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#1846
VSIDO Discussions / Re: Ghost Town............
June 17, 2014, 12:59:26 PM
Where there is silence, one finds the anchor of the universe -
                                                                    fron the Tao Te Ching


#1847
Media Room / Re: Just listened to
June 13, 2014, 07:19:01 PM
That is quite the list. Granted, not everyone can go in, but there are way too many influential bands on that list that haven't even been nominated.
#1848
Media Room / Re: Just listened to
June 13, 2014, 06:16:01 PM
Has Chicago been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame yet?

Terry Kath - gone too soon:

#1849
Media Room / Re: Just listened to
June 13, 2014, 01:49:39 PM
No problem; it's from their first (second?) album before Steve Perry become the front man. Always preferred their early sound.
#1850
That's good to know.

I just drop in there now and again to see what's going on, and see if someone posted a question.
#1851
No problem.

Tweaked my fvwm setup so it's different from fluxbox:

#1852
Media Room / Re: Just listened to
June 08, 2014, 08:01:35 PM
Good stuff.

Greg Rollie and Neal Schon's other band -

#1853
No problem -

Here is the original work at deviantArt -

http://coroners.deviantart.com/art/Synblad-Startpage-183402509

there are two versions in the tarball; one with 5 bootmarks, one with 9.
#1854
Bit of a necro-bump.

Not strictly a custom wallpaper, or even a screenshot, but I didn't want to create a whole new topic just for this:



I didn't create the html page (a #! user did), but I couldn't resist updating the artwork.
#1855
Thanks; and all themes look better with Kate B.  :)




Forgot to mention. In a terminal -

man fluxbox-style > template.txt

will generate a text file that has all the style options that matter. A little bit of work, and you can create a template for theme.cfg. Makes creating custom themes a lot easier, and you can include it in your ~/.fluxbox/styles folder so you can see it as you create it.
#1856
Are you trying to get true multi-head support so that you will have different virtual desktops on each monitor? I think you're right, that may not be doable in fluxbox without patching. Openbox is the same way; there is a patched version in the Arch AUR that will do it, but the EWMH is - by design - broken so you can't drag apps across monitors. The only window managers I know that have true multi-head capabilities are awesome and xmonad.

Or, are you trying to stretch one virtual desktop across two monitors and have smplayer remain on one monitor while you do your development on the other monitor? That is suppose to be doable with fluxbox.

I thought xinerama was now compiled by default in fluxbox. In a terminal, what does:

fluxbox -info | grep -i xinerama

return?

I'm assuming nouveau drivers support it.
#1857
Workspace 2 or Monitor 2 - either way, I think you do that with the apps file. If you get into the Window Menu and come down to the "Remember" submenu, one of the options is Head. Selecting this will write the pertinent entry to the apps file. End up with something like -

[app] (name=gnome-mplayer) (class=Gnome-mplayer)
  [Workspace] {1}
  [Head] {1}
  [Deco] {NORMAL}
  [Jump] {yes}
  [Layer] {8}
[end]


I only have a single monitor so note that fluxbox starts counting monitors from 1 in the apps file. You can also specify the fluxbox workspace you want an app to start on etc ...

I'm not sure if you'll need to mess with xrandr - recent post from gentoo user - http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/261764?page=last

#1858
For the gtk theme, I pick one from the MediterraneanNight series - http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/MediterraneanNight+Series?content=156782

It's a full set of gtk2 and gtk3 themes - dark and light - with good contrast for my aging eyes. I usually convert the default blue highlight color to something more gray tone. Gives it a more neutral look to go with any fluxbox or fvwm theme I decide to use. I use gcolor2 (not installed by default) to pick/modify colors; or, if you're using geany, the built-in color chooser. For color selection, I'll usually take a photograph - like my cat Freya in that screenshot - and work with that palette to get some natural gradients.

Speaking of gray tone - making some of those today -



MediterranianSky is my slight mod of MediterranianWhite. 
#1859
Media Room / Re: Just listened to
June 05, 2014, 02:03:03 PM
#1860
^ that kernel pretty stable? You have nvidia graphics don't you; how did the driver install go?

VSIDO - so boring, only Kate Beckinsale can spice it up: