new start up wallpaper
Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: new start up wallpaper
started by: chibiace
Posted by chibiace on Aug. 05 2004,20:59
i think you need a nice new "DSL" wallpaper. and maybe a theme change. and no wallpaper with the damnsmalllinux.org logo....... grey >.< the forum one is more like it. but it doesnt say anything good. lol. *shrugs* doesnt even need to be a DSL logo. just the current one isnt that enticing.
Posted by chibiace on Aug. 05 2004,21:01
i mean you will feel better using something that look nicer........ perhaps i'll look into theme making.
Posted by chibiace on Aug. 05 2004,22:07
im making a nice theme right now >.> then i'll amke a nice background too. i'll get you and your little dog too *cough* no sleep makes ace abit crazy please exuse. -- (he should also be banned from forums because he is evil evil i tell you......)
Posted by ke4nt1 on Aug. 05 2004,22:49
Posted by chibiace on Aug. 05 2004,23:38
hmmm thought i posted the site thing :S im going crazy or firefox was being evil.< work in progress >
you dont want me posting things in the wrong place >.<
Posted by mikshaw on Aug. 06 2004,00:09
No offense meant, but if it isn't mostly black, it has no place on my desktop....I absolutely hate the color blue on a computer screen (maybe it's a throwback from my BSOD days).The graphics are nice, though...mostly clean and easy on the eyes.
Posted by chibiace on Aug. 06 2004,07:14
| Quote (mikshaw @ Aug. 06 2004,08:09) |
| No offense meant, but if it isn't mostly black, it has no place on my desktop....I absolutely hate the color blue on a computer screen (maybe it's a throwback from my BSOD days). The graphics are nice, though...mostly clean and easy on the eyes. |
its not done yet >.< anyway not everyone will like it. lol
Posted by davide on Aug. 06 2004,08:20
right. not everyone will like it. thanx for the job, but I'm among the ones who don't. No offense meant.black is easier on the eyes and most of all, it works well with poor screen that are usually associated with poor pc; DSL is the best distro for poor pc so...
Posted by l0st on Aug. 06 2004,10:09
Agreed, but that doesn't prevent anyone from making it fancy.I for one support this move, whether I like this or not.
Posted by Delboy on Aug. 06 2004,14:00
Check out the blue 'FlatED' theme on the fluxbox website which shows a very small Tux with drinking straw draining a juice carton not much smaller than himself. Carton, naturally, is branded 'Windows sucks'. This looks great on my ancient 12.5" laptop TFT at 800x600 res.
Posted by ripcrd6 on Aug. 06 2004,14:47
Make a theme.dsl if you want something different. I LOVE the current default theme. It's simple and cool and I like it black.
Posted by mikshaw on Aug. 06 2004,19:16
...or a theme.tar.gz, just to keep everything tip-top.
Posted by John on Aug. 06 2004,22:30
It is a very good looking theme. But we need a very basic theme to be the default because we need it to render well on older hardware and we need the default theme to use little ram.If the image is small I would be happy to add it to the theme many, and if is on the larger side I would really like to see it in the repository as an extension.
Posted by chibiace on Aug. 07 2004,04:00
i really havent finished yet.
Posted by chibiace on Aug. 07 2004,17:09
i think im happy with the background now. maybe.... perhaps i'll change it. gotta get a new screenshot because i forgot to move it to my hardddrive.< Dark Blue Wallpaper V1. >
Posted by chibiace on Aug. 07 2004,17:11
when i remaster im going ot use my themes :P
Posted by chibiace on Aug. 07 2004,17:35
hmmm i restarted fluxbox or something after i had taken these. and the workspace things were colored. and i have no idea how to do the cpu thing. so i will do that if you tell me how >.< yes it looks kinda sickening.< desktop. >
< menu. (worse then before i think) >
now. i want to make it into a dsl. without reading how to do it. lol tell me :P (soooo lazy *kicks his own ass*)
Posted by cbagger01 on Aug. 07 2004,22:15
tar -zcvf themename.tar.gz -C $HOME/.fluxbox/styles/themenamewhere themename is the name of your new theme.
You may need to strip out any directory names that are listed inside your tarball before publishing the file, but this should give you a good start.
Posted by chibiace on Aug. 08 2004,15:53
tar -zcvf themename.tar.gz -C $HOME/dsl/.fluxbox/styles/themenamedont you mean that?
Posted by cbagger01 on Aug. 08 2004,16:20
NopeThe $HOME environment variable should contain something like this:
echo $HOME (to display the contents)
And you should see:
/home/dsl
or
/home/damnsmall (if the person is using an older version of DSL)
Posted by chibiace on Aug. 09 2004,04:15
yes im using 0.7.1 or something, i think ill update now.