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brent

wazjf Many days I appreciate simple and Papirus. I love a clean look like that (hard to achieve for me).

wazjf

Last time i showed my desktop. Now this is my laptop turn. On my laptop, i prefer things to be really simple. Default theme + papirus icon theme + solid dark blue color for background

brent

wazjf you inspired me to KISS (keep it simple) this week

penny-farthing

brent

Just a question: currently, I'm using Budgie and I have a portrait-format wallpaper (1920x1080 resolution) with a solid black background on either side: is it possible to change the color?

xose

mine:

Hardware Information:

Hardware Model: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 1
Memory: 16.0 GiB
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-10310U × 8
Graphics: Intel® UHD Graphics (CML GT2)
Disk Capacity: 256.1 GB

Software Information:

Firmware Version: N2YET43W (1.32 )
OS Name: Solus 4.8 Opportunity
OS Build: (null)
OS Type: 64-bit
GNOME Version: 49
Windowing System: Wayland
Kernel Version: Linux 6.18.20-332.current

brent

penny-farthing
I know you can probably do this with gimp or something in office suite...I never have...I found a solid color wallpaper site and took a handful of colors from them (free). Grey is my hard workday background.
Somebody here knows exactly how to switch color for a solid jpg--hope they chime in.

mkl

penny-farthing
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. In KDE, for backgrounds that don't fully cover the resolution, you can set the solid background of the resulting bars to any color you like.
This is only available in KDE, unfortunately nowhere else. As far as I know... not even in Windows 🤣

Sebastian

penny-farthing Just to be clear, the black background is not part of the wallpaper itself but the background color behind the wallpaper, that doesn`fit your screen resolution because it is in portrait format, right?

Well, there are settings in dconf editor to set that background color for GNOME, but for some reasons they don't take effect in Budgie.

I see 2 options:
a) try one of those options to stretch the wallpaper
b) use gimp or some other image editing programm to create a background image according to your screen resolution in the color you want it to be and place/insert your wallpaper on top centered, save the new image and use this image as wallpaper

penny-farthing

Sebastian

Thank you for your feedback and your suggestions.
It's unfortunate that we can't change the black background behind the wallpaper in portrait mode; it would allow them to match.

But it's not essential either, as the developers have other priorities to manage.

PS. Thanks also to @brent and @mkl for their replies.

SethStorm666

Gnome with eyeQ icon theme. (will be available next week for Gnome).

pomon

You can handle this with a single command:
magick /path/to/wallpaper -gravity center -background '#FF0000' -extent 1920x1080 new_wallpaper.png
You can use:

hex '#FF0000'
rgb 'rgb(255,0,0)'
or color names like blue, red, etc.

Choose your color. Choose the output format: jpg or png."

penny-farthing

pomon

That's great, thank you! 👍

brent

penny-farthing
this year: LAZY AND BUSY and prefer to right-click and download
IDEALLY: get a solid color wallpaper as a template and create as many crazy colors the DIY pomon way ^^ above.

I can't speak for anyone but me but when I absolutely have to be digitally productive for hours (little goofing off) then I need a distraction-free solid color wallpaper it does the trick.

penny-farthing

brent

What you're saying makes perfect sense, and I respect your point of view.

Personally, I appreciate having a specific wallpaper, and Solus knows how to offer some original ones.
When I use my web browser or LibreOffice, I always work in full screen. When I'm finished, I close the application and my favorite wallpaper returns.
The tip suggested by @pomon allowed me to add a variation to the solid-color wallpaper, on which a portrait-format image was placed in the center.

It was an interesting exchange, as usual on the Solus forum.

SethStorm666

mkl

Switched from Gnome to KDE

With my really boring desktop style ... 🤣

joluveba

mkl Switched from Gnome to KDE

Sorry for the offtopic, how would you compare both versions? I'm not a fan of Gnome, but I'm positive that Solus Gnome is great.

mkl With my really boring desktop style

You're not the only one. I change a few things, and that's it.

brent

mkl Switched from Gnome to KDE

🤯

mkl

joluveba Sorry for the offtopic, how would you compare both versions? I'm not a fan of Gnome, but I'm positive that Solus Gnome is great.

Both are very good, and I would say that they are the market-dominating desktop environments for good reason.

GNOME prioritizes simplicity and minimal configurability. Everything works. But a lot of things simply can't be customized or modified.

With KDE, on the other hand, it's the many small details that make all the difference. There aren't a lot of features anywhere, but those little extras often make the difference.

You notice the difference if you don't have a standard system.

Again, GNOME is very good, but it stops short of the 400-meter mark at 350 meters. KDE, on the other hand, runs all the way to the finish line.

The small but significant differences throughout the system.

In short, TL;DR: KDE is a nose ahead...

paracetamol

mkl GNOME prioritizes simplicity and minimal configurability. Everything works. But a lot of things simply can't be customized or modified.

mkl Again, GNOME is very good, but it stops short of the 400-meter mark at 350 meters. KDE, on the other hand, runs all the way to the finish line.

This may be of interest to you - Mirko Brombin of Bottles and Vanilla OS fame is currently making his own desktop environment that appears to be heavily GNOME inspired, but is not as constrained in scope and functionality. I've been eyeing it as a potential more pragmatic alternative.

The project has a provisional website: https://sinty.dev/ although his twitter feed (linked from the site) is more up to date.

Citfta

I really like Solus. It gives you the opportunity to use a DE that works for you. For the past year or so I used KDE. I like that it gives you so many ways to adjust things to your liking. However a couple of months ago I tried Gnome. I didn't like the goofy menu system but the DE just looked nice. I found that I could install Dash to Panel and get a real menu system that works great. And it lets me pin my favorites to the panel or task bar. I also added the APPS extension and that made it really nice. I can click on APPS and get a menu like Win 7 that lets me just hoover over the category and it opens all the programs in that category without me having to click on the category to see what is in it. I couldn't do that with KDE. Or I can click on the 9 little dots and my whole page is filled with all the apps I have. Very nice for a quick jump to an app. So for now I think I will stick with Gnome.

wingman-4

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