Unofficial Post Your Linux Mint Desktop Thread

[mmesantos1]

FWIW I have 5gb bandwidth but I incur surcharges based on high usage. I appreciate smaller image files, esp with links to larger files as appropriate. If I want to see the bigger file, I can click it. I do appreciate mmesantos's compiz mastery, awesome pics, and intelligent moderate image compression (200-300kb for high quality is reasonable to me).

Thank you AK Dave,
I have been using flatten image and then scale image in gimp, it seems to help reduce the size by quite a bit.

[hamburn]

Sadly, it will not help if you use it. The guys here with the monster pictures should use it, to change their pics to smaller files.

Only if they make their pics smaller you have a chance to see them.

Do you really think I'm that clueless? I just wanted to know how to use Gimp better. I don't understand why they didn't include that function - it shouldn't require a plugin. It's quirks like that that keep sending me back to Photoshop.

I haven't said you are clueless, I have said the others should be more polite. What do you think, why I have fatted "The guys with.......?
And isn't it a nice thing, that our software is modular, so we can fit it to our needs? I never put pics on the net, so I must not have that function in my gimp. For me it's the freedom to choose what I appreciate in Linux.

Have a nice day.

H.

[mmesantos1]

Sadly, it will not help if you use it. The guys here with the monster pictures should use it, to change their pics to smaller files.

Only if they make their pics smaller you have a chance to see them.

Do you really think I'm that clueless? I just wanted to know how to use Gimp better. I don't understand why they didn't include that function - it shouldn't require a plugin. It's quirks like that that keep sending me back to Photoshop.

I haven't said you are clueless, I have said the others should be more polite. What do you think, why I have fatted "The guys with.......?
And isn't it a nice thing, that our software is modular, so we can fit it to our needs? I never put pics on the net, so I must not have that function in my gimp. For me it's the freedom to choose what I appreciate in Linux.

Have a nice day.

H.

Hi Hamburn,
I am sorry that I did not think of users who have dial up or a slower connection to the web. I do try to reduce the file size as much as I know how to. I will keep this in mind in the future. Thank you for sharing your opinion in this matter. I am still new to Linux. I have been using Linux since about Jan of this year, I was learning how to install / use the basic of Linux back in November of 07. At that time I was using Mandriva, then switched to Ubuntu and Suse, I was trying to figure out which would be best for me. I then discovered Mint in Early Jan of 2008 and have stuck with it since. So any advice on how to use Linux is helpful. I was a Windows user only before Linux and I know that OS well. So again if you know of any helpful hints so help me with reducing the size of the pics I post for screen shots please let me know. I do not care to post links for the pics so that is not an option for me. Thanks again for your opinion in this matter and have a great day.

[Losgann]

Nothing fancy, but my first desktop screenshot... I've been deflowered!



I found a lovely, industrial looking window decoration in the XFCE CE themes called "Retro", so I also took a shot with a couple of windows open:

[mmesantos1]

Nothing fancy, but my first desktop screenshot... I've been deflowered!



I found a lovely, industrial looking window decoration in the XFCE CE themes called "Retro", so I also took a shot with a couple of windows open:

Looks good. Keep the screen shots coming.

[mmesantos1]

Switched my GTK Theme to Divinorum Blue Green. Goes well with the wallpaper. Icon Theme Deviant-Oxygen.

[SAHChandler]

Running Cairo-dock.
Made those Periodic Table icons myself back when I was in windows.
They are Terminal, AbiWord, MonoDevelop,Gedit, ConTEXT(WINE), Notepad++, XChat, and Opera.



I have a bunch more, and could easily make them, if I had enough requests.

I use the Tango Icon Color set for them, so it fits with GNOME.

[hamburn]

mmesantos1 wrote

Hi Hamburn,
I am sorry that I did not think of users who have dial up or a slower connection to the web. I do try to reduce the file size as much as I know how to. I will keep this in mind in the future. Thank you for sharing your opinion in this matter. I am still new to Linux. I have been using Linux since about Jan of this year, I was learning how to install / use the basic of Linux back in November of 07. At that time I was using Mandriva, then switched to Ubuntu and Suse, I was trying to figure out which would be best for me. I then discovered Mint in Early Jan of 2008 and have stuck with it since. So any advice on how to use Linux is helpful. I was a Windows user only before Linux and I know that OS well. So again if you know of any helpful hints so help me with reducing the size of the pics I post for screen shots please let me know. I do not care to post links for the pics so that is not an option for me. Thanks again for your opinion in this matter and have a great day.

Thank you.
too much honour.
I'm a user with a little knowledge, nothing more. My only advantage is to have been interested and involved in IT since the seventieth as a user. And to have been on the net since the beginning 90th.
So I remembered the "gentlemen agreement" between site owners and surfers of that time to hold the files light.
When I red golinux's outcry I got a little bit emotional, that is it. And..... you have more skills in using Linux than I. I came to Mint in March or so. Before that I was a win32 user. But I learned to hate M$'s politics.
Mostly all I have learned about computers and how to use them I learned by doing. So my best advice is take a look under the hood, play around with the tools. Btw. when I see your pictures I think you have more skills in this than I. I think your desktops are fantastic. Very good work to show some friends who are Vista fans and are bragging about the 3D abilities of it, as if M$ has invented 3D for the desktop.

H.

[hamburn]

Nothing fancy, but my first desktop screenshot... I've been deflowered!



I found a lovely, industrial looking window decoration in the XFCE CE themes called "Retro", so I also took a shot with a couple of windows open:

Thumbs up.

Funny thing is, i just red an article on http://www.spiegel.de (website of Germany's leading news magazine "Der Spiegel"), where the author joked about making a desktop like like your's. May be he took a peek here?

H.

[mmesantos1]

mmesantos1 wrote

Hi Hamburn,
I am sorry that I did not think of users who have dial up or a slower connection to the web. I do try to reduce the file size as much as I know how to. I will keep this in mind in the future. Thank you for sharing your opinion in this matter. I am still new to Linux. I have been using Linux since about Jan of this year, I was learning how to install / use the basic of Linux back in November of 07. At that time I was using Mandriva, then switched to Ubuntu and Suse, I was trying to figure out which would be best for me. I then discovered Mint in Early Jan of 2008 and have stuck with it since. So any advice on how to use Linux is helpful. I was a Windows user only before Linux and I know that OS well. So again if you know of any helpful hints so help me with reducing the size of the pics I post for screen shots please let me know. I do not care to post links for the pics so that is not an option for me. Thanks again for your opinion in this matter and have a great day.

Thank you.
too much honour.
I'm a user with a little knowledge, nothing more. My only advantage is to have been interested and involved in IT since the seventieth as a user. And to have been on the net since the beginning 90th.
So I remembered the "gentlemen agreement" between site owners and surfers of that time to hold the files light.
When I red golinux's outcry I got a little bit emotional, that is it. And..... you have more skills in using Linux than I. I came to Mint in March or so. Before that I was a win32 user. But I learned to hate M$'s politics.
Mostly all I have learned about computers and how to use them I learned by doing. So my best advice is take a look under the hood, play around with the tools. Btw. when I see your pictures I think you have more skills in this than I. I think your desktops are fantastic. Very good work to show some friends who are Vista fans and are bragging about the 3D abilities of it, as if M$ has invented 3D for the desktop.

H.

Thank you
How about you show a screen shot or two, I would like to see your desktop

[mmesantos1]

Hear is a screenshot from my Vista OS, I had to add some Linux Wallpaper so I could stand looking at it!

I used Microsoft Office to compress the pic for the web!

[tawan]

use .jpg and save it with about 76-80% quality (can be lower for less detailed images) and the resulting file will be much much smaller than a .png or other file type.

this is the web, optimization makes sense for many reasons. it's nice to be nice

[nelamvr6]

Here's my latest. Mint XFCE

[mmesantos1]

Nice desktop nelamvr6!

[nelamvr6]

Here's my latest. Mint XFCE

Thanks! Not as nice as yours, but I can live with it!

[mmesantos1]

Here's my latest. Mint XFCE

Thanks! Not as nice as yours, but I can live with it!

Do you run XFCE only or do you use other GUI's ( Gnome or KDE )? I like XFCE but I am not able to customize like I can with Gnome. I will chock it up to just not as familure with XFCE as I am with gnome. I have seen some very well done XFCE desktops but I can not seem to do as much with it. But XFCE does run quicker on my older system than gnome does, especially when I have Compiz on.

[nelamvr6]

Here's my latest. Mint XFCE

Thanks! Not as nice as yours, but I can live with it!

Do you run XFCE only or do you use other GUI's ( Gnome or KDE )? I like XFCE but I am not able to customize like I can with Gnome. I will chock it up to just not as familure with XFCE as I am with gnome. I have seen some very well done XFCE desktops but I can not seem to do as much with it. But XFCE does run quicker on my older system than gnome does, especially when I have Compiz on.

This is my first full day running XFCE, I'm not the one to ask about customizing.

Prior to installing XFCE I was running Elyssa Main.

I can tell you that EVERYTHING is a LOT snappier! This thing is QUICK!!!

I'm not a guru at customization by any means, but getting Compiz and Emerald running was just a matter of a couple of clicks. It's not the latest Compiz though, no sphere deformation...

[merlwiz79]

It's not the latest Compiz though, no sphere deformation...

Add these to the sources.list and use mintUpdate to install all compiz updates.
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/compiz/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/compiz/ubuntu hardy main
Update packages:

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apt install libdecoration0 compiz compiz-core compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-gnome compiz-plugins libcompizconfig0 compizconfig-settings-manager python-compizconfig

You can now go to System > Preferences > CompizConfig Settings Manager and enable Cube Reflection and Deformation
Change Deformation to sphere.
Change in General Horizontal Virtual size to 4
XFCE Defaults:
General --> Display Settings --> Texture Filter --> Fast
General --> Focus & Raise Behaviour --> Focus Prevention Level --> Off

[nelamvr6]

princess Merlwiz!

Check this:

[nelamvr6]

Thanks!