VT220 – Nostalgia

I went nuts with trying out different color combinations to mimic a VT 220 setup on my OpenBSD rig. You can see seven different color variations. Brown, Light Yellow, Light Red, Light Cyan, Light Blue, Light Green and a darker shade of Cyan. I prefer to alternate between darker shade of Cyan and Brown. True, brown reminds us of something else, but it works well with the font. So, does darker cyan. Of the lighter variations, green is my favorite. Click on the image for full view.

VT 220 Madness!

Here is another working shot of the rig with the brown variant.

Current Setup

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FreeBSD EEEPC Progress

As I had mentioned earlier, my EEE 1000H is powered by FreeBSD 7.2 and so far it has been good. Still haven’t had the proper time to workon the wireless, but so far have got most of my acpi scripts working, so its great. Anyway I am posting another EvilWM screenshot on this Beastie powered toy. Click on the picture for full view.

Fluxbox – Lunar Linux Another Screenshot

This is how my current Lunar Linux setup looks like in my office machine. Royalty still rocks my fluxbox, and its Astroboy to take center stage. Was watching a documentary on manga last night, so thought of doing this on my desktop. The rest are self explanatory I guess.

More FreeBSD EEEPC Goodness

I am currently in the process of customizing and tweaking my FreeBSD 7.2 setup on my EEE PC 1000H. Did away with Fluxbox, and in comes EvilWM. Keeping it as minimal as possible. Currently working on the acpi scripts to get most of the hotkeys working. Hopefully, it should be done by this weekend. Also want to try out the wireless thing just for fun. It must be a big challenge though.

Anyway here is a new screenshot of FreeBSD 7.2 in action on my EEE.

Color Me Bad Fluxbox Theme

On a related note, I released a fluxbox theme over at boxlook a couple of months ago or so. The idea was to make a theme that would merge with my Xdefaults colors then. You might have seen the old Xdefaults in action in one of my previous screenshots. And the colors are still available over at my dotfiles page, for anyone still interested. Anyway here is an old screenshot of my Color Me Bad fluxbox theme in action. Click on the thumbnail for full view.

For Openbox users, there is an openbox port of this theme available at boxlook as well. Rydgel ported my theme to openbox. Anyway here is the link for both the themes.

Color Me Bad – Fluxbox

Color Me Bad – Openbox

Note: People who downloaded my fluxbox folder from my previous post, need not download this theme again, since it is already available in the folder.

Collection of my Fluxbox Themes

Since I have had a request to share my fluxbox folder, I decided to do so, and make it available right here for other interested people as well. Fluxbox is my favorite *box environment, and is installed on all my machines, both at home and work. Its very easy on resources, and very easy to configure to one’s own needs. I have collected a lot of fluxbox themes over the years, right from the very old ones, to the very latest. There are some themes, that I made myself, and some that I heavily modified, and unreleased, but they are all available in this archive. Mostly I will take a theme and rework on it to gel with a certain gtk theme I will be using. As you might have seen in my previous fluxbox screenshots, I am currently using the Royalty gtk and fluxbox themes made by the amazing artist, lyrae aka thrynk. The only thing that I modified is the fluxbox toolbar, which you can see for yourself. Royalty is one of the best themes ever. It’s color neutral and unobtrusive and can go with any background, which is fantastic. Anyway have a look at the themes in the folder and hope you folks find it useful.

I would like to mention another thing. You should modify the main files in the folder, namely, overlay, and init to modify the setup according to your needs. Though you can make a certain theme use a particular font setup, I always use the overlay file to bypass the theme defaults, so that setup is uniform. So have a look in that file. As far as the init file goes, you can change the Workspace names and such in there, and do not have to use my Workspace names, that is unless you are a huge Cowboy Bebop fan like yours truly. Also check the keys file, mostly it is default, except for an entry I added for gmrun.

I archived my fluxbox folder and have uploaded it over at mediafire. Just follow the link below, download the file, unarchive the folder, dot.fluxbox should be the name I think. Then rename the folder to .fluxbox, and make sure that this folder resides in your home directory, i.e, ~/.fluxbox. Let me know if there is any trouble downloading the file, and if anything else is needed.

My Fluxbox Folder@mediafire

My .bashrc

I have been getting requests for my .bashrc for sometime i see. so here it is! I have a lot of things configured which i presume might interest none. So I am gonna post my export features for the different color codes I use in my bash. All u need is to copy the text and paste it in ur .bashrc which shud reside in /home/your-username/ So here is the code:

export BLACK=’\[33[30m\]’
export GREY=’\[33[1;30m\]’
export RED=’\[33[1;31m\]’
export GREEN=’\[33[1;32m\]’
export YELLOW=’\[33[1;33m\]’
export BLUE=’\[33[1;34m\]’
export MAGENTA=’\[33[1;35m\]’
export CYAN=’\[33[1;36m\]’
export WHITE=’\[33[1;37m\]’
export PS1=”$GREEN\u$CYAN on$YELLOW \h$GREY | $WHITE\d $RED\t$GREY | $MAGENTA\w$GREY |\n$GREEN $ $CYAN-> ”
export PS2=”$CYAN ‘>'”
export PS3=”$CYAN ‘>>'”
export PS4=”$CYAN ‘>>>'”

Don’t hesitate to ask me if there are any questions!

Here’s an example as to how it luks! Click on the thumbnail for the picture!

New GTK2.0 Theme!

I know it’s been long since I’ve posted stuff related to the paranormal, but I promise, I will post some new material over the weekend! But for the timebeing, how ’bout another Linux customization related post? I made another theme, Elegant-Dark Green aka Elegant-Matrix, which is another rip off of the hugely popular Elgant-Brit series, and it’s adapted version Dark Brit! This theme will satiate the needs of foks looking for a minimal, fully functional dark theme for the Gnome Desktop. Had been doing simulations last nite, and cudn’t sleep, so decided to relax by workin on ths theme! I uploaded the theme over at gnome-look as well. Will link the appropriate pages and walla and icon choices in my next post! Here are the screenshots of the theme in action!

Screen1: The Widget Factory

Screen 2: Theme in action

Screen 3: Another shot but with low resolution!