Gentoo + Awesome WM + conky + idesk + dzen2

A linux desktop using Awesome WM, conky, dzen2 and iDesk. Featured apps are: aTerm, Thunar, kwrite, dzen2, gimp, nano, alsamixer, opera

Screenshot (on dual screen):
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/99...

Update:
After many people asked for the script via email, here they are
menu: http://pastebin.ca/1350095
widget: http://pastebin.ca/1350096
awesomerc: http://pastebin.ca/1367366 (for awesome 2.*)

• Category

  Science & Technology

[ToXedVirus1]

How do you make conky appear only on the background? Its always in a seperate window in my awesome WM and is tiled as every other window.

By the way, im on a only keyboard trip too and i have to admit that its really fast. Even browsing is no problem with firefox + vimperator

[Elv1313]

own_window no

double_buffer yes

own_window_transparent yes #Useless with no own windows, but may help if you play with options sthat will enable own_windows anyway.

in the part before TEXT should work, do not use options like own_window_type, they will force the windows to appear. The downside is that you will lose ability to enable compositing in awesome.

[orangefan9]

maybe they're using all that text for something practical lol.

[Elv1313]

Command line -IS- faster than GUI application when you master it. Windows user just don't seem to understand that, mostly because DOS default command set and scripting capabilities suck.

[Alexander Bandukwala]

Awesome vid need an HD one though

[OpisCossack]

Get xcompmgr, real transparency would look sexy with that.

[Elv1313]

Even there, that script is old and wont produce a working menu anymore. The awesome wiki have much better versions.

[David Turenne]

nevermind. fixed by quoting the variable.

[David Turenne]

menu.sh: line 69: [: -eq: unary operator expected

:/

[WorBlux]

Yes, I'm just that guy.

Recently with bootstaping and installing xfce it took about 18 hours on a athon 64 2800 (1 core 1.6 GHz). On a new system you can get it done in a couple of hours.

[autonomous2010]

Wow such an old comment replied to. Hm..

I used the words "days/weeks" because honestly I couldn't remember exactly (nor did I count...) how many days it took. At the time of posting that comment though I had an early model P4 desktop.

As of a month ago, I have a new high end gaming laptop that costed me an arm and a leg. :-)

[WorBlux]

Weeks? What do you have an 8086?

One place that anyone most people can benefit from compiling is with audio/video application where sse2/3 instructions sets are used to improve performance for quite a few on the available codecs.

[Max Heedrum]

Why is it every time I click on the desktop the conky display vanishes?

[Dylan Soco.]

I need to emerge that OMG !