system show off thread

[ayu]

how's the mining going btw?

haven't gotten the damn machine yet (the one in the pic is just the Raspberry PI that's supposed to handle the rig when it arrives)
They said it will arrive before June, which is closing in pretty fast now

So we'll have to see what happens

[ph0bYx]

workplace from my normal POV

Hey that's me!

Cats we're using the same desktop wallpaper (the Debian one)

[ayu]

Cats we're using the same desktop wallpaper (the Debian one)

Nice
I just reinstalled that machine today, so will probably change later

[bad_brain]

like after every new Debian install I am trying new things to make the system better (or at least look better), also always a good opportunity to learn new stuff.

this time I went for a mixed Wheezy/Sid install with Gnome Classic desktop, and I have used Compiz, Emerald and the Cairo dock for some bling, but also made sure it stays minimalistic at the same time. I am not really done yet, the desktop icons will all be gone in the end and some additional ones will be added to the Cairo dock:

[ph0bYx]

Wow, bling bling indeed. How do you get that transparency? I'm trying to get it to work for the terminal but it just shows the background wallpaper when I hover it above windows, not the window.

[bad_brain]

that should be easy, simply open a terminal, edit->profiles, pick the profile and there you can set the background transparency:


the menu transparency on the other hand is done in the Compiz settings, you will have to add the values you can see in the screenshot for transparency of all menu kinds (and tooltips too):


you can use regex and conditional tags there too, so you could make "all windows except for the LibreOffice ones" transparent for example, sadly the Compiz wiki where the settings had all been listed seems to be offline...

[intern3t]

that should be easy, simply open a terminal, edit->profiles, pick the profile and there you can set the background transparency:

German desktop. looks very very nice but i cant't read anything there

[bad_brain]

no need to...all in the same place as in other localizations...

[ph0bYx]

that should be easy, simply open a terminal, edit->profiles, pick the profile and there you can set the background transparency:

I know that
The problem is that the terminal only shows the background. Let me show you:

[bad_brain]

hm, do you have Compiz installed and opacity enabled there?

[ph0bYx]

Nope, not that I know of anyway. I'll install it and test when I get back, will let you know how it goes. Thanks for the tip

[bad_brain]

if you are using Wheezy: Compiz is not in the "stable" repositories, I have used the Sid ones, so you will to add the according entry to the /etc/apt/sources.list file....then apt-get update and then install compiz:

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apt-get install compiz compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compizconfig-settings-manager fusion-icon

here's my sources.list, the Sid entry will have to be uncommented to install Compiz:
http://code.suck-o.com/42504" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[ph0bYx]

No, I'm on Squeeze. Wheezy is on my laptop and I'm using win7 there mostly (for some reason the laptop heats up rather quickly when using linux so I'm staying with win).

[bad_brain]

alrighty, it's in the Squeeze repositories!

[ph0bYx]

I tried it on Squeeze but I got display errors when I try to run --replace. But I found this for Wheezy (the one on my laptop):
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dconf-editor

org > gnome > metacity > tick "compositing_manager"

All done, now the true transparency works