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Open up a new project in GIMP. With black as your foreground color, use the Bucket Fill tool to paint the entire layer black.
Add a new layer, change your foreground color to green and paint the entire layer with the Bucket Fill tool. You should now have two layers, the bottom one black and the top one green.
Your foreground color should still be green and make your background color a lighter shade of green (not too light). Select the Blend Tool and draw from top to bottom. This should make your gradient go from a darker green at the top to a lighter green at the bottom.
With the top green layer selected, go Filters -> Distorts -> Erase Every Other Row. I used the defaults but you can play around with it to suit your taste. Now change the green layer mode to Overlay and you're done.
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zalew: I can see your machine running circles. How can you tell, which circle is which? Oh, it's not a lua conky beside text one?
elder: Soothing, zen-like background, as usual. 
47: Most original shot this month. Well thought, cohesive.
riekkuja: Nice introduction. Tervetuloa, istu ja ota kahvia. Ethän rieku koneella koko yötä? 
sunnyfizz, ivanovnegro: I've seen dreams (or nightmares) about being able to write equations and draw diagrams with a light pen on thin air. Then I was able to flip them around and zoom them with my fingers and upload them to the net. We've seen that kind of technique predicted in Microsoft commercials ten years ago. How long do we have to wait? Transparent windows are feeble substitutes.
Sleepy Floyd: I don't know why, but your screenshot made me smile. (A happy and satisfied smile, I mean.)
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Sweet!!
What does it animate to?
Time? System Load? Pixies?
Koleoptero really did an astonishing job with Blade Runner's OST. Btw, isn't that Tears IN Rain? ... or is yours some unreleased limited track?
Point & Squirt
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@fortyseven
Thanks!
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Fluxbox
Fluxbox wallpaper by Miguel Sanchez666 here: http://miguelsanchez666.deviantart.com/#/d4uhynm
Proceed with confidence!
http://eldervlacoste.deviantart.com/
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s'cusme kind sir. what font is that?
Fixed Semicondensed. Or, in xcorefont parlance, -*-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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Got myself a new 1080p LED monitor as my old monitor died.
The picture quality of this screen is like no other, its better than my plasma tv.
And watching avatar on this almost made me weep!
Gone back to my minimalist ways, added more RAM, and a new faster drive - this machine aint doin bad for 7 years old.
Clean
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@GiantMecha: Considering what you must've paid for that AlienWare machine, I'd hope it'd be good for *at least* that long!
while ( ! ( succeed = try() ) );
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@pvsage
heres the specs:
gladiator@gladiator-pc:~$ inxi
CPU[-Dual core Intel Core2 Duo E4500 (-MCP-) clocked at Min:1200.000Mhz Max:2200.000Mhz-] Kernel[-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 x86_64-] Up[-12 min-] Mem[-1150.5/5984.6MB-] HDD[-3822.7GB(81.2% used)-] Procs[-163-] Client[-Shell-] inxi[-1.4.21-]
gladiator@gladiator-pc:~$
Its old now, but still damn fast, its never let me down once, unlike my macbook
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@xenull: You are definitely cyber punk.
Looks awesome, I leek the green on black folders.
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@xenull, that's the first scrot of you I really like, nice one
is it WMFS2? Are those statusbars dzen2/conky or something else? Tell me! 
If you can't sit by a cozy fire with your code in hand enjoying its simplicity and clarity, it needs more work. --Carlos Torres
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Thanks guys
@xenull, that's the first scrot of you I really like, nice one
is it WMFS2? Are those statusbars dzen2/conky or something else? Tell me!
Thanks Unia it is WMFS2 which is turning out to be my favourite WM. I originally used dzen2/conky for the stausbar but I now pipe conky directly to the bar. Here is what the conky looks like...
##############################################
# Settings
##############################################
background no
out_to_x no
out_to_console yes
update_interval 1
total_run_times 0
uppercase no
short_units yes
use_spacer none
if_up_strictness address
##############################################
# Output
##############################################
TEXT
${if_mpd_playing}^s[right;\#D3D3D3; ${mpd_artist} :](1;spawn;urxvtc -e ncmpcpp)\ ^s[right;\#537814; ${mpd_title}]\ ^s[right;\#444444; *]\${endif}\
^s[right;\#141414; ]\
^s[right;\#D3D3D3;cpu:](1;spawn;urxvtc -e htop) ^s[right;\#444444; ${cpu}% ]\
${if_match ${cpu} < 80 }^g[right;40;8;${cpu};100;\#222222;\#537814;ckycpu] ${else}^g[right;40;8;${cpu};100;\#222222;\#CC0000;ckycpu] ${endif}\
^s[right;\#141414; ]\
^s[right;\#D3D3D3;ram:](1;spawn;urxvt -e htop) ^s[right;\#444444; $memperc% ] ^g[right;40;8;${memperc};100;\#222222;\#537814;ckymem]\
^s[right;\#141414; ]\
^s[right;\#D3D3D3;hdd:](1;spawn;urxvt -e ncdu) ^s[right;\#444444; ${fs_used_perc /}% ] ^p[right;40;8;1;${fs_used_perc /};100;\#222222;\#537814;ckyhdd]\
^s[right;\#141414; ]\
^s[right;\#D3D3D3;bat:] ^s[right;\#444444; ${battery_percent BAT0}% ]\
${if_match ${battery_percent BAT0} > 20 }^p[right;40;8;1;${battery_percent BAT0};100;\#222222;\#537814;ckybat] ${else}^p[right;40;8;1;${battery_percent BAT0};100;\#222222;\#CC0000;ckybat] ${endif}\
^s[right;\#141414; ]\
^s[right;\#D3D3D3;mail:](1;spawn;x-www-browser https://mail.google.com/mail/%23inbox) ^s[right;\#444444; ${execpi 60 python /home/xenull/bin/gmail.py}]\
^s[right;\#141414; ]\
^s[right;\#D3D3D3;rx:] ^s[right;\#444444; ${upspeedf wlan0}]\
^s[right;\#141414; ]\
^s[right;\#D3D3D3;tx:] ^s[right;\#444444; ${downspeedf wlan0}]\
^s[right;\#141414; ]\
^s[right;\#D3D3D3;${time %H:%M:%S }](1;spawn;dzen_cal.sh)\Offline
You should start a wmfs thread...
Please do start one xeNULL!!
WMFS2 looks like an interesting WM 
Peachy's v9000 / Conky PitStop / My DA Page / VSIDO
Make it so....
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If you can't sit by a cozy fire with your code in hand enjoying its simplicity and clarity, it needs more work. --Carlos Torres
Github || Deviantart
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@Unia - there's still something off in your font rendering. Maybe it's the Ubuntu font. Are you using the upstream version of freetype and libcairo or the patched ones?
It's the screenshot I think. Deviantart scaled it down, even though I told it to display my scrot at original size... here's the omploader version at full size:
If you can't sit by a cozy fire with your code in hand enjoying its simplicity and clarity, it needs more work. --Carlos Torres
Github || Deviantart
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The black on white is good, I'm not feeling the white on black. Look at the w character, it's all over the place. The e is also fuzzy. It must be the damned Ubuntu font. Maybe try Liberation Sans or Nimbus Sans.
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