August 2007 Desktops (Safe for work ONLY) - Please include theme details.

[dbbolton]

has anyone had problems with conky and compiz-fusion. Like the backround being black?

that's probably because you're probably using nautilus so you have to have "own_window yes". so compiz treats conky like a window. there is a "window color" option in the ~/.conkyrc file but i don't think you can make it transparent and add composite effects. this thread might be of more help:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865

[fuscia]

I'm on Vista at the moment...

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http://www.quillz.net/random/desktop/desktop_081107.png

that's a great wallpaper. have you a link?

[ahaslam]

I'd thought you'd have known:
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details.php?id=1253

[DimitrisC]

Here's mine although not much changed from the last time I posted.

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z...sC/Desktop.png

Controls: WaterVapor
Icons: HumanAzul2 (Modified by me)

[el mariachi]

like the wallpaper

[shearn89]

@herbster: what font are you using for conky? it rocks! sort of old-skool military style...

[herbster]

Hey i like your background plus your layout of conky. Do you mind posting your conky script (the .conkyrc file), please. I want to see how you did the coloring, the order, and the calendar.

Do you know how to make conky appear on both the left and right side of the screen?

Thanks in advance.

I've attached my conky, it's actually 7 conky scripts that are all started by "dual-conky" (edit the paths accordingly). The Gmail.py template can be found here: http://vredfreak.atspace.com/projects.html

As for conky appearing on both the left and right side, do you mean on both monitors or on each side of one screen? You can easily put conky's anywhere by messing with this section:

alignment bottom_right
gap_x 0
gap_y 0

You make one of them bottom_left, the other bottom_right, etc. and they appear accordingly.

@shearn: The font is Telegraphem, it's from http://www.dafont.com.

[Interestedinthepenguin]

http://i16.tinypic.com/4pvobae.jpg

Wallpaper's from http://www.animepaper.net/gallery/wa...ach/item16429/ (registration required)

[AegisTalons]

Hey herbster,
Thanks for the zip files of the conky scripts. I didn't know if I could run conky and display different items on the different parts of the same desktop (bottom left and bottom right) and the same time. Apparently you need to run conky for each part of the desktop you want. I'm going to get mine working and upload my desktop when I'm done.

Running multiple instances of conky, is there any real noticeable system hit?

[crimesaucer]

Check out my new Gmail skin...using the Firefox extension "Stylish", I was able to take 3 different scripts, and change all the colors and some pixel sizes, and perfectly match my gtk-2.0 theme.


Large 1280x800 view: http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...shot-20-16.png



Here are the 3 Stylish scripts that work to create this:
http://userstyles.org/styles/3065
http://userstyles.org/styles/1483
http://userstyles.org/styles/1916


...then click advanced on each script and adjust the hex color codes to match your theme. It takes a little while to figure out what color affects what part, but it's worth it.