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#61
Artwork & Screenshots / Februar 2016 Screenshot Tema
February 01, 2016, 01:24:14 PM
Start the month with Ms. Beckinsale and a clean install of vsido -



Please remember to use thumbnails
#62
VSIDO Changes / VSIDO new linstaller Discussion
January 30, 2016, 02:34:58 AM
EDIT - I have modified and split this topic to be for the

VSIDO new linstaller Discussion


Links work; site looks good. My connection speed is way slow the last couple days. I will download the 64-bit and install to metal later - hopefully Sunday.

LVM still part of default install? I can set that up as well and let you know how it went.

I would insert "test" or "beta" into the name of the test iso's though.
#63
Scripts and How To's / screenshot and recording apps -
January 29, 2016, 09:11:39 PM
Found out about these from a thread by xaos52

maim screenshot utility

slop selection utility

unfortunately, neither are in the Debian repos; but the listed dependencies are.
#64
Scripts and How To's / pulseaudio command line app
January 05, 2016, 10:58:28 PM
Found this little gem -

Command line app for pulseaudio

Works as advertised. I set up some keybindings in Xmonad.
#65
Artwork & Screenshots / January 2016 Screenshot Thread
January 01, 2016, 05:09:37 AM
Please remember to use thumbnails  :)

Vsido + fluxbox -

#66
I've Got a Life / This is a test
December 25, 2015, 05:40:22 PM
Sending this from my oldest's new game pad.

Crazy stuff. Next stop parental controls.
#67
Artwork & Screenshots / December 2015 Screenshot Thread
December 01, 2015, 03:49:15 PM
Please remember to use thumbnails  :)

vsido + fvwm + xmobar + trayer

#68
Artwork & Screenshots / November 2015 Screenshot Thread
November 01, 2015, 12:58:47 PM
If it wasn't for having to use haskell for configuration, I can see using this window manager a lot more.

VSIDO, Xmonad -






Please remember to use thumbnails for your images   ;D
#69
Artwork & Screenshots / October 2015 Screenshot Thread
October 01, 2015, 03:19:25 PM
Got a hurricane rolling in - going to be a wet weekend:




please remember to use thumbnails.
#70
I've Got a Life / Time to ride -
September 13, 2015, 08:18:30 PM
The seasons are starting to change here (SE USA) and we are moving into Indian Summer - hopefully the days of 90+ degrees F (32 C) and 80%+ humidity with scattered thunder showers are done for a few months.

Got the bicycles all tuned up and went for a cruise through our neighborhood to make sure everything is working properly - felt good.

Goal for the fall is teaching the youngest to ride a bike.

I know vastone rides, anyone else ride a [motor] bike for fun or exercise?
#71
Artwork & Screenshots / Setembro 2015 Screenshots
September 01, 2015, 07:14:32 PM
spectrwm + mpv + vsido = hours of multimedia fun; video courtesy of pmytd :



Be nice, use thumbnails, please.
#72
Artwork & Screenshots / June 2015 Screenshot Thread
June 01, 2015, 03:49:58 PM
VSIDO + fluxbox = win



Direct link

using cdw to burn iso.

Be nice and remember to use thumbnails for your screenshots.
#73
For those using kernel 4.0.x kernels -

ext4 data corruption debian bug report

more at softpedia

appears to impact RAID and other server setups.

I haven't noticed any issues using the 4.0.3 kernel on my non-server systems.
#74
Tint2 Support and Scripts / tint2 moved to gitlab
April 26, 2015, 12:41:58 AM
Changed the hosting location.

New unstable release, stable release planned for later in the summer.

tint2 on gitlab
#75
VSIDO Discussions / Don't get mad, install VSIDO
April 22, 2015, 02:26:06 PM
Would have saved himself a lot of $$ and headaches -

Yet another reason to install VSIDO
#76
Tiling window managers are pretty efficient (low resource usage etc ...) and a good way to get the most out of limited screen real estate like on a netbook or laptop. The downside of a lot of tiling window managers is that they use complex programing languages like lua (awesome), haskel (xmonad), LISP (stumpwm), or python (qtile) for configuration. If you know the programing language, or are the type that likes to learn them, you can get a lot out of those window managers - just look at some of digit's xmonad setups if you don't believe me.

For those of us that prefer simpler text files for configuration there is spectrwm which according to the authors is:

Quotespectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and fast.

That also makes it an excellent tiling window manager for those that are trying one out for the first time.

It's in the repos and fairly current, but when I installed it from the repos, a file related to keybindings didn't seem to get installed. The window manager still worked, but it's really handy to have that other file so I recommend you install from git.

Get the deps (there are 2-3 small files not installed by default):

sudo apt-get build-dep spectrwm

and install suckless-tools (provides dmenu and slock if you don't have them installed)

sudo apt-get install suckless-tools

then get the sources from git (git is not installed by default in VSIDO):

git page for spectrwm

or here (towards bottom of page)

spectrwm page

this creates a <build directory>/spectrwm; for linux, change to the <build dir>/spectrwm/linux

Quotecd <build dir>/spectrwm/linux

then:

Quotemake

# followed by

sudo make install

There is a spectrwm.desktop file included with the git download you can copy over to /usr/share/xsessions.

The main configuration file and the default keybinding file are also included with the git download. The main configuration file is spectrwm.conf, the keybinding file is tagged with a language - for me it is spectrwm_us.conf.

First thing to do is edit the spectrwm.conf file. In your favorite text editor find the lines:

# program[lock] = xlock

and change it to:

program[lock] = slock

instead of slock, you can use whatever screen locking program you use, or xscreensaver, etc  ....

also find this line:

#keyboard_mapping = ~/.spectrwm_us.conf

and uncomment it

keyboard_mapping = ~/.spectrwm_us.conf  <-- also edit to reflect the language file you're using; us is the default.


this allows you to edit the default keybindings for spectrwm.

Once that is done copy spectrwm.conf and spectrwm_us.conf to /etc to provide system-wide configuration. To make your own customized configuration, copy these two files to your home directory as dotfiles

cp spectrwm.conf ~/.spectrwm.conf

and

cp spectrwm_us.conf ~/.spectrwm_us.conf  <- use the lanuguage file of choice


Should be all set to log into the default configuration for spectrwm. To customize the configuration, you'll want to be familiar with xprop and xev so you can get the window class and key codes if you need them. Read the man pages for those as well as the man page for spectrwm. The man page for spectrwm is well written and worth the read.
#77
A new month to show off your desktop artwork - please remember to use thumbnails:

fluxbox -                                                  qtile -

   

found an excellent config for qtile where all the layouts were working, so I'll be keeping it around for a while to mess with.
#78
Artwork & Screenshots / Maaliskuu 2015 Screenshots
March 01, 2015, 04:28:50 PM
2015 moving right along ....

VSIDO and fvwm with dorian theme colors -



Direct link to screenshot

Please remember to use thumbnails   :)
#79
Strictly speaking not a new window manager; a project to clean up the fvwm code. Available via git:  https://github.com/ThomasAdam/mvwm.git

Build from source by running the autogen.sh script, then:

make
sudo make install


Has the default fvwm menu and aesthetic when first logging in:



like fvwm, configured manually - no gui frontends. Configuration is pretty much the same as fvwm, but modules are named Mvwm[module] as opposed to Fvwm[module]. So some quick search-and-replace on some of my old configuration files to get a basic setup:



I've been using fvwm as a window manager since Redhat 6/Slackware 9 so I'm actually excited by this project. Apparently going to be some new features added so good luck to Thomas Adam and the crew.
#80
Scripts and How To's / Compton tips, tricks, configs
February 05, 2015, 03:10:08 AM
I rarely use compton - typically just for drop shadows, and until the other day had no idea it could dim the inactive windows:



Direct link to image


the lines to adjust in the compton.conf:

inactive-dim = 0.2;
inactive-dim-fixed = true;


makes for a nice, non-blingy effect with no discernible hit to the resources.

hat tip to #! user orionthehunter who displayed this in his recent screenshot.