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• polybar
• fvwm
• acme
• firefox
• urxvt
• werc

fvwm menus in top screenshot are the menus that appear when clicking on the desktop. left, middle, and right buttons respectively.

let me know if you want any specific config. i don't feel comfortable posting all of my dot files yet because i haven't completely scrubbed it of sensitive info.

Hi, everyone! Decided to shake it up a bit and try introducing a new content type to this sub. Videos! Super easy to quickly record something you're working on by either using SimpleScreenRecorder or the great GIF/MP4 app, Peek.

First I wanted to start out with an awesome KDE tip I found exploring through the settings menu. I really disliked the gray title bar added by default. Luckily, this can easily be changed by going into the "Color" menu and choosing a theme. I first picked "Breeze Light" but I felt that black they used on the "X" button was too harsh. You can click "Edit Scheme" and then edit Active Titlebar Text. I went with the color #31363b.

In this post, I wanted to share an open source app/business I am building. I feel that Linux could really use a quality synced note-taking app that is cross-platform and not some bloated Electron app. The app will be broken up into these different components. (There will be a Windows and Macintosh version as well but I feel it will be smartest to focus on the Linux audience first)

- Web client, (What is seen in this video) created using the wonderful Vue framework

- Desktop client written in Qt.

- Mobile apps. I am considering using a mobile-cross-platform solution such as nativescript.org for the first version of the app.

- API backend, powered by Django .

The API backend was the first part I started working on. Currently, the working prototype complete and now I am creating the web-front end which as you can see in the video has quite a bit of progress.

All of these components will be completely open-source. At the moment, I believe a GPL license would be the most ideal license to use. It allows anyone to use, modify, and even profit off the code as long as they share the changes they make to the code.

I would also like to mention that this app will use a similar note encryption method to Turtl. All encryption will happen on the client-side

Your mistake here is that you are assuming that reddit upvotes and downvotes constitute a 100% agreement or disagreement with the subject.

You should use something like StrawPoll to ask for input, with very specific questions.

• Distro/Operating System: Gentoo
• Desktop Environment: i3-gaps
• Theme: Adwaita
• Terminal: simple terminal with the alpha patch
• Music player: MPD + MPC and a few keybindings in my i3 config
• Wallpaper: Default Gentoo wallpaper
• Ego: inflated

This is my daily driver setup, I3 has been such a nice WM for me and is easily customizable...

for the rest it's a pretty basic setup ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I haven’t heard of Alda. Very cool, thanks for sharing!

It looks like Alda is for playback, whereas ABC is primarily to write the score.

For those who are interested in more GUI approach, MuseScore works really well on Linux.

I didn't go into details that's why it sounds like an opinion but the fact is that fonts like most things in computing world serve a specific purporse, they are designed for a specific goal, it can be UI, marketing, accessibility, coding or even aircraft... You can read more here.

Wallpapers: Soviet 49 by orientalizing

An untitled picture by Yang Song

Look and Feel: Breeze Dark

Desktop Theme: Breeze Transparent Dark

Colors: Breeze Dark

Icons: Breeze Dark

Dock: Latte Dock with a modified version of the OSX Layout available from the store. I removed the default time widget and added the Event Calendar widget and removed a few other default widgets with that layout.

I also changed the Application Launcher icon to be the default OpenSUSE icon since I like that it is round.

Also, in order to get GTK applications to use Active Window Control I had to install: gmenudbusmenuproxy, unity-gtk-module-common, unity-gtk-module-common, unity-gtk2-module, unity-gtk3-module, libunity-gtk2-parser0, libunity-gtk3-parser0 and run

$ gsettings set com.canonical.unity-gtk-module gtk2-shell-shows-menubar true

Nah, just commenting on you using the solarized theme. I still do.

I would recommend using it in i3 as well for consistency, check out set_from_resource in the i3 guide.

In general,Linux is very stable as long as you avoid the distributions that have just the one developer,they tend to be respins with different themes and tweaks,and are created as more of a hobby,so bugs and other problems may not get fixed very quickly,and then get abandoned when they get bored with them,and you most certainly do not need the latest hardware,in fact older hardware is more likely to have less problems,as there is more chance all the needed drivers will be in the kernel.

I have not used Inkscape enough to be able to say how robust it is,but would not recommend Gimp if you need it to earn your living,it can be quite buggy,especially after a new release or update,and you can find a lot of plugins and scripts either crash,or just won't work,and it can be a little temperamental at times,but Krita https://krita.org/en/ with G'MIC https://gmic.eu/ may suit your needs more,and you can install them on Windows to try them too,I myself would rather trust Krita in a production environment,as I know it is used by some people in a professional environment,so that may be able to tempt you to have a much faster machine,and save a lot of money over the years on hardware.

After a half of year on i3, I decided to try something stack-based, because i3's way of organizing windows is inconvenient for me. I tried dwm, but it's configuration is nightmare for anyone who isn't C programmer. I tried StumpWM, because I absolutely love Common Lisp, but it took too much time to configure it properly to suit my needs, and it's not stack-based so I had to implement stacking myself. But finally, I saw SpectrWM. And it's a brilliant piece of software. It's minimal and has relatively simple configuration file, short but comprehensive manpage, that describes all aspects of configuration, and it's stack-based, so window navigation is very fast.

https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm

The main advantage is just access to over 60,000 packages.

Snaps and flatpaks dont share dependencies with their like, but anything installed with nix will share the dependencies of other nix packages.

There are a lot of other advantages nix provides, Here is an overview

To answer both: I can totally understand. First steps were easy, but there are a lot of options if you run it as a daily driver and want to dig deeper. Learning an alien language and its radical package management is a bit pain, but it has its own logic and you'll have a lot of "ahaaa" moments.

Personally I think it was worth the investment, I am using it about more than a year now on multiple systems. (Even recently I broke my filesystem while tinkering with partitions and reinstalling with same configuration brought my whole desktop in ~30 minutes.)

It is a plain vanilla XFCE Panel, but using the XFCE GenMon Plugin with custom scripts to get the info (Load, RAM, Weather, etc) and the Font Awesome.

• Host: Optiplex 755 Ultra Small Form Factor
• OS: Debian Buster (64 bits)
• DE: XFCE
• WM: xfwm4
• WM Theme: Numix
• GTK2/ GTK3 Theme: Envi-gaps
• GTK3 Theme: Numix
• Icon Theme: Numix-Circle
• Terminal: xterm
• Terminal Theme: Nord
• Terminal Font: CPMono_v07 Plain
• Wallpaper: #678A9E
• Weather on the CLI: https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in
• Icons on the XFCE Panel: https://fontawesome.com/
• Info on XFCE Panel: GenMon
• No composite engine running

Thanks.
Those are little scripts print their output thru the GenMon Plugin, the icons are the Font Awesome adn the weather info comes from wttr.in (printed on the Panel thru GenMon)

Nice work! I similarly use Newsboat for accessing youtube subscriptions, but with youtube-viewer and some intermediate scripts to save videos for later, extract mp3, like the video, etc.

i cant use my weather script with slstatus, i have the same problem with the update interval, you can use dwmblocks or aslstatus