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Im Bragging!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| SmellsExcellent |
just a few days ago I finished my long-term project/disaster...
after many crashes and hardware failures I decided to update my computers to Win2K.. well, so much for that being easy. The first computer went OK, but after about 15 scandisks and many, many "failed" messages my bios decided it would take the NTFS filesystem and run Win2K. The other did not go so well and i ended up reformating back and forth from Fat32 to NTFS and back... well after maybe 2 weeks I got it working, a story i dont care to relive. Now, with Win2K on both computers, i networked, set up sharing, set up my software and whatnot, and im happy... now the final step is to make my computer (in my room) perfect. Windows shell is , for those of you with linux, i commend you. I used that until i realized that nothing was compatible, and then found litestep. Its a windows shell that acts and runs a lot like linux, except its on thw windows platform.
So, to promptly end my story, and to achieve my ultimate goal (BRAGGING) ill show you this:
its my totally customized "windows." The box on the top left displays the vital winamp info and everything for winamp is controlled via the WIN key plus the bottom row of letters.(z,x,c,v,b,n,m) Play, Pause, Foward, Back, Stop, On, and Vis..
the jump and playlist box is toggled by left/right clicking the display box. so you may say this dosnt matter at all, i dont care, but i wanted to share to the world my creation!!!
HHAHAHAHAHAHHAH
Cheers
-Marc
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| AnotherWay83 |
man im so happy u've discovered the true point of ur existence, wish i was that lucky....tell me, what is the meaning of life??
LOL j/k man :D |
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| tranceDJ |
| Haha, what a great idea! Pretty much alls I use my comp for is winamp and music so that would be great. Congratulations on your creation:D |
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| Fatboy |
I used to use Litestep and some other shell replacements. They look much, much better than windows, no doubt:). Hehe, you should see the look on my face the first time i did something wrong with the shell stuff in system.ini, and windows ordered me to reinstall. Thank Godd i had a friend there to help me, or else i had formatted away all my e..
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| victor |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fatboy
I used to use Litestep and some other shell replacements. They look much, much better than windows, no doubt:). Hehe, you should see the look on my face the first time i did something wrong with the shell stuff in system.ini, and windows ordered me to reinstall. Thank Godd i had a friend there to help me, or else i had formatted away all my e..
Peace |
ahh well i wasnt quite so lucky there... i had to reinstall my windows but fortunately all the muppy 3's were saved coz it was physical partition...
:whip:
advice for newbies: don't do this kinda stuff without that 'friend' who can help u...
:p
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| biznology |
| Litestep is really awesome looking. I would love to try it out, but I dont want to kill my computer just to change the look a little. id prolly feel better if I had a full version of windows to install...well i do, but i would still have to install 2k first, and that could possibly remove everything from my hard drive too! hehe late/ |
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| SmellsExcellent |
litestep is phat, anyone who has AIM or ICQ and wants some help wif it msg me... the stuff is in my profile... glad to spread the wealth that is LITESTEP!
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| victor |
hey i wanna know...
could ya email me??
thanx...
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| SmellsExcellent |
thought i put up my mail to victor so i dont have to type it over and over in the event that anyone else is interested, but still, if u want just PM me or email or whatever and ill help out.
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Well, all about litestep, Huh?
first of all, if you know some of ANY computer language (knowledge of the language is irrelevant, just the fact that you know that much about computers) you can learn to use litestep. Go to www.litestep.com and IMO LSBasic is the best package to download.
Litestep is open source, like Linux, so basically the people who produce this engine only produce the engine, not an installation package or anything anymore. There are tons of packages, but like I said, LSBasic is a good way to start.
You'll install it and eventually click "i want to make Litestep my default shell." Now your computer will start up and run the LSBasic theme. The current LSBasic "theme" looks and feels a lot like windows. There is a taskbar, a shortcut menu, all sorts of windows things, but instead of the programs group and a few other things, there is a popup menu. I dont like this setup so I changed it, but thats a whole different story.
Basically there are a few different things you NEED to learn your way around.
1) step.rc in the litestep folder.
In the LSBasic package step.rc refers to "theme.rc" to simplify the theme changing process. When you open it up in notepad you will see what im talking about.
2) theme.rc in the theme directory.
here is where many of the main customizations are defined. In my case, the wharf, winamp display, and all the DLLs needed to run the different modules I use are all configured in theme.rc
3) user.rc in the litstep\user folder
this defines your "menu" (the popup thing on my screenshot) and and other personal settings such as hotkeys.
These three files control EVERYTHING about your desktop. (note: all these files may be combined into one step.rc, but using the $include$ variable you can separate different groups of definitions for ease of use and customization.
OK, im sure you may be lost by now, but once you take a look at those files and mess around a bit youll find that its not that hard to make things look exactly as you like.
Finally, one last piece of advise.. to begin with, under the litestep\themes folder, make a copy of LSBasic and put it somewhere else so you always have an original in case you mess up and cant get back into windows. Also, make sure you know how to get into DOS (right from the startup, not through windows) so you can copy those files back over the messed up ones. once you know and have done these two things, start your theming by editing the LSBasic *.rc files and graphics. By doing this you really dont need much knowledge of the "language" and can jump right in. The directories are all stated, and with photoshop and notepad you can easily redo the given theme to look as you please.
Hope you can get into this, and good luck!
Cheers
-Marc
any more questions?
AIM: SmellsExcellent
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