Desktop Thread

>>1783827
The linux ricing guide is nothing like what you guys do on /g/
I don't understand at all how someone would get what you have off that wiki

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>>1783829
You can find some of it their, but yeah, it's not a very complete guide.

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wild rice

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>>1783836
for the poor and webmless

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still willing to tear apart desktops

For 8.1 users, do you use bblean as a complete shell replacement, or do you just run the exe?

>>1783841
>>1783837
>>1783831
I wish I knew how to get cool rices like these :(

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>>1783827
All your rice is great. I especially love your fonts.

>>1783831
The Firefox css is beautiful.

>>1783836
>>1783841
>>1783842
all nice.

>>1783844
Complete shell replacement.

>>1783845
it's all in the xmonad bruh <3

>>1783846
thx :3

>>1783846
Thanks.
I see, I should probably do that.
usually I just run the blackbox exe in bbzero.

Also, very minimal and nice looking.
Opera, or firefox with toolbar autohide?

>>1783850
Are you referring to the file explorer? It's my modded version of Exon.

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Pretty happy with my new color scheme, VS's are a bitch to make though.
>>1783827
>"Your desktop is the mirror of your personality" edition.
Sounds about right.
>>1783831
Those fat tabs.
>>1783836
Jealous of that Skype.
>>1783841
Really like these colors, good taste in music.
>>1783845
Cool rice tastes bad.
>>1783846
Your desktops are always really pretty.
>>1783849
Nice colors.

>>1783854
I'm speechless when I see your desktop.

This is flawless, & the colors are so great.

>>1783854
btw, what text editor is that?

>>1783855
>>1783856
<3
Sublime Text 2 with the menu/map hidden.

>>1783854
you're on windorks right

i believe you could accomplish the skype like that by either a) downgrading a shitload or b) using pidgin (or CLI mode pidgin) as a skype frontend

>>1783859
a) won't work, because it doesn't let you login, so I guess the only option is using pidgin

>>1783860
damn fuck those botnet losers anyway

i've been trying to convince my skype pals to leave for IRC for ages

i'm considering making my own network just to get people off of skype

>>1783852
Oh that must have been it then, I thought it was a browser.

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My reminders list is almost empty of all school work, finally. Working on the last paper of my undergrad.

And yesterday I accepted an offer to a PhD program in philosophy at Cornell! I'm pretty stoked.

>>1783854
You always do so much work with your rice. I'm perpetually impressed.

>>1783849
Our colors are similar. Yours look nice.

>>1783846
Looks nice. Who are those pictures of?

>>1783842
btw, what does the bar beneath your taskbar do?

>>1783841
Yellow is starting to look nice. Are you trading Vampire for Snake? That's treason.

>>1783836
Your fonts look nice now.

>>1783831
Even your game as a nice color palette.

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What's everyone up to?

>>1783845
Just find something you like, and build off from there.
>>1783846
<3 Thanks. It's the first real CSS thing I've worked on.
>>1783854
Fat tabs are the best.
>>1783872
Haha, thanks. I like everything to match.

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>>1783873
Video games.

>>1783875
Explain Gilliam II

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>>1783878
Its the name of my PC. It's also the name of the computer/ship control in Outlaw Star.

Does anyone use this? It's a nice tool, but it doesn't give me the RGB or Hexcodes for the colors.

>>1783887
Shit, I forgot to put the goddamn link
https://color.adobe.com/create/image/

>>1783887
click the color wheel button dummy ;)

>>1783893
Shit, thanks man, I was ready to print the goddamn page and use the color picker on Paint.

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getting used to 3 monitors was difficult

Does anyone uses cmdfetch here? The one by hal, which runs on lua. I installed the lua interpreter and I run the script directly with the lua extension, but the terminal close as soon as it opens.

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Ghost in the Rice?

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>>1783849
switched colors)

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>>1783936
>5.95mb
>iaintloadingthatshitnigga.jpg

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>>1783827
<3

>>1783831
Nice Colours, Anon!
>>1783841
really nice desktop anon!
>>1783872
cool!

I fold easily to peer pressure, so please give me advice on my desktop!

>>1783872
>PhD program in philosophy
I'm more of someone who prefers to spend their time with the numerical world, personally, but I wish you the best with that, sounds like you'll have some fun with it that anyway.

>btw, what does the bar beneath your taskbar do?
It usually denotes the active window, it's usually blank if I click to the desktop or work over rainmeter, which I presume it doesn't identify as a window and chooses nothing, as it should, I guess.

>>1783942
here is stfourg's advice:
http://a.pomf.se/uusuvt.jpg

>>1783836
>October Language
yeeeeeeeeeee

>>1783829
I have the same thing here. Stuff here is revolutionary, almost no guidance on the wiki though.

Hey what are those widget thingies that measure your cpu/gpu and cock size and harddrive space and such you put on ur desktop? Just built a new pc and want sum

>>1783985
It's called rainmeter. You can install a fuckton of skins with it. There's also the standard gadgets that comes with Windows 7, but they're not as good as rainmeter.

>>1783964
mi negro

hmu @ last.fm/user/jmarvins

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Man, Zerochan is like heaven.

I guess we're using this thread then, even if it was started way too early.

>>1783812
>If you could elaborate whats wrong with my bbleanskin that would be great.
The colour you've used is pretty ugly, not unworkable just a bit iffy. The font is something I still take issue but hey. The shadow on the context menu looks iffy and cheap, not to mention the not-nice-to-read white font choice. I'd also say to hide the titles of the menus, it's ugly bloat you don't need. Edit the title or header margins (I can't remember too well) in the skin editor or the config file to hide them.

As it is, the bbleanskin doesn't fit your wallpaper all that well at all.

>>1783872
I felt like the snake needed a bit of screentime.
Also, great colors.

>>1783942
Thanks.
Awesome desktop as always.

>>1784005
One of my favorites.

I'd love to have a taskbar like that in 8.1

>>1784057
you can have a taskbar like that, just find a program to remove the start button anon.

>>1783963
Thanks! I do a lot of logic, philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of physics stuff so my work isn't so far removed from the 'numerical world' anyway.

>>1784076
where do you go for undergrad? congrats on the phd program; i'm going to end up going for a phd in humanities myself and although i've got a few years to go before that i'm excited

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>>1783854
Your desktop always gets better and better. The wallpaper really illuminates those borders. And thx 4 the compliments.

>>1783872
https://www.flickr.com/photos/yuria
:^3 thx.

>>1784005
Did you make that VS?

>>1784084
I like this

>>1784057
I know, transparency is a pain in the ass on 8.1. And a combination of WSB, Patched UX files and Glass8 causes your OS to eventually get the black screen of death. Same with Windows 10, which is sad because Windows 10 is really cool and I'd like to use it as my main OS.

>>1784084
Yup.

>>1784099
Yup, it would be awesome if aeroglass was enabled in windows 10.

I've been thinking about trying windows 10 out

>>1784079
I'm finishing up my degree at the University of Toronto. Good luck with your future applications! I'd say start working on them as soon as you can, especially over the summer. Sending out applications is one of the most stressful things I've ever done.

>>1784133
Nice; I have some friends at UoT. It's a great school.

While I haven't quite started applying yet, I've been working a lot lately to get serious research done so I have something to go on with my applications. I recently won a research grant from my university to go to Greece and study some monastic traditions (I do study of / philosophy of religion), and hopefully I'll be able to get the work I accomplish there published.

academia, man....

>>1784138
If you can get something published in undergrad, that would be great. I don't think many grad students, let alone undergrads are good enough to publish work though, so good luck!

>>1784133
>>1784138
You fuckers makes me envious, living in a 3rd world country is like a cancer, god fucking dammit.

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>>1783859
Thanks for the reminder about Pidgin, it works pretty nicely with Skype/Facebook, haven't tested it with calls yet.
>dat Send To button though
>>1783872
>>1784084
<3
>>1784007
Change the background color in your CSS, maybe to match your foobar.

>>1784124
I like it alot and this style of wallpaper works very well!
purple is always your friend

>>1784180
it would be very nice if your stuff matched your beautiful wallpaper more!

>>1783872
I've always liked desktops that look like yours. Are there any tutorials that can point me in getting mine like yours?

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Does anyone know how to fix this issue? When I put a video in fullscreen mode the urlbar doesn't disappear. I'll post my version of twily's css and if you can point to where I should add or modify some code I would appreciate it.

Modified Twily's CSS: http://pastebin.com/xkFQE3xv

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First time posting my desktop on this board.

>>1784209
'tis good anon, I like. How'd you managed the cmdfetch? I've been trying to run it with no avail.

>>1784177
Where do you live?

>>1784180
<3 <3

>>1784188
I don't know about tutorials, but I could tell you what programs I use: bblean with bblean skin (for the taskbar and window wrappers), rainmeter (for the text-based launcher, system info and reminders) and firefox with a modifed version of Twily's css. For media I use MPC-BE (for video), frameless (for pictures) and MuPDF (for pdf documents). You can find all the above mentioned programs by googling their names.

The thing is, its pretty difficult to get all of those programs to look nice together consistently. It's difficult to walk you through how to do it, because they only real way is to experiment with different programs or mess around with code and settings until everything is perfect. The goal is to make everything seem like one coherent theme, but doing so is actually a lot of work. Ricing is basically a hobby at this point.

If you try out those programs but you get stuck on something, ask me or someone else on here for help on that specific issue. That's about the best advice I can give.

>>1784217
I live in Brazil anon. Either you're born on a rich family and get everything easy, born on a below-average family and have to study like a motherfucker and get all of the opportunities (which is hard as fuck to get) [this is me], or you get born in a miserable family and become a criminal.

>>1784212
it is an older version 2.1.3
just navigate to the folder with the files with cmd or powershell and do .\cmdfetch.bat

>>1784218
I believe you. That's shitty. It is possible to do though; one of the PhD students here is from Argentina. I think he moved here when he was approximately 15 though, so it isn't quite the same.

>>1784209
That is solid looking, though personally I find the homepage a little meh. If you don't mind a little unoriginality consider looking up konbanwa by noha

>>1784180
How did you go about making the transparent border for your VS? I was trying to make something between your border and the borders in >>1784005, but I have no idea how to do make the border not be solid

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>>1784223
Nevermind, I just managed the newer version to worker. Thanks anyway.

>>1784180
>Change the background color in your CSS, maybe to match your foobar.
That'll be difficult I guess, until I find the right section in the script, but I'll give it a look.

>>1784184
>match colors to wallpaper.
Nah, I change my wallpaper too often.
>>1784231
Using Style Builder, you just make an opaque png then set that as the border, or set it as the shadow like I do.
>>1784234
If you're new to CSS use Color Picker to find the grey you want to change and search for it in the code, then identify what selector changes what, it's how I started learning CSS.

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OMG ITS REALLY HERE

>>1784262
ben dont tell me you got another 1024x768 laptop....

ben pls......

>>1784268
yeah, I can't see the difference too.

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>>1784275
you cant really tell but my old x61 has chunks of plastic missing, from some angles you can see the motherboard

and a lot of the ports dont work anymore

>>1784276
>>1784275

oh yeah, and the fan didnt work so I had to undervolt my CPU too

>>1784277
It's no better if you still have the same goddamn 1024x768 screen.

>>1784279
my screen size is cute

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>>1784242
Hey, thanks, got the hang of it and changed the colors. Looking better now.

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>>1783936
that yellow still seems a bit too saturated but I like it, reminds me of a scheme i had before.

>>1784084
this is great, except I'm triggered by terrible kerning and the lack of a taskbar shadow.

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Got dual monitor to work with new font and color scheme. The font isn't really that bad, I can comfortably read them on my screen. Anyone have a good GTK theme for what I have? Also how do I into wallpapers with different resolution?

>>1784205
thats a browser feature.

>>1784341
I sure as hell haven't got that problem, even with that lame CSS..

>>1784345
The browser by default would like to show the URL bar when entering HTML5 fullscreen. This has been done for security purposes.

>>1784347
Like this: http://feross.org/html5-fullscreen-api-attack/

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Hi /w/

>>1784388
I feel like the chat and browser should be switched, other than that, good job.

>>1784347
In vanilla, at least on youtube the browser does disappear though. If I could add an exception only for Youtube I'd do it, otherwise it's only a very minor inconvenience

>>1784288
I think you should remove the newtab button in ff and the scrollbar in foobar

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first time on /w/. Made my shit as animu as possible just for this
>>1784124
>>1784084
>>1784005
>>1783942
>>1783854
>>1783846
my favs from the thread

>>1784472
your colors are shit, and I believe it's not the first time I've seen you around here

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>>1784472
>>1784483

Its also possible every dark desktop looks exactly the same. Yeah, shit font rendering on it though.

>>1784486
What are you talking about shiro, we are all clearly special unique snow flakes.

>>1784472
>>1784486
I'm pretty sure I've seen another desktop with the same windows being tiled, with the same icons and html page, albeit different fonts. Even the pictures are also from that edgy manga. Meh, still shit though.

>>1784472
Post your wallpaper, Anon.

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How can I make bblean themes override my VS like here? http://hal-ullr.deviantart.com/art/Flat-UI-bbLean-410357957

I don't assume he uses a separate VS for both bblean and the style. BBlean doesn't change for me and my VS stays as is. Pic Related.

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>>1784724
Look at his terminal. He's using Aero. bbleanskin will skin borders and captions only. He has separate configs for bbstylemaker and his terminal that make them match.

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>>1784724
current anyway

>>1784730
So seperate configs make the terminal and style match but the rest is done because of aero... Interesting. I wated a whole lot of time yesterday then.

>>1784084
>>1784472
What's the procedure to hiding everything in an Explorer window?

>>1784737
Also wondering how to make the explorer so clean. Or at least how to remove the ribbon or organize bar.

Is there a bblean step-by-step guide for retards such as myself?

How much functionality do I lose?

>>1784746
I started yesterday. Following the nanami-tan.info guide (ctrl-f: bblean).
It took a while but it looks pretty good. If anything I find more functionality

>>1784747
I read through the guides, I'm just afraid of fucking something up.

Besides a shell swapper, is there anything I need to anticipate fuckups?

>>1784737
Closing it usually works for me

>>1784743
There's literally a tool called "Ribbon disabler" holy shit

>>1784746
Yes it's on nanami-tan like everything else

>>1784752
system restore, backups of various system files involved in theming

>>1784757
>Closing it usually works for me
You're so funny xDDD

>>1784737
>>1784743
http://nanami-tan.info/#RegEdit
Learn to read pls.
>>1784746
None, the point of bblean, and ricing in general, is to increase functionality.
>>1784752
Basically make a system restore point and don't replace any system files unless you really what you're doing.
google.com is your friend.
>>1784760
Well you did ask how to hide everything.

>>1784757
Sorry, probably should have worded that better. After using Ribbondisabler or something like Oldnewexplorer, it would usually replace the ribbon with another bar. But I wasnt sure how to hide that completely.

>>1784763
Don't really feel like going down the proverbial google-rabbit-hole right now, but I believe you can hide by changing a value in the shellstyle.dll for your theme using a resource editor. Probably a better way somewhere, but that's what I recall doing.

>>1784760
:^)

>>1784767
Thanks, I was able to find it.
command bar is now hidden.

>>1784466
My mouse scroll is fucked up, so the scrollbar needs to be there, at least for a while. And by removing the button you mean blending its color to the background?

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>>1784731
You should get some icons, man.
>>1784486
This is so lovely.
>>1784472
Yeah, I've seen a similar setup around, too. Either on /wg/ or here, whatever. Looks good, except for the player, the colors are kind of mismatching.
>>1784388
Why two browsers open?
>>1784290
Oh, this is what I aim at a bright/white desktop. Very good indeed.

>>1784761
Can you recommend a resource I could read through so I can learn to create styles for BBZero?

I read through nanami-tan but I can't get a definite guide, so I'm lost.

>>1784806
Open bbStyleMaker and move the sliders, if you really don't know what you're doing then edit from someone elses style config.

>>1784486
no more bullying

>>1784124
nice

>>1784813
Am I understanding this right? bbstylemaker allows me to to create a style after messing around in the sliders?

Also, what do I have to use to edit the default style lean_blue?

Thanks a lot for the help. My only experience with this stuff is Rainmeter code and Python.

>>1784816
Yes, you could open the style file in a text editor of your choice but the easiest way is to select the style then edit in bbStyleMaker.

>>1784472
p o s t w a l l p a p e r

>>1784779
I literally mean removing it.

>>1784730
is that ncmpcpp?

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I plan on getting scripts for nightly eventually

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>>1784805
thanks, the dark one is not my desktop. the light one is.

>>1784853
no, its foobar. it is the modified ncmpcpp mod though. all of these are separate components. foobar is fantastic because it's so modular.

So has someone managed to remove the reader view in the urlbar yet? It's getting annoying

>>1784960
Reader view?

The worst thing about customizing desktops are the wallpapers.

I have too many shinobu renders I want to use.

>>1785237
Do you mind sharing them? :3

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>>1785237
do what I did!!
I like having static wallpapers as a feature of my desktop, but have tons of wallpapers I like

so I use them as random splash screens on the homepage

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One day I'll switch to Mac and nothing will make sense for me anymore

>>1785247
Man I've gotta learn how to do that. I think everyone here has that problem.

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>>1785042

>>1783836
How did you get your skype to look like that?

>>1785260
By removing it in customize?
>>1785267
On Linux Skype uses your color scheme.

>>1785271
Doesn't seem to be possible

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Does anyone else use bug.n? I've been trying out tiling window managers and I'm finding it to be really complicated. What are the major benefits of using a tiling WM?

In particular, I'm having trouble setting my desktop margins. Config_viewMargins doesn't seem to work.

>>1785280
nvm, I was able to figure it out ;)

>>1783872
I'm a bit curious on your version of firefox, I still haven't updated mine since 28 or so, but if i do update my css will die. Been trying a few css's but they all seem f** up after the new update.

>>1785292
I'm using the latest version with an edited version of Twily's css. You should try it out, it's great.

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>>1785280
Looks good, you should upload that MPC picture, please! :)

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>>1785298
here u go