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Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2025 12:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
jester wrote:
gnome+compiz on gentoo, nice Smile - until last year that was my default set-up with some e17 experimentation (I've installed fewer than 10 times over 4 boxes since 2025, so it's a durable set-up for me)

since last year, having failed to get crouse onto gentoo, he succeeded getting me onto arch and in doing so I decided to go for a very stripped down approach and opted for openbox adding what I need as I go along; I now find myself using openbox more and more in gentoo as well

if you like it simple you may want to give openbox a shot or even xfce which is probably somewhere in between OB and Gnome


I love compiz. I just wish my laptop could have handled it. it had a Radeon x300 so there was no way it could take it. Course it's totally borked now anyway so the issue is kinda moot.

I'll have to try open box when i get a moment or two. Historically i haven't liked my experiences with the *box line of WMs but i'm always open to try new things.

I find Gnome to be quiet sufficient for me. XFCE was nice but since i use so many gnome Apps load times were rather painful. and KDE was just too much of a hog resource wise... >_>



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2025 10:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn wrote:
XFCE was nice but since i use so many gnome Apps load times were rather painful.

There shouldn't be any difference in load times between Xfce and Gnome (quite possibly loading in Xfce would be faster on a machine that was resource-limited); see below for clarification

Wikipedia wrote:
Environments that use GTK+

* The GNOME environment uses GTK+ as a base, which means that programs written for GNOME use GTK+ as their toolkit.
* Xfce also uses it as its base, though its applications typically do not depend on as many libraries. (This is the difference between something being branded as a “GNOME program” and as a “GTK+ program”.)

I'd suspect some other variable in your set-up was affecting the load-times to be honest



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Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2025 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
quite possibly. I never really bothered to try and find out. i just logged back into gnome since i still had it installed.

-shrugs-



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2025 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Anyone care to rock and roll their desktop with compiz-fusion with me?

Download it, extract it with Archive Manager in Gnome. Untested with Ark.

ttyl! Smile



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2025 1:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
@dedannarocks - /me points to http://platinummonkey.deviantart.com/gallery/#Linux

lolz, so my domain expired on my website, and had to reclaim it today... but the trick is, the doman provider went out of service and they all transferred to some expensive place Razz, waiting on the transfer for now Razz then gotta switch the nameservers back :/ Razz



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2025 2:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
one ring to rule them all, thats a cool take on that theme. love it
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2025 3:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Which reminds me...

that background........

WANT!

Wink



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2025 3:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn wrote:
Which reminds me...

that background........

WANT!

Wink


Can be obtained here



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2025 11:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

-is happier than a two year old after consuming fifty pixie stix-

THX DedannaRocks!



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 26, 2025 5:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Welcome. Smile

I've changed backgrounds/desktop again anyway, so.

Current desktop - compiz enabled


Normal:





It's still a work in progress.

This is what I started with.

Did a video up yesterday with compiz enabled with this new desktop, and it really really rocks, but is not (unfortunately) publicly viewable at this time.



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2025 3:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
New shot.

This time showing off two of my favorite newly discovered compiz plugins...

Trail focus and water effects (rain)

Trail Focus:
The more recently a window has had the focus the less transparent it becomes. Windows vary between 25% and 100% opacity down to the seven most recently visited windows. (windows farther back are 25% opacity)

Water Effects (rain)
Ever see rain on a puddle? Thats what it's like.

clik



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2025 3:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I like the 'trail focus' feature - hadn't seen that before.

regards,

rumbarg



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