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.
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.
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.
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.
Nothing much, just thought of posting a screenshot of my EEE Pc in action. As I had mentioned in some of my earlier posts, I have a very barebone EEE setup. Obviously it runs Lunar Linux, and there are no window managers installed. I have dwm, and evilwm as my primary wm’s, and just now compiled fluxbox, just because I am a huge fluxbox fan, and tend to use it from time to time. But most of the time I just code and don’t get out of the console, and when its not so important, elinks takes care of my browsing efforts. So during such days all I use it the tty console, with framebuffer enabled. That gives me a lot of screen real estate, and dvtm, gives me a great way to utilize the space. I have to try out the vertical patch fro screen by the way, may be over the weekend. Terminus comes to the rescue as far as the console font is concerned. I do like the default console font, but I am more used to terminus. Anyway here is a screenshot of my framebuffer on my EEE Pc. It runs on the latest stable kernel 2.6.29.2, compiled with framebuffer support. Of course I haven’t played around with 915resolution yet to get the right resolution. But 800×600 is so much better than the boring console without framebuffer. So comment on the screenshot. Click on it for full view.
As promised, here is the EEE screenshot. The lunar update did take a while. Since I started the update and left to meet a friend, I couldn’t configure the kernel when it was built. So I had to recompile the kernel, when the updates had finished. I use the framebuffer quite frequently, so I recompiled 2.6.29.2 with framebuffer support, so that took a little longer. Anyway this is how my setup looks like ony my EEE. Window manager is dwm5.5 and the wallpaper is self made. Of late I have been blown away by Haruna Yabuki, and I am still in a fan boy mode. It will probably stay that way for sometime. This picture of hers is one of my favorite pictures. So that necessitated the need to make a quick wallpaper. Also I am no artist, so this wallpaper is a very amateurish attempt, so please don’t mind. Anyway here is the screen. Click for full view.
As expected, lunar updates were available today, and I promptly started updating most of machines running Lunar Linux. Updates are finished already on three machines, and one of my old desktops and my EEE are still compiling the 2.6.29 kernel. Will be finished in an hour I guess. After that I will post a screenshot of my EEE pc. As i had mentioned earlier, my EEE is one of test machines. I tried so many distros on it, that I have lost track completely as to how many. I tried most of the obscure Linux releases on it. But finally decided to stick with Lunar. There is a partition setup on it, to build LFS, which I follow up on whenever I have some extra time. So far it has been good. I have prior success building LFS on a desktop, which still dual boots my version of LFS with Sorcerer. That had to be one of the happiest moments of my life, to get LFS up and running. Since it was pretty time consuming, and I had so many other things to do, I was unable to do so on my other machines. But I guess by the end of this month, when I take a week off, I can finally finish the thing on my EEE. In the mean time, it has been hacking Lunar Linux, that satiates my Linux thirst.
I am expecting a weekend moonbase update. I am talking about Lunar Linux here, and not the real moon! Linux-2.6.29.2 was released on April 27th, and it’s already in moonbase git, and so is firefox 3.0.10. Just those two will take a while to build. Firefox on my EEE, for instance took a solid four hours or so to be built. But since the last two firefox updates, the option to build it with Profile Guided Optimization is activated, so no wonder why it takes longer to compile than the usual. But PGO sure made my firefox real fast.
As I had mentioned in some of my previous posts, customizing my setup is a stress buster for me. Since I am in a phase where I am finishing up my Dissertation and doing some final simulations, stress is an inescapable factor. Customizing is one way I try to relax, although most might think, it’s weird. During weekends, its mostly building lego models, reading paranormal literature, and playing around with LFS on my EEE, that relieves my stress. Anyway, as you might have noticed, I alternate between dwm, and evilwm all the time. Started playing around with my .Xdefaults a bit, and ended up with something not so colorful and completely unobtrusive. I am sure I will stick with this setup for a long time. I am posting a couple of screenshots of this setup on my Lenovo3000N200 laptop, running evilwm as the window manager. As always, I run Lunar Linux on this laptop, and I built the system totally according to my needs, and the response of the system is blazing fast. Sayaka Isoyama and Haruna Yabuki are featured in the wallpapers. Please comment on the screenshots. As usual, if there are any requests, like wallpaper, configs, let me know. I will post them as usual. Click on the picture for full size.
Lunar Linux’s package repository, moonbase was updated yesterday with brand new source codes of many packages. The following are the details of the updates. I updated three of my desktops and an EEE last night, and in another half an hour, will start an update on my laptop, and go to bed. It will take a while, since firefox has to be updated to 3.0.9 as you can see in the available updates.
Removed modules: (11)
Wine-cvs
burnmp3
cube
cube-bin
dri
equate-cvs
gaupol
gsf-sharp-svn
lvm
prism54
scribus-devel
New versions: (84)
CriticalMass : 1.0.0 -> 1.0.2
NVIDIA : 180.44 -> 180.53
SDL_gfx : 2.0.18 -> 2.0.19
airconfig-svn : svn-15 -> svn-16
ardour : 2.7 -> 2.8
bluez : 4.34 -> 4.36
bridge-utils : 1.1 -> 1.4
busybox : 1.13.3 -> 1.13.4
busybox_static : 1.13.3 -> 1.13.4
dri2proto : 1.99.3 -> 2.0
e17-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
e_dbus-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
e_modules-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
e_utils-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
eclair-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
ecore-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
edje-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
eet-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
efreet-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
eina-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
elicit-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
embryo-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
emotion-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
emprint-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
engrave-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
entice-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
epsilon-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
esmart-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
etk-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
evas-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
ewl-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
examine-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
exhibit-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
exml-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
faac : 1.26 -> 1.28
fasm : 1.67.26 -> 1.67.38
fglrx : 9.3 -> 9.4
findutils : 4.4.0 -> 4.4.1
firefox : 3.0.8 -> 3.0.9
fluidsynth : 1.0.8 -> 1.0.9
freedroidrpg : 0.12 -> 0.12.1
gegl : 0.0.20 -> 0.0.22
ghal-svn : svn-15 -> svn-16
git : 1.6.2.3 -> 1.6.2.4
gitosis-git : git-15 -> git-16
glade3 : 3.6.2 -> 3.6.3
glib-2 : 20.0 -> 20.1
gnucash : 2.2.8 -> 2.2.9
hdparm : 9.14 -> 9.15
imlib2-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
imlib2_loaders-svn : svn-200915 -> svn-200916
k9copy2 : 2.3.0-Source -> 2.3.1-Source
leafnode : 1.11.6 -> 1.11.7
libdbi : 0.8.2 -> 0.8.3
libevent : 1.4.9-stable -> 1.4.10-stable
libisofs : 0.6.16 -> 0.6.18
liboil : 0.3.15 -> 0.3.16
linphone : 2.1.1 -> 3.1.1
mp3blaster : 3.2.3 -> 3.2.5
netatalk : 2.0.1 -> 2.0.3
numpy : 1.2.1 -> 1.3.0
ortp : 0.13.1 -> 0.15.0
poppler : 0.10.5 -> 0.10.6
qmpdclient : 1.0.9 -> 1.1.0
qt4 : 4.5.0 -> 4.5.1
ristretto : 0.0.16 -> 0.0.21
rpm : 5.1.8 -> 5.1.9
rsyslog : 3.20.5 -> 3.22.0
schroedinger : 1.0.5 -> 1.0.6
scim : 1.4.8 -> 1.4.9
scim-anthy : 1.2.0 -> 1.2.7
semantik : 0.5.8 -> 0.7.1
slim : 1.3.0 -> 1.3.1
star : 1.4.3 -> 1.5
sudo : 1.7.0 -> 1.7.1
testdisk : 6.10 -> 6.11
vala : 0.7.0 -> 0.7.1
webkitkde : svn-15 -> svn-16
weechat : 0.2.6.1 -> 0.2.6.2
xarchiver : 0.4.6 -> 0.5.2
xf86-input-joystick : 1.4.0 -> 1.4.1
xfce4-taskmanager : 0.3.2 -> 0.4.1
xfce4-wavelan-plugin : 0.5.3 -> 0.5.5
xulrunner : 1.9.0.6 -> 1.9.0.7
Moved modules:
qmpdclient : zbeta -> qt4-apps
semantik : zbeta -> doc-tools
The moonbase, the main repository of Lunar Linux has been updated today, and new versions of the packages have been added. Besides some modules were removed or moved. The details are as follows:
New modules: (15)
ClientForm-0.2.10: a Python module for handling HTML forms on the client side
asterisk-1.6.0.9: open source PBX and telephony engine
avogadro-0.9.3: an advanced molecular editor
elektra-0.7.0: hierarchical configuration store
gigolo-0.3.0: frontend to manage connections to remote filesystems
gtkhtml-3.26.1.1: html rendering/editing library.
icc_examin-0.46: a colour management utility
iksemel-1.3: an XML parser library for jabber
krusader4-2.0.0: KDE Twin-Panel filemanager
monodevelop-vala-2.0: vala template for monodevelop
murrine-0.90.0: Cairo-based GTK+-2 theme engine
portaudio-v19_20071207: audio I/O library
spandsp-0.0.6: DSP functions for telephony
taglib-extras-0.1.2: taglib-extras handles proprietary file formats
txt2tags-2.5: a document generator
Removed modules: (4)
Compress-Raw-Zlib
Module-Build
Murrine-Engine
gtkhtml3
New versions: (215)
CherryPy : 3.1.0 -> 3.1.2
GConf : 2.24.0 -> 2.26.0
ORBit2 : 2.14.16 -> 2.14.17
Python : 2.6.1 -> 2.6.2
airconfig-svn : svn-14 -> svn-15
at-spi : 1.24.1 -> 1.26.0
atk : 1.24.0 -> 1.26.0
bogofilter : 1.1.7 -> 1.2.0
brasero : 0.9.1 -> 2.26.1
bug-buddy : 2.24.2 -> 2.26.0
busybox : 1.13.2 -> 1.13.3
busybox_static : 1.13.2 -> 1.13.3
calibre : 0.5.3 -> 0.5.6
cheese : 2.24.3 -> 2.26.0
cups : 1.3.9 -> 1.3.10
dbmail : 2.2.8 -> 2.2.11
deskbar-applet : 2.24.3 -> 2.26.0
dovecot : 1.1.13 -> 1.1.14
e17-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
e_dbus-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
e_modules-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
e_utils-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
eclair-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
ecore-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
edje-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
eel : 2.24.1 -> 2.26.0
eet-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
efreet-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
eina-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
ekiga : 3.0.2 -> 3.2.0
elicit-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
embryo-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
emotion-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
empathy : 2.25.4 -> 2.26.1
emprint-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
engrave-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
entice-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
eog : 2.24.3.1 -> 2.26.1
epiphany : 2.24.3 -> 2.27.0
epiphany-extensions : 2.24.3 -> 2.26.1
epsilon-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
esmart-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
etk-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
evas-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
evince : 2.24.2 -> 2.26.1
evolution : 2.24.4 -> 2.26.1.1
evolution-data-server : 2.24.4.1 -> 2.26.1.1
evolution-exchange : 2.24.4 -> 2.26.1
evolution-webcal : 2.24.0 -> 2.26.0
ewl-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
examine-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
exhibit-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
exml-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
file-roller : 2.24.3 -> 2.26.1
gcalctool : 5.24.3 -> 5.26.1
gconf-editor : 2.24.1 -> 2.26.0
gdl : 2.24.0 -> 2.26.0
gdm : 2.24.1 -> 2.26.1
gedit : 2.24.3 -> 2.26.1
gedit-plugins : 2.22.5 -> 2.26.1
ghal-svn : svn-14 -> svn-15
git : 1.6.2.2 -> 1.6.2.3
gitosis-git : git-14 -> git-15
glade3 : 3.4.5 -> 3.6.2
glib-2 : 18.4 -> 20.0
glibmm : 2.18.1 -> 2.20.0
gmime : 2.4.3 -> 2.4.6
gnome-applets : 2.24.3.1 -> 2.26.1
gnome-backgrounds : 2.24.0 -> 2.24.1
gnome-bluetooth : 0.11.0 -> 0.12.0
gnome-common : 2.24.0 -> 2.26.0
gnome-control-center : 2.24.0 -> 2.26.0
gnome-desktop : 2.24.3 -> 2.26.1
gnome-doc-utils : 0.15.1 -> 0.16.1
gnome-games : 2.24.3 -> 2.26.1
gnome-games-extra-data : 2.24.0 -> 2.26.0
gnome-icon-theme : 2.24.0 -> 2.26.0
gnome-keyring : 2.24.1 -> 2.26.1
gnome-media : 2.24.0.1 -> 2.26.0
gnome-menus : 2.24.2 -> 2.26.1
gnome-netstatus : 2.12.2 -> 2.26.0
gnome-nettool : 2.22.1 -> 2.26.1
gnome-panel : 2.24.3 -> 2.26.1
gnome-power-manager : 2.24.4 -> 2.26.0
gnome-python : 2.22.3 -> 2.26.1
gnome-python-desktop : 2.24.1 -> 2.26.0
gnome-python-extras : 2.19.1 -> 2.25.3
gnome-screensaver : 2.24.1 -> 2.26.1
gnome-session : 2.24.3 -> 2.26.1
gnome-settings-daemon : 2.24.1 -> 2.26.1
gnome-system-monitor : 2.24.4 -> 2.26.1
gnome-system-tools : 2.22.1 -> 2.22.2
gnome-terminal : 2.24.3 -> 2.26.1
gnome-themes : 2.24.3 -> 2.26.1
gnome-user-docs : 2.24.2 -> 2.26.1
gnome-utils : 2.24.1 -> 2.26.0
gnome-vfs : 2.24.0 -> 2.24.1
gnome-vfsmm : 2.24.0 -> 2.26.0
gnome2 : 2.24.x -> 2.26.x
gok : 2.24.0 -> 2.26.0
gtk+-2 : 14.7 -> 16.1
gtkmm : 2.14.3 -> 2.16.0
gtksourceview : 2.4.2 -> 2.6.1
gucharmap : 2.24.3 -> 2.26.1
guidance-power-manager : 4.2.0 -> 4.2.2
gvfs : 1.0.3 -> 1.2.2
imap : 2004g -> 2007e
imlib2 : 1.4.1 -> 1.4.2
imlib2-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
imlib2_loaders-svn : svn-200914 -> svn-200915
intltool : 0.40.5 -> 0.40.6
kcoloredit : 4.2.0 -> 4.2.2
kdenlive4 : 0.7.2.1 -> 0.7.3
kfax : 4.2.0 -> 4.2.2
kgrab : 4.2.0 -> 4.2.2
kgraphviewer : 4.1.3 -> 4.2.2
kiconedit : 4.2.0 -> 4.2.2
kio_gopher : 4.2.0 -> 4.2.2
kmldonkey4 : 4.2.0 -> 4.2.2
konq-plugins : 4.2.0 -> 4.2.2
kopete-cryptography : 4.2.0 -> 4.2.2
kpovmodeler : 4.2.0 -> 4.2.2
less : 418 -> 429
libIDL : 0.8.12 -> 0.8.13
libX11 : 1.2 -> 1.2.1
libbonobo : 2.24.0 -> 2.24.1
libbonoboui : 2.24.0 -> 2.24.1
libbtctl : 0.11.0 -> 0.11.1
libcanberra : 0.9 -> 0.11
libdrm : 2.4.7 -> 2.4.9
libglade : 2.6.3 -> 2.6.4
libgnome : 2.24.1 -> 2.26.0
libgnomecanvas : 2.20.1.1 -> 2.26.0
libgnomecanvasmm : 2.23.1 -> 2.26.0
libgnomekbd : 2.24.0 -> 2.26.0
libgnomemm : 2.24.0 -> 2.26.0
libgnomeprint : 2.18.5 -> 2.18.6
libgnomeprintui : 2.18.3 -> 2.18.4
libgnomeui : 2.24.0 -> 2.24.1
libgnomeuimm : 2.24.0 -> 2.26.0
libgtop : 2.24.4 -> 2.26.1
libgweather : 2.24.3 -> 2.26.1
librsvg : 2.22.3 -> 2.26.0
libsoup : 2.25.91 -> 2.26.1
libtasn1 : 0.3.10 -> 1.4
libwnck : 2.24.2 -> 2.26.1
libxklavier : 3.8 -> 3.9
libxml++ : 2.24.2 -> 2.26.0
man-pages : 3.20 -> 3.21
memcached : 1.1.12 -> 1.2.8
metacity : 2.24.0 -> 2.26.0
midori : 0.1.4 -> 0.1.5
mkvtoolnix : 2.6.0 -> 2.7.0
mlt : 0.3.6 -> 0.3.8
mlt++ : 0.3.6 -> 0.3.8
mysql : 5.0.75 -> 5.0.77
nautilus : 2.24.2 -> 2.26.2
nautilus-cd-burner : 2.24.0 -> 2.25.3
opal : 3.4.4 -> 3.6.1
openldap : 2.4.15 -> 2.4.16
orca : 2.24.3 -> 2.26.1
oyranos : 0.1.7 -> 0.1.9
pango : 1.22.4 -> 1.24.1
pangomm : 2.14.1 -> 2.24.0
pcre : 7.8 -> 7.9
phpMyAdmin : 3.1.3.1 -> 3.1.3.2
pixman : 0.14.0 -> 0.15.2
popt : 1.14 -> 1.15
ptlib : 2.4.4 -> 2.6.1
pulseaudio : 0.9.14 -> 0.9.15
pygobject : 2.16.0 -> 2.16.1
pygtksourceview : 2.4.0 -> 2.6.0
rhythmbox : 0.11.6 -> 0.12.0
rpm : 5.1.7 -> 5.1.8
rsyslog : 3.20.4 -> 3.20.5
scribus : 1.3.3.12 -> 1.3.3.13
seahorse : 2.24.1 -> 2.26.1
seahorse-plugins : 2.24.1 -> 2.26.1
seamonkey : 1.1.15 -> 1.1.16
skanlite : 4.2.0 -> 4.2.2
sound-juicer : 2.24.0 -> 2.26.1
sqlite : 3.6.12 -> 3.6.13
squid : 3.0.STABLE13 -> 3.0.STABLE14
stella : 2.7.5 -> 2.7.6
stunnel : 4.26 -> 4.27
subversion : 1.6.0 -> 1.6.1
swfdec-gnome : 2.24.0 -> 2.26.0
syslinux : 3.73 -> 3.75
system-tools-backends : 2.6.0 -> 2.6.1
tcl : 8.5.6 -> 8.5.7
telepathy-gabble : 0.7.18 -> 0.7.23
telepathy-glib : 0.7.23 -> 0.7.27
telepathy-idle : 0.1.2 -> 0.1.3
telepathy-python : 0.15.6 -> 0.15.7
telepathy-salut : 0.3.7 -> 0.3.8
tig : 0.12.1 -> 0.14.1
timezone-data : 2009e -> 2009f
tk : 8.5.6 -> 8.5.7
totem : 2.24.4 -> 2.26.1
totem-pl-parser : 2.24.4 -> 2.26.1
transmission : 1.51 -> 1.52
vinagre : 2.24.2 -> 2.26.1
vino : 2.24.1 -> 2.26.1
vte : 0.19.4 -> 0.20.1
webkit : 1.1.3 -> 1.1.5
webkitkde : svn-14 -> svn-15
wesnoth : 1.4.7 -> 1.6.1
wine : 1.1.18 -> 1.1.19
xchat-gnome : 0.18 -> 0.26.1
xf86-video-ati : 6.12.1 -> 6.12.2
xinput : 1.4.0 -> 1.4.1
xorg-server : 1.6.0 -> 1.6.1
yasm : 0.7.2 -> 0.8.0
yelp : 2.24.0 -> 2.26.0
zenity : 2.24.1 -> 2.26.0
Moved modules:
qshaderedit : zbeta -> qt4-apps
Reflections on the Strange and the Not so Strange 