Post a screenshot of your Desktop
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Cyberbleuet
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My custom desktop in debian 12. I added a windows XP theme and designed a nice start button. This is in LXDE. I also went searching for the background originally on my IBM ThinkPad r52, and I found it. Looks really nice on my r52.
It's all good. I decided to 'sticky' this thread to make it easier for people to spot in the future.
We have existing threads, long-term threads, for a variety of things. This is one example, so I moved it here.
Generally speaking, look for the 'most appropriate' spot to post a thread. It helps if you search a bit beforehand. You'll also notice that some threads get consistent activity.
It wasn't any problem to merge your new thread with this one.
As an aside, LXDE will likely get less development work and that trend is likely to continue until the project is all but abandoned. Many of the LXDE devs have moved on to LXQt. The project isn't dead at this point, but it's pretty much 'feature complete' and will just be maintained. Security bugs will continue to be fixed for the time being.
(I'm not currently an 'official member' but I was an Ubuntu Member and, more specifically, a Lubuntu Member. I'm bandwidth impoverished for the time being. That should change soon, but they keep saying that.)
Oh, don't be sorry. You're new. You can't be expected to know everything and how we do things on this site.
It's all good. You'll fit in just fine and I encourage you to keep sharing. I quite like how you made LXDE look. In a way, it reminds me of the old CDE, which was a desktop environment for UNIX. I appreciate consistency and no unnecessary frills.
If you're into unnecessary frills, have you played with Conky?
That makes sense to me, and explains why you'd use LXDE. I used LXDE for a long time. I only switched to LXQt when Lubuntu switched to it.
I enjoy being able to customize the desktop, but I prefer a simple desktop experience as I said. Though it is really handy to be able to see your CPU usage and battery in a simple monitor in your taskbar. I like the windows theme, even though this is linux. It fits this computer very well.
@Lynx52 :-
We've always used 'xload' in Puppy. It's been a staple part of the 'Puppy' experience for over 20 years.
I run mine rather wider than standard - 140px (but then this is a 1080p monitor, so I have the space to play with) - with a different colour combo - I prefer green on black! - and it updates rather faster than it does by default. This is normally set to once every 30 seconds; I have mine set to once a second.
Many people make the mistake of thinking that 'xload' is a CPU activity meter. It's not; it denotes the number of processes, or threads that are currently running on your CPU. The way I have mine set-up, it gives me a more 'immediate' indication of just what's going on.....so it's simpler to see if the CPU is getting "busy".
Default width is 30px, I believe. '-bg' & '-fg' are self-explanatory (background & foreground colours). '-hl' is the colour of the horizontal 'scale' lines; these only start to show once your CPU is getting busy.
'update 1 &' gives me a one-second update. '&' denotes it's running as a background process.
Quotes (" ") are because of it running inside the config file for the 'tray' component of JWM...
There's not much happening ATM, so it's difficult to see, but.....this is a GIF, so if you look closely you can see it updating a lot quicker.
Many people aren't even aware you can change all this, but it's just simple tweaks to the config stuff.
Mike.
We've always used 'xload' in Puppy. It's been a staple part of the 'Puppy' experience for over 20 years.
I run mine rather wider than standard - 140px (but then this is a 1080p monitor, so I have the space to play with) - with a different colour combo - I prefer green on black! - and it updates rather faster than it does by default. This is normally set to once every 30 seconds; I have mine set to once a second.
Many people make the mistake of thinking that 'xload' is a CPU activity meter. It's not; it denotes the number of processes, or threads that are currently running on your CPU. The way I have mine set-up, it gives me a more 'immediate' indication of just what's going on.....so it's simpler to see if the CPU is getting "busy".
Code:
"xload" width="140">xload -nolabel -bg "#060202" -fg "#07F80D" -hl "#4C7CC1" -update 1 &Default width is 30px, I believe. '-bg' & '-fg' are self-explanatory (background & foreground colours). '-hl' is the colour of the horizontal 'scale' lines; these only start to show once your CPU is getting busy.
'update 1 &' gives me a one-second update. '&' denotes it's running as a background process.
Quotes (" ") are because of it running inside the config file for the 'tray' component of JWM...
There's not much happening ATM, so it's difficult to see, but.....this is a GIF, so if you look closely you can see it updating a lot quicker.
Many people aren't even aware you can change all this, but it's just simple tweaks to the config stuff.
Mike.
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I am quite limited by LXDE, but I do love customization. My CPU monitor tells me what load is on it, typically whenever I am doing anything worth doing it gets pretty high. that black rectangle on the far-right side of my taskbar is a battery monitor, which is not all that important until I buy a new battery for my ThinkPad. I like the gradient taskbar look from windows XP, which is a nice thing about LXDE. I have many of your desktops as in your YouTube channel, they are very nice.
@Lynx52 :-
Frankly, I'm amazed anybody bothers to look at the stuff I post on my YT channel. I don't promote it, or 'market' it.....I certainly don't try to monetize it.
It's essentially just tutorial & info stuff, specifically for the members of the 'Puppy' community. Much of the early stuff, when I was still getting the hang of creating vids, makes no sense at all to non-Puppy users.....and only does so in the context of the forum thread(s) it was originally posted in.
Unless, of course, you were replying to @KGIII ?
Mike.
Heh.
Frankly, I'm amazed anybody bothers to look at the stuff I post on my YT channel. I don't promote it, or 'market' it.....I certainly don't try to monetize it.
It's essentially just tutorial & info stuff, specifically for the members of the 'Puppy' community. Much of the early stuff, when I was still getting the hang of creating vids, makes no sense at all to non-Puppy users.....and only does so in the context of the forum thread(s) it was originally posted in.
Unless, of course, you were replying to @KGIII ?
Mike.
Nope. Not me. I don't have a YT channel.
I am a Fusion guy myself. My Team is trying to get me to switch to Solidworks. LibreCAD sounds interesting.Now you see, there's something new ... I didn't know there was a LibreCAD, will have to look into it.
GParted is like an Amex card (to me) - don't leave home without it. Like the car, too
Thanks for sharing @Bayou Bengal
Wizard
@Lynx52 :-
Solidworks is 3D CAD. LibreCAD is "only" 2D.
In addition to LibreCAD, there's also QCad. This was the original project from which LibreCAD was forked several years ago, following a difference of opinion between the various team 'leads'.
It's somewhat more lightweight than LibreCAD. The latter has moved on to the modern Qt6 framework, which is getting pretty heavy & chunky nowadays. QCad's builds are mostly Qt5, but they still have a couple of Qt4-based 'legacy' builds they maintain for older hardware.
QCAD - QCAD: 2D CAD
QCAD is a free, open source 2D CAD system for Windows, Linux and Mac.
www.qcad.org
It works very, very well.....and is quite light on resources.
Ignore what it says on the website about paying for it. There's a 'workaround'; downloading the appropriate 'trial' tarball, unpacking it, then removing a handful of plugins - that will allow its free use in perpetuity. This is a project-sanctioned 'fix', intended for personal use by individual home users.
Details are there, somewhere.....I think on the Downloads page. Been a while since I last visited.
(Sorry; my bad. You do all this when you first launch it; click the 'Remove' button, bottom-right corner, then follow the pop-up instructions).
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If you want 3D CAD, there IS FreeCAD:-
FreeCAD: Your own 3D parametric modeler
FreeCAD, the open source 3D parametric modeler
www.freecad.org
This is "3D parametric CAD modelling".....which can be obtained in AppImage format. Download, make executable.....and click on it to launch it.
Runs OK for us under Puppy..!
Mike.
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