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[cwwgateway]

I have had trouble with maximised windows with the reflection extension. The panel overlaps maximised windows instead of staying solid. I haven't been able to find a fix. Otherwise, I am having few problems with the gnome shell/extensions
Thanks.

[esteban1uy]

I have had trouble with maximised windows with the reflection extension. The panel overlaps maximised windows instead of staying solid. I haven't been able to find a fix. Otherwise, I am having few problems with the gnome shell/extensions
Thanks.

There is a problem with some shell themes and the reflections extension. The case is that theme designers didn't know that we can have only one panel/taskbar at the bottom of the screen using a tweaked version of the reflections extension, so they designed their themes to expand completely downwards. But you can correct that by editing the theme's stylesheet, as I did with the new Minty theme.

Did you try the Minty theme attached to the tweaks post?

[cwwgateway]

Not yet, and I'm dont have access to my Linux mint 12 computer right now so I can't try it at the moment. How would you edit the mint-z theme to get reflection to work?

[esteban1uy]

Not yet, and I'm dont have access to my Linux mint 12 computer right now so I can't try it at the moment. How would you edit the mint-z theme to get reflection to work?

Well, I don't use mint-z but I think you can do the same I did with Minty.
Take a look at this thread.

[esteban1uy]

Not yet, and I'm dont have access to my Linux mint 12 computer right now so I can't try it at the moment. How would you edit the mint-z theme to get reflection to work?

Ok. Let's do it the easy way.
Open a terminal and do a sudo gedit /urs/share/themes/Mint-Z/gnome-shell/gnome-shell.css
Now scroll down to the section "Panel" and look for the value "height" (line 383) and change it from "24px" to "2.3em", save, restart gnome-shell (Alt+F2 r) and that's all!

Now you know the trick, so you can apply it to any shell theme to correct that problem, but you have to try with different "height" values until you find one which works properly.

[Ginsu543]

Looks like everyone is trying out Mint 12 RC. I'm not quite ready to date Lisa yet. In the meantime, here are some screenshots of my Katya desktop:

[swftech]

Looks like everyone is trying out Mint 12 RC. I'm not quite ready to date Lisa yet. In the meantime, here are some screenshots of my Katya desktop:

Ginsu543 very nice, creative desktops! Can u explain a little about what you used to get that awesome look on your Firefly screens?

[mikkoh79]

I wondered yesterday if I would update my mint to 12 Lisa. But then, everything works well with Julia, so decided not to update before Mint 13 LTS.

My desktop looks nowadays like this:



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[ilovelinux]

A very minimalist desktop, with a simple Conky Mint setup. I like keeping my desktop squeaky clean. First time really customizing a Linux install as well as first time using Conky, so it's still a work in progress at the moment.


(clicky for full size image)

[drumBE]

Great job, i'm interested in your .conkyrc, can you put it here?

[ilovelinux]

Great job, i'm interested in your .conkyrc, can you put it here?

Who's setup are you looking for? lol

[drumBE]

yours, because 'ilovelinux' to .

[ilovelinux]

yours, because 'ilovelinux' to .

Oh, I was confused for a moment there. xD

Code: Select all

# Conky settings #
background no
update_interval 1

cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2

override_utf8_locale yes

double_buffer yes
no_buffers yes

text_buffer_size 2048
#imlib_cache_size 0

temperature_unit fahrenheit

# Window specifications #

own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,below

border_inner_margin 0
border_outer_margin 0

minimum_size 200 250
maximum_width 200

alignment tr
gap_x 2
gap_y 135

# Graphics settings #
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no

# Text settings #
use_xft yes
xftfont caviar dreams:size=8
xftalpha 0.5

uppercase no

temperature_unit fahrenheit


default_color FFFFFF

# Lua Load  #
lua_load ~/.lua/scripts/clock_rings.lua
lua_draw_hook_pre clock_rings

TEXT
${voffset 8}${color 339900}${font caviar dreams:size=16}${time %A}${font}${voffset -8}${alignr 50}${color FFFFFF}${font caviar dreams:size=38}${time %e}${font}
${color FFFFFF}${voffset -30}${color FFFFFF}${font caviar dreams:size=18}${time %b}${font}${voffset -3} ${color FFFFFF}${font caviar dreams:size=20}${time %Y}${font}${color 339900}${hr}

${voffset 140}${font caviar dreams:size=10}${alignr}HOME${font}
${font caviar dreams:size=12}${color FFFFFF}${alignr}${weather http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/ temperature temperature 30} °F${font}
${image ~/.conky/linux-mint1-300x300a.png -p 4,53 -s 192x192}
${color FFFFFF}${goto 25}${voffset 35}${cpu cpu0}%
${color 339900}${goto 25}CPU
${color FFFFFF}${goto 50}${voffset 23}${memperc}%
${color 339900}${goto 50}RAM
${color FFFFFF}${goto 75}${voffset 23}${swapperc}%
${color 339900}${goto 75}Swap
${color FFFFFF}${goto 100}${voffset 23}${fs_used_perc /}%
${color 339900}${goto 100}Disk
${color FFFFFF}${goto 125}${voffset 25}${downspeed eth0}
${color FFFFFF}${goto 125}${upspeed eth0}
${color 339900}${goto 125}Network



${color FFFFFF}${font caviar dreams:size=8}Uptime: ${uptime_short}
${color FFFFFF}${font caviar dreams:size=8}Processes: ${processes}
${color FFFFFF}${font caviar dreams:size=8}Running: ${running_processes}


${color 339900}${font caviar dreams:size=8}${alignr}${nodename}
${color 339900}${font caviar dreams:size=8}${alignr}${pre_exec cat /etc/issue.net}  $machine
${color 339900}${font caviar dreams:size=8}${alignr}Kernel: ${kernel}

Conky Mint: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=138873

[drumBE]

Thanxs m8th, it's running already.

[cwwgateway]

Thanks for the help with the reflections extension and Mint-Z. Here is my desktop now:

[iTheMaster]

Linux Mint 12 + Gnome-Shell + plasma-desktop

[craig10x]

great job Cww...wish clem could have had it set up like that on the Mint 12 MGSE default...looks absolutely fabulous
you even have the windows list, workspace switcher, nice colors, and transparent too....nice...
how did you do it?

[cwwgateway]

great job Cww...wish clem could have had it set up like that on the Mint 12 MGSE default...looks absolutely fabulous
you even have the windows list, workspace switcher, nice colors, and transparent too....nice...

Thanks !

[esteban1uy]

Thanks for the help with the reflections extension and Mint-Z. Here is my desktop now:

You managed to get all the tricks working. Great!!!

[ilovelinux]

Ok, so by the suggestion of someone else on a different forum I've moved my Conky over a little, trying my best to center it between last letter and right side.



I think it actually does look better this way now.