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October 21 2010
My Blue Periody
After getting tired of my green desktop on my Arch Linux box, I played a bit with some backgrounds and colors and came up with my Blue Period desktop:
So this is my new desktop, devoid of (almost) any windows. There's plenty of screen real estate, as I have 24" & 21" monitors running in Twinview mode, for a whopping 3600x1050 pixels. Here's what I'm showing, from left to right:
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So this is my new desktop, devoid of (almost) any windows. There's plenty of screen real estate, as I have 24" & 21" monitors running in Twinview mode, for a whopping 3600x1050 pixels. Here's what I'm showing, from left to right:
- A wbar launch menu. It has some nice OSX-type animations. Funny, I was just thinking I wanted a launcher for a couple programs. I usually use Launchy but some of them I'd rather not. And then someone mentioned wbar in the addicting Screenshots topic in the Arch Linux forums. So I checked it out and despite the total lack of documentation, I figured out how to use it. Be sure to get wbarconf too, to help set up the menu.
- The background is from the Desktopography 2009 exhibition. I was thinking I wanted an outerspace picture and this really fit in with that idea and going blue. And it came in a nice big size too.
- The dropdown window is a Yakuake terminal window, my favorite terminal emulator. It hides away nicely.
- At the bottom is a tint2 task manager. I used to have it go across both sreens but it made the sys tray apps to hard to get to, so I just have it go across one desktop now. I use tint2wizard to tame the multiple config options.
- Top right is my fairly simple conky display. I need to get back to hacking on it again.
Here's I'm running a few of my standard apps:
- Emacs of course
- I've been using Claws Mail as my email client, as I like its filtering better than my old standby, Mozilla Thunderbird.
- On the other hand, my default browser is Mozilla Firefox, although I use Google Chrome as well. Neither always works and each has good points and bad.
- Finally, tucked in a the far right, is the IM client I use, Pidgin
- Improve Your Linux Desktop Experience with a Dock (linux.com)
- Arch Linux interview and Uzbl article (dieter.plaetinck.be)
- 8 Best Linux Terminal Emulators You May Have Never Heard Of (junauza.com)

