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Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-04-18 14:48
by MARKMENTAL
@ruffwoof
Yeah the only backports I use on my jessie installation is the mozila firefox-esr one. Since if I can get the latest release of an ESR stable firefox, why not?

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deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ jessie-backports firefox-esr

Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-04-20 20:21
by Lysander
How I like it - dark and minimalist. This is my first Debian install, coming from Ubuntu then Mint. Debian was a bit more of a learning curve, but I'm very happy to be here.

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-04-21 12:46
by Linadian
Lysander wrote:How I like it - dark and minimalist. This is my first Debian install, coming from Ubuntu then Mint. Debian was a bit more of a learning curve, but I'm very happy to be here.

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Yep, Debian is more DIY, but it's worth it, the 'buntus are more like training wheels, and they have been known to add 'tweaks' (especially in browsers, this is why I switched to Pale Moon) to generate revenue, Canonical is a corporation, corporations love money. I occasionally make donations to FOSS projects that deserve it.

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Edit: Corrected grammar error.

Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-04-23 23:56
by sjukfan
Openbox, tint2... yeah... that's it. Usually filled with tons and tons of windows. The grey area is outside monitor area, the right screen is flipped so it's 1024x1280, great for emails or reading pdfs or whatsnot.

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-04-24 05:28
by debiman
sjukfan wrote:Openbox, tint2... yeah... that's it. Usually filled with tons and tons of windows. The grey area is outside monitor area, the right screen is flipped so it's 1024x1280, great for emails or reading pdfs or whatsnot.

http://i.imgur.com/KUix4wa.jpg
heh, really nice background images.
unfortunately i'm not so good with pop icons; care to explain a little?

Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-04-24 18:42
by sjukfan
debiman wrote: heh, really nice background images.
unfortunately i'm not so good with pop icons; care to explain a little?
On the left we have Zee Captain from the web comic Romantically Apocalyptic. It's... a bit weird. But hey, so am I 8) It's important to read all the way down to the comments on every page or you'll miss a lot. Later on the comments of other readers can be pretty useful because there might be things you've missed.
On the right, just Lord Vader having a cuppa. Got to do something to calm his nerves some times :D

Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-04-25 05:59
by debiman
^ thanks!
i thought maybe there was some sort of meme about d. vader drinking tea...

Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-04-25 19:18
by ruffwoof
GarryRicketson wrote:Debian stretch, with Xorg and OpenBox, on VirtualBox VM,..
Host system, Debian 7 wheezy,
Very minimal, no DE, no Libre Office, etc,...
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Debian Jessie standard liveCD (console only), added xorg and openbox and it was quite nice. Added tint and tweaked around a bit and it was nicer. Started adding more (Libre, Skype, Kodi, Openbox ...etc) and overall very quick operationally, especially when booted as a single filesystem.squashfs (frugally)
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Less than 15 second bootup on my old hardware ... very nice!

Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-04-25 20:41
by Lysander
ruffwoof wrote: Debian Jessie standard liveCD (console only), added xorg and openbox and it was quite nice. Added tint and tweaked around a bit and it was nicer. Started adding more (Libre, Skype, Kodi, Openbox ...etc) and overall very quick operationally, especially when booted as a single filesystem.squashfs (frugally)
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Less than 15 second bootup on my old hardware ... very nice!
You just made me time mine! From POST, 19 seconds to login screen on 8.7. Not bad!

And for the thread, my most recent desktop.

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-04-25 21:50
by ruffwoof
Lysander wrote:You just made me time mine! From POST, 19 seconds to login screen on 8.7. Not bad!
Love your wallpaper of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park (California) (searched using Tiny Eye reverse image search) :)

systemd-analyze plot >s.svg and then viewing the (large) svg file shows that wicd (network) is the bottleneck for me. Without that would be a second or two faster. My setup gets to the login prompt and networking messages are still showing as I've entered the userid and password, so perhaps the timing might be several seconds less if I swapped wicd out ... but I like it personally.

I have seen others with newer kit down at 5 seconds :mrgreen:

Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-04-26 13:14
by None1975
Minimal Debian 8.7 install. I added xorg and i3wm. 14 sec. to login screen.
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Also i use i3lock as my screenlocker. Here screenshot with windows 2000 desktop :D :D :D
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-04-26 15:30
by GarryRicketson
I am reminded now why I do not use windows, nothing works , and where is the terminal, ?
I think I will just stay with Debian, or Open Bsd
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Debian 7, OpenBox WM

Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-04-26 19:19
by ruffwoof
None1975 wrote:Minimal Debian 8.7 install. I added xorg and i3wm. 14 sec. to login screen.
14.9 sec. Debian Jessie standard, xorg, openbox, stalonetray (openbox tray dock that I have set to be in the top left corner and auto-hides, but mouse into that corner and you get to see/use the Skype, wicd ...etc tray icons), brightside (so corners can be set as hot corners) that has the bottom left set to activate (non Debian) skippy-xd ... so mouse into the bottom left and it presents a tiled set of current active/minimised windows for you to select which one to activate/switch-to.

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I've used openbox config to set the left side margin to 2 pixels wide so that when a window otherwise takes up the whole screen you can mouse over to there and right click to activate the menu

Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-04-26 22:26
by Job
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spectrwm on stretch.

Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-04-27 21:34
by Lysander
ruffwoof wrote:
Lysander wrote:You just made me time mine! From POST, 19 seconds to login screen on 8.7. Not bad!
Love your wallpaper of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park (California) (searched using Tiny Eye reverse image search) :)

systemd-analyze plot >s.svg and then viewing the (large) svg file shows that wicd (network) is the bottleneck for me. Without that would be a second or two faster. My setup gets to the login prompt and networking messages are still showing as I've entered the userid and password, so perhaps the timing might be several seconds less if I swapped wicd out ... but I like it personally.

I have seen others with newer kit down at 5 seconds :mrgreen:
Thanks for the confirmation of location! I had no idea where it was but suspected it was somewhere in the US. What a beautiful location.

Are we counting from switching on the computer or from when GRUB loads the OS? If it's the latter I'm sure for me it's about 7-8 seconds or so till the login screen.

EDIT: Just timed it, 7 seconds.

Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-04-27 22:01
by ruffwoof
Lysander wrote:
ruffwoof wrote:I have seen others with newer kit down at 5 seconds :mrgreen:
Are we counting from switching on the computer or from when GRUB loads the OS? If it's the latter I'm sure for me it's about 7-8 seconds or so till the login screen.

EDIT: Just timed it, 7 seconds.
systemd-analyze time I guess. If you count from when turning the PC on ... well mine takes ages to run through BIOS and then waits a while for me to maybe press DEL or a Fn key ... before finally getting to the grub menu :( That alone is around a 30 second wait on mine. Then more usually another 30 seconds to get to the Debian login prompt.

Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-04-28 01:17
by GarryRicketson
That is all very nice, but let's keep in mind the topic is :

What does your desktop look like?
Not "How fast can your computer boot"
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-04-28 02:36
by stevepusser
Lysander wrote:
ruffwoof wrote:
Lysander wrote:You just made me time mine! From POST, 19 seconds to login screen on 8.7. Not bad!
Love your wallpaper of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park (California) (searched using Tiny Eye reverse image search) :)

systemd-analyze plot >s.svg and then viewing the (large) svg file shows that wicd (network) is the bottleneck for me. Without that would be a second or two faster. My setup gets to the login prompt and networking messages are still showing as I've entered the userid and password, so perhaps the timing might be several seconds less if I swapped wicd out ... but I like it personally.

I have seen others with newer kit down at 5 seconds :mrgreen:
Thanks for the confirmation of location! I had no idea where it was but suspected it was somewhere in the US. What a beautiful location.

Are we counting from switching on the computer or from when GRUB loads the OS? If it's the latter I'm sure for me it's about 7-8 seconds or so till the login screen.

EDIT: Just timed it, 7 seconds.
The shot of Half Dome may have come from this webcam: http://www.sierracamnetwork.com/viewcam ... te-valley/ or have been taken from the same location. It generates a lot of beautiful wallpaper candidates.

Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-05-01 19:46
by Lysander
stevepusser wrote:
The shot of Half Dome may have come from this webcam: http://www.sierracamnetwork.com/viewcam ... te-valley/ or have been taken from the same location. It generates a lot of beautiful wallpaper candidates.
Indeed, thanks for the link. Very interesting to see the same location in different state during the day.

And here's a photo in situ

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

Posted: 2017-05-04 22:18
by ruffwoof
Debian standard (command line) ... added xorg, openbox, compton (shadow effects), stalonetray (tray) ... and if you edit the openbox menu to have blank label values, leaving just icons ... then the effect is quite nice IMO

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If in obconf you set a 1 pixel left screen edge margin, then even if a window is 'full screen' you can still mouse over to the left screen edge and click to access the menu

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Openbox Pipe menus options are a nice feature, this one just has a menu item that pulls in the date and time

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Add in Brightside for hot corners and set a corner to start skippy-xd ... and you can have a tiled view of all open windows simply by mousing into a corner

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From there you can either click to focus, middle or right mouse click to minimise or close the window(s).

All with no KDE, Gnome, LXDE, Xfce ... etc, installed (nice and lightweight ... quick too). That said some elements are worthy of being installed ... pcmanfm file browser, lxinput (keyboard/mouse settings), lxapperance (theme etc.) are good additions IMO.

I've set the key bindings so that left click on the desktop launches the openbox menu and right click starts up the desktop-switch/open-programs menu ... as I'm not fond of the default clicking the middle (scrollwheel in my case) 'button'.