the weather one but I figured I would add the others that I have. You can put the .fonts folder in your user dir (/home/<user>/.fonts) which is where I have mine, or you could add them to /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ (on Arch anyways) if you wish.