I love it! This kind of idea is a large part that I tried getting into OS Dev a while back. Once upon a time, I set up a Windows computer to be as Half-Life themed as possible - his the WinXP taskbar, changed all the icons. I even made a few custom scripts on the desktop that say something as the Black Mesa announcer, then perform an action like shut down the computer.
The developer here. Thanks for doing this tutorial! That will help a lot of people, especially as the manual is also still lacking a few descriptions ^^. Additional hint: the status for the audio widget comes from a script that uses pulseaudio and its utils. This can also be replaced in the status-bar configuration in case you use a different audio system but needs to give the same output. Also, the strange coordinates for the status bar widgets is a tile based system of 40px by 40px tiles with 8px gaps. The bar is three tiles high and the width depends on the screen resolution. The width and height of some widgets can be changed, of others not, but as you said, they can be put wherever you'd like to have them in the bar. The free space to the left is filled with the random number fields. Finally, lcarsde is optimized for use with the Ubuntu font.
@Andreas Tennert Thank you for creating this! I have a few questions about installation on Archlinux. I'll email you. I'd also like to document my experience for anyone else who may want to run the DE on Arch. For the record, what OS did you use initially though?
@@yungacid1 Looking forward to your email. I used Arch initially and for a long time but currently I use an Ubuntu based system because that came with the new computer :D
Thank you for showing this off! I've been HOPING to find an LCARS something but I'm glad to see you found it first as it'll be in a much more digestible format than if I had seen their GitHub... I would have been confused 😅 hats off to them and you!
Hey Chris, I love Star Trek. That project is amazing. Too busy for me but it definitely is Star Trek like. Kudos to the developer. Thanks for showing it. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. YOU STILL ROCK!
I want this on a 32" touch capable screen and put it somewhere. Obviously I'd check for software which works well with touch input but it'd be so nerdy and cool. Love it.
Yes! I used this not too long ago actually, idk if it's just that it still worked on 7, or that somehow the xp version was working on it, but several years ago i tried it and it blew me away
I love it. I am more The Expanse and less Star Wars/Trek kinda guy, and spent a significant portion of my first months in Linux getting KDE to look like some of interfaces of computer systems in that show. It looked great to be honest, and as the show hurtled towards its conclusion, I thought I'd pay tribute in some small way. Of course, I didn't go to any of the extent this person did. Respect.
Looks fantastic and I love how Chris is showing how much fun he finds this. It's the perfect accompaniment for a PineTime watch theme I did along similar lines :) For the number lozenges I would have been tempted to use active PIDs rather than random numbers but I love the theme and sometimes fun needs to outweigh practicality :)
If someone can get this running on a tablet, well then hell yeah this is totally usable just for the novelty of having a Star Trek panel. It'd kill on Halloween
You can of course add a lot of shortcut keys into the config files. In one of them you can also setup what application should start automatically after login. Several of them if you wish. For beginners I'd recommend using it with another desktop environment to fall back to if things go wrong, although in Debian or Ubuntu you probably won't experience many like I did in Manjaro and Arch.
Hey Chris.. You may or may not already know this, but you can use apt to install manually downloaded deb's. Just run "sudo apt install packagename.deb" & it will sort everything out. No need to run dpkg, then apt whenever you can just run a single apt command....
I had a pretty incredible LCARS Windows thing like this, it was really involved, and attempted to do something similar to this. It is still one of the coolest things I've seen over the years. I just really appreciate the work that goes into something like that, plus LOVE TREK
Also, I think I would kill to have a desktop environment that looked just like the Pip-boy's operating system (or the terminals) in Fallout. I've made my phone look pretty great using widgets and themes that were related, but it would be much better to have an entire system like that.
I'm a long-time fan of Star Trek yet I don't recongnize this as a Star Trek OS. I don't think I paid attention so much as to what was on the screens as as to the cinematic device that they had futuristic hardware and software. I suspend belief in the real world and accept the fictional world I'm watching just as though I'm reading a novel, so imagery means less to me than the story. A crappy stop-motion with bad voice acting is just as entertaining to me as a Speilberg or Kubrik masterpiece. Once I step back out of the fantasy world I do like to pick holes and so far my favorite is that on Gilligans Island which was sceduled for a three hour tour, a three hour tour♪ they had enough changes of wardrobe for 3 seasons, yet on Star Trek, "our five year mission" had no change of clothes in the carry-on.
This is one of those total uber-nerd projects that just shouts, "I want it!" Even if I have to dedicate a separate machine to it, I really, really would like to get this up and running. Being an "old EE/CE guy" now disabled, retired, and what's laughingly called 'low-income,' I've still had two long-standing and unsatisfied wants: the largest monitor I could shoehorn in and a really "geeky" GUI to run on it. Since circumstances mean that an i7 Lenovo (T-430) is my "main" system, options are limited. With Canada's economy in freefall, it's hard to say when I might get a more modern machine, tower or laptop. Having my decade-old 28" monitor turn up its toes 3 weeks back made it essential to find a replacement. Although I wanted something bigger, 43" is all the width I have for the shoehorn. I did (happily) find a decent display and having gotten it playing well with the Lenovo the idea of something "better" for a GUI reappeared. And here you are, just in time to scratch that itch. I cannot, sadly, give financial support to all the websites I think worthwhile. But for this, I'll snitch money from even 'impossible' sections in the budget. I'll shuffle off soon enough, which means the time to play is now. Thanks for making the video highlighting this amazing piece of work, and for putting together the packages you've described (which I haven't even looked at, yet). Thanks, Chris!
Just want to say that you aren’t doing too bad with that T430. I got through a coding bootcamp on one and it still sits proudly as my home server. Such a fun project machine :)
Could you perhaps make a step-by-step tutorial on how to install this? I can't really make sense of the instructions on the website. When I do a dpkg -i, doesn't it already install the package as it unpacks? When I do an apt -f install afterwards, as shown on your site, it says nothing was installed and nothing was changed. Also I have no way of switching to the lcars environment, I'm stuck in the command line, as I did not install any graphical stuff, as mentioned on the site.
Maybe there is a way to do the LCARS theme inside your browser? the browser tabs stick out like a sore thumb also on your terminal the font doesn't go with LCARS Desktop all that much. Little tweaking would be nice. But I love it.
I have always wanted to scheme my desktop in lcars, and now we can, Question, are there going to be any future additions to this like al alt to what they had on Voyager, E, Lower decks? I love this!
Feel free to join the discord and suggest stuff. Currently as someone who is just starting to join the project due to this video alone theres more stuff planed. Im currently trying to figure out grub theming and then I'll work on lightdm program themes
I do wonder how long it will be before instead of keyboards we have LCD/LED displays. Apple sort have already had a play with this with their function bar.
I’m taking bets on how long it’s going to be before Paramount sends out a cease and desist letter along with a DMCA takedown notice for IP infringement.
I had a app a while back that made your phone look like trek technology, but was sued, and you couldn't use it anymore. How is this protected from the greedy lawyers, that work for star trek?
Hah, the contrast between the fictional sci-fi LCARS interface and any standard desktop application is so quickly noticeable. Still cool but the fundamental designs differ so much :)
It's great that you're highlighting this really cool project on your channel and giving props to the developer (& even showing his GitHub page), but how come you never say his name?
This is cool, no matter how terrible it is. I've tried this myself for funsies, way back when, before Linux was even a thing! lol Will be checking this out, thx!
All this needs is touch screen support, and voice recognition for commands/query, and have Majel Barret's voice respond. Who needs Siri and Alexa? ppffttt...
I love it! This kind of idea is a large part that I tried getting into OS Dev a while back.
Once upon a time, I set up a Windows computer to be as Half-Life themed as possible - his the WinXP taskbar, changed all the icons. I even made a few custom scripts on the desktop that say something as the Black Mesa announcer, then perform an action like shut down the computer.
Been a long time around already, remember using it on windows 7 i think. There's also something like an Ironman themed J.A.R.V.I.S. programme.
The developer here. Thanks for doing this tutorial! That will help a lot of people, especially as the manual is also still lacking a few descriptions ^^.
Additional hint: the status for the audio widget comes from a script that uses pulseaudio and its utils. This can also be replaced in the status-bar configuration in case you use a different audio system but needs to give the same output.
Also, the strange coordinates for the status bar widgets is a tile based system of 40px by 40px tiles with 8px gaps. The bar is three tiles high and the width depends on the screen resolution. The width and height of some widgets can be changed, of others not, but as you said, they can be put wherever you'd like to have them in the bar. The free space to the left is filled with the random number fields.
Finally, lcarsde is optimized for use with the Ubuntu font.
@Andreas Tennert Thank you for creating this! I have a few questions about installation on Archlinux. I'll email you. I'd also like to document my experience for anyone else who may want to run the DE on Arch.
For the record, what OS did you use initially though?
@@yungacid1 Looking forward to your email. I used Arch initially and for a long time but currently I use an Ubuntu based system because that came with the new computer :D
Will I be the first who reports an eye sight bug? I just physically can't focus my eyes on this color scheme. It is very distracting. 😭
You're a legend for making this
Now do one with a Cardassian interface.
Thank you for showing this off! I've been HOPING to find an LCARS something but I'm glad to see you found it first as it'll be in a much more digestible format than if I had seen their GitHub... I would have been confused 😅 hats off to them and you!
Hey Chris,
I love Star Trek. That project is amazing. Too busy for me but it definitely is Star Trek like. Kudos to the developer. Thanks for showing it. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. YOU STILL ROCK!
As a stat trek fan this is absolutely amazing.
Peace and long life Chris!
dude ur wrong, its live long and prosper
@@vexnity460 I was going to write that
@@vexnity460 live long and prosper is used as a reply to peace and long life. But sometimes in the series they r used interchangeably.
@@shodan7777 alright
@@vexnity460 < someone here doesn't know star trek very well
I want this on a 32" touch capable screen and put it somewhere.
Obviously I'd check for software which works well with touch input but it'd be so nerdy and cool.
Love it.
Wow, that just blew my mind! Major kudos to the developer for making this!
I remember an LCARS theme for Windows XP or 95.
This is awesome! You could install speech recognition to complete the experience. :)
Yes! I used this not too long ago actually, idk if it's just that it still worked on 7, or that somehow the xp version was working on it, but several years ago i tried it and it blew me away
may the force be with you, chris
That's Star Wars, this is Star Trek Tech :D.
yoda man yasaka!
Aaah, así no era
@@Juso3D r/whoosh
Heretic
I love it. I am more The Expanse and less Star Wars/Trek kinda guy, and spent a significant portion of my first months in Linux getting KDE to look like some of interfaces of computer systems in that show. It looked great to be honest, and as the show hurtled towards its conclusion, I thought I'd pay tribute in some small way. Of course, I didn't go to any of the extent this person did. Respect.
Indeed!! Congratulations to the developer for the great idea and thanks to you for spread it.
I ran this on Windows 8 Surface pro. You need touch screen to really get the trek feel. Still really cool! Thanks for sharing
Looks fantastic and I love how Chris is showing how much fun he finds this. It's the perfect accompaniment for a PineTime watch theme I did along similar lines :)
For the number lozenges I would have been tempted to use active PIDs rather than random numbers but I love the theme and sometimes fun needs to outweigh practicality :)
If someone can get this running on a tablet, well then hell yeah this is totally usable just for the novelty of having a Star Trek panel. It'd kill on Halloween
I can see this being used for Star Trek fan films or parodies.
You can of course add a lot of shortcut keys into the config files. In one of them you can also setup what application should start automatically after login. Several of them if you wish.
For beginners I'd recommend using it with another desktop environment to fall back to if things go wrong, although in Debian or Ubuntu you probably won't experience many like I did in Manjaro and Arch.
The greatest example of "Just because you can.."!
Fun!
I will not use it, but I like it !!
Thanks
I was searching for this, thank you!
Hey Chris.. You may or may not already know this, but you can use apt to install manually downloaded deb's. Just run "sudo apt install packagename.deb" & it will sort everything out. No need to run dpkg, then apt whenever you can just run a single apt command....
Is there a destruct command?
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /*
That would be cool. A script complete with audio countdown.
Awesome sauce, love it!
Thank you, Chris. LLAP.
this would be amazing on a tablet
The force of the kitty is strong in this one 😅
That's Star Wars, not Star Trek lol
@@tlouik gosh that's true🤭
Amazing I shared this on my Facebook page
Thanks!
Hell yeah merging two things I love
Excited about this . . . thx.
Kinda cool, thanks for the exhibit
Would be great a video of cool things to do in the terminal or emac
I had a pretty incredible LCARS Windows thing like this, it was really involved, and attempted to do something similar to this. It is still one of the coolest things I've seen over the years. I just really appreciate the work that goes into something like that, plus LOVE TREK
Also, I think I would kill to have a desktop environment that looked just like the Pip-boy's operating system (or the terminals) in Fallout. I've made my phone look pretty great using widgets and themes that were related, but it would be much better to have an entire system like that.
I'm a long-time fan of Star Trek yet I don't recongnize this as a Star Trek OS. I don't think I paid attention so much as to what was on the screens as as to the cinematic device that they had futuristic hardware and software. I suspend belief in the real world and accept the fictional world I'm watching just as though I'm reading a novel, so imagery means less to me than the story. A crappy stop-motion with bad voice acting is just as entertaining to me as a Speilberg or Kubrik masterpiece.
Once I step back out of the fantasy world I do like to pick holes and so far my favorite is that on Gilligans Island which was sceduled for a three hour tour, a three hour tour♪ they had enough changes of wardrobe for 3 seasons, yet on Star Trek, "our five year mission" had no change of clothes in the carry-on.
(Psst, don't mention replicators)
Thanks for giving us more knowledge on linux
How customisable is it ?
This is one of those total uber-nerd projects that just shouts, "I want it!" Even if I have to dedicate a separate machine to it, I really, really would like to get this up and running. Being an "old EE/CE guy" now disabled, retired, and what's laughingly called 'low-income,' I've still had two long-standing and unsatisfied wants: the largest monitor I could shoehorn in and a really "geeky" GUI to run on it. Since circumstances mean that an i7 Lenovo (T-430) is my "main" system, options are limited. With Canada's economy in freefall, it's hard to say when I might get a more modern machine, tower or laptop. Having my decade-old 28" monitor turn up its toes 3 weeks back made it essential to find a replacement. Although I wanted something bigger, 43" is all the width I have for the shoehorn. I did (happily) find a decent display and having gotten it playing well with the Lenovo the idea of something "better" for a GUI reappeared. And here you are, just in time to scratch that itch. I cannot, sadly, give financial support to all the websites I think worthwhile. But for this, I'll snitch money from even 'impossible' sections in the budget. I'll shuffle off soon enough, which means the time to play is now.
Thanks for making the video highlighting this amazing piece of work, and for putting together the packages you've described (which I haven't even looked at, yet). Thanks, Chris!
Just want to say that you aren’t doing too bad with that T430.
I got through a coding bootcamp on one and it still sits proudly as my home server.
Such a fun project machine :)
Hey I want to create os what is easiest way to start
Hands down, I want an os that has this environment!
6:44 don't do that tho, run as Sudo every chance you get. I don't remember Data having any problem with LCARS or the Binarrs 11001001
What do you think about doing a video about Launchers in Linux like Spotlight on Mac or Cortana on Windows?
I didn't find the creator home page link in your video description. Or is it there?
Could you perhaps make a step-by-step tutorial on how to install this? I can't really make sense of the instructions on the website. When I do a dpkg -i, doesn't it already install the package as it unpacks? When I do an apt -f install afterwards, as shown on your site, it says nothing was installed and nothing was changed. Also I have no way of switching to the lcars environment, I'm stuck in the command line, as I did not install any graphical stuff, as mentioned on the site.
Cool but needs at least some FF CSS and a theme for the file manager.
Not gonna lie, that looks pretty impressive.
Maybe there is a way to do the LCARS theme inside your browser? the browser tabs stick out like a sore thumb also on your terminal the font doesn't go with LCARS Desktop all that much. Little tweaking would be nice. But I love it.
I have always wanted to scheme my desktop in lcars, and now we can, Question, are there going to be any future additions to this like al alt to what they had on Voyager, E, Lower decks? I love this!
Feel free to join the discord and suggest stuff.
Currently as someone who is just starting to join the project due to this video alone theres more stuff planed. Im currently trying to figure out grub theming and then I'll work on lightdm program themes
I do wonder how long it will be before instead of keyboards we have LCD/LED displays. Apple sort have already had a play with this with their function bar.
I don't think we will, people love their clicky keyboards!
this is so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this got me so revved up.
very cool
clonezilla backups are awesome.
can i install it on a touch device and use full touch like in the star trek show?
Wow!!! Wow wow wow wow wow!!!
Could it run on Fedora?
very cool!! makes me wanna try out linux again 🙂 And perhaps pairing up with System47 lcars screensaver 😉
Actually it work on debian11 (on VMbox, on Windows)
Hilarious, I laughed at a theme on Pihole the other day thats exactly like this, so you can have your Pihole even match this hahaha!
Love it
We need the Hannah Montana one.
So when you gonna put this in a tricorder?
I always wanted an LCARS desktop. but now, just seems outdated. Looks cool though.
Opera gx 530 mb. Did not change any settings.
That moment I checked the browser and it was using 3gigs. (On Windows) I did have a few more tabs open but hahaha I felt attacked lol. Long Live Linux
Free and Open Source? Someone call Liquidator Brunt, FCA!
I’m taking bets on how long it’s going to be before Paramount sends out a cease and desist letter along with a DMCA takedown notice for IP infringement.
Does it run on Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy)? That would be cool, too.
It should do. Raspbian is heavily based on debian
I hope this project doesn't get dmca like the Android app.. looks cool..
Mickey mouse is strong 😐
Looks cool but yeah a little too much screen real-estate is wasted ... even in full screen mode.
This is a very cool thing, but some of it was a little unclear, can you make a more clear tutorial?
I think I had a nerd-gasm!! HA! that is neat!
OMG,.... IS THE STARDATE 0446.5!!!
I had a app a while back that made your phone look like trek technology, but was sued, and you couldn't use it anymore.
How is this protected from the greedy lawyers, that work for star trek?
why did it take so long for the fans to implement this?
Hope they add v2 with hacker movies like themeing.. that interface horrible 😆
beam me up
it is a great! love it.
I need iron man operation system.
And here we go, right after you told us not to use APT anymore but use NALA instead. and you're using APT here again lol 😂😂
I do love Star Trek, but I only understood about 10% of what you were saying.
For shutdown just enter: Code zero zero zero. Destruct. Zero.
Touch screen support? LOL!
......Linux ok nevermind nothing here.
Please don't sit in front of your terminal
OMG, this must be love or hate, and I absolutely hate the look of this.
"in Linux" hard pass
All that ram, no applications.
It's ugly
Indeed it is
LCARS looks like human females.
That's why DEs are customizable
not my favorite
Don't want to be a Trekkie nerd (but I am) - you are logged in as Kirk. LCARS was Next Generation. Just sayin......
Good catch haha. Picard would have been proper.
@@ChrisTitusTech back in the day I hacked my ipod touch to use the lcars theme. Happy days
May the developer live long and prosper, really good job!
with a touch screen that might be pretty cool
Voice controlled would be incredible.
I also like EDex-UI. Its a little slow (likely due to being an AppImage), but really cool (which means nerdy).
muh Chrome is 460MB right now ... 2GBs ...maybe if you got 20+ tabs open
I can say with complete confidence that Kirk has never used LCARS. ;-P
This is so cool.. love it..
Hah, the contrast between the fictional sci-fi LCARS interface and any standard desktop application is so quickly noticeable. Still cool but the fundamental designs differ so much :)
It's great that you're highlighting this really cool project on your channel and giving props to the developer (& even showing his GitHub page), but how come you never say his name?
This is cool, no matter how terrible it is. I've tried this myself for funsies, way back when, before Linux was even a thing! lol
Will be checking this out, thx!
careful showing this, might get a CBS takedown notice. they love takedowns of anything LCARS related, especially if the name LCARS is used
All this needs is touch screen support, and voice recognition for commands/query, and have Majel Barret's voice respond.
Who needs Siri and Alexa? ppffttt...
To boldly go where no man has gone before.
live long and prosper