have you tried mtaskbar?, with that taskbar you can set the font color to the one used for bg, and get legible taskbar entries, (it works for me with xgl+compiz).
cool desktop.
If you have Compiz installed you can add a picture behind the cube, its animated as well and looks cool.
just download Gset-Compiz, select plugins : cube. Add any PNG 2048 by 1024 of your choice.
My Kicker is just a kbfx theme found here,
reveline I think, I just added the vista style
kicker bmp to the kicker, its also slightly
transparent thanks to XGL
Hi, can you tell us, which icon theme and which window decorations you used? i tried to get XGL on dapper + KDE 3.5.3 working, but the win decos are missing :(
perhaps you got som tips ;)
Hi, I had the same problems with the deco missing and just tried combining some tutorials.
1) Followed this http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=147711
2) Replace this part
#!/bin/bash
compiz --replace gconf decoration dock wobbly fade minimize cube rotate zoom scale move resize place state switcher trailfocus water bs widget
& gnome-window-decorator
with
#!/bin/bash
gnome-window-decorator & compiz --replace gconf miniwin decoration wobbly fade minimize cube rotate zoom scale move resize place switcher trailfocus water &
3) Icons i found on Deviant art called Shiny Black Folders, I combined them with Vista Inspirate.
sorry do not have the links.
3) KDE style QT curve, window deco just standard compiz.
Hope this helps and thanks for the votes.
Hi, I had the same problems with the deco missing and just tried combining some tutorials.
1) Followed this http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=147711
2) Replace this part
#!/bin/bash
compiz --replace gconf decoration dock wobbly fade minimize cube rotate zoom scale move resize place state switcher trailfocus water bs widget
& gnome-window-decorator
with
#!/bin/bash
gnome-window-decorator & compiz --replace gconf miniwin decoration wobbly fade minimize cube rotate zoom scale move resize place switcher trailfocus water &
3) Icons i found on Deviant art called Shiny Black Folders, I combined them with Vista Inspirate.
sorry do not have the links.
3) KDE style QT curve, window deco just standard compiz.
Hope this helps and thanks for the votes.
1) Follow this tutorial
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=147711
2) Replace this
#!/bin/bash
compiz --replace gconf decoration dock wobbly fade minimize cube rotate zoom scale move resize place state switcher trailfocus water bs widget
& gnome-window-decorator
With
#!/bin/bash
gnome-window-decorator & compiz --replace gconf miniwin decoration wobbly fade minimize cube rotate zoom scale move resize place switcher trailfocus water &
3) Found icons on Devient Art called Shiny Black Folders and combined with Vista Inspirate.
4) KDE style QT Curve and Win Deco just standard Compiz.
Hope this helps and good luck.
1499 rss is due to trying to get XGL to work for the past couple of weeks, one minute it was working, next update it was broken.
It seems very stable with the last updates now, and cube spins with just the mouse wheel on the desktop, a nice touch I think.
I have a P4 3.6ghz 1gb ram ,800gb Geforce FX5900.
But i'm sure the most inportant thing is the Nvidia card.
A cheap second hand geforce 4 ti from Ebay will do the job great.I have 2 dvb-t cards and can watch these and DIVX movies all transparent at once.
I would say there are a few small issues to resolve,
I had trouble getting it to work, till some of the repo's
were updated. It's a pity it won't be ready to ship with
Dapper!
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have you tried mtaskbar?, with that taskbar you can set the font color to the one used for bg, and get legible taskbar entries, (it works for me with xgl+compiz). cool desktop.
What icon set are you using? It looks really nice!
xx
If you have Compiz installed you can add a picture behind the cube, its animated as well and looks cool. just download Gset-Compiz, select plugins : cube. Add any PNG 2048 by 1024 of your choice.
Good work,love the look! especially the icons. Where did you get those from?
hmm, i know XGL but how did you get this background behind the cube??
You've got a really really nice desktop! Where did you get the Folder Icons from? Could you tell me the link?
that's really cool!
...RULES! i've seen an XGL demo video, it's impressive. you can also get a XGL Demo LiveCD at kororaa.org
What a cool looking desktop! How did you get the kicker to look like that?
My Kicker is just a kbfx theme found here, reveline I think, I just added the vista style kicker bmp to the kicker, its also slightly transparent thanks to XGL
the best screenshot I'll saw ti'll now!!! Wery good work keep it up like that!!!!!
Hi, can you tell us, which icon theme and which window decorations you used? i tried to get XGL on dapper + KDE 3.5.3 working, but the win decos are missing :( perhaps you got som tips ;)
same problem with the deco here give us some tips or some url with a working how-to please :)
Hi, I had the same problems with the deco missing and just tried combining some tutorials. 1) Followed this http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=147711 2) Replace this part #!/bin/bash compiz --replace gconf decoration dock wobbly fade minimize cube rotate zoom scale move resize place state switcher trailfocus water bs widget & gnome-window-decorator with #!/bin/bash gnome-window-decorator & compiz --replace gconf miniwin decoration wobbly fade minimize cube rotate zoom scale move resize place switcher trailfocus water & 3) Icons i found on Deviant art called Shiny Black Folders, I combined them with Vista Inspirate. sorry do not have the links. 3) KDE style QT curve, window deco just standard compiz. Hope this helps and thanks for the votes.
Hi, I had the same problems with the deco missing and just tried combining some tutorials. 1) Followed this http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=147711 2) Replace this part #!/bin/bash compiz --replace gconf decoration dock wobbly fade minimize cube rotate zoom scale move resize place state switcher trailfocus water bs widget & gnome-window-decorator with #!/bin/bash gnome-window-decorator & compiz --replace gconf miniwin decoration wobbly fade minimize cube rotate zoom scale move resize place switcher trailfocus water & 3) Icons i found on Deviant art called Shiny Black Folders, I combined them with Vista Inspirate. sorry do not have the links. 3) KDE style QT curve, window deco just standard compiz. Hope this helps and thanks for the votes.
1) Follow this tutorial http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=147711 2) Replace this #!/bin/bash compiz --replace gconf decoration dock wobbly fade minimize cube rotate zoom scale move resize place state switcher trailfocus water bs widget & gnome-window-decorator With #!/bin/bash gnome-window-decorator & compiz --replace gconf miniwin decoration wobbly fade minimize cube rotate zoom scale move resize place switcher trailfocus water & 3) Found icons on Devient Art called Shiny Black Folders and combined with Vista Inspirate. 4) KDE style QT Curve and Win Deco just standard Compiz. Hope this helps and good luck.
Nice screen shot But how can you bear having 1499 unread RSS feeds :-O
1499 rss is due to trying to get XGL to work for the past couple of weeks, one minute it was working, next update it was broken. It seems very stable with the last updates now, and cube spins with just the mouse wheel on the desktop, a nice touch I think.
what a bad screenshot voted bad
hi, which icon theme are you using ? nice icons on the desktop!
looks great! hows the performance? what hardware are you running?
I have a P4 3.6ghz 1gb ram ,800gb Geforce FX5900. But i'm sure the most inportant thing is the Nvidia card. A cheap second hand geforce 4 ti from Ebay will do the job great.I have 2 dvb-t cards and can watch these and DIVX movies all transparent at once. I would say there are a few small issues to resolve, I had trouble getting it to work, till some of the repo's were updated. It's a pity it won't be ready to ship with Dapper!
where did you get this kicker background from? :-) and did you scale the kbfx button images or is it the size this theme comes with?
kbfx-vista for kicker &revaline 4 for button here on kdelook