DIY DE

Lets learn\practice Riceing DE's together. I personally want to build a really lightweight DE that matches the cyberpunk CSS on here and have it on an sd card\USB converter so i can plug in to computers so i browse in a safe environment. Public\friends computers are filled with spyware.

Coincidentally, I've been trying to rice my laptop seriously for the first time these days. I have Ubuntu with Openbox, tint2 as a side panel, conky as the thing in the top right, dmenu as an application launcher>>451 and urxvt as the terminal. I think it looks nice, at least nicer than it did a while ago. The problems I have right now: -I have two monitors, and I can't seem to make it so that when I open a new window in the second monitor it opens there. -I can't seem to get the internet up and down thing to work, it just stays in zero. -tint2 doesn't have volume control incorporated, so right now I can't change the volume easily >>451 That's a nice idea, last night I tried to use someone else's windows 8 computer and it was really hard for me, having not touched a windows computer in a while.

itd be pretty /cyb/ to rice a Tails setup and only use that to get online.

>>453 wouldn't that defeat the purpose of tails? You're trying to have a system without any fingerprints. By ricing a tails setup you're already making yourself identifiable out of all the other tails users. I suppose you'd have to rice tails in such a way to only use alternative programs which can't be identified given that authorities have already discovered you were using tails. I don't know if this is possible, or to what extent.

Good thread. Tell me, what have I to do in order to have hinted fonts? fonts.conf work but not everywhere, I think.

This is the message from last night that I couldn't send: Hey guys! It's really late and I should really go to bed but I can't because I'm excited and I need to tell you that I just made an accuweather script in python with feedparser which I'll use in conky. It's this: https://www.refheap.com/97640 I hope you guys like it, it's my first time programming something useful!. To use it, you have to change the metric and locCode values. Metric is 0 for °F and 1 for °C, and locCode is your location code, which is actually really hard to find. It should print out something like the weather part of pic related. You can use it in conky with something like this: ${execpi 600 python ~/.weatherscript} I'm so excited this is so great why didn't I do this before.

This is what I managed to do after 4 hours of searching through vim plugins / default colorschemes and xmonad

>>451 (OP) well i guess you made your pc into a piece of art? that's cool it is quite hypnotic! bonus points for the guy who scans for open unauth VNC or whatever and displays a screenshot of his latest find plus how zmap or nmap or whatever is rushing through the ipv4's. even more bonus points for making a screengif when it currently displays the control panel of something impressive looking rather than a chinese ubuntu machine or something lame like that. uhm ricing is the act of changing the colors and making custom menus and stuff i suppose? picture related, it's what i made. form follows function, i'm only 25 and don't wear glasses but my eyesight has been better which is why i like a good contrast when i'm working.

>>452 lol make sure the script in your conky config for your "internet up and down thing" has the correct network interface listed that you are using. lots that you get online will have "eth0" set by default, if its a laptop your wifi card is probably "wlp9s0". use ifconfig or whatever ubuntu uses now to check. if it still dosent work you probably dont have something it needs installed, easiest thing would be find a different script for calculating network up/down. im not a conky wizard so id just look through some other conky configs online and swoop one that works on your system.

>>463 Oh yeah, lainon, you're very nice haha, I did solve it though. Thanks.

>>452 I was thinking of doing something like this too but I don't have much experience in linux, especially in ricing it. Where would I start if I wanted to make a lainchan approved, riced out, secure setup on an old dell laptop? What could I read or study? A few years ago I had a bit of experience from fuarrrking around with various linux distros and tinkering with minor under the hood soykaf, but I've forgotten most of it so assume I have to start from scratch.

>>467 You could start by reading this: https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/GNU/Linux_ricing ArchWiki is also very useful for everything.

>>451 Fun fact, OP. Your image was, in fact, created by our very own ncl.

>>451 not sure which wm you use, but if you use i3, would you mind telling me how i set borders like in my second pic? like borders i can look through. >>452 that's just how i started. If you keep this up, i think you pc will look pretty neat first img is my machine

>>491 >Curly in screenfetch What sorcery is this?

I changed my screenfetch-dev file. i can provide a downloadlink if you want. By the way, I can create you your own screenfetch with your own image if you want. Just give me an image and name the linux distro you are using. (this might need a few days, depending if you want it colored or not)

>>492 >>493 you can look at some other examples of mine at http://hdquote.deviantart.com/gallery/

>>491 >>491 pls dis

>>491 >not sure which wm you use, but if you use i3, would you mind telling me how i set borders like in my second pic? like borders i can look through. Not the guy you were asking, but is this what you were referring to? https://github.com/o4dev/i3

>>529 thank you, i was looking for this more than 6 months.

I'm trying out Arch, the installation and setup went smoothly but I ran into an odd issue with yaourt. yaourt -S screen-vs curl error: Couldn't connect to server [sudo] password for user: error: target not found: screen-vs I set it up using this guide. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-yaourt-to-easily-download-arch-linux-community-packages Found this workaround from a year ago but it doesn't work for me. http://osquestions.com/unix-linux/109371/yaourt-curl-error-couldnt-connect-to-server I can try a different AUR helper if anyone recommends one, I tried yaourt because I'd heard of it before. By the way, has anyone tried to make a custom kb layout? I used to do that with xmodmap in debian but it behaves oddly in Arch, and xkb_symbols is a mess towork with.

>>529 just one thing. will i need to reinstall i3 for this, or can i just install it over my existing i3 install?

>>532 Solved the yaourt thing with the solution proposed in the link I posted, just tried it again. Still working on the keyboard layout thing though.

>>451 Here's what i'm currently working on I have zsh set as default and I've been playing with .zsh_profile

Babby's first rice. It's still very much a work in progress. I've made some changes since. I'll update it when I get back maybe. One of those changes has been giving me massive headaches on desktop 4. Anybody else love a zenburn colour scheme? Most of it's copied from here, there and everywhere else with a few tweaks. Arch, i3, urxvt, vim, bash. Got a "new" desktop so it's a good time to experiment with some new soykaf. Only thing familiar is bash and vim. I could probably give zsh a whirl. It seemed interesting while I was using it to setup Arch. >>561 Is that some yakuake? That was my favourite thing about using KDE, but it's been a long time since I've used it. I moved to xfce4 for the lighter weight and used xfce4-terminal as a dropdown, but it just wasn't the same.

>>564 off topic but, i was reading your irc chat and for the zine maybe we can have some pages of fisheye placebo?

>>565 I don't know what that is, but you should definitely speak to the guys in this thread: https://lainchan.org/lit/res/998.html Submissions for the first issue close soon.

I want to try ricing my i3 desktop to match the poison css I haven't bothered to figure out the hex code for the colors in the poison css i'm lazy af, so basically i haven't even started

>>839 Here you go Lainon. Now get to ricing. http://www.colorzilla.com/

colorhexa.com is pretty helpful.

What's the best way to rice Windows? I know about Rainmeter; anything else (or specific skins)?

>>1192 Windows isn't made for ricing.

>>1192 window ricing refrence: http://nanami-tan.info/ Rule of thumb for ricing in general: don't go full retard Rule of thumb for ricing windows: don't even go half retard or enjoy your snail OS

Ok, here is one from my past.

>cyberpunk >so much ubuntu in this thread wtf?

>>1203 you don't know what cyberpunk really is.

How do I even start to make my Desktop look cyber? Any tips?

anyone have any ways to get my soykaf to look better?

>>1192 Start with what version you're running. Windows XP - 8.1 can all be riced to varying degrees. Windows 10, on the other hand, you're still pretty much in the cold for now. Here's a link to help you get started: http://nanami-tan.info/

>>839 Here's my poison.css rip off.

>>493 Or you can just do... art=filepath screenfetch or screenfetch -a filepath I just export the "art" environmental variable in my .zshrc for this beauty:

>>1257 Dark Bum is cute! Cute!

>>1258 Yess. I kept seeing cool scrot art and I wasn't sure what I should set mine as then I finally settled on Dark Bum and I love it.

my current setup

>>451 Beautiful! I love it! :333 What is it?