desktop customization

**Indigno** · 06-30-2005

I have seen some screenshots with these highly customized desktops. Like, instead of the virtual desktops being on the taskbar, you click the backgrounds and drag it to another (like a 3D cube). I have also seen them whete the taskbar is a sort of semicircle at the bottom-middle of the screen. I just want to know a good website where I can go to to learn about all of this and download the stuff to do it. Also, is KDE or Gnome the most customisable (or some other GUI)

**dylunio** · 06-30-2005

For KDE you might want to check out www.kde-look.org and for Gnome you might want to have a look at www.gnome-look.org. They both have rather nice eye candy

**bigtomrodney** · 06-30-2005

It's really more of a matter of choice, I feel KDE is a bit better for customising. But I've always been a KDE person. Try kde-look and [url=www.gnome-look.org[/url], both are excellent for all sorts of additions.

**StrungOut2326** · 07-27-2005

I always see were people have these cool little monitoring things.

Like for your CPU, Battery (laptops), etc. What are the names for things like that in RedHat/Unix?

**Muser** · 07-27-2005

Probably using an app called superkaramba in KDE or gdesklets in Gnome.

**Cabhan** · 07-27-2005

That's a system monitor. The only ones I've ever used were torsmo (background-based, maybe only for Flux) and gkrellm.

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/...m/gkrellm.html

I'm not a big fan of them...too crowded. And besides, I can always check disk usage with:

Code:

df -si

**StrungOut2326** · 07-31-2005

Muser,

Superkaramba is great! That is exactly what I was looking for. To bad they don’t have a lot of people making up good themes etc. Again thank you.

**DoctorDan** · 08-04-2005

and how can you make windows transparent (often when someone is running terminal in a GUI and only the words are opaque over the desktop background).

**IsaacKuo** · 08-04-2005

If you're using Konsole (KDE's terminal program), then you select the scheme "Transparent (dark background)". You can customize the transparency tint color, opaqueness, and text colors by creating your own color scheme.

**dark_flame** · 08-05-2005

Can gdesklets be used in KDE?

And if it's not is there a way to switch to GNOME whithout reinstalling, I am running SuSE 9.3 right now. I have never tried GNOME and figure I deserve to at least check it out.

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