rox -p=icons = aka: rox-filer pinboard for desktop icons
conky = monitor
rxvt-unicode-lite = terminal, mc, axel, i run it with the daemon(uxrvtd, use the client uxrvtc)
i try to recycle the resources, to ease the load on the crappy cpu. simple colored background from theme(cuthlain modified a little)
trim install only what i actually use, vaio pcg-f430 450mhz 256 ram 20gig hd
debian-minimal+fluxbox
Last edited by kerry_s; August 13th, 2007 at 11:53 PM.
Debian Etch on a 1GHz Duron with 386MB RAM. Boots fully into the Fluxbox "desktop" in 56 seconds. I keep it simple to keep it fast.
What you can see...
Theme: Noir
Conky for keeping an eye on things
XMMS with the ATER white skin, using the OSD song change plugin and "hotkeys" to enable my multimedia keyboard buttons
Thunar file manager, using gtk-theme-switch and the .gtkrc-2.0 to set MurrinaGraphiteGentle + Tango icons
Sadly most of the potential responsiveness is sabotaged by the faulty S3 graphics driver supplied with Etch
Last edited by happy-and-lost; July 20th, 2007 at 12:22 PM.
Lose all your fears, they're keeping you down.
Windows-Free since 2nd September 2006
Last edited by Onyros; July 20th, 2007 at 12:42 PM.
N800 in my pocket, Acer 1410 in my backpack, Thinkpad X31 on a shrine
just switched from nautilus --no desktop --browser to pcmanfm
definitely faster
how to use gtk-theme-switch and the .gtkrc-2.0 to change look of pcmanfm ?
Nice! I've not tried that one before. I can get rid of all the XFCE clutter installed with Thunar now
Add the gtk-theme-switch to ~/.fluxbox/startup like this:
And because gtk-theme-switch will take control on your .gtkrc-2.0, you have to create a ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine file and add the line: gtk-icon-theme-name = "Tango" (or whatever icon set you want) to change the icons. Works for Thunar and PCManFMCode:gtk-theme-switch2 /path/to/gtk/theme/folder/eg/MurrinaGraphiteGentle/ &
Last edited by happy-and-lost; July 20th, 2007 at 01:18 PM.
Lose all your fears, they're keeping you down.
Windows-Free since 2nd September 2006
that's just xpad, i'm getting old and if i don't jot it down i forget what i was doing.
i just leave it there when i'm multi-tasking, it's very light and dead simple to use. I also use xcal a very simple scheduler. i try and use only very light applications, things that are very small and fast, they may not look fancy, but they get the job done and doesn't make me wait for it to load. I try and use what ever's built in if i can, things like xcalc that's part of xorg, there's also a clock, calendar, text editor already installed on every ones system, they may not look good but they are light.
oop's forgot to finish that note.: my mp3 player can be started and will continue to play when i close it, i can start it again to stop the music or switch to a different folder. time for sleep
Last edited by kerry_s; August 13th, 2007 at 11:53 PM.
thanks, kerry. I've used xpad in the past, but I don't think I'll use xcal. But thanks to you I also discovered xcalc. Now I don't have to install the gnome calculator.
here's my xcalc setting for the .Xdefaults file to get rid of the stock ugly grey.
Code:xcalc*geometry: 200x275 xcalc.ti.bevel.background: #111111 xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.background: Green xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.DEG.background: Green xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.DEG.foreground: Black xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.GRAD.background: Green xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.GRAD.foreground: Black xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.RAD.background: Green xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.RAD.foreground: Black xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.INV.background: Green xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.INV.foreground: Red xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.LCD.background: Green xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.LCD.foreground: Black xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.LCD.shadowWidth: 0 xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.M.background: Green xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.M.foreground: Black xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.P.background: Green xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.P.foreground: Black xcalc.ti.Command.foreground: White xcalc.ti.Command.background: black xcalc.ti.button5.background: orange xcalc.ti.button20.background: red xcalc.ti.button25.background: red xcalc.ti.button30.background: red xcalc.ti.button35.background: red xcalc.ti.button40.background: green xcalc.ti.button22.background: blue xcalc.ti.button23.background: blue xcalc.ti.button24.background: blue xcalc.ti.button27.background: blue xcalc.ti.button28.background: blue xcalc.ti.button29.background: blue xcalc.ti.button32.background: blue xcalc.ti.button33.background: blue xcalc.ti.button34.background: blue xcalc.ti.button37.background: blue XCalc*Cursor: hand2 XCalc*ShapeStyle: rectangle
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