Post your desktop

Naikon

So, time for a post your desktop thread:)

Pics please...

Mine is very bare, but I prefer simplicity.

I will start - http://j.imagehost.org/view/0951/image

Naikon

Can't sleep, so here is a better shot of my questionably fugly desktop:pac:

***cough***

Pygmalion

Attached mine, pretty much standard KDE, the desktop that Chromium is on has nothing on it since I tend to run everything full-screen :P.
One on the left is a TV hooked up as second monitor (great for watching Films).

Mathiasb

Pygmalion wrote: »

Attached mine, pretty much standard KDE, the desktop that Chromium is on has nothing on it since I tend to run everything full-screen :P.
One on the left is a TV hooked up as second monitor (great for watching Films).

Your fonts are horrible! It's really hard to get good fonts no matter the distribution in my opinion.

Tillotson

My desktop



I writing a little c utility for uploading to imgur, the code's here if anyone wants it. Started working on it last night so it's still missing a ton of features.

Stuxnet

nice tidy gnome desktop

Sheeps

mine:

Naikon

Sheeps wrote: »

mine:

What IRC client are you using sheeps? Does not look like mirc to me. OpenTDD Good game, but the 32bit texture pack mod has missing textures. Pretty similar to the original.

Naikon

Tillotson wrote: »

My desktop



I writing a little c utility for uploading to imgur, the code's here if anyone wants it. Started working on it last night so it's still missing a ton of features.

Let me guess, you aren't a fan of Xorg? :P Nice code by the way. Nice and modular. You should GPL it when you are done.

Sheeps

Naikon wrote: »

What IRC client are you using sheeps? Does not look like mirc to me. OpenTDD Good game, but the 32bit texture pack mod has missing textures. Pretty similar to the original.

its pidgin

Pygmalion

Mathiasb wrote: »

Your fonts are horrible! It's really hard to get good fonts no matter the distribution in my opinion.

Hmmm? What fonts do you use?

I've never really had a problem with fonts for anything but terminal apps (and I like the default in Konsole).

Naikon

Pygmalion wrote: »

Hmmm? What fonts do you use?

I've never really had a problem with fonts for anything but terminal apps (and I like the default in Konsole).

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono ftw! It's my default font for xterm.

Pygmalion

Naikon wrote: »

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono ftw! It's my default font for xterm.

Indeed :P, though I've never managed to get anything equivalent to the "Smooth Fonts" setting in Konsole when I used it in xterm, anti-aliasing is an improvement but still can't compare.

Mathiasb

Busy:



Clean:



Yeah I know, I can't be arsed enough to find a decent wallpaper and gtk theme... :rolleyes:

Sheeps

whats that desktop environment mathiasb?

Mathiasb

Sheeps wrote: »

whats that desktop environment mathiasb?

It's standard gnome.

Eliot Rosewater

Naikon wrote: »

OpenTDD Good game.

Wrong. OpenTTD is a great game!

I'm still on the 8 bit graphics though. Is there any easy way to install the 32bit ones?

ethernet

Attached. Bog standard KDE with some desktop effects.

Naikon

ethernet wrote: »

Attached. Bog standard KDE with some desktop effects.

Very fancy indeed. The Cube/compiz always impresses people:pac: I am still using Arch, but I am now also dualbooting with 64 bit Debian squeeze(gnome).
I like both these distros. I have not tried OpenSuSE. For Shame. Here is my other desktop:

link

I am very tempted to give KDE another go mind you...

Naikon

Eliot Rosewater wrote: »

Wrong. OpenTTD is a great game!

I'm still on the 8 bit graphics though. Is there any easy way to install the 32bit ones?

I stand corrected:D

Don't bother with the 32 textures for now/want to help improve. There are still some missing textures which looks out of place on a typical map, and the
instructions for installation are NOT that clear. I just dumped the extracted tarballs in ~/.openttd, but it's not a simple 5 second job. The game does feel
a bit "laggier" with 32bpp textures.

tl;dr: Not now Eliot. Someday.

loldog

Here is my desktop. Gnome Zuki theme with those wonderful Faenza icons.

Click to embiggen:



I did a how-to some time ago on how to compile for the OpenTTD 32-bpp extra zoom graphics.

Link: http://faolchu.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/how-to-compile-openttd-in-ubuntu-to-get-the-nice-new-32bit-graphics/

Some of the links might be a little outdated now but it will probably still help to figure out how to do it.

Basically you get the source, apply the Extra Zoom patch and compile. Then get the graphics set and edit the game config file.

.

Eliot Rosewater

I've been inspired to try out some new things tonight. I've installed a dock for the first time (AWN). My attempt to install Zuki failed miserably, but I still downloaded the wallpaper!



Bigger version.

Naikon wrote: »

tl;dr: Not now Eliot. Someday.

loldog wrote: »

I did a how-to some time ago on how to compile for the OpenTTD 32-bpp extra zoom graphics.

Cheers for that! Next time I go through an OpenTTD phase (usually during exam and study time) I might give it a go.

Eliot Rosewater

I think it'd be cool if you could have the AWN permanently above the Gnome panel, so that you could move the top panel down to the bottom and free up 24 pixels of the desktop on top. This would work as none of my panel options (or loldog's panel options) are in the centre.

A partial solution would be to disable the "expand" option on the panel, and shift it to the left (and create a new one for the bottom right). However, you can't make non-expanded panels fully transparent, and it looks a little silly opaque.

BopNiblets

There's a way to make the gnome panel autohide and be only 1 pixel wide I'm sure, I think it's a setting in gconf-editor.

pickarooney

xubuntu jaunty with cairo-dock and modified mac4lin theme

cc

Standard enough gnome, just some minor tweaking.



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Stuxnet

heres mine in a little video, was testing out recorditnow a while back, a kde app, much better to render then the gnome apps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnInaSXQkNo

pljudge321

iPwnage wrote: »

heres mine in a little video, was testing out recorditnow a while back, a kde app, much better to render then the gnome apps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnInaSXQkNo

Wow, thats pretty damn blinged out, is that your usual setup?

OctavarIan

Inb4 'get a mac' :pac:

Pygmalion

OctavarIan wrote: »

Inb4 'get a mac' :pac:

Why would anyone tell you to get a mac?
So you could have a computer that serves the same purpose, has the same appearance and costs twice as much?

/troll

Naikon

Pygmalion wrote: »

Why would anyone tell you to get a mac?
So you could have a computer that serves the same purpose, has the same appearance and costs twice as much?

/troll

You forgot "It does not scale like Linux". Get me OSX/Darwin running on the worlds fastest supercomputer, to possibly the smallest embedded device on the planet - the picotux 100. On a less Unixy note, why does Windows not log failed logins by default Pissed me off rightly today so to speak. RDP can be a right pain in the bollocks to deal with. Oh, rsyslogd, how i miss thee under Windows $i.

/drunktalk

woop

present
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii220/Woop_012/Screenshot.png

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii220/Woop_012/Screenshot1.png

Id embed them but theyre a bit too big, mods feel free if you wish

bnt

eeePC 1000, new install of Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook edition. This is the new Mutter-based UI, which I'm still trying to figure out. I'm hoping the final version is snappier than this.

source

zekiel

Here's mine.

nellocono

iPwnage,

What distro is that you are using...I have never seen a computer to look so cool. I am very tempted to get this.

Keep in mind, i'm a complete newb to linux but this just looks amazing

Bluefrog

I need IE and Photoshop for work so:



Also running Docky though he's hiding there...

z0oT

Debian with Openbox.

source

My latest:

Stuxnet

nellocono wrote: »

iPwnage,

What distro is that you are using...I have never seen a computer to look so cool. I am very tempted to get this.

Keep in mind, i'm a complete newb to linux but this just looks amazing

sorry just saw your post now, yes impresses most linux n00bs, first step in getting peeps to make the jump from windows !!
ubuntu 10.10...well 10.04 in the video

just install [URL="apt:fusion-icon"]compiz[/URL] then [URL="apt:compiz-fusion-plugins-extra"]compiz extra plugins[/URL] and play around for the different effects, rotate the desktop cube by holding mouse wheel button
enable desktop effects via right click your desktop and visual effects tabs
and besure your graphics driver has been activated
enjoy

AntiRip

iPwnage wrote: »

sorry just saw your post now, yes impresses most linux n00bs, first step in getting peeps to make the jump from windows !!
ubuntu 10.10...well 10.04 in the video

just install [URL="apt:fusion-icon"]compiz[/URL] then [URL="apt:compiz-fusion-plugins-extra"]compiz extra plugins[/URL] and play around for the different effects, rotate the desktop cube by holding mouse wheel button
enable desktop effects via right click your desktop and visual effects tabs
and besure your graphics driver has been activated
enjoy

Hi iPwnage, after installing the effects above how do you activate them or get them to work?

evercloserunion

My desktop (Arch/Gnome), how boring is my conky, I haven't customised the appearance at all.

Stuxnet

AntiRip wrote: »

Hi iPwnage, after installing the effects above how do you activate them or get them to work?

ok for the first step make sure you have effects enables, right click empty desktop area and select, change desktop background, in the next screen select visual effects tab and select Extra !

next is set up animations : go to applications>system tools> compiz fusion icon

youll see it running top right of your panel, right click it and go to settings manager

select the Desktop Category on the left, the important ones here for my setup are desktop cube and rotate cube, so select those, and others if you want, wall will automatically be disabled due to conflict, thats fine

now the effect category: i have selected 3d windows, animations, animations addons, fading windows, window decor and wobbly windows

now to set event animations, go to animations: click the magic lamp
open animation>edit>random>duration 103
close animation>edit>airplane>duration 279
minimize animation> edit>burn>duration>103
shade>random>102
focus>dodge>403

thats it, should give you some sweet eye candy
to rotate the cube, hold the wheel of the mouse while in an empty space on the desktop
there are 100's of animations i havent shown, you can set your own shortcuts for them, check out youtube !!

:cool:

AntiRip

Thanks iPwnage

the_real_dave

My most recent LUbuntu 10.10 screenshot. You can see loads of screenshots of my various systems here on my blog.




Click for bigger in case that wasn't obvious...

Sherifu

LMDE with some nice eye candy from LM Julia.

grateface

Ubuntu 10.10
with elegant-gnome theme

musiknonstop

I never change wallpapers.

human 19

Good old KDE... attached

human 19

Enlightenment via Hybryde distro

DryCleanOnly