PeppermintOS Bullseye Xfce, released in February 2022, was a tribute to Mark and his efforts to prolong the use of the LXDE desktop, when it was not being maintained during the period from 2015ish to circa 2021 when the devs team updated large parts of LXDE. Its situation is still uncertain.
With our Bookworm Xfce release, we have went with an elegant new look, to usher in the this era to reflect our development and to distinguish oversleeves from the epitome of Mark Greaves finest hour with his Peppermint 10 LXDE hybrid release. Whilst keeping the Pep 10 looks and feel.
Our latest release we still have a Red theme and matching icons to keep true to the past releases, plus offer Blue and Green themes. I have attached two screenshots of my Bookworm desktop, apart from the wallpaper, my other Peppermint business machine which is Bullseye is currently themed with Bookworm themes and icons and the wallpaper is from a Debian 9 release of the Godafoss waterfall.
The original Peppermint 10 stuff is still in the repos for peps who still cherish the old vintage look. Ditto with the candy/sweet icon for the menu. I'm fairly certain Grafiksinc has placed this in the extra repos, found via the pephub.
Looks, style, fashion, what's hip is subjective. We are a minimal distro offering choice. Your choice.
greetings...
having looked at most major de & wm i have a couple of favs. for the minimalist in me i like fluxbox with tint2/plank/xcompmgr & sometimes gkrellm; for the stable in me i go with xfce/xfwm; for the bling in me i like xfce either with kwin or compiz (i go between them) as the window manager (cool effects in xfce de);
icon sets i like: buuf, oxygen, oomox-Duskfox, antu; for style: blackbird, dracula. the marwaita theme (dark) is nice.
when kwin is wm, can also use kvantum for theming qt apps; kwin effects similar to but not as many as compiz. kwin seems more stable (on my system) than compiz.
compiz - awesome effects, stability (on my system) just o.k.
still learning,
peace ~ cheers
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I always like Fluxbox, I like its simplicity. But I always tend to go back to regular desktop environments. Do you have a screen shot? I know Razor is using Openbox, that's a good one too.
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here's screenshot of my current fluxbox. it changes frequently and always learning. sometimes use gkrellm, sometimes not. i change gkrellm's theme depending on the wallpaper. wallpapers are rotated and different each login. plank theme varies too with wallpaper being used & mood :-) . the menu displayed below tint2 is jgmenu; cursor is bibata-modern-pink. ram use high as firefox is loaded in background. one shot without windows open.
at login i choose between using fluxbox or xfce as i like both depending on my mood :-)
here's my basic xfce with kwin as wm as i like kwin's effects. resources about 50-70mb ram more than with xfwm . plank same as in fluxbox; panel is now xfce4-panel with corners rounded, not tint2; no gkrellm as default. one image of 'wobbly windows', another of 'fall apart' windows. others enabled are 'magic lamp' for minimizing and 'wisps' for when apps start. kwin also has nice window decorations - 2 of my favs.
here's a couple screenshots of xfce with compiz as wm. as my computer is old with only 3gb ram, i only use this combo if nostalgic for extra special effects :-). compiz has many more effects than kwin. eg, the 3D-cube for switching workspaces is quite cool. also, compiz, on my system, is not as stable as kwin or xfwm. nothing drastic, just annoying. on my brother's system, he has 8gb ram, i added cairo-dock instead of plank for even more effects. cairo-dock has really cool rotating icons, when selected, on their dock.
this is one enjoyable feature of linux - so many options to easily customize and be creative that are not available in other o.s.'s.
I really like that look. I used to like compiz, but had the same problem, it always used up too many resources. But it does make computing that bit more fun
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I was just wondering what desktop environment you are currently using? Do you use the default Peppermint Desktop? What themes do you like the best?
I tend to use XFCE and Cinnamon. With the traditional Peppermint branding and themes. I just thought it would be an interesting topic.
Last edit: Adam Hughes 2023-10-05
XFCE All the away and I do not change the default peppermint configs... I just install the few apps that I use on the regular
I think XFCE is my favorite too!
Definitely gnome with AçorOS defaults
Your Acor OS defaults are ansome (as we say here in Cornwall )
PeppermintOS Bullseye Xfce, released in February 2022, was a tribute to Mark and his efforts to prolong the use of the LXDE desktop, when it was not being maintained during the period from 2015ish to circa 2021 when the devs team updated large parts of LXDE. Its situation is still uncertain.
With our Bookworm Xfce release, we have went with an elegant new look, to usher in the this era to reflect our development and to distinguish oversleeves from the epitome of Mark Greaves finest hour with his Peppermint 10 LXDE hybrid release. Whilst keeping the Pep 10 looks and feel.
Our latest release we still have a Red theme and matching icons to keep true to the past releases, plus offer Blue and Green themes. I have attached two screenshots of my Bookworm desktop, apart from the wallpaper, my other Peppermint business machine which is Bullseye is currently themed with Bookworm themes and icons and the wallpaper is from a Debian 9 release of the Godafoss waterfall.
The original Peppermint 10 stuff is still in the repos for peps who still cherish the old vintage look. Ditto with the candy/sweet icon for the menu. I'm fairly certain Grafiksinc has placed this in the extra repos, found via the pephub.
Looks, style, fashion, what's hip is subjective. We are a minimal distro offering choice. Your choice.
Last edit: cavy 2023-10-05
God bless Mark! I love that Norton Bike, very nice colours too.
greetings...
having looked at most major de & wm i have a couple of favs. for the minimalist in me i like fluxbox with tint2/plank/xcompmgr & sometimes gkrellm; for the stable in me i go with xfce/xfwm; for the bling in me i like xfce either with kwin or compiz (i go between them) as the window manager (cool effects in xfce de);
icon sets i like: buuf, oxygen, oomox-Duskfox, antu; for style: blackbird, dracula. the marwaita theme (dark) is nice.
when kwin is wm, can also use kvantum for theming qt apps; kwin effects similar to but not as many as compiz. kwin seems more stable (on my system) than compiz.
compiz - awesome effects, stability (on my system) just o.k.
still learning,
peace ~ cheers
I always like Fluxbox, I like its simplicity. But I always tend to go back to regular desktop environments. Do you have a screen shot? I know Razor is using Openbox, that's a good one too.
here's screenshot of my current fluxbox. it changes frequently and always learning. sometimes use gkrellm, sometimes not. i change gkrellm's theme depending on the wallpaper. wallpapers are rotated and different each login. plank theme varies too with wallpaper being used & mood :-) . the menu displayed below tint2 is jgmenu; cursor is bibata-modern-pink. ram use high as firefox is loaded in background. one shot without windows open.
Wow what a beautiful config/rice. That's a lovely theme you are using, You are tempting me to try out fluxbox again :)
at login i choose between using fluxbox or xfce as i like both depending on my mood :-)
here's my basic xfce with kwin as wm as i like kwin's effects. resources about 50-70mb ram more than with xfwm . plank same as in fluxbox; panel is now xfce4-panel with corners rounded, not tint2; no gkrellm as default. one image of 'wobbly windows', another of 'fall apart' windows. others enabled are 'magic lamp' for minimizing and 'wisps' for when apps start. kwin also has nice window decorations - 2 of my favs.
I love your theming. You've a real flare for it too. How do you get the rounded xfce-bar look?
@Adam Hughes --- thank you for your kind words. xfce4-panel rounded corners depends on version of xfce being used. the latest changed syntax somewhat. in one's ~/.config files should be a 'gtk-3.0' folder; & within that may be (if not create) a 'gtk.css' file. what to add:
old xfce > https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=15163
new xfce > https://superuser.com/questions/1788589/xfce4-panel-update-broke-border-radius
best wishes.
here's a couple screenshots of xfce with compiz as wm. as my computer is old with only 3gb ram, i only use this combo if nostalgic for extra special effects :-). compiz has many more effects than kwin. eg, the 3D-cube for switching workspaces is quite cool. also, compiz, on my system, is not as stable as kwin or xfwm. nothing drastic, just annoying. on my brother's system, he has 8gb ram, i added cairo-dock instead of plank for even more effects. cairo-dock has really cool rotating icons, when selected, on their dock.
this is one enjoyable feature of linux - so many options to easily customize and be creative that are not available in other o.s.'s.
I really like that look. I used to like compiz, but had the same problem, it always used up too many resources. But it does make computing that bit more fun
xfce mostly but with a custom layout, jwm or openbox as a backup
themes, usually mate-themes, arc and materia-gtk
icons, obsidian, faenza black or paper
heres todays setup
I really like that. Lovely dark colours. Modern. Where did you get that wallpaper, did you make it yourself?
yeah, made the wallpaper, menu button and the settings one. font is called expansiva, you can download here https://www.dafont.com/expansiva.font