Themes

Themes

Desktop themes make everything look neat, here are mine.

Conky

The fancy transparent system monitor dodah that has replaced a few old dockapps for me, Conky is itself an updated decedent of Torsmo.

Updated with more information and colours to match my other themes.

screenshot of conky
conkyrc

Remember to edit the conkyrc file to point to your own mail spool (or just) delete that line, it's currently set to /var/spool/mail/gav .

The volume detection requires two simple scripts, save these in your ~/bin or wherever you like to store scripts.

vol-now-mas

#!/usr/bin/perl ($null, $volume) = split(/\ /, `aumix -v q`); $volume =~ s/\,//; print "$volume\n";

vol-now-pcm

#!/usr/bin/perl ($null, $volume) = split(/\ /, `aumix -w q`); $volume =~ s/\,//; print "$volume\n";

Fluxbox

A great looking, functional and lightweight window manager.

Find Fluxbox here

To install Fluxbox themes, copy the file into your
~/.fluxbox/styles directory.

fluxbox-simple-life

fluxbox-simple-life-green

Nano

My colour syntax highlighting for Nano. Editing code would be a major pain without this. It highlights HTML, XHTML, PHP, Javascript, CSS, Perl, email and config files in a sensible way.

Dump this file into your ~/ directory and rename it .nanorc

Nano screenshot
nanorc

Bash

Everything is quicker to understand in colour, thanks to GNU ls all the files on your system can be automagically colour coded.

Download this file into your ~/ directory and mv it to .dircolors. You may need to add/comment something like this in your .bashrc:

# enable colour support of ls and also add handy aliases if [ "$TERM" != "dumb" ]; then [ -e "$HOME/.dircolors" ] && DIR_COLORS="$HOME/.dircolors" [ -e "$DIR_COLORS" ] || DIR_COLORS="" eval "`dircolors -b $DIR_COLORS`" fi # Aliases alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias ll='ls -lhF --color=auto' # Customised color prompt PS1="\[\e[33m\]\u@\h\[\e[0;37m\]:\[\e[0;36m\]\w\[\e[0;37m\]$ "

colour ls screenshot
dircolors

urxvt

The terminal used for all the example shots here is urxvt, available as rxvt-unicode in Debian/Ubuntu. Here is the config for it from my .Xresources file.

urxvt*termName: rxvt urxvt*foreground: grey urxvt*background: black urxvt*visualBell: true urxvt*font: 6x13 urxvt*saveLines: 8000 urxvt*scrollBar: false urxvt*geometry: 105x28 urxvt*fading: 60 urxvt.fadeColor: black urxvt.shading: 40 urxvt.inheritPixmap: true

Wallpaper

A few photos I've taken to use as background wallpaper.

1024x768

Little Mist Tor, Dartmoor The Natural History Museum, London Stone Railings, I can't remember where
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2011-11-25