All it took was a couple of suggested improvements so that I felt more comfortable running perhapsRGB on tachan (my workstation) and Kate was into it again reworking her perhapsRGB theme for IceWM.

IceWM is a lightweight Window Manager for X. The IceWM official website states that:

The goal of IceWM is speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user’s way.

So we now have PerhapsRGB2 for IceWM. It fits in (in my opinion) much better with the recently released themes for other common desktop applications (GKrellM, XMMS, Audacious).

IceWM

You can find much more information on IceWM at the official IceWM Website. There are plenty of other IceWM themes available at Freshmeat.

Download

• You can download perhapsRGB2-icewm.zip here.

Installation

The .zip (or .tar.gz) file you downloaded should be extracted into your ~/.icewm/themes directory (or into the system-wide shared themes if you are the system admin and want it available for all users). Refer to IceWM documentation for more information on IceWM themes.

A first from our prolific themer of all things she can theme, this time Kate has attacked XMMS (Winamp Classic or Audacious or any other media player that uses the Winamp original skin format).

Here is a new theme to match your IceWM and gkrellm PerhapsRGB themes.

• Download perhapsRGB-xmms.

GKrellM is one of the best system monitoring tools i’ve every come across. I have depended upon it for network monitoring at several small Internet Service Providers and use it to monitor multiple machines across my home network all on my desktop live in realtime.

perhapsRGB has taken the workstations Kate and I use by storm and is appearing everywhere, certainly GKrellM was not to be spared, especially due to the extent Kate depends on it for keeping binky cool (more on that later).

So here it is… perhapsRGB for GKrellM.

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Kate’s been at it again, and this time she’s come up with Perhaps RGB, a version of the perhaps IceWM theme with a cool Greed, Red and Blue lighting effect.

From Kate’s description of the theme:

With POV-Ray’s help I shed a little light on Perhaps…
a little red, green and blue light… one of each…
The result, a Perhaps for those with more colourful desires.

Also available is a matching theme for gkrellm.

• Download perhapsRGB-0.1.tgz

Last Christmas the hard disk in binky (Kate’s laptop) died a sudden, horrible and inexplicable death. Unfortunatly we were unable to get a reasonable replacement at the time, and so, Kate worked from an Ubuntu live boot CD. In an insane rage necessary to get away from Gnome and to find something far less brown a new theme was born, with the assistance of a USB memory stick… The theme based around our favourite colours (Purple for me and Green for Kate) stayed in our hearts and on binky’s desktop long after Ubuntu and our sanity was replaced courtesy of Gentoo.

A so here is the first (public) release of the theme we dubbed Ubuntastic (it’ less brown!)

• Download
  ubuntastic-0.1.tar.gz

Here is the first IceWM theme I’ve published, however all credit for this one has to go to my fantastic partner Kate McKie. She built this one from the ground up, pixel by pixel using The Gimp.

You can install this theme by extracting the tarball into your ~/.icewm/themes directory.

• Download Perhaps 0.1