Category Archives: Xfce

Scale 9x: Day 3

Posted on March 1, 2011 by nightmorph

Sunday The final day of SCALE 9x arrived far too early, since the Gentoo developers were still recovering from the merriment the previous evening/morning. We congregated in the hotel room Mike & I shared. You know you’re having some good … Continue reading →

Posted in Gentoo, Hardware, Linux, SCALE, Xfce | 3 Comments

Experiments, adventures, and consequences

Posted on September 21, 2010 by nightmorph

I’ve been doing a fair amount of experimentation on my machines. Been playing with XBMC, Boxee, Ubuntu, and bleeding-edge Xfce and Freedesktop software stacks on Gentoo. HTPC First, I tinkered with the HTPC. It’s a Zotac MAG, dual-core Atom 330 … Continue reading →

Posted in Applications, Gentoo, Hardware, Linux, Xfce | 3 Comments

Searching the desktop with Pinot and Catfish

Posted on September 2, 2010 by nightmorph

I was looking around for desktop search frameworks today, specifically something with a gtk frontend and that required the fewest resources to run. I discovered Pinot, a dbus-based file index/monitor/search tool. It even comes with a minimal gtk+ interface. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Applications, Gentoo, Xfce | 5 Comments

August Xfce desktop

Posted on August 11, 2010 by nightmorph

This month’s Xfce desktop: icons: awoken gtk+: axiomd xfwm4: axiomd background: The Crown of the Sun cursor: Obsidian xcursors The uncluttered version that shows off the wallpaper and conky configuration: I built my environment around the wallpaper, an image of … Continue reading →

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Documentation status report, part 2

Posted on August 2, 2010 by nightmorph

Been meaning to provide a follow-up to the last documentation report for a few days now, as well as a couple other news items. Gentoo in the press LWN ran an article on Linux distributions for PowerPC machines. Gentoo gets … Continue reading →

Posted in Gentoo, Miscellaneous, Xfce | 2 Comments