Comments on: Spatial Desktop: One Script, Ultimate Minimalist Desktop

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:59:00 +0000

I’m the same, but I’m forced to use Cairo Dock or AWN on the older computers, since they don’t jitter around and suck up RAM like the new Docky does. I have no clue why- maybe it’s because of the new enhancements in AWN? Avant is becoming quite nice, and adopted most of the features I really liked in Docky, so it’ll be interesting to see where all these docks go. No matter where, it’s certain they’re going to make Mac OS X look like a total wuss (they already have, but still).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:41:00 +0000

Even though this script worked for me as far as running it I found I didn’t like it in the end without having my gnome menu to use with docky. So I tried the restore option and that failed and tried all the manual ways to restore everything with that to fail as well. I can press super button plus f2 to bring up run and can’t get the panels back unless I leave the terminal open. I think the project needs work before it is ready for the masses. If anyone knows of a menu I can use with docky I would try it again but for now it is a no go for me. I was using this script on a machine with Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1 AMD64 machine. Everything was great until I used this script.

By: tylerannosaurus

tylerannosaurus — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:39:00 +0000

I’m having the same problem….REALLY want my old desktop back. Also, the script didn’t remove the panel…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:51:00 +0000

I’m having a similar problem, When I try to restore it says
Restoring using
$
help

By: Lwordish

Lwordish — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:37:00 +0000

Alright, I fixed it. Right clicked an icon on my desktop and chosed “Open with other application”. Then I hit “Browse” and went to my homefolder. I draged the spatial-script to the desktop and then doubleclicked it. Picked “restore” and it worked. At least got restored to my “customized” options, and from there I could change averything back with System – Preferences – Appereance.

By: Lwordish

Lwordish — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:21:00 +0000

I run the script. First with Customized option and then with “Upgrade to Compiz Fusion”. All my menus have now disappered. All I see is my desktop icons, the clock & date and the volume in the right corner.

I want to re-run the script to restore to my previous setup, but I can’t figure out how to open the terminal (or Nautilus).

I tried the Spatial-remove tip from haji (http://code.google.com/p/spatial-desktop/wiki/Restoring). And it says to use (superkey) + t , to open terminal. I pretty much tried every key with t. No one opens terminal for me.

What is my superkey? Is it a 3-key combo?

By: Santiago

Santiago — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:04:00 +0000

Works also with jaunty?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:20:00 +0000

How do I adjust the clock in the left hand corner from 24 hour format to 12 hour format

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:09:00 +0000

nerdgasm

By: Mexican user

Mexican user — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:35:00 +0000

Oh well, I fixed it manually!
And not all was lost, now my wallpaper and Xsplash are synchronized!
I am just getting the ugly font color on the terminal but I can live with that :)

By: Mexican user

Mexican user — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:15:00 +0000

dood, I think I screwed up on something…
here is what I get from using the script:
a) No trayer
b) No conky
c) No Gnome-Do
d) No panel
e) Pressing Alt+F2 does NOTHING.

Now If i want to do anything I have to “right-click” the wallpaper, click on Open terminal, then start everything manually. but if I close the terminal everything will be gone.

I really wanted to like this, but so far it has screwed my desktop to something “Too Minimalist a.k.a. only wallpaper”
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:33:00 +0000

If i was running vanilla ubuntu I would try this out. I’ve got a good install (finally) of xubuntu 9.10 so I’m not gonna mess around with it right now. This looks and sounds awesome though :-)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:09:00 +0000

Ya, thanks conky. you can see i was still workin on it when i took this picture. i think that was about at the final stage though :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:41:00 +0000

OK,i can`t use this script,thats all!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:16:00 +0000

Hey i really like that desktop!
Particularly all the stats on the bottom. Is that conky? Or something else? It looks awesome!

By: Primordium

Primordium — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:03:00 +0000

Check before install if you can activate your Compiz effects in the “Change Background menu” if you dont you probably need to mess with xorg.conf and come with a solution!

By the way that “problem” is registed in official site … use the link in the post

By: d0od

d0od — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:26:00 +0000

Without meaning to be rude, the restore function has worked well for most people hence no-one else decrying that it “destroyed gnome”.

I don’t force you to try these things out, either, and i did warn that you should make a double backup just incase. The restore function worked flawlessly for me so it can’t be screwed up – don’t translate your experience as the standard of this application. Why not go report your issue on the google.code page for this? That way they can fix whatever caused the script to go wrong in YOUR case.

By: Haji

Haji — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:16:00 +0000

“Tried Spatial but want your previous setup back? No fear, simply run the script again and choose restore. The script will revert all of the settings and then prompt you to log out and back in. Once you have youâ€™ll see your previous desktop looking almost untouched.”
This script was worse than a virus, thank you for destroying gnome.
http://code.google.com/p/spatial-desktop/wiki/Restoring
Just as bad! Your script works, and then leaves the users with no other option than to fix the mess themselves. Don’t do that.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:14:00 +0000

I love this, but since installing it I get the following errors when trying to run programs from the terminal. Can anyone advise on this?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1010011/term.png

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:29:00 +0000

OK,my right screen applets from aren`t show.