(oh no, not ) Another Desktop thread!

[Clown]

How did you remove the blob of colour behind your icon text?

 

[mank!]

http://www.realityrift.com/applications/transtext/

 

[nath]

 

[Clown]

http://www.realityrift.com/applications/transtext/

Man, I installed XP because I couldn't find anything decent

 

[Dommers]

Unclean:

 

[~Yuckfou~]

 

[Dommers]

Btw, what is that app you have got on thr top there yuck?

 

[~Yuckfou~]

Btw, what is that app you have got on thr top there yuck?

Rainmeter

 

[Dommers]

Ah cool, got a nifty little app called Konfabulator. Tells you the weather and more

 

[FozzySon]

Cheers for that link, ~Yuckfou~. Been looking for an app like this for a while. Didn't really like Samurize.

 

[Hansmoleman]

plain and boring i just thought id contrib to the thread

 

[FozzySon]

 

[Teren]

 

[Dommers]

nice speed on that torrent

 

[caLLous]

Not very exciting but I haven't put anything in here for ages.

I made the samurize script about a year ago and it actually fits the background image quite well.

 

[Dommers]

RAWR:

 

[Sar]

 

[Teren]

Sar, Ubuntu

 

[Sar]

Tis indeed. Was very chuffed to get my ADSL modem working in it last night, after a few hours worth of struggle.

Now just to upgrade it to Breezy (5.10) and get some games up and running. ;D

 

[Sar]

Oh, and switch to KDE.

 

[Sar]

And now with KDE installed:

 

[Teren]

One thing, Sar - fonts are ugly...
You using a TFT monitor? Can PM you a good ~/.fonts.conf

 

[Clown]

Send me one too!

 

[Sar]

17" CRT.

Got the fonts.conf file, thanks

I'll give it a bash

 

[Clown]

I dunno what to do with it

 

[Teren]

Clown, copy that to your /home/<name>/.fonts.conf file
A quick way to do that is copying it, then open a terminal and

$ cp ~/.fonts.conf ~/.fonts.conf.back
$ cat > ~/.fonts.conf
<paste here>
then press enter, ctrl+d

 

[Sar]

Or should I, if I have a CRT? Just read up on the sub-pixel font rendering, and apparently it works best on LCDs, and not so well on CRTs.

 

[Yeppy Kinkster]

 

[UndyingAngel]

 

[GDW]

.... open a terminal and

$ cp ~/.fonts.conf ~/.fonts.conf.back
$ cat > ~/.fonts.conf
<paste here>
then press enter, ctrl+d

somtimes Im glad that there is such a thing as Windows.