Who has original IBM THINKPAD themes ?

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rleo25 · #1 Post by **rleo25** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:21 pm

Recently I saw on a friend's Thinkpad desktop an IBM wallpaper with a nice blue pattern design that displayed system information such as energy and battery status, mail, disk space and a two months calendar with the actual date on it!

It was so nice that I felt envy and the urgent need to get it ... (greed!), so does anybody have the files to install the whole theme package, or the adress to download? And please tell me if some config is needed to fully display the sys info?

Thanks as always for your cooperation....

Toine · #2 Post by **Toine** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:30 pm

Okay, that sounds totaly cool! I want it too!

#3 Post by **Kyocera** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:58 pm

There is a post in one of the forums to the site for those themes, i use them on both my laptops, the active thinkpad is the one you want.

Do a search and you should be able to find it.

Toine · #4 Post by **Toine** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:20 pm

nope, couldn't find it.
I did find the one with the world map and times. (By the way, that doesn't work on my desktop computer

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rleo25 · #5 Post by **rleo25** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:39 pm

Neither did I, there are some old IBM links (y 2004) that are being rerrouted to Lenovo's servers that don't have the pages in question, "Our apologies... the page you requested cannot be displayed" is the only answer... so the search for the ACTIVE THINKPAD continues... maybe somebody could post the carpets and files to our mail adress?

#6 Post by **GomJabbar** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:37 pm

You guys need to brush up on your searching skills.

I found the thread in my first attempt.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=17246

Website · #7 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:50 pm

Gomjabber: The link within your link for the Active Themes appears to be dead. I was looking for this recently too, and actually bookmarked the Russian site, in case it came back up.

#8 Post by **GomJabbar** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:56 pm

Yeah, I couldn't access the Russian site either, but the IBM ftp site seems to work.

rleo25 · #9 Post by **rleo25** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:11 pm

Well I don't speak russian but will give it a try so please Jomgobbar could you post the link? dasvidania!!

rleo25 · #10 Post by **rleo25** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:12 pm

Ups! I mispelled your nick GomJabbar, sorry...

#11 Post by **Kyocera** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:19 pm

I just emailed it to toine a while ago, I still have the .exe for the activethink

Website · #12 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:19 pm

The russian site is listed in the thread that GomJabber posted.

Toine · #13 Post by **Toine** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 6:21 am

Kyocera wrote:I just emailed it to toine a while ago, I still have the .exe for the activethink

Got it..... Sweet, thanks a bunch! (if anywone needs it, I can email it to you, or you can download it from the russian site, because it's up again).

rleo25 · #14 Post by **rleo25** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:52 am

Toine, I would thank if you send me the file. Look for my adress in profile. Glad you liked the Active Theme, I am still awaiting...

rleo25 · #15 Post by **rleo25** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:17 am

Hey! The russian site is really cool... got the application, I wonder why the official Lenovo sites don't have such files!!! no matter as long as this community keep active... thanks guys, (and Billy of course)

Toine · #16 Post by **Toine** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:18 am

Dude, the email bounced, the file is like 6.6 mb large. now I zipped it, hope that will work.

But the russian site is up agian, you can download it from there too!

#17 Post by **Kyocera** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:55 am

rleo25, i just emailed it to you hope it makes it.

rleo25 · #18 Post by **rleo25** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:20 am

Done.... thanks guys, don't know what a pleasure is having the thing installed, no matter some indicators seem not to function as well... you can install the desktop Think active wich has less data on it but a nice updated calendar, or the active wallpaper with the actual timezone's hour... take a look to other brand computers, we are ahead of them in design quality aren't we?

davidspalding · #19 Post by **davidspalding** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:50 pm

Both links work for me:

http://www.mocom.ru/Wallpapers/ibm.htm
ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccwww/ww/thinkpad/wallpaper/

Check your browser or proxy settings, maybe....?

I've found that I could take some of the text off one of my favorites - looks nicer - and it often gets "oohs and ahs" when I switch to presentation mode on a projector. The level of detail in it is perfectly suited to fine-focusing a projector.

http://www.mocom.ru/Wallpapers/Pictures ... _1050.html

Actually, now that I look at it again, it's good both for focusing and setting color corrections.

rleo25 · #20 Post by **rleo25** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:18 pm

The keyboard looks cool! and what a definition level! yeah it is a good idea to use it as a pattern to focus the projector. I wonder the guy that took the picture should have a camera with a very high quality macro lens...

Couldn't fix the settings to make the data appear on the display, however I am happy with the calendar and disk storage info, some times swapping with the world clock map... my lappy looks all black with a dark grey shade and the colorful icons it looks nice, really nice, I've calibrated my screen to get the highest contrast and clearest white I could, fixing the only handicap I found in this T42 machine... it looks now better than a T43, coolest and quieter...

Website · #21 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:12 am

davidspalding wrote:Both links work for me:

They are working for me now, too. I guess the site was just down.

#22 Post by **GomJabbar** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:20 am

tfflivemb2 wrote:They are working for me now, too. I guess the site was just down.

Yep, down. Works now.

davidspalding · #23 Post by **davidspalding** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:08 pm

rleo25 wrote:Recently I saw on a friend's Thinkpad desktop an IBM wallpaper with a nice blue pattern design that displayed system information such as energy and battery status, mail, disk space and a two months calendar with the actual date on it!

BTW, you're looking for the Active Think themes. There was one for Thinkpad with wifi/Ethernet indicators, and a battery indicator ... and a ThinkCentre one with a calendar. My T43 came with the latter, oddly enough. And I've never gotten the e-mail indicator to work.

dorin · #24 Post by **dorin** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:03 am

hi guys, i have a problem, i tried several times to use the thinkpad theme, got the one from russian site as well, but no matter what it seems like i cannot get the email indicator to function!

i use ms outlook, outlook express is unnistalled, searched everywhere and oulook is main mail program, but i cannot make the active desktop to show new mail indicator. in rest everything is fine, wifi coverage, hdd, lan etc.

any suggestions more than welcomed!

thanks

dorin

davidspalding · #25 Post by **davidspalding** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:07 pm

Try Lotus Notes.
=> See my post above.

#26 Post by **Kyocera** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:12 pm

dorin, you are not alone

, there have been many post's about the mail indicator not working, mine never did. I did find something a while back on the microsoft web site tech notes about it also, can't remember exactly what it said.

Website · #27 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:25 pm

My email indicator only works when I have my yahoo messenger open and then it only acknowledges my yahoo email. None of my IP email or hotmail....only yahoo and that is pretty much after the screen saver kicks in.

christopher_wolf · #28 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:53 pm

I think it looks for what you have set as your default email client, then tries to bring that up; a simple concept that I think they implemented when they made it. In my case, it would always bring up Thunderbird no matter what I did. So Thunderbird would always pop up every now and then and I had to either minimize it or try and quit (at which point it got told to start again).

davidspalding · #29 Post by **davidspalding** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:35 pm

Doesn't work with Outlook. And I think someone claims it doesn't work with Outlook Express (OE).

Now, I haven't tried with Netscape, Thunderbird, Eudora, Pegasus, etc., etc. I wonder, Chris, is T-bird listed as your default mail client in the Internet Explorer options Program tab?

christopher_wolf · #30 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:18 pm

davidspalding wrote:Doesn't work with Outlook. And I think someone claims it doesn't work with Outlook Express (OE).

Now, I haven't tried with Netscape, Thunderbird, Eudora, Pegasus, etc., etc. I wonder, Chris, is T-bird listed as your default mail client in the Internet Explorer options Program tab?

Yup, it is the default mail client as far as both Firefox and IE are concerned; it is system-wide.

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