u/Logansfury

I added Koentje's timed lyrics to workspace 26, utilizing greens from the cavalisk-conky visualizer and framing in the same angled and rounded style from my Kubuntu box panel.

final edits to get it emulating Cavalisk as much as possible. It now has 26 bars of equall width as Cavalisk. The real Cavalisk in flame-gradient colors is running above for comparison. They dont respond to the music identically.

Rectangles

My workspace 26 with newest additions: circular album art display, green gradient NowPlaying conky, and my newest conky from Claude AI, a cavalisk emulator for cirlce & bars mode. Its not a perfect match, I would have to tweak it a bit, but its a great start:

Fun with Grub EvoDevo!

Hey everyone :)

user ftonneau from the linuxmint Reddit has released his Grub EvoDevo. A small application that gives tremendous control over a new GRUB visual.

It has pixel-perfect image and font rendering, and looks absolutely beautiful. You boot PC to grub, bring up console, use the 'videoinfo' command to determine what resolution your GRUB uses. I have had PC's with full 2560x1440 resolution and VM's with just 1024x768 resolution. In any case, this gives the dimensions of the image you need for background. You can use fullscreen images or make a gradient or solid color background with a floating elements look. Most impressive is the "repair" feature in the EvoDevo install.sh. This allows you to completely customize up to 9 GRUB entry listings. I used the feature to give all 3 OS's on this box full descriptions with distro name, version, DE, and distro code-name. I am really happy with how it came out. Here are some of the GRUBs I have customized with EvoDevo so far:

Working on workspace 1. I added some new icons to my panel from other workspaces that I had never made versions of for my Transparency/Glass custom icon set.

Going from left to right and using my windows 10 pro machine with GIMP v2.10 and the GEGL Operation tool "Glass Object" (this only works on GIMP 2.10 and does not work on GIMP hosted on Linux) to create glassified icons to complete the panel.

I am so happy!!!

A while ago I heard of the Cinnamon extension called Centered Cinnamon Dock. It was supposed to elevate the bottom panel to float like a dock, and impart transparency.

I downloaded it to find it completely unfunctional. I went to the Gnome-look page and saw there were months old reports of it being broken that were never addressed. I guess life kept the author away from maintaining his Extension.

I used my ClaudeAI Desktop, described what I wanted, and within 30 minutes, I had a fully functional Extension called floating-panel@claudeai. It raises the bar above the bottom of screen to the desired pixel height. It can resize the icons. It can impart full transparency, AND be full screen width or fit-to-content.

Here it is running on a VM of Mint Cinnamon 22.3

Decided to spend some time on the workspace that started it all. Here is the first minimalis conky I found, that I began learning custom editing on. It has become a two column minimalis composed of many of my custom made widgets. Also notable is the static lyrics display, the Cavalier visuallizer in ring configuration with a red gradient to match the GUI, my red gradient edit of Bley's NowPlayingConky, and the Neon80's font, the first font I custom set to system fonts.

Here is workspace 3, my Tolkien GUI. The wallpaper slideshow is at a Morgoth wallpaper, and I have edited, resized and repositioned the Kurve half size visualizer for this screen.

Hey everyone,

I got in a creative mood on my day off and decided to bring some of the elements of my Kubuntu KDE/Plasma 6/Wayland box to my 21.3 Mint Cinnamon desktop. Here is my conky version of the Kurve panel visualizer, and a near copy of the Panel Colorizer I use to customize my Kubuntu panel. Unfortunately it's not split into segments like on Kubuntu, but it looks nice next to the Kurve conky.

Hey Willem,

I found your DeviantArt post from 2017. By any chance do you still have this black clock?

If so may I please have the files?

Hello everyone,

I'm excited about this one!

I decided to see if it was possible to emulate the Kubuntu panel visualizer plasmoid Kurve as a large Conky that could be positioned anywhere onscreen. The answer was a hard YES :D

This is about a perfect an emulation of the plasoid effect as I can imagine. Driven by cava, it reacts to system music/sounds.

Koentje's new Spectrum Equalizer v2.2, utilizing the reflection split, and running a second conky to scroll the artist and title info.

Hello Everyone,

Here is the Grey Conky System running on my Mint 21.3 Cinnamon/Win10 Pro ASUS ROG gaming laptop.

A few different widgets: Wireless instead of wired network, Nvidia gpu widget instead of Radeon, and Battery widget.

Hey everyone,

I have been playing with Koentje's brand newly released spectrum-eq version 2.1.

Koentje and I were on my Kubuntu box together testing the eq on Wayland DE. On Kubuntu I run the Kurve plasmoid panel equalizer, and I wanted to see if I could duplicate its look on Koentje's conky.

It came out PERFECT! The Kurve is a rainbow gradient from left to right of orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and red. I had ChatGPT create a gradient overlay .lua file and it worked perfectly to emulate Kurve on the first run.

Video example below :D