First Post from me - My 'Lumate' Desktop

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#1

Hi yawl..

My first post to the forum.. Thought I'd show my Lubuntu/Mate combo..

I'm no expert.. It's more like linux with an axe when i have a go.. But I love how light lubuntu is.. but hate the lxpanel.. So it had to be the mate panel. I called it 'Lumate' for fun..

The screenshots tell you pretty much what it's made up of. Took a while to figure out how to log out after changing the panel lol.

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All the indicators are working fine, and im not sure if the theme is supposed to work as it said it was GTK2.
But hasnt caused any problems since i put it together at christmas..

The icon theme is my own.. I've been making that for 2 years now.. Theres hundreds of mime types in it now, so you can tell an .avi from an .mp4 at a glance.. instead of the usual generic 1 icon does all..
make vid editing a lot easier..

Got a few great apps in there -

Systemback.. 3 mouse clicks and 15 mins later youve got a live iso of your system ready to go. never fails me.

Lossless cut - just cuts out a section of a phone vid ready for you tube in seconds..

The funny launchers on either side of the clock are Terminal and file manager -
the two blues are normal and the two reds are root..

and an Xkill button,, very handy..

Just thought I'd show it and say Hi..

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#2

Hi @BadAnimal,

I love the Windows icon as a menu button, very cheeky!. LOL. :smiley:

#3

Really nice desktop. :open_mouth: …

except the window :toilet: sign top-left and this ‘e’

besides great thing.:grinning:

#4

Thank you chaps :grin:

I couldnt resist the Windoze logo for a giggle… and the explorer ‘e’ is really chrome :wink:
(Though the PS is really Photoshop) an old 5.5 version. It just has the edge on Pinta…

I didnt install the whole Mate desktop as I wanted to see if I could just get the Panel working on it’s own…
It was surprisingly painless a task…

Without compton running, and knocking off a few background apps (like KDE connect) and such I’ve managed to get it to idle around 178 meg of ram…which is great on this old HP laptop… :grinning:

Looking forward to getting my hands on the new Mate 18.04

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#5

That is quite a good combo, mate-panel (one of my all-time favourite usability softwares!) and PCManFM. You get all the Mate widgets, and a lightweight flexible file manager!