What does your desktop look like?

[viking60]

Right click -> Panel ->Panel Preferences-> Display
In this mode you can drag the panel (grab it on the left side)
Just make sure panel lock is not checked.

I think pimping it further with Compiz should work pretty much like with the good ol' Gnome.
This video might help:

In fact I like that multiple desktops feature so much that I might install Compiz myself....

Just remember Compiz does pull a lot of resources so if you have a low spec box you might want to stick to xfwm4 which I think the present one is called.

Also Compiz seems to be on the death bed....

[viking60]

Here is my Arch Openbox with a pic we took in the Sogne fjord. If you want the Wallpaper let me know and I'll put it in the wallpaper section.

[dedanna1029]

"Linux just hasn't felt right" - he got that right. It's what I've been trying to say for a while now. I feel much the same.

That wallpaper, please do post it - it would be so much appreciated! It's beautiful! I was happily surprised to find that in XFCE4, there is an applet to add for weather to the panel, and its host is met.no, the Meteorologisk Institutt. It provides my weather now, here in the states.

If you and Lou like the multiple desktop feature of compiz, you'll love the Expo plugin. I think I may have posted a screenie or two of it here. If not, I will. Thanks for the tips on that. I'm just hoping Emerald's in the repos. That's the main thing I'm after, is being able to put up my old (very pretty) modded Emerald theme. What I'm doing, is since compiz is going out (regardless of what he says in the video), I've set in urpmi.cfg:

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.:[ dedanna@dedanna.rockz.net : 20:02:43 : ~ ]:.
:) cat /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
{
  post-clean: 0
}

That way, the rpms are saved when I have updates. I install compiz, and its plugins, ccsm, fusion-icon, the works, and those rpms are saved, and I copy them to a folder in my Downloads folder. This way, I can preserve these old packages that I still use and love. Grip's another one I do that with. There are a few others, too.

Thanks for the tips. The panels are where they should be now. I just have to find where it is I center the panels again (have forgotten where that was - I've done a deplorable job of placing them manually centered), and I'm set and ready to go with compiz.

I am a tad limited on resources for the netbook. For whatever reason, the graphics & video sucks on this thing (Toshiba NB-255). I have 1GB RAM (upgradeable to 2GB, that I'll do soon), and is OK otherwise. The CPU is 64-bit, 1.66GHz Atom. It's here. It should do OK, I'm hoping at least once I've installed 64-bit Mageia 3 (should utilize the hardware resources better), even on just the Intel GMA 3150 for video and graphics, although I am scheming on ways to possibly add a card. We'll see.

Let's see... seems there was one other thing I was going to say here, but I've lost it now. Eh, well.

OK, cough up your big bad specs, and keep the desktops coming, now that I'm finally jazzed with something on Linux for a desktop (again, thanks to you, thank you!).

[dedanna1029]

Emerald isn't in the Mageia repos, so I'm going to have to use the F18 one and hope for the best (direct download). I hope they have emerald-themes for F18, too. I'm doing the same with emerald-themes. so far, so good.

Next problem will be that none of the compiz plugins are in the repos. Compiz, fusion-icon, ccsm, etc. are, but not the plugins.

Mageia 2 has them. Interesting that 3 doesn't - I would think that they would've just rolled them up and over.

I've also just found this:

This package replaces the previous compiz-plugins-main and compiz-plugins-extra packages as the plugins are no longer separated upstream.

This rpm doesn't work to install, but I pulled up Mageia's ccsm, and it appears the plugins are in the compiz package itself. The problem is, there's some they missed, like the aquarium-type one (can't remember what it's called), among others. The unsupported ones.

However, I did turn on the expo, to give you an idea. Talk about functional. Hit Super+e, click on the desktop you want (and you can have as many as you want, pretty much). I love this thing:



Still a lot of tweaking to do, but it's bedtime now (past it, really, much past it lol).

[viking60]

Looks good. It is underestimated how much Compiz meant in converting Windows users to Linux
Here is the link to the Fjord wallpaper that you requested:
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=2795

[dedanna1029]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Those Fjords are so beautiful! They make me miss Europe so bad!

[dedanna1029]

Here's one for you. I've just installed 64-bit Mageia 3, and only formatted / (root), did not format /home.

XFCE did not lose one single setting. It came up exactly the way I'd left it. Wish I could say the same for KDE.

[viking60]

Well here is my good ol' Openbox on Manjaro again.
This time with iftop running in the transparent urxvt.


Get your desktops in here! The NSA demands it!!!

[viking60]

Manjaro Xfce4 with kwin windows manager.

Those good old Linux propaganda snapshots are back They should not be underestimated. Every Windows user wants this now. (Wow imagine having several desktops presented like that!)

[viking60]

[viking60]

Xfce4 with whisker menu

[R_Head]

I have for today's specs some low end systems and KDE 4 is placing too much strain on them.

Which desktop environment you guys recommend?