July 2008 Desktop Screenshot thread

[What is in a name?]

I have a problem with tint, I was wondering if anybody knew since the conversation was just there a moment ago. I downloaded, make, sudo make install and had no errors. Now when I run tint, I got a panel, but it is in a seperate window, not on the desktop. I even saved the config What is in a Name? put on here as ~/.tintrc, then ran

$ tint ~/.tintrc

, but same result. Anyone have any ideas?

Are you using Compiz Fusion, perhaps?

[voteforpedro36]

Are you using Compiz Fusion, perhaps?

No, Fluxbox.

[jordanmthomas]

No, Fluxbox.

For me, giving tint a filename doesn't do anything.
Put your config at ~/.config/tint/tintrc and see if it helps.

I have no troubles using it with openbox (not fluxbox, but close)

[What is in a name?]

No, Fluxbox.

And plan B...

I never ever did what I'm about to suggest, but I googled a bit for five minutes and had an idea. How about pasting the following code into your "apps" file inside of your .fluxbox folder?

[app] (tint)
[sticky] {yes}
[Layer] {12}
[IconHidden] {yes}
[Deco] {NONE}
[end]

It is not guaranteed it will work. But try it out.

[Giant Speck]

Yet another Kubuntu desktop screenshot:

[voteforpedro36]

For me, giving tint a filename doesn't do anything.
Put your config at ~/.config/tint/tintrc and see if it helps.

I have no troubles using it with openbox (not fluxbox, but close)

There was a config there already, but I ran tint with no options (supposing it defaults to there), and the same thing occured.

And plan B...

I never ever did what I'm about to suggest, but I googled a bit for five minutes and had an idea. How about pasting the following code into your "apps" file inside of your .fluxbox folder?

[app] (tint)
[sticky] {yes}
[Layer] {12}
[IconHidden] {yes}
[Deco] {NONE}
[end]

It is not guaranteed it will work. But try it out.

Wow, I would've never thought of that. But I have 2 problems: 1) it doesn't take all the decorations off, or at least I still have the titlebar (close, min, max, you know what I mean), and it doesn't want to stay at the above dock layer (changing the layer to 2, because 12 seemed to do nothing). Here is a weird thing, also: when I paste that into the file, then change something by right-clicking the window, it removes everything in the apps file under tint. I'm going to work on it tommorow, though, but thanks for the help so far.

[RiceMonster]

Giant Speck: nice wallpaper. I really like your icon theme too.

[Giant Speck]

Giant Speck: nice wallpaper. I really like your icon theme too.

Thanks!

I altered the "Kubuntu 02" KDM theme so that it matched the color and set my wallpaper as the KDM background. I also set my wallpaper as the background in the backgroundrc file in /etc/kde3/kdm folder.

That way, the look is seamless from the moment KDM starts to the moment my desktop loads up.

And it's really hard to find good icon themes. I was using Buuf for a while, and despite the fact that Buuf is a really good icon theme, it just didn't match everything else on my computer.

[voteforpedro36]

There was a config there already, but I ran tint with no options (supposing it defaults to there), and the same thing occured.



Wow, I would've never thought of that. But I have 2 problems: 1) it doesn't take all the decorations off, or at least I still have the titlebar (close, min, max, you know what I mean), and it doesn't want to stay at the above dock layer (changing the layer to 2, because 12 seemed to do nothing). Here is a weird thing, also: when I paste that into the file, then change something by right-clicking the window, it removes everything in the apps file under tint. I'm going to work on it tommorow, though, but thanks for the help so far.

Well, I figured out the decorations problem. Turns out the app file called it nothing, making me have to paste that as () instead of (tint). I still have the layer problem, but thanks a lot for the help.

[XVII]

Here is my contribution.