spatial-desktop theme for Ubuntu

Hello everybody, it’s been a while. Just a quick post to announce that I released a new project which is a bash script to install a “theme integration”. It’s a combination of themes, applications and tweaks. It creates a spacious desktop where maximized applications take the full screen, perfect for netbook. It uses docky and gnome-do for window/application management.

Find out more at http://code.google.com/p/spatial-desktop

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Posted in Unclassified at November 22nd, 2009. Trackback URI: trackback
  • lolesk
    It seems that compiz isn't available while using dual screen, but when i launched your script compiz was available. It must come from that problem.

    Thanks for helping, i will disable docky while using dualscreen now.
  • maximebf
    do you have compiz enabled ? docky behaves this way if there's no compiz, but the script should have detected it...
  • lolesk
    NB: The right screen is black coz i was watching a video, no problem on this side.

    And the problem don't appear while using a single screen.
  • lolesk
    Hi, i am currently using your script, it a nice and easy to install tweak.

    But i've got some trouble with double screen using your tweak.

    http://img18.imageshack.us/i/bugscript.png/
    This screenshot was made while using your script. Even if i have a full screen application, i still see this black zone. I've killed conky / docky: same problem. Restarting the X server don't fix it either.

    Any idea for fixing this?

    Thanks.

    OS : Ubuntu 9.10
    First screen res: 1280*800
    Second screen res: 1280*700
  • Nikonoel
    Thanks for the link, I had indeed that problem with conky.
    Also, I'd like to make a bug report:
    I used your script to get back to my previous preferences (it succeeded), but it didn't uninstall all the stuff it had installed. :-/ Also (and more annoying), it didn't remove GnomeDo nor Docky from the applications launched at startup.

    I'm sure it's a feature that you wanna add, it definitely helps the users of your script to keep their system as clean as possible!
  • maximebf
    Thanks for your comment, I understand that gnome-do can take time to get used to, I myself had some difficulties at the beginning but it's a must have for me today.

    Weird bug for conky, try http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=277369.

    To list all applications you can start typing appli... and in the results list (down arrow) you'll have an Applications entry where you'll have the list of all apps.

    aptitude is simply another frontend to apt (the preferred one in debian).
  • Nikonoel
    Thanks for your job, sounds really good for a netbook. I gave it a try on my laptop, but the problem is that the time notificator was stuck on the foreground, hiding the bottom-left part of any application I would launch... Also, launching an application is not really easy: super+space trick, isn't it? Doesn't sound really useful if I want to launch a configuration program of which I don't know the name...
    Anyway It's a pretty clean job, chapeau bas ! ;-)

    Oh, and isn't it a problem that your script launches "aptitude install whatever", when I've always been using "apt-get install whatever" on my machine ?

    Thanks to you, again!
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