Share your desktop screen / workspace

[LinuxUser]

Oh, Oops. I see now. I feel dumb…
Thanks.

[qute_the_angry]

Offtopic

@LinuxUser

Wow, that looks awesome! How did you make a Window’s theme?

You can achieve this with KDE by changing corresponding elements and hiding the rest.
The question is: why would you want that

[solene]

It’s also possible to achieve this with GNOME, especially the taskbar, by using a popular plugin (forgot the name)

[gonzalo-bulnes]

What @solene is alluding to can be achieved in a few ways, and has its own thread, which originally spawned from this one, I think? Maybe not!

Windows Camouflage for Qubes

Continuing the discussion from Qubes OS Wallpapers: Oh, that’s an interesting one. Using a windows background is probably the most cost-effective solution, but there are fancier things. For example, tails used to have a camouflage theme that looked like this: [camouflage] Sadly it has since become unsupported. Maybe something like this could be created for Qubes? (one big issue will be how the actual windows are colored… something for which there is just no way around).

[LinuxUser]

@qute_the_angry

The question is: why would you want that

Very good point. The ability to do so intrigued me. Linux Is SO customizable.

[Gandalfen]

thanks everyone for bringing customization options to my attention as I have missed that part of docs , adding another auto-hiding panel and launchers does help a lot with convenience , I liked having a context menu (the arrow symbols) for more actions in the same launcher icon

[renehoj]

Spend some more time working on my desktop

Got the XFCE/dom0 borders working with custom themes.
Added individual windows customization like opacity with devilspie2
Made a custom launcher for easy keyboard shortcuts (Terminal, Files, etc.)

[whoami]

Hi @renehoj, since two weeks I have tried to get the Nordzy icons into my automated minimal Debian script - unfortunately, without success.

My implementation (tried both system-wide and user-specific):
deb-12-m-base (template)

GTK configuration

/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

include "/usr/share/themes/Nordic/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
style "user-font"
{
    font_name="Liberation Sans Regular"
}
widget_class * style "user-font"
gtk-font-name="Liberation Sans Regular 11"
gtk-theme-name="Nordic"
gtk-icon-theme-name="Nordzy"

/etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

[Settings]
gtk-font-name=Liberation Sans Regular 11
gtk-theme-name=Nordic
gtk-icon-theme-name=Nordzy
gtk-decoration-layout=menu:
gtk-titlebar-right-click=none
gtk-enable-event-sounds=0
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=0
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle=hintslight
gtk-xft-rgba=rgb
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=1

/etc/gtk-4.0/settings.ini

[Settings]
gtk-font-name=Liberation Sans Regular 11
gtk-theme-name=Nordic
gtk-icon-theme-name=Nordzy
gtk-decoration-layout=menu:
gtk-titlebar-right-click=none
gtk-enable-event-sounds=0
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=0
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle=hintslight
gtk-xft-rgba=rgb
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=1

1. Copy the (downloaded, unzipped) Nordzy folder to /tmp/icons
2. Launch the install.sh script:

qvm-run --pass-io --user root ${tvm} \
    "cd /tmp/icons/${icons} \
       && bash install.sh \
                --color dark \
                --dest /usr/share/icons \
                -g \
                --name  Nordzy \
                --theme orange"

I never got my Nordzy working (in Thunar). Do you have any hint for me? Do I miss a package in my minimal template?

How did you do your Fluent-dark icons implementation?
Just copied all to:

/usr/share/icons/

and afterwards

gtk-update-icon-cache -t /usr/share/icons/Fluent-dark

?

[renehoj]

I installed gnome-settings-daemon, and the icons are installed in /usr/share/icons

In /etc/X11/Xsession.d/25xdg-qubes-settings I removed lines that use xsettingsd

I set the icons with gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme "Fluent-dark"

For nautilus to be able to use SVG icons librsvg needs to be installed, might be the same with Thunar

[renehoj]

Fixed the XFCE panel, add opacity, round edges, floating with full screen snap working.

Styling of the panel is annoying, I couldn’t change the shadow and margin with css. To get floating snap working, I added a second invisible panel that is sticking to the edge, and full screen windows snap to the invisible panel.

The rounded edges only work on a dark background, if panel shadow is active, else there will be a square shadow at the ends.

[Quben]

Bro wants to see qubes desktops nice try FBI

[Lace]

Yo that is such a sick slick design, so cool!

[johnhwoods]

Vertical
clock (fuzzy but with really detailed tooltip!)
pomodoro timer
Window Menu | Show Desktop | Launcher (Custom menu)
year-quarter | week-day | YMDD format (M is June)
Launcher | SHow
Workplace Switcher
CPU usage and history
Disk I/O (R/W) | Eyes (Shoulder Surfing Warning!) | Disk Activity (R/W)
Battery Level
Window Buttons
(Separator)

Horizontal
Application Launcher (all apps)
Monitor showing what Qubes are doing
Standard status tray
(I note that the nm and sdwdate applets don’t obey transparency settings)
PulseAudio
System Load averages
Action Buttons: lock, sleep, logout, restart, poweroff

[kenosen]

Are the dotfiles for this hosted somewhere? Would love to mimic

[renehoj]

Here are the themes I use: https://github.com/renehoj/qubes-os-dark-theme

You will need to style the xfce panel and set up devilspie yourself.

[renehoj]

Added a simple Conky script with Qubes OS resource information.

[naejPPa]

how to put the dock (applications) in qubes os desktop?

[kenosen]

Share your desktop screen / workspace

Someone asked me how to make a panel with launchers, I wrote it in PM but why not make it public So here is the procedure in XFCE right click on the top bar, in “Panel” click on “Panel Preferences” click on “+” on the top right corner to create a new panel the new panel should automatically be selected in the dropdown near + and - click on “Items” tab Click on Add Click on “Launcher” and then on “Add”, click for each item you want in your panel Click on Close Now, for each Laun…

[Tezeria]

@renehoj , could you share how you did to display the performance of the P-Cores and E-Cores in your conky please?
I’ve been looking for a while but still haven’t found it . I imagine you use xenpm, but how?

[renehoj]

I use this lua function

first 16 cores are the pcore, and the last 16 ecores

function GetCoreLoad()

    local output = RunCommand("xenpm start 1 | grep -e P0")

    local idx = 1
    pcoreLoad = 0
    ecoreLoad = 0
    for line in output:gmatch("[^\r\n]+") do
        if(line ~= nil) then
            local elements = SplitString(line, "[^%s]+")
            if elements[2] ~= nil then
                if idx < 17 then
                    pcoreLoad = pcoreLoad + tonumber(elements[2])
                else
                    ecoreLoad = ecoreLoad + tonumber(elements[2])
                end
                idx = idx + 1
            end
        end
    end

    pcoreLoad = math.ceil(pcoreLoad / 160)
    ecoreLoad = math.ceil(ecoreLoad / 160)

end

function RunCommand(command)

    local cmd = io.popen(command)
    if cmd == nil then
        return ""
    end

    local output = cmd:read("*a")
    cmd:close();

    return output

end

function SplitString(string, pattern)

    local elements = {}
    for e in string:gmatch(pattern) do
        if e ~= nil and e ~= "" then
            local value = e:gsub("%s+", "")
            table.insert(elements, value)
        end
    end

    return elements;

end