Ubuntu 9.10 - Show what your news desktop looks like!

[evilaim]

Ya, I've installed 9.10 Beta, it's fully operational, had a few kinks to work out but nothing I couldn't handle. I finally set it up how I like it and this is what she looks like:

[BrokenKingpin]

I have the same wallpaper on my work computer.

What theme is that?

[wojox]

Looks sweet.

[evilaim]

Well, luckily, it's a stock theme that comes with ubuntu. It's called 'Dust'. Just look in your "Appearance". Also, I'm using a ballin' icon set. Here's the link: http://www.deviantart.com/download/73276755/black_white_2_Style_by_DBGtheKafu.tar

And, for the menu I've used Gnome-Do. Took a bit of tweaking but I think it looks good.

[darco]

Heres my stock desktop....I dont like those large conky screens tho...mine is nice!

darco

[clonne4crw]

Heres my stock desktop....I dont like those large conky screens tho...mine is nice!

darco

IMO, green kind of ruins the whole thing. I think black or white toolbar would look better there. :popcorn:

[NoaHall]

Yes, that green is disgusting in my eyes.

[Boom!!!]

I feel a merge coming on :lolflag:

[darco]

Ya I know...I changed my wallpaper but didnt change the panel color...


darco

[evilaim]

I wish they'd stop merging me freakin' topics. hahaha, this if for 9.10 only!

[PhoHammer]

I'm loving 9.10!!

[evilaim]

That's a very nice lookin' desktop bro. Simplicity is the key IMO.

[Tipped OuT]

I feel a merge coming on :lolflag:

In 3.. 2... 1...

[darkmatter247]

heres mine file:///home/judson/Desktop/Screenshot.png

[darkmatter247]

nvm lol

[evilaim]

Failz!

[PhoHammer]

Failz!

If only I had a "judson" directory...;)

[Eisenwinter]

Users of this bottom bunch of big 3D icons: do you not find this a waste of space on the screen?

How exactly does this work?

Show me a screenshot of you running a maximized application please, thanks.

[slakkie]

I'm loving 9.10!!

The disk/CPU thing is done with Conky right? Could you post your conkyrc and lua scripts? I wanna see how you did it...

Anyhows, my karmic screenshots:
http://opperschaap.net/~wesleys/ubuntu/karmic/

[rifak]

just threw away 8.04 and replaced it with 9.10 last night. such a good release.

[cguy]

I'm loving 9.10!!

How did you make that awesome panel at the bottom? :D

[PhoHammer]

The disk/CPU thing is done with Conky right? Could you post your conkyrc and lua scripts? I wanna see how you did it...

Anyhows, my karmic screenshots:
http://opperschaap.net/~wesleys/ubuntu/karmic/ (http://opperschaap.net/%7Ewesleys/ubuntu/karmic/)

My lua script goes:

--[[
Ring Meters by londonali1010 (2009)

This script draws percentage meters as rings. It is fully customisable; all options are described in the script.

IMPORTANT: if you are using the 'cpu' function, it will cause a segmentation fault if it tries to draw a ring straight away. The if statement on line 145 uses a delay to make sure that this doesn't happen. It calculates the length of the delay by the number of updates since Conky started. Generally, a value of 5s is long enough, so if you update Conky every 1s, use update_num>5 in that if statement (the default). If you only update Conky every 2s, you should change it to update_num>3; conversely if you update Conky every 0.5s, you should use update_num>10. ALSO, if you change your Conky, is it best to use "killall conky; conky" to update it, otherwise the update_num will not be reset and you will get an error.

To call this script in Conky, use the following (assuming that you save this script to ~/scripts/rings.lua):
lua_load ~/scripts/rings.lua
lua_draw_hook_pre ring_stats

Changelog:
+ v1.1 -- Added options for the starting angle of the rings, and added the "max" variable, to allow for variables that output a numerical value rather than a percentage (29.09.2009)
+ v1.0 -- Original release (28.09.2009)
]]

settings_table = {
{
-- Edit this table to customise your rings.
-- You can create more rings simply by adding more elements to settings_table.
-- "name" is the type of stat to display; you can choose from 'cpu', 'memperc', 'fs_used_perc', 'battery_used_perc'.
name='cpu',
-- "arg" is the argument to the stat type, e.g. if in Conky you would write ${cpu cpu0}, 'cpu0' would be the argument. If you would not use an argument in the Conky variable, use ''.
arg='cpu0',
-- "max" is the maximum value of the ring. If the Conky variable outputs a percentage, use 100.
max=100,
-- "bg_colour" is the colour of the base ring.
bg_colour=0xffffff,
-- "bg_alpha" is the alpha value of the base ring.
bg_alpha=0.1,
-- "fg_colour" is the colour of the indicator part of the ring.
fg_colour=0xffffff,
-- "fg_alpha" is the alpha value of the indicator part of the ring.
fg_alpha=0.5,
-- "x" and "y" are the x and y coordinates of the centre of the ring, relative to the top left corner of the Conky window.
x=940, y=100,
-- "radius" is the radius of the ring.
radius=50,
-- "thickness" is the thickness of the ring, centred around the radius.
thickness=5,
-- "angle" is the starting angle of the ring, in degrees, clockwise from top. Value can be either positive or negative.
angle=270
},
{
name='memperc',
arg='',
max=100,
bg_colour=0xffffff,
bg_alpha=0.1,
fg_colour=0xffffff,
fg_alpha=0.5,
x=940, y=240,
radius=50,
thickness=5,
angle=270
},
{
name='fs_used_perc',
arg='/',
max=100,
bg_colour=0xffffff,
bg_alpha=0.1,
fg_colour=0xffffff,
fg_alpha=0.5,
x=940, y=380,
radius=50,
thickness=5,
angle=270
},
{ name='fs_used_perc',
arg='/home',
max=100,
bg_colour=0xffffff,
bg_alpha=0.1,
fg_colour=0xffffff,
fg_alpha=0.5,
x=940, y=520,
radius=50,
thickness=5,
angle=270
},
{
name='battery_percent',
arg='BAT1',
max=100,
bg_colour=0xffffff,
bg_alpha=0.1,
fg_colour=0xffffff,
fg_alpha=0.5,
x=940, y=660,
radius=50,
thickness=5,
angle=270
},
}

require 'cairo'

function rgb_to_r_g_b(colour,alpha)
return ((colour / 0x10000) % 0x100) / 255., ((colour / 0x100) % 0x100) / 255., (colour % 0x100) / 255., alpha
end

function draw_ring(t, pt)
if conky_window==nil then return end
local w,h=conky_window.width,conky_window.height
local cs=cairo_xlib_surface_create(conky_window.display, conky_window.drawable,conky_window.visual,w,h)

cr=cairo_create(cs)

local xc,yc,ring_r,ring_w,angle=pt['x'],pt['y'],pt['radius'],pt['thickness'],pt['angle']
local bgc, bga, fgc, fga=pt['bg_colour'], pt['bg_alpha'], pt['fg_colour'], pt['fg_alpha']

local angle_0=angle*(2*math.pi/360)-math.pi/2
local t_arc=t*2*math.pi

-- Draw background ring

cairo_arc(cr,xc,yc,ring_r,0,2*math.pi)
cairo_set_source_rgba(cr,rgb_to_r_g_b(bgc,bga))
cairo_set_line_width(cr,ring_w)
cairo_stroke(cr)

-- Draw indicator ring

cairo_arc(cr,xc,yc,ring_r,angle_0,angle_0+t_arc)
cairo_set_source_rgba(cr,rgb_to_r_g_b(fgc,fga))
cairo_stroke(cr)

cairo_destroy(cr)
cr = nil
end

function conky_cairo_cleanup()
cairo_surface_destroy(cs)
cs = nil
end

function conky_ring_stats()
local function setup_rings(pt)
local str=''
local value=0

str=string.format('${%s %s}',pt['name'],pt['arg'])
str=conky_parse(str)

value=tonumber(str)
pct=value/pt['max']

draw_ring(pct,pt)
end

-- Check that Conky has been running for at least 5s

local updates=conky_parse('${updates}')
update_num=tonumber(updates)

if update_num>5 then
for i in pairs(settings_table) do
setup_rings(settings_table[i])
end
end
endMy conky.conf:

# -- Conky settings -- #
background no
update_interval 2

cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2

override_utf8_locale yes

double_buffer yes
no_buffers yes

text_buffer_size 2048
imlib_cache_size 0

# -- Window specifications -- #

own_window yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,below

border_inner_margin 0
border_outer_margin 0

minimum_size 1020 800
maximum_width 1000

# -- Alignment -- #
alignment tr
gap_x 10
gap_y 0

# -- Graphics settings -- #
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no

# -- Text settings -- #
use_xft yes
xftfont Santana:size=8
xftalpha 0.8

uppercase no

default_color FFFFFF

# -- Lua Load -- #
lua_load /etc/conky/lua/rings.lua
lua_draw_hook_pre ring_stats

TEXT







${offset 916}CPU
${offset 916}${acpitemp} C
${offset 916}$cpu%









${offset 916}RAM
${offset 916}$memperc%








${offset 924}/
${offset 883}${fs_used /}/${fs_size /}









${offset 910}/home
${offset 883}${fs_used /home}/${fs_size /home}









${offset 908}Battery
${offset 918}${battery_percent BAT1}%


99.9% of credit goes to londonali1010 (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=779759)
Her work at Conky Hardcore! is how I did this, I just edited it to my tastes :)


How did you make that awesome panel at the bottom? :grin:It's tint2:
sudo apt-get install tint2I got the idea from #! Crunchbang Linux, which uses tint2 as the default panel.
I want to have a system tray in it, but have yet to figure it out. If anyone has any
tips, shoot me a config file or something!

[evilaim]

Well, I took a chance, and I love it.

The Window List on the bottom is an app called "Tint2".

sudo apt-get install tint2

Configs are in ~/.config/tint/tintrc

Easily edited and it's very very light weight. I'd suggest just making it a tid bit bigger, which you can do in the config. I'm totally happy with it.

Here's the screens!

[cdwillis]

Users of this bottom bunch of big 3D icons: do you not find this a waste of space on the screen?

How exactly does this work?

Show me a screenshot of you running a maximized application please, thanks.

Are you talking about the dock? You can set your applications to cover it or you can have it hide automatically.

[Kristofer Gustafsson]

http://nephnic.com/pictures/Screenshot.png

[Captain_Glen]

Check out my awesome aquarium desktop!

Not quite as cool as what you can do on a Mac but hey it'll get there.