fvwm Look and Feel, icons and themes

I am liking fvwm more and more. Rather I went ahead to get the themes and icons for fvwm and am quite happy with the amount of customization I can do with the WM. So, I found the themes page for the fvwm which gives about 27 themes and all of them look quite cool.

You can choose to have the gnome and the KDE menu in your fvwm menu which is built dynamically. Decide on when the window should become active and things like Animation, Auto Raise, Banner and the list continues and you dont have to search anything to do any of those. The <a href="http://fvwm-themes.sourceforge.net/doc/FAQ" target="_blank">FAQ is a good resource to start.

Change cursor and couple of other settings in window managers like fluxbox and fvwm (except gnome and KDE)

First off, get cursor theme from <a href="http://gnome-look.org/index.php?xsortmode=high&page=0&xcontentmode=36" target="_blank">here. You can download the one of your choice. Now create a directory &#8221;~/.icons&#8221; if it does not exist. Extract the file you just downloaded in this directory. [If you are using GNome then you could have dropped the tar file itself in the Desktop properties window and selected the theme from there. I have since the days of RH9 not used KDE and so am not sure how to do this in KDE, sorry guys.]

bash – change theme for gtk in gnome and take screenshot from script.

I wrote a blog on bash script to change the icon/cursor theme using a bash script. Lets extend the same concept a little more and use the script to change the gtk theme for gnome and at the same time take a screenshot also.

#!/bin/bash
path=&#8221;/tmp/screenshot&#8221;
[[ &#8221;$1&#8221; == &#8221;&#8221; ]] && time=5 || time=$1
[[ &#8221;$2&#8221; == &#8221;&#8221; ]] && (
cd ~/.themes
cont=&#8221;y&#8221;
echo &#8221;Select one of the icon themes&#8221;
echo &#8221;When you like some theme just press Ctrl+c&#8221;
for i in *
do
[[ -d $i/cursors ]] || (
echo &#8221;Now trying …. : $i&#8221;
gconftool-2 –type string -s  /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme &#8221;$i&#8221;
sleep 1
j=$(echo &#8221;$path/$i&#8221;).jpg
import -window root -quality 95 &#8221;$j&#8221;
sleep $time
)
done
) || gconftool-2 –type string -s  /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme &#8221;$2&#8221;

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GoOo released new version of Open Office.

GoOo repository for Fedora at http://go-oo.mirrorbrain.org/stable/linux-i586/ has released the new version of GoOo packages.

Elive – just 5 generations ahead.

A lot of you must have heard about E16 desktop and lot others would have heard about the compiz. Think about the sheer beauty of the desktop for the combination of the 2. See some screenshots here. I haven\’t tried the distro till now but am in the process of downloading the development version right now. Would try it from live media and install it if that looks great.