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you will need these
Perspective Sans (, installation guide at ) conky (, ) python, with urllib and feedparser (, and ) weather (, ) gnome-do (, ) Dust theme (, includes install guide) wallpaper, conky rc's and gmail script (, wallpaper artist is , who is )
basically do this
Install the font and all packages named above, also the Dust theme (non-Ubuntufolk, I do apologize, but you're on your own). Download themagetar.gz, extract to your home directory (e.g. /home/username/, or ~/). Presumably you can handle setting the wallpaper.
Conky will run the system info panel out of the box (after changing your gmail acct/password info in .conkyrc, and assuming you have python and weather set up correctly) - just run `conky` from a terminal. Run `conky -c ~/.conkyrc2` to get the clock going. To make this run automatically when you log in, open up the Sessions app (System -> Preferences -> Sessions, `gnome-session-properties`, or use gnome-do! ctrl+space) and add `conky & conky -c ~/.conkyrc2` as a startup item.
You'll note that there is no gnome-panel visible here. There actually is one on the bottom edge of the screen, set to autohide. Should you attempt something similar, you can use gconf-editor to make the panel slide offscreen completely (e.g. not leaving a bit of it visible as a visual cue). From a terminal, run `gconf-editor` and navigate to /apps/panel/toplevels/(panel name, mine is top_panel_screen0). Ensure 'auto_hide' is checked, and change 'auto_hide_size' to 0. Close.
Let me know if you have any questions; this wasn't a terribly in-depth guide. More of a here-are-some-things-maybe-try-them post than a guide. I fully expect no more than two people to make use of any of this, but still. Ask away.
oh, hang on
If you have issues with conky flickering (despite double_buffer being turned on), try adding 'Load "dbe"' to the Module section of your xorg.conf. Might take care of it.
I have gnome-do running in Docky mode - instructions on setting that up .
And I think that's it... Oh, you may or may not want to use the Dust theme as-is here. I've modified my copy to be greyscale, which works well. As I haven't bothered to repackage it nicely, you can download it (dump in ~/.themes and set your theme to Greyscale Dust (available in the Appearances app).