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Colonel Panic · 2026-03-28 21:02:26

Nili wrote:

I think i have both of those, (looks and optimum functionality) for a while now
https://i.postimg.cc/bskHhJR0/Screenshot-20260328-150016.png
^This color reminds me of a time when hhh did a similar one for #! I liked it then, and i'm glad i found a similar one for KDE.

Excellent! I'm in Zenwalk at the moment which looks pretty good for an XFce-based distro (dark theme, long bridge wallpaper, transparent terminals etc.), but lacks a bit in functionality compared to some of the other distros I know.

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Nili · 2026-03-31 18:24:38

Colonel Panic wrote:

Excellent! I'm in Zenwalk at the moment which looks pretty good for an XFce-based distro (dark theme, long bridge wallpaper, transparent terminals etc.), but lacks a bit in functionality compared to some of the other distros I know.

I wish you could find what you're looking for. It took me some worth efforts to find something suitable for myself.

hhh · Yesterday 01:05:22

Colonel Panic wrote:

Nili wrote:
I think i have both of those, (looks and optimum functionality) for a while now
https://i.postimg.cc/bskHhJR0/Screenshot-20260328-150016.png
^This color reminds me of a time when hhh did a similar one for #! I liked it then, and i'm glad i found a similar one for KDE.
Excellent! I'm in Zenwalk at the moment which looks pretty good for an XFce-based distro (dark theme, long bridge wallpaper, transparent terminals etc.), but lacks a bit in functionality compared to some of the other distros I know.

Not sure what #! theme that is reminiscent of, but thanks for the shoutout!

@Colonel, theming is easy, build from your foundation. What have you liked in distros in terms of function? Floating/tiling/menu system/launchers/panel/dock/widgets/resource usage, etc... anything but theming/desktop effects.

Nili · Yesterday 06:11:26

hhh wrote:

Not sure what #! theme that is reminiscent of, but thanks for the shoutout!.

I tried to find it through web.archive, If I'm not mistaken, it was Deb8.
I used it on my then setup, My current KDE colors looks very similar to Deb8 a few years ago.

No prob, i am really glad i find a grey theme, For years i used dark background with white text, but i had enough with it.

Colonel Panic · Yesterday 08:00:03

hhh wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
Nili wrote:
I think i have both of those, (looks and optimum functionality) for a while now
https://i.postimg.cc/bskHhJR0/Screenshot-20260328-150016.png
^This color reminds me of a time when hhh did a similar one for #! I liked it then, and i'm glad i found a similar one for KDE.
Excellent! I'm in Zenwalk at the moment which looks pretty good for an XFce-based distro (dark theme, long bridge wallpaper, transparent terminals etc.), but lacks a bit in functionality compared to some of the other distros I know.
Not sure what #! theme that is reminiscent of, but thanks for the shoutout!
@Colonel, theming is easy, build from your foundation. What have you liked in distros in terms of function? Floating/tiling/menu system/launchers/panel/dock/widgets/resource usage, etc... anything but theming/desktop effects.

Thanks for your post hhh. I'm about 80% of the way now towards getting a setup that both looks good and works optimally well for me; it's the final 20% that is proving difficult!

In reality, if I even get to 90% I'll be happy. I think looking for perfection in a setup is a trap; you never quite get there and you're walking towards a receding horizon.

hhh · Today 02:38:08

^^, wow! I never thought of using webarchive to see scrots from now-defunct image hosting sites. Thanks for the blast from the past!

@Colonel, you're evading the question.

Colonel Panic · Today 10:19:39

This one?

"What have you liked in distros in terms of function? Floating/tiling/menu system/launchers/panel/dock/widgets/resource usage, etc... anything but theming/desktop effects."

Thanks for asking, but that's going to take a while to answer unfortunately, and I don't really feel up to that level of effort at the moment I'm afraid.

I will just say for now though that I like doing a lot of things from the keyboard, which is why I use DMenu amongst other menu programs, and use Midnight Commander for a lot of the file management tasks I do in Linux.

I don't want a Windows clone distro where you do everything by clicking with a mouse.

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Colonel Panic · Today 10:25:01

I use tiling mainly when I've got things to do that require two windows to be next to each other and taking up half of the screen each, for example when I have to copy a password from one window into a box in an adjacent one. Sometimes oit;s also good when you want a window to take up the entirety of your screen space with no (or almost no) borders.

Martin · Today 20:56:09

W10 + Ubuntu Mate LTS.

I now have a second Lenovo X230. I got it for free. It has twice the RAM and twice the disk space of the one I already had. And it came with W10. The battery is all but dead. I have not decided if I am going to refurbish it or use it for 'spares'. For now I have installed Ubuntu Mate LTS -- I wanted to try something else -- using half the disk for Ubuntu and leaving half to W10.

The install process was hit-and-miss but I did not ruin anything. I had to try several times before the 'install but keep other OS' even showed up as an alternative. After succeeding I found out even a mere suspicion that all is not well with the existing OS and/or its OS will make the installer not offer that option.

Anyway, in the end Ubuntu installed just fine but I had to manually edit grub to be able to choose between W10 and Ubuntu. Before doing so I only got Ubuntu.

I haven't touched W in a long time outside of my mother's old computer. Boy, is W10 busy compared to Linux and BSD! The disk and fan is working a lot more after starting the system.

My FreeBSD adventure has been on the back burner for a while now so no news to report.

/Martin

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