http://www.osnews.com/story/16844/Show_Us_Your_Desktop_ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:08:59 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?197304 http://osnews.com/thread?197304 Solaris is the OS I use most after my Mac (which has a cluttered but boring desktop). Here is a screenshot of my Blade 100 with a highly customized CDE.
http://homepage.mac.com/zizban/pics/cde.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zizban) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197305 http://osnews.com/thread?197305 I think it's a great idea if you're on a *nix system to include a uname -a as well. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197308 http://osnews.com/thread?197308 I run Ubuntu Edgy on my main workstation at home. Here's a somewhat spartan screenshot showing the background and the Gnome system monitor:

http://www.hotpeppersoftware.com/pictures/hpepper_edgy.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DoctorPepper) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197309 http://osnews.com/thread?197309 i use Ubuntu Dapper Drake

http://swecams.telgebo.se/pictures/Skarmdump.pngEdited 2006-12-30 17:03 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mellin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197311 http://osnews.com/thread?197311 Here is my desktop right now:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/141/338575637_7421208683_o.jpg
I use a pretty standard KDE, running on Mandriva LE2005.
I am a hardware developer, and I find that wallpaper very nice (I use it about two years...).
I have a lot of incons on it because when I download a file or copy, and dont know where to put him, I place on desktop because its the only folder I look everytime, and its th eonly way to delete files I dont use anymore. Someday I will change my temp dir o Desktop
And of course, I like blue a lot!Edited 2006-12-30 17:05 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (xultz) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197312 http://osnews.com/thread?197312 I have a Sun Blade 100 running as a (poor mans)network storage at home. When I feel like logging in thru remote X11, I'm welcomed by a nice and uber lightweight E17 desktop that almost makes me forget I'm using an old low end sparcv9 workstation. I encorage you to grab everything off cvs and compile it for yourself. I can send a tarball of my e17 local compile and a list of CSW packages you would need have installed.

Happy new year y'all Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Javier O. Augusto) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197314 http://osnews.com/thread?197314 Thats cool but I don't like Enlightenment at all. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zizban) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197315 http://osnews.com/thread?197315 I use ReactOS 0.3.1 (pre-release) and as main operating system still WinXP SP2.

Basicly, both ReactOS and WinXP have a very similar GUI and change settings is a piece of cake. Usually I change the GUI settings once, after the initial OS setup. Later I change only rarely my desktop wallpaper(s).

The following screenshots show my ReactOS installation in September 2006. You can see more screenshots of my ReactOS 0.3.0 installation on the ReactOS website:
http://www.reactos.org/media/screenshots/2006/ros_030_084.jpg
http://www.reactos.org/media/screenshots/2006/ros_030_035.jpg
http://www.reactos.org/media/screenshots/2006/ros_030_004.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (frik85) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197316 http://osnews.com/thread?197316 Heh, not much to see for my desktop really, apart from my love for old British cop shows from the 70s.
(Running Dapper).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/Albert_Soviets/ScreenshotII.... Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SeanVernell) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197317 http://osnews.com/thread?197317 Definitely cluttered, since I have most of my working files on the desktop. I assume there are more of my kind than the average screenshot suggests, since showing a screenshot with all those files isn't very tempting. :-) If I make screenshots, I usually either hide the icons or use a clean user account, so it wouldn't be very representative.

This may give you an idea though. ;-)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/137/338581036_248a8a6147_o.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Daniel Borgmann) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197318 http://osnews.com/thread?197318 A custom WindowsXP desktop:

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/8823/desktopyp9.png

I am using:
an Olive Verde MSstyle
Rainlendar
and TweakUI to remove the recycle bin

The taskbar is in autohide mode, btw.

I am also trying to use the dexpot desktop pager to better organize my workflow. So far, I have had mixed results. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wintermute) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197319 http://osnews.com/thread?197319 MacPro Dual 3GHz beast.... top machine, top os

http://www.luckydonkey.com/desktop.jpg

The crack down the middle is because it drives two monitors :-)

for those who want to know what's in the dock (I'm always interested in people's icons). From left to right: Finder, AppleMail, iCal, QuickSilver, Dashboard, Address Book, Safari, Firefox 2.0, Colloquy, iTunes, Terminal, iPhoto, System Preferences, Adium, TextMate, CyberDuck, MPlayer, QuickTime, VLC, OmniOutliner, XCode.Edited 2006-12-30 17:12 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dazzawazza) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197320 http://osnews.com/thread?197320 Honestly, I find that stock KDE suits me perfectly.

http://zsitvaij.web.elte.hu/screens/shot60.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zsitvaij) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197321 http://osnews.com/thread?197321 Not much to look at but it gets the job done. http://borkedweb.com/screenshot.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fsckit) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197322 http://osnews.com/thread?197322 I think I'm going to be the first person to commit the sin of posting a Windows desktop.

http://jeremywc.googlepages.com/homedesk-xp.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jeremywc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197323 http://osnews.com/thread?197323 Nope, Wintermute beat you to it. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fsckit) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197324 http://osnews.com/thread?197324 Nah, you weren't the first and there is no sin in posting s Windows desktop here; they asked for your desktop not for "Any OS but Windows" desktop Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zizban) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197325 http://osnews.com/thread?197325 Here's my Vista laptop's desktop (my main machine, basically). The .png is huge, I am too lazy to resize.

http://denux.org/thom/Stuff/vista/shot.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197326 http://osnews.com/thread?197326 This is my KDE desktop on debian(etch) with a bit of SUSE flavor..
http://home.quicknet.nl/mw/prive/gch/KDE.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Chris) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197327 http://osnews.com/thread?197327 My linux desktop

windows manager: dwm
other apps: irssi, mutt, cmus

http://www.minimalblue.com/ftp/public/images/screenshots/dwm-200612... Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lavish) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197328 http://osnews.com/thread?197328 The screenshot I posted a few days ago on one of the articles: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45341000/
And after that I tweaked my black/white/gray theme Nightshade which I'm using now until I feel like using the KDE default again. I tend to change colour schemes once in a while, wallpapers more often, usually after I have drawn a new portrait, but then I use 6 virtual desktops with different wallpapers each.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45347040/
GTK uses the KDE colours now as well btw.
(and yes, I do like to look at asian idols :-P) Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JamesTRexx) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197329 http://osnews.com/thread?197329 I think you need a new monitor, everything looks kinda fuzzy.. o.O; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JamesTRexx) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197330 http://osnews.com/thread?197330 I use a moving background so I used my camera phone's video recorder. Quality sucks, and I'll replace the video when I get home, but you get the picture.
http://hcfolds.com/osnews/VIDEO_00006.mp4

I like the transparent terminals. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Calvin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197331 http://osnews.com/thread?197331 My iMac G5:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/132/336357363_9a5ef73d5d_b.jpg

My HP Compaq nx9010 (work laptop):
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/155/338601763_2cb13cc70c_o.png

My Celeron D 335 PC:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/163/338601764_50b5341a8c_o.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (QuadSix50) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197332 http://osnews.com/thread?197332 WM: Ion3, most programs are kde, style is polyester

http://www.flickr.com/photos/76716183%40N00/338605067/ Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (oggy) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197333 http://osnews.com/thread?197333 Please gimme your wallpaper! Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (McEnroe) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197335 http://osnews.com/thread?197335 Thats amazingly minimalist! Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zizban) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197336 http://osnews.com/thread?197336 http://www.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?264da7d843.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mikesum32) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197337 http://osnews.com/thread?197337 Fedora Core 6 (actually current rawhide, will be FC7)
Gnome 2.6.17

Default fedora theme with Tango icons

http://bart.ulyssis.org/Screenshot.png (really big png ~1.3Mb)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/79397511@N00/338581245/ Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zoeloelip) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197338 http://osnews.com/thread?197338 This is a screenshot from my notebook since I'm far from home but the only difference from my desktop computer is smaller resolution and laptopish tools in the tray.

I'm a window dresser, I admit

multiple links, just in case:
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/2553/zrzutekranula2.png
http://xs310.xs.to/xs310/06526/zrzutekranu2.png
http://www.box.net/public/lq8r46x5u5 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (miscz) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197339 http://osnews.com/thread?197339 This time I've settled on darker colours. I run all apps maximized and there's no desktop background image.

https://pajukanta.fi/temp/screenshot.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Japsu) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197340 http://osnews.com/thread?197340 http://borkedweb.com/background1280.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fsckit) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197341 http://osnews.com/thread?197341 http://www.linuxcraft.co.uk/room.jpg

Yes i know its not the actual desktop and yes all three are one scree , cant wait to move to mac osx Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Snake007uk) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197342 http://osnews.com/thread?197342 Is no one actually inspired to customize their desktops?

Here is a screenshot from my OpenBSD desktop from a couple of years ago.

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=338614780&size=l

OpenBSD
FVWM 2.5

Every time you minimize a program it takes a screenshot and makes a small icon that you can click to recover the program. Probably with XGL these days you can get them to be live icons. Translucent menus (if you need them) because everything is key driven (ctrl+n for mozilla, etc)

Anyway, just figured to step this up a notch. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lcde) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197343 http://osnews.com/thread?197343 My current Vista screenshots:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d159/innerlogic/background-1.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d159/innerlogic/background3.jpg

I use pretty much every OS I can get my hands on however, I also use SkyOS and BeOS quite a bit :-) Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (innerlogic) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197344 http://osnews.com/thread?197344 SuSE 10.2/KDE here. I'm usually on Debian which looks quite similar, but using Gnome. Kernel is 2.6.18.2-34-default. Screen is CRT at 1152x864.

http://www.snowpetrel.net/stuff/snapshot3.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (moleskine) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197346 http://osnews.com/thread?197346 Nothing to fancy, simply running gnome.
I can't truly withstand cluttered desktops, so a minimum of icons on the desktop and no desktop applets etc
I'm mostly doing development on these desktops.

laptop:
http://linux.be/gfx.use/linux.screenshot.1727.1.png
workstation:
http://linux.be/gfx.use/linux.screenshot.1726.1.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (czubin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197347 http://osnews.com/thread?197347 Really really nice wallpaper collection. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (thjayo) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197348 http://osnews.com/thread?197348 I have no desktop.
Ratpoison is the awesome. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jessta) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197349 http://osnews.com/thread?197349 Am I inspired to customize my desktop? sometimes
Am I inspired to go back to fvwm's configuration? No, it makes baby jesus cry. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fsckit) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197350 http://osnews.com/thread?197350 Screenshot from my Macbook

http://a4.vox.com/6a00ccff9915e76ea500d09e49b9e4be2b-pi Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ali3n0ne) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197351 http://osnews.com/thread?197351 ArchLinux+E17

Used to be a *box user, but once you add the usual stuff (bar/conky/fm/etc) it just got too darn slow. Plus, E is pretty

http://ftp.takhis.net/arch/builds/teaser.png
http://ftp.takhis.net/arch/builds/dec_clean.jpg
http://ftp.takhis.net/arch/builds/dec_stuss.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TheOtherPJ) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197352 http://osnews.com/thread?197352 No, it makes baby jesus cry.
hehe, sometimes Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lcde) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197353 http://osnews.com/thread?197353 The desktop on my iMac:
http://web.mac.com/epyon9283/osndesk.jpg

I may post my Linux desktop later if I'm not feeling too lazy. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Epyon) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197354 http://osnews.com/thread?197354 http://www.fysiowoudrichem.nl/contest/HmmXP.jpg

OS: Windows XP
Theme: HmmXP
Icons: Tango
Musicplayer: Foobar2000 (stil working on the visual)
IM: MirandaIM (made the HmmXP theme myself)
Background: http://www.fysiowoudrichem.nl/contest/Untitled-1.png (tile) Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (joint_me) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197355 http://osnews.com/thread?197355 I think most people who use Windows, OS X, KDE, Gnome and XFCE don't customize as much as those using the lighter WM's.
Using Fluxbox on my media pc I think I'd sooner customize that one than the KDE I use on my laptop. I haven't looked into it, but I think it might be easier to do so as well. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JamesTRexx) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197356 http://osnews.com/thread?197356 http://dionysus.ath.cx/screenshot.png
http://dionysus.ath.cx/untitled.JPG

Hosted straight from my server at home! I know it doesn't make much sense to have a server with X up, but I don't do much with it beside personal stuff anyway.

Edit: Wrong image type. Also added Windows workstation desktop.Edited 2006-12-30 18:12 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rocinante) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197357 http://osnews.com/thread?197357 Mac OS, with BuuF icon set. I love the Firefox icon!
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/43304222/

Photo of the physical desktop too
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/41800029/Edited 2006-12-30 18:15 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197358 http://osnews.com/thread?197358 Fluxbox on Fedora Linux
Using a slightly modified "FluxAqua" theme
Showing GAIM window minus decorations (titlebar, close/minimize, etc.)
Showing two xterm windows tabbed together (hence the split titlebar)
Running conky resource monitor as my only "desktop" item. I dislike decktop icons.
Wallpaper is pretty typical for my machine (always a girl, but my wife doesn't mind)

In-use: http://markjensen.googlepages.com/OSNews_dirty.jpg
No apps open: http://markjensen.googlepages.com/OSNews_clean.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (markjensen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197359 http://osnews.com/thread?197359 Ladies and gentlement I introduce to you: WindowsMess.

http://img126.imageshack.us/my.php?image=windesktopiy8.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hiev) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197361 http://osnews.com/thread?197361 Mac OS 9.2.2

http://swecams.telgebo.se/pictures/mac_os_9.2.2.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mellin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197362 http://osnews.com/thread?197362 You could take on the world with that setup X3 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197363 http://osnews.com/thread?197363 Heh, you know I do really like to see a fancy desktop but only when they belong to other people! when it comes to my own I can never be arsed to bother. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SeanVernell) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197365 http://osnews.com/thread?197365 I love it when people customize their system to the point I can't even figure out how it functions anymore! That is an awesome config XD Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197367 http://osnews.com/thread?197367 win xp sp2 / zune theme / dawn of ubuntu wallpaper

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/7469/untitlednx5.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (slappy) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197368 http://osnews.com/thread?197368 This is my main desktop, running openSUSE 10.2, dual 1280x1024, beryl with xsnow effect, and a very nice wallpaper by Nuno Pinheiro (one of the authors of KDE's Oxygen).

I like to keep it simple and clean, but not too minimalistic.

http://pwp.netcabo.pt/knuckles/osnews.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Knuckles) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197369 http://osnews.com/thread?197369 Screenshot and Desktop

http://69.64.38.38/images/Screenshot.png
http://69.64.38.38/images/IMG_8778.JPG

Ubuntu (Edgy) with TwinView. Works nicely. Happy new year!Edited 2006-12-30 18:33 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gdi2k) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197370 http://osnews.com/thread?197370 Very nice wallpaper. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Knuckles) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197371 http://osnews.com/thread?197371 http://www.beossum.net/images/ss20061230.jpg

I should have a new BeOS machine set up shortly... well, an OLD machine... but I haven't had BeOS running since I moved last August. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tuishimi) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197372 http://osnews.com/thread?197372 I think every geek passes 'desktop madness' at least once in their life

I mostly modified kde to the extreem, tuning it here and there , day in day out, making improvements and then suddenly, the next day, start out a complete different theme. My poor friends had to endure these user-hostile desktops each time

But these days I gotten lazy and only want 4 things:
1) Quick acces to multimedia (musi, complete movies)
2) Quickly developing my small projects
3) No cluttering, I need to have overview (the bigger the screen the better
4) My daily dosis of internet news & comics Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (czubin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197373 http://osnews.com/thread?197373 # uname -sr
FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE

http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/freebsd-utorrent.png

I am using Ubuntulooks GTK+2 theme with colours tweak. The colours are same as Glider theme. The rest such as Metacity, icons and etc are default. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mezz) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197375 http://osnews.com/thread?197375 Just cleaned the desktop for your convenience. Usually it fills with unused crap.

http://www.students.tut.fi/~hahnel/desktop.png

And then the unbelievable. Win XP is actually faster on this crap than any recent Linux distro KDE, GNOME or XFCE. Arch Linux with KDE comes closest. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (_LH_) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197376 http://osnews.com/thread?197376 and here is my "cool" Tiger Desktop ;-)

http://sk8t.sk.funpic.de/macosx.png

=) Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SK8T) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197377 http://osnews.com/thread?197377 I run a lot of different OSs. Right now I'm running Slackware 11.0 and Debian.
Here's one of my Slackware 11.0 boxes, running KDE 3.5.4.
I highly recommend Slackware, it is my favourite OS.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/hitest/KDE3.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hitest) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197378 http://osnews.com/thread?197378 I'm guessing you don't get out much then. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197379 http://osnews.com/thread?197379 Mandrake Linux 10.0
Xfce 4.0.3 with BeOS icons and Microcurve window decorations.

http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ucbdo/desktop.gif

The panel and task bar only appear when I move the cursor on them. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Julikaefer) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197380 http://osnews.com/thread?197380 What makes you think that? Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rocinante) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197381 http://osnews.com/thread?197381 832MB RAM XD Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197382 http://osnews.com/thread?197382 Running SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 here, with dual 20" Samsung monitors, so 3200x1200, split down the middle.

No, not much imagination here. I stay close to the defaults as my clients typically do the same. There also is a lack of 3200x1200 backgrounds out there.

I think these URL's are live.

The desktop
http://invisik.googlepages.com/sled1.jpg

Typical apps open
http://invisik.googlepages.com/sled2.jpg

Happy New Year all...

-m Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (invisik) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197383 http://osnews.com/thread?197383 http://www.public.iastate.edu/~chris129/images/Screenshot50.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ma_d) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197384 http://osnews.com/thread?197384 Clearly OSNews users are anything but standard or typical Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197386 http://osnews.com/thread?197386 Hubba Hubba. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ma_d) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197387 http://osnews.com/thread?197387 it's an old PowerMac G4, with 1 x 512 MB, 2 x 128 MB and 1 x 64 MB SD-Ram ;-) Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SK8T) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197388 http://osnews.com/thread?197388 Some years ago. I Love the old UNIX style

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/24956858_47b47a5806_o.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pmarin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197389 http://osnews.com/thread?197389 Kubuntu edgy on an AMD64.

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/1706/ss1hq8.png
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/8855/ss2sz8.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbenitezb) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197390 http://osnews.com/thread?197390 Heh, you know I do really like to see a fancy desktop but only when they belong to other people! when it comes to my own I can never be arsed to bother.

I guess that is why i posted mine. I was really hoping to see some tricked out desktops.

Some of the wallpapers are fabulous but everything else is kind of blah. heh.

oh well. just a good waste of time on a saturday morning. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lcde) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197391 http://osnews.com/thread?197391 Desktop modding is an obsession with a large number of Linux users... It's not surprising that they're very well represented in this thread.

I used to do it as well:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~chris129/images/ Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ma_d) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197392 http://osnews.com/thread?197392 http://jackson.io/img/desktop.gif

I prefer the simplicity of IceWM, and you'll notice I'm very dependent on terminal windows.

Note that FreeCell is the real Windows game (the best thing Microsoft ever did) running in Wine. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (KenJackson) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197393 http://osnews.com/thread?197393 http://invitel.hu/on/z/ss20040625.png

NT 5.1
Windows Classic theme (modified with 3DCC)
icons modified with Resource Hacker

it was a lot of work. or waste of time? Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mono) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197394 http://osnews.com/thread?197394 Debian Sid with KDE.
Not much customization - I like the defaults.

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/698/snapshot25gx5.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tsukasa) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197395 http://osnews.com/thread?197395 From my main desktop computer.

I like a clean desktop area, it makes the life easier to know that everthing is in it's right place and not in an "I put it here in the meantime"-location.

Another thing I disklike is the Finder, for more than one reason.

http://caipirinha.se/ElectricDevil_desktop.jpeg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ElectricDevil) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197396 http://osnews.com/thread?197396 Fedora Core 5 - 3200x1200@75Hz - Custom made background (available upon request :-)

http://coolstool.homelinux.com/Screenshot.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tron) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197398 http://osnews.com/thread?197398 Looks very snappy. Must be a real bike every time a modified resource gets reset by Windows Update. I once had a very customised shell space but it was a lot of work to maintain! Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197399 http://osnews.com/thread?197399 A few of my screenshots, I've got a few more but I'll have to put them on my webserver

http://monkeymagic.servehttp.com/screenshots/

pac Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pacmania1982) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197400 http://osnews.com/thread?197400 http://www.vryhofresearch.com/desktop.png

The extent of my mods are KBFX and Beryl. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous Coward) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197401 http://osnews.com/thread?197401 What do you use to generate the star wars message(s)? Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ThawkTH) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197402 http://osnews.com/thread?197402 Hey Windows Desktop is still pretty modable. Mine isn't that 'alien' because I am into minimalist design.

I suggest you use TweakUI from MS to remove that recycle bin! Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wintermute) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197403 http://osnews.com/thread?197403 XP Pro (sorry guys and gals) with Opera 9 showing the OSNews page and VMware running Fedora and Ubuntu (with the Fedora screen showing.

http://www.wavmedia.net/images/ScreenShot004.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Pythor) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197404 http://osnews.com/thread?197404 Microsoft's icons have _majorly_ improved in Vista, I'm impressed... Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ma_d) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197405 http://osnews.com/thread?197405 Ok.

I LOVE your desktop. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ThawkTH) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197406 http://osnews.com/thread?197406 yes, this is not wimp(1)

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMP_(computing) Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lavish) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197407 http://osnews.com/thread?197407 look closely at what? windows xp or the midget porn? Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fsckit) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197408 http://osnews.com/thread?197408 How do you get your panels to span both screens? On mine (see a few comments up), I can only get them to span the main screen.

Got a pic of the actual screens, sounds like an awesome setup! Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gdi2k) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197409 http://osnews.com/thread?197409 Thanks, I wanted to see a recent shot of e17 . I haven't used it for about a year now...

It's looking really good, is it reliable again (I used it about a year ago and it was solid, then 5 months later it wouldn't run for 5 minutes without crashing)? Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ma_d) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197410 http://osnews.com/thread?197410 Below "midget porn" is a folder called "haha I got you."

Edit: Freudian slip.Edited 2006-12-30 18:54 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ma_d) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197412 http://osnews.com/thread?197412 It's 'fortune' with a Star Wars packet which is run from a script in /etc/profile.d.

You can find the Star Wars packet here:
http://www.splitbrain.org/projects/fortunes/starwars Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Julikaefer) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197413 http://osnews.com/thread?197413 I'm right behind you.. tempered a bit with Fedora on VMware. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Pythor) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197415 http://osnews.com/thread?197415 Xfce is under-represented Here's my desk: http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/2749/deskuk6.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Callahad) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197416 http://osnews.com/thread?197416 I use Ubuntu Dapper, I usually stick with the default human theme but I get rid of the bottom panel and move everything to the top. I get most of my wallpapers from th astronomy picture of the day.
http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=4376092 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jbrader) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197417 http://osnews.com/thread?197417 http://slight.overtops.org/tmp/Screenshot-12.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (slight) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197418 http://osnews.com/thread?197418 http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q114/nate_cctg/Screenshot.png

Running Xubuntu Dapper. A clean desktop with a few system monitors. Normally the panels are on autohide. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fizzled) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197419 http://osnews.com/thread?197419 First is after boot, second with normal use and unhide panels.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/radoslawbrzozowski/338685057/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/radoslawbrzozowski/338685059/ Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (radoslav) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197420 http://osnews.com/thread?197420 Here is one of my ubuntu-ce desktops

http://justinconover.com/screenshots/desktop-ubuntu-ce1.jpg

http://justinconover.com/screenshots/ubuntu-ce2-beryl.jpg

OpenSolaris 53 JDS build 55

http://justinconover.com/screenshots/opensolaris_53.jpg

lg3d desktop too

http://justinconover.com/screenshots/lgscreen-0-0.png Edited 2006-12-30 19:10 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (justinc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197421 http://osnews.com/thread?197421 Did you notice I used Buuf too after you told me about it?? Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197422 http://osnews.com/thread?197422 My laptop:
HP NX9105 AMD-64 3000+, 1Gb, 120GB
Nvidia Geforce 400 GO 64Mb
Gentoo 2006.1 ~amd64, Gnome 2.16.1, Beryl 0.1.4

http://marc.geerlings.googlepages.com/screenshot.jpg

Works like a dream.... Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (makkus) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197423 http://osnews.com/thread?197423 http://server2.uploadit.org/files/isaba2002-1.jpg

I often use KDE with my OpenSuSE 10.2, but I prefer Windowmaker.
It is clean, light and fast.Edited 2006-12-30 19:15 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (isaba) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197424 http://osnews.com/thread?197424 Yes, I was going to comment on that. There's so many icons you can customize all the folders too (I even did the folders ~/library XD)

I used Pixadex and CandyBar. I should put togehter a Buuf IconPackage so people can easily apply all the BuuF icons quickly. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197425 http://osnews.com/thread?197425 Here is my XFCE4.4 beta 2 desktop running Fedora 6. http://markbokil.org/images/xfce4-fc6.png

I am using the Clearlooks graphite theme for the windows. The Browser is Seamonkey 1.1 beta with the SeaGnome theme running the MonkeyMenu extension making it blend in nicely with Gnome applications.
http://markbokil.org/index.php?section=tech&content=c_linuxseag...

The sticky note in the corner is Xpad.Edited 2006-12-30 19:18 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (buff) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197426 http://osnews.com/thread?197426 http://alii1959.wordpress.com/files/2006/12/snapshot21.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aking469) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197427 http://osnews.com/thread?197427 OK, here is my walk through my desktop evolution
since gnome-2.4 and enlightenment-0.16

http://themes.netart.eu.org/screenshots/img000.jpeg.html


I wish I did screenshots earlier.

And THIS IS MY current desktop:

http://voila.pl/7z6qu/index.php?get=1&f=1


EVOLUTION is:
Less candy, more touch and inspiration. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (w-Tarchalski) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197428 http://osnews.com/thread?197428 Okay i might Post my first message here as an introduction to 2007

http://img402.imageshack.us/my.php?image=winhnbs7.jpg

here is my 300 mb (Xpbased)Windows HN 300 mb finished install (i never go anywhere without my install cd for that syst) Comes without internet explorer , advantages are no overactive desktop to munch ram and no Themes service among many other things i just run my programs/projects and it works fast

The Best security is remove insecure Programs/functions and control the services that are running

Maybe OSnews will write about it one day? u never know Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (WyldStylist) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197429 http://osnews.com/thread?197429 Most recent shot of xfce, going for nice and simple:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45547801/

Older xfce layout with a bunch of screenshot editing
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45547660/

Windowmaker after my first Slackware install
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45547745/ Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (situation) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197430 http://osnews.com/thread?197430 http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/7199/screenhx2.jpg

My Windows XP Home desktop with WindowBlinds 'Royale Vista' skin. I have been using Windows now for a week or so since my Ubuntu Edgy has been refusing to work with wireless networks and USB hard disks...

I don't want anything on my desktop, as you can see
Haven't been through all the screenshots but am I the only one with a hot chick as a wallpaper? Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mike_a) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197431 http://osnews.com/thread?197431 I'm running Ubuntu Edgy with Beryl for the window manager using AIGLX. The wallpaper is from deviantART and the Beryl theme is from gnome-look.org. I think the GTK theme is a mix of Alphacube GTK 0.5 controls and nuoveXT-1.6 icons.

Typical desktop screenshot
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/8859/desktop1od2.png

An empty desktop
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/8697/desktop2or8.png

Showing off the cube and 3d windows plugin
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/6581/desktop5dj7.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rugmonster) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197432 http://osnews.com/thread?197432 Where can I get those icons? Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (prymitive) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197433 http://osnews.com/thread?197433 netpython.blogspot.com

gentoo

http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3735/3549/1600/811472/snapshot...

http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3735/3549/1600/740743/snapshot...

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3735/3549/640/serpentho.jpg

edgy eft

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3735/3549/640/Screenshot2.jpg

fedora

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3735/3549/640/authoring.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (netpython) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197434 http://osnews.com/thread?197434 >e17 ... wouldn't run for 5 minutes without crashing)?

Happens with some modules, if you only use the stock ones then you'll be fine. Going on a year here. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TheOtherPJ) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197436 http://osnews.com/thread?197436 Not the most up-to-date (about a month old or so), but my SkyOS desktop, as posted at Wikipedia:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/Skyos_build_6669_scre...

Aside from that, I use Ubuntu Edgy with Beryl. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kelly Rush) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197437 http://osnews.com/thread?197437 It's BuuF, available here http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/37966044/ Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197438 http://osnews.com/thread?197438 I've remoted to my PC in the office and taken a screenshot plus I've taken a screenshot of my work laptop

http://monkeymagic.servehttp.com/screenshots/

pac Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pacmania1982) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197439 http://osnews.com/thread?197439 Nothing too special. Fluxbox with Debian:

http://jlarocco.net/images/with_apps.png
With apps running

The top right corner is a secure shell to my old desktop, currently used as a router. It's about as much of a screenshot as possible :-)

http://jlarocco.net/images/no_apps.jpg
Just the desktop Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jlarocco) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197440 http://osnews.com/thread?197440 http://img411.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gentoo20061230bq2.png

KDE 3.5.5 (knifty + my own theme) on Gentoo Linux.Edited 2006-12-30 19:50 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Abaddon) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197441 http://osnews.com/thread?197441 http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45634189/ Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (maxima) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197444 http://osnews.com/thread?197444 Cool wallpaper - whats it from? Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ValiantSoul) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197445 http://osnews.com/thread?197445 You have a great font there compared to most Xorg screenshots. What font are you using? Any antialiasing settings or default ones?

I find that most xorg systems have too much AA, fonts look almost bold against a light colour background! Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (alourenco) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197446 http://osnews.com/thread?197446 Hi,

To be completely honest, I'm not totally sure what I'm doing that makes it span both.

My Sax2 config looks like the monitors are both in 1600x1200x16.7. I have Dual Head Mode check for Xinerama at 1600x1200. 3D acceleration is on.

In Screen Resolution in the Control Center, I have it set to 3200x1200--maybe that's the key for stretching the entire desktop across......

Would be happy to send any config files that might help you..... let me know.

-m Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (invisik) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197447 http://osnews.com/thread?197447 Oh, BTW, Desktop Effects work fine across both monitors as well. Have the cube spanning, which is very cool!

-m Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (invisik) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197448 http://osnews.com/thread?197448 I'm not too fond of e16. but e17 looks great so far. It's pretty customizable, so most people's likes should be covered. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (stestagg) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197449 http://osnews.com/thread?197449 http://www.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?a4d6cbe581.jpg Edited 2006-12-30 20:00 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (CrazyDude0) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197450 http://osnews.com/thread?197450 Current development on project Zirconium. Not running any session manager. No GTK theme selected - default.
http://zirconium.xisystems.net/screenshots/zxe-current.jpg

ZDE project page with more (and more interesting) screen shots:
http://zirconium.xisystems.net/ Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ojh77) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197451 http://osnews.com/thread?197451 http://www.rumour.com/caps/

A bit more than a year old. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Shaman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197452 http://osnews.com/thread?197452 fsckit I got you.
If any of you don't read digg. See
http://forum.surfermag.com/forum/showflat.php?Number=1123180

for the real accident. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mikesum32) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197453 http://osnews.com/thread?197453 A boring standard WinXP desktop, but so far the coolest wallpaper

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/4593/screenxb5.jpg

My Linux Server has no desktop, I use Cygwin + SSH to administrate it...Edited 2006-12-30 20:12 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SCHWEjK) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197454 http://osnews.com/thread?197454 You can see it full screen by clicking the thumbnail:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=2751&c=1&... Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chocobanana) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197455 http://osnews.com/thread?197455 You are sick... Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (CrazyDude0) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197456 http://osnews.com/thread?197456 here's mine

http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/1230/1038841003383698/1600/75...

Ubuntu Edgy with Gnome DE Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Art Intelligence) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197457 http://osnews.com/thread?197457 Not really I got it from deviantart, some time ago. It's always funny to see how ppl react when the enter my lair and see the desktop ... Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SCHWEjK) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197458 http://osnews.com/thread?197458 A true minimalist wouldn't even use a window manager. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MacTO) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197459 http://osnews.com/thread?197459 http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/2231/lydgatetq9.png

Sherilyn Fenn Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lydgate) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197460 http://osnews.com/thread?197460 Hard to beat the shock value. Ha Ha!

Brings back childhood memories - but that was what made the string and door knob seem like a good idea in comparison. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ojh77) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197461 http://osnews.com/thread?197461 He'd type out the X11 functions to call himself? Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ma_d) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197462 http://osnews.com/thread?197462 Just use GNU screen with out X - now that's minimalism. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ojh77) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197464 http://osnews.com/thread?197464 Here is a screeny of my AfterStep desktop:

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/38944011/?qo=12&q=afterstep...

Looks good and is fonctional Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DrCurl) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197466 http://osnews.com/thread?197466 then again, a dwm package (were anyone silly enough to package it) would definitely be smaller than a screen package. Screen 4.0.3 package on Arch Linux = 480 K. DWM full source directory with everything compiled (i.e., uncompressed, WITH source) = 228 K. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lydgate) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197467 http://osnews.com/thread?197467 tidy wallpaper. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Beta) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197468 http://osnews.com/thread?197468 Clean, unbloated, simple, and attractive. Dare I say, more aesthetically pleasing than even OSX...

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/9999/osnewsxz5.png Edited 2006-12-30 20:53 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Abdullah) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197469 http://osnews.com/thread?197469 found it at http://www.wakachan.org/ (there's a age limit and lots of pictures aren't work safe ) Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mellin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197470 http://osnews.com/thread?197470 Updated KDE to 3.5.5 today and trying transparency with shadows again to see if it's more stable.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45637672/ Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JamesTRexx) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197471 http://osnews.com/thread?197471 Still using CLI a lot..
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/141/338813232_9148e3c05a_o.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lolownia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197472 http://osnews.com/thread?197472 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/338813042_32e32a31cc_b.jpg

i like white/black/grey with very simple icons Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jtrwallace) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197473 http://osnews.com/thread?197473 can be found here..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/donley

dont be shy Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (raver31) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197474 http://osnews.com/thread?197474 gpedit.msc will also allow you to remove the recycle bin.
"user configuration" "administrative templates" "desktop" "remove recycle bin icon from desktop."
Enable it.Edited 2006-12-30 21:04 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Beresford) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197475 http://osnews.com/thread?197475 For my "Play Time", this is what I "still!" use.

http://img297.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mydeskdt4.png Edited 2006-12-30 21:04 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kwag) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197476 http://osnews.com/thread?197476 Can I get that wallpaper from you? Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kancept) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197477 http://osnews.com/thread?197477 Here's my usual desktop setup: http://lopisaur.googlepages.com/Screenshot20060403.jpg
FreeBSD-6-Stable, it's an old screenshot, but it still looks pretty much the same. Now 11000km away, I miss that machine!
This is my laptop:
http://lopisaur.googlepages.com/screenshot20061230.png
Ubundtu Edgy, since FreeBSD won't play along with my 3945 WLAN card...Edited 2006-12-30 21:08 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lopisaur) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197478 http://osnews.com/thread?197478 I didn't see any other WindowMaker desktops sp here is mine.

http://lieb.orchardware.net/Screenshot.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lieb) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197480 http://osnews.com/thread?197480 Here's kde 3.5.5 on an acer aspire 3102 WLMi running at 1280x800, OS is openSUSE 10.2:

http://linux.eregion.de/kde355.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lemmy) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197481 http://osnews.com/thread?197481 http://tinyurl.com/y64ckp

This is my main KDE desktop. I've tried messing with beryl, radical color schemes, etc. and I can make it look a lot cooler, but it becomes a lot less usable in the process.

Window decoration is something called "powder" from kde-look which I like a lot.

Because I am running at 1920x1440, I see no reason to be minimalistic. I like a desktop with everything a single click away, which is pretty clear. My main consideration is being able to have 4 terminals simultaneously displayable; this fits the bill.

The wallpaper is a Perl script which grabs weather data and maps (Weather::Underground, available through CPAN, is particularly useful!), along with other system data, and composites everything into a single jpg and then sets it as wallpaper once per hour. ImageMagick can be used in a variety of interesting ways - especially in KDE, whose weather applet is awful.

Anyway, nothing exciting here except I really like my weatherpaper script Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Quag7) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197482 http://osnews.com/thread?197482 http://www.sailorfej.net/images/dtop.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sailorfej) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197483 http://osnews.com/thread?197483 Hmm... it "contains" a character by Dmitry Popov from his image called "Ninja" -> http://www.jetarts.net/g1_img_8.shtml . You can find more of his works on that site. In other words it's a rip, not that it matters here but I just wanted to give credit to the original artist. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ultimatebadass) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197485 http://osnews.com/thread?197485 well , i am a kde user , and i like, no , i really love a nice desktop.

and i love mine

beryl + kde :

i have 3 virtual desktops :
1 - System and Work related
2 - Internet related
3 - Multimedia related

my first virtual desktop ( you can see the auto hiding sidepanel ) : http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/7648/realshot1ey4.jpg

my second virtual desktop : http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/8888/realshot2og7.jpg

my third virtual desktop : http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9616/realshot3ex6.jpg Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Yagami) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197486 http://osnews.com/thread?197486 very nice


can you tell where you got the wallpaper ?!

and is the teaser also your system?! nice theme Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Yagami) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197487 http://osnews.com/thread?197487 :D Loooove the Nightmare Before Christmas wallpaper with Lock, Shock and Barrel! Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (markjensen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197489 http://osnews.com/thread?197489 Love the third wallpaper, very loaded with emotion. :-)
Google knew where it was before I needed to ask you. http://www.anime-kun.net/wallpapers/walls.php?walls=divers Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JamesTRexx) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197490 http://osnews.com/thread?197490 I am always pleased to see that there are other Bad Religion fans in the world

We were driving through New Mexico recently by the VLA, and I played American Lesion for my wife, and she was fairly shocked (having been exposed to incessant blaring Bad Religion from me for years). Can't beat that dirgey version of Cease...(Living on the Fault Line is also particularly fantastic)

Nice screenshots there, innerlogic (AUTOMATONS IN BUSINESS SUITS, SWINGING BLACK BOXES!) Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Quag7) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197491 http://osnews.com/thread?197491 What a wonderful wallpaper...I like to go one of two ways, either full-bore techie or the opposite extreme to remind me that there's more to live than glowing pixels, and you've definitely gone the other way Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Quag7) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197492 http://osnews.com/thread?197492 fluxbox-devel-1.0rc2
FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/2459/screenshot1oo2.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dcwrwrfhndz) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197493 http://osnews.com/thread?197493 My Edgy Eft:

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/2848/200612310000491280x1024bg1.pn...

kde 3.5.5, gkrellm, superkaramba, Eterm, root-tail Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dimlev) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197494 http://osnews.com/thread?197494 I judge a window manager by how many xterm's I can open at once ;-)

http://www.megacoder.com/files/screenshots/shot_30-12-06_141739.png

shows my laptop screen ATM Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (megacoder) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197495 http://osnews.com/thread?197495 403. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (eosp) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197496 http://osnews.com/thread?197496 http://img245.imageshack.us/my.php?image=shothl6.jpg

Gentoo box with Fluxbox and KDE Kicker, Adesklets, and (less importantly) KNotes. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zeroth404) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197497 http://osnews.com/thread?197497 i know my isp didn't like the trafic Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mellin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197498 http://osnews.com/thread?197498 nerdy, but still I want to contribute.

http://zak.lodz.pl/~kasper/301206.jpg

Normally both panels have autohide on. Tray: gmpc, gaim, xpad. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (spectator) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197499 http://osnews.com/thread?197499 I used dwm since it startup in summer, here is it:
http://www.linux.org.ru/profile/polachok/gallery/bigvBe3eC.png

but today, being drunk I tried beryl on gnome:
http://www.linux.org.ru/profile/polachok/gallery/bigfUkIR0.png Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (polachok) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197501 http://osnews.com/thread?197501 Desktop screenshots are so cool! I made a couple of screenshots of my ratpoison desktop just to show off a little.
http://www.lynucs.org/index.php?screen_id=152214062645953b8a234dc&a...
http://www.lynucs.org/index.php?screen_id=183645420245953c317adcc&a...

If you wonder where you can get a similar funky wallpaper, it's really just "xsetroot -solid black". ;-) Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (da_Chicken) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197502 http://osnews.com/thread?197502 > A true minimalist wouldn't even use a window manager.
> Just use GNU screen with out X - now that's minimalism.

Well, I live in the real world: I use screen, it's a wonderful tool, but I don't see any reason why I don't have to use X. Shall I have to write my svg files by hand, or edit audio session using split? I don't think so.

I'm a concrete minimalist, I follow what is - for me - the most efficient and pleasant way to make things done Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lavish) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197503 http://osnews.com/thread?197503 > http://www.lynucs.org/index.php?screen_id=152214062645953b8a234dc&a...

Best screenshot *ever* Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lavish) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197504 http://osnews.com/thread?197504 Ubuntu 6.10
OSX Wallpaper
Tray icons :
*Liferea (RSS Feeds)
*ZIM (Desktop Wiki)
*gaim
*Rhythmbox

http://sn0n.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/screenshot_dec_2006.png
edit: Linked to thumb on accident.Edited 2006-12-30 23:02 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sn0n) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197505 http://osnews.com/thread?197505 Some time ago(4 years or more), I spent 2 or 3 days investigating a "perfect" desktop for me, with the following requirements:

* no icons on the desktop, my windows desktops always end up really cluttered, so on linux(my main os) I wanted _nothing_ on the desktop.

* I wanted to be able to run the same environment on my then underpowered laptop and my main computer.

* 64Mb of RAM on my laptop(I have since then upgraded my laptop, but it's still useful to have a lowmem environment)

* I have to be able to control volume and playing/pausing/resuming the mp3 player that is constantly playing without having to restore the window.

* I'm an alternating php/c/c++ developer, so I need to have a browser constantly open to look up documentation, an editor to code, a (fast!) terminal to ssh to remote machines, a MUA to read/write emails, and an mp3 player to play some music while coding.

and I ended up with the following:

* blackbox for my window managing needs
* gkrellm for launching programs, controlling xmms/bmp/audacious, a clock, memory usage, etc...
* firefox for browsing
* scite for editing code
* audacious to play mp3's
* aterm for a terminal
* sylpheed to check my mail

None of the programs have high requirements(except firefox), and fit completely on a very custom gentoo 64Mb system. The only big dependency of most of the programs is gtk+, but as it is a common dependency, it is only loaded once in memory.

I haven't changed the desktop since then(except for some slight adjustments), and I must say I find it pretty comfortable for everyday use, on 3 computers with different resolutions(from 1400x1050 to 1024x768, and previously on 800x600).

http://gutierrezdequevedo.com/shots Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (juanjo) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197506 http://osnews.com/thread?197506 It changes constantly - every three minutes. Running on Kubuntu 6.06, by the way.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/richardstevenhack/snapshot1.p...

And here's how it looks later:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/richardstevenhack/snapshot2.p...

And while we're at, a shot of one of my favorite Corrs girls:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/richardstevenhack/TheCorrs450... Edited 2006-12-30 23:09 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (richardstevenhack) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197507 http://osnews.com/thread?197507 "What is your wish, Oh Great One?"

Uh, a little ego problem there?

I mean, leet is leet, but come on! Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (richardstevenhack) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197509 http://osnews.com/thread?197509 Thanks

>wallpaper

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/240227/

>teaser

My previous desktop yes, the light got to me in the end, I prefer something reminiscent of the hazed dark cave I live in. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TheOtherPJ) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197510 http://osnews.com/thread?197510 These are the best desktops I have ever created. Simple, but totally cool. I wish I had a 3d card in my laptop so could use real transparency, but to be honest fake transparent terminals are easier to read anyway.

http://hcfolds.com/flux/shot.jpg (best screen shot)
http://hcfolds.com/flux/shot2.jpg (actually best to use) Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Calvin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197511 http://osnews.com/thread?197511 my xfce4 desktop:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45649761/
with:
gnome_swallow+wmaker dockapps
and
gdesklets Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (balihb) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197512 http://osnews.com/thread?197512 I am fairly minimal. I have a hidden panel in the top right for the tray and a clock but that is it. My Mac is the same way; I disabled the dock and removed everything but the menu bar. I rely on keyboard shortcuts and for things I do not have a shortcut to I just type the command. On the Mac I use Quicksilver for everything. So basically clutter on the desktop serves no purpose except to distract me.

Both are xfce4, though I only recently (~ 2 months ago) switched from FVWM. The first uses xfwm for the windows manager. On the second I use beryl or xfwm if i am running dual screen.

http://thumbsnap.com/v/m3QtUR47.png

http://thumbsnap.com/v/GTHlG2lW.png Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kokopelli) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197513 http://osnews.com/thread?197513 Well here is my desktop on Ubuntu Dapper. The panel has been congfigured to be very similar to that I had on GNOME 1.x many years ago. I have reverted to the standard Clearlooks theme which I find both businesslike and restful.

The wallpaper is a representation of the Godesses Maat and Isis who look after me and the application is Ghemical showing the results of a simple quantum chemical calculation.

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=339007800&size=o Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chemical_scum) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197514 http://osnews.com/thread?197514 FreeBSD with vtwm (cde like) as window manager.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~whendrik/download/screenshot.jpg

I was running irssi, cmus and mutt. I saw that combination before, funny...

I viewed some desktops, a real jungle from OS'es and styles, enough to fill a musuem Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (whendrik) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197515 http://osnews.com/thread?197515 http://hisham.cc/files/shots/?sort=date Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (CodeWarrior) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197516 http://osnews.com/thread?197516 What about Hover, the game that came on the Windows 95 CD? Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DigitalAxis) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197517 http://osnews.com/thread?197517 The OS I'm using on my main PC at home is Vista Ultimate x86 (Build 6000). I really like it, and I like the overall black appearance of things; it is easier on the eyes at night.

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/1619/desktopqh9.jpg Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (forlorn) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197518 http://osnews.com/thread?197518 I'd like to see a desktop contest. Maybe we can vote for the one we like the best. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Calvin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197519 http://osnews.com/thread?197519 I run Zeta ... http://coquillr-or.net/~fatelk/screen1.png

note the modified Deskbar. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bbjimmy) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197520 http://osnews.com/thread?197520 I run Zeta ... http://coquille-or.net/~fatelk/screen1.png

note the modified Deskbar. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bbjimmy) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197522 http://osnews.com/thread?197522 Makes me yearn for my years on my uVAX running VMS... Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tuishimi) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197523 http://osnews.com/thread?197523 Oh man, are you my brother? Seriously... he keeps his desktop all crazy like that too. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tuishimi) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197524 http://osnews.com/thread?197524 >Here's my Vista laptop's desktop (my main machine, basically). >The .png is huge, I am too lazy to resize.

Nice shot, Thom, Vista actually looks pretty nice. Can I ask why you don't run in your native tongue? Or aren't translations complete in the eval copy? Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tuishimi) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197525 http://osnews.com/thread?197525 I prefer simple look so too much icons on desktop makes me mad.
http://www.insport.pl/~sobkas/zrzutekranu-1.png
http://www.insport.pl/~sobkas/zrzutekranu.png

Enjoy. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sobkas) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197527 http://osnews.com/thread?197527 I used to use litestep at work... Until one day I was out sick and someone needed to find something on my system. Had to walk them through it. *sigh* Litestep came off the next day. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tuishimi) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197528 http://osnews.com/thread?197528 Great!

Now we know you have to fix your taxes ;-) Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Blikkie) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197530 http://osnews.com/thread?197530 Screenshot of XP Home on notebook using xoblite fork of blackbox for windows.

http://www.boxshots.org/screenies/4056.jpg Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (w_rogers82) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197532 http://osnews.com/thread?197532 Nice shot, Thom, Vista actually looks pretty nice. Can I ask why you don't run in your native tongue? Or aren't translations complete in the eval copy?

Because it is impossible to keep your UI consistent (lingually) when not using English. Other than that, Dutch is a horrible language. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197533 http://osnews.com/thread?197533 http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q31/iPower/windowsxppro.png


http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q31/iPower/mac_os_9.jpg

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q31/iPower/Skarmdump.png Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mellin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197534 http://osnews.com/thread?197534 Gnome 2.16 + Beryl based on Mandriva 2007.
MurrinaNeo Graphite + Glass Icons + Emeralds Scaled Black Mod.

http://eonsim.googlepages.com/Screenshot.jpgEdited 2006-12-31 01:46 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (eonsim) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197535 http://osnews.com/thread?197535 Heres my latest with all of my windows shoved off to the side.

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o216/UTSord/Picture-2.jpg

Wallpaper is my latest work, check renderosity.com (my user there is Sord) to see the rest (not much).

And yes, I do use all 3 browsers in my dock Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ValiantSoul) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197536 http://osnews.com/thread?197536 OS X with 7 theme

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45655444/ Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pixelmutt) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197537 http://osnews.com/thread?197537 > Well, I live in the real world

I did operate with X and without a window manager for a few months, at least on my work machine. The work didn't involve very much, so the lack of a window manager freed up some screen real estate and ensured that the interface elements were always in predictable spots (the geometry parameter is a very useful tool).

I also setup a computer for my father without a window manager. All he wanted was a web browser and email client, and anything else on the screen confuses him terribly. Having Navigator launch full screen, without the possibility of other stuff appearing on the screen or of things moving around greatly reduced the burden of his technical support team (me). And it saved the aforementioned support team from being awaken at strange hours by the telephone.

To this day I regularly use screen and bypass X altogether. It is great because you can simply detach the screen, login to the machine from a remote site, and continue from where I left off. I understand that you can do that graphically with tools like VNC, but screen is faster and ssh is more available.

The minimalist approach may not appeal to everyone, nor is it useful in all circumstances. But it is a valid approach in the real world.

As for my desktop: in normal circumstances, I use whatever is stuck in front of me. Bouncing around between computers (including Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X) means that I cannot have a consistent desktop experience anyway. It also means that I would have to spend considerable time tweaking each system. So why bother? Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MacTO) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197538 http://osnews.com/thread?197538 You can view mine here:

http://kvendler.blogspot.com/2006/12/fedora-eye-candy.html Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kvendler09) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197539 http://osnews.com/thread?197539 But all items on my desktop are standard. They work and don't bother me too much.

http://homepage.mac.com/r.vanbree/FileSharing2.html Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Blikkie) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197540 http://osnews.com/thread?197540 That's sharp looking! Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kvendler09) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197541 http://osnews.com/thread?197541 Let me guess... I don't get any awards ;-)
http://www.losethos.com/blog.html
It's ugly, but functional.Edited 2006-12-31 02:03 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TerryADavis) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197542 http://osnews.com/thread?197542 Sharon!

Good to see a fellow fan - a truly masterful artist

For the record, I have a collection of Corrs, as well as various other Celtic images cycling on my OSX desktop

I like to keep a diverse array of looks and feels going, but green has always been my favorite color, and for some reason I just need a dark wallpaper (so usually a black border around images etc) Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ThawkTH) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197544 http://osnews.com/thread?197544 http://home.comcast.net/~milatchi/indigo2.jpg

IRIX 6.5.22
X11
4Dwm
IRIX Interactive Desktop Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (milatchi) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197545 http://osnews.com/thread?197545 Heres a shot of my current desktop. On my NeXT that I use a LOT. the pic is a month or so old but thats still how it looks.

http://flickr.com/photos/helfer/309832276/in/set-72157594408824999/ Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197546 http://osnews.com/thread?197546 hehehe, must be the midget porn folder. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (riha) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197547 http://osnews.com/thread?197547 Vector Linux 5.8 :
http://nedvis.bravehost.com/ss/vector.html
PCLinuxOS 0.92b and PCBSD 1.2
http://nedvis.bravehost.com/ss/kdescreen.html

Happy New Year, people !
nedvis Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nedvis) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197550 http://osnews.com/thread?197550 Slackware/KDE

http://home.comcast.net/~cwise821/images/slackscreen.jpg Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (geronimo9) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197551 http://osnews.com/thread?197551 Wow maybe if I installed GNUstep and ran it in monochrome I could get my desktop to look like that.

Honestly 17 years ago when I was a grad student I lusted after a Next but settled for a PC running DOS instead :-( Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chemical_scum) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197552 http://osnews.com/thread?197552 http://members.iinet.net.au/~dolphinsong/Screenshot.png

Just Ubuntu Feisty 64 with Resilience Theme and no 3D yet as Compiz ain't quite there for me. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (blitze) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197553 http://osnews.com/thread?197553 Nice metal music there on your folder! May I suggest some bands you might like?

Demise of Eros
Arch Enemy
Decapitated
Agathodaimon
Dagoba
Adagio
Deadlock
Soilwork
Beseech

YMMVEdited 2006-12-31 03:04 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jjmckay) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197554 http://osnews.com/thread?197554 If you want my icons, download or purchase Candybar from Panic Software. Then you can use this icontainer package. Remove the spaces and visit this URL:

http:// firsttube.com /uploads/ adam-buuf.icontainer

It is about 2.5mb, and, as Kroc mentioned above, it contains the BuuF icon set configured for OS X as *I* chose. You may choose to tweak it for yourself. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197555 http://osnews.com/thread?197555 Cool, haven't seen that before, now I'm going to try it on my XP laptop. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JamesTRexx) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197556 http://osnews.com/thread?197556 I'm using BBlean (Blackbox) on XP, with a program I've written myself that renders a wallpaper (which updates on the minute) and has a special circle-based file browser interface (which you can embed pictures in - like sticky posters - per directory).

The temporary name for the project was "ActiveWall", but I will be changing the name to "Sundew" for public distribution. Until I post the final app (maybe the source) for free - NO you can't have a copy of it yet, it's very beta. The small bead in the middle gently grows and sprouts (animated) icons in a round or square (not shown) fashion.

* An older picture with two drives:
http://jam.t35.com/uploads/Main.ScreenShots/W1.jpg

* A picture with the interface closed:
http://jam.t35.com/uploads/Main.ScreenShots/W3.jpg

* A picture with the interface freshly-opened:
http://jam.t35.com/uploads/Main.ScreenShots/W5.jpg

* A picture while browsing 'Desktop':
http://jam.t35.com/uploads/Main.ScreenShots/W4.jpg

I will continue adding features, but for now there will be no open widget api, as it changes too often and I'd hate to annoy people with a moving target. I will continue to post details at http://jam.t35.com since some of my friends have also taken interest. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JacobMunoz) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197557 http://osnews.com/thread?197557 ew, that sucks. I wanna get a color system eventually. A black and white turbo was all I could/can afford at the moment though Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197558 http://osnews.com/thread?197558 Allo Mezz

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/9672/20061213vn9.png

FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE, KDE 3.5.5 + custom changes Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (algkalv) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197559 http://osnews.com/thread?197559 I'm a slob and this is the cleaned up version on a dual-booting mac mini (Ubuntu edgy and a rarely used 9 gig partition for OSX); I put the same on my Dell notebook (it does confuse people)

http://members.cox.net/holdingpen1/screen.png Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jsonder) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197562 http://osnews.com/thread?197562 you customized it so much it looks like a green version of every other desktop Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (spikeb) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197563 http://osnews.com/thread?197563 ahhhh beos. it has that magical touch of apple engineers, just like NeXT did. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (spikeb) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197564 http://osnews.com/thread?197564 This is FreeBSD 6.1/KDE 3.5.4, it's very simple.

http://continuity.homeunix.net/screenshot/desktop1.jpg Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BluenoseJake) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197565 http://osnews.com/thread?197565 Hey moose, I love the simplicity of your desktop.

Here is mine:

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/5088/fbsdxfcefu1.png Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (eqnx) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197566 http://osnews.com/thread?197566 Something like this. Here are Yahoo Widgets, FAR Manager, XP themes, own background and own app.

http://tolkov.com/images/desktop-2.jpg Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vtolkov) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197567 http://osnews.com/thread?197567 Here's mine... Ubuntu Edgy with Aiglx+Beryl. Background pic is my girlfriend


http://www.blogue.ca/uploads/t/toogreen/15755.pngEdited 2006-12-31 05:12 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (toogreen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197568 http://osnews.com/thread?197568 Enjoy.

A nice collection of my latest screenshots under beryl.

FreeBSD-6.1-Release

Runs very smooth

http://www.thelocale.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1065 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rectangular) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197569 http://osnews.com/thread?197569 Lost a motherboard before Christmas, just built an AMD64 - Kubuntu system.

http://www.neehow.us/images/snapshot1.png Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Endymion Asphodel) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197570 http://osnews.com/thread?197570 Current Screenshot: http://www.dvnull.org/gallery/v/Screenshots/nix/fc6.png.html?g2_ima...

More at http://www.dvnull.org/gallery/ Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (prammy) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197572 http://osnews.com/thread?197572 I rarely post here, in fact, since registration started, I'd never even gotten around to registering until now. I'm a desktop junkie -- if that makes sense. I used to be 100% console, but once I discovered FVWM I found I could make a truly capable desktop that made things fast and easy, but also good looking.

The desktops you're about to see are over a years worth of on and off configuring towards FVWM. They are built on a number of my own scripts/work as well as some other peoples. The presentation is minimal overall.

The top 100 pixels or so is taken up by a media player (mpd front end) and a several line terminal. Both can be "rolled up" using F1 and F2, and a maximized window will go over them. The bottom bar is not complete yet, as eventually it will have more than a battery monitor and the pager on it.

FVWM's pager is perhaps the best I've ever seen. You can drag windows off of it, cross between two pages, like seeing the right half of the first and the left half of the second. You can even sidescroll through all your windows that way, breezing across however many desktops you might have. The ability to move windows in the pager and "pick" them from it is by far the feature I cannot do without. I can switch to an empty desktop, and pick windows from the three others right off the pager into the clean desktop.

In addition to that, using a series of scripts I open music, videos, and images from my menu. I can even download and view the latest of my favorite comics, or select my wallpaper. Like others, I also have the thumbnailed view for minimized windows.

All of this is sloppy focused to make fast use of middle click copy and paste.

Anyway, all the graphical applications I use are GTK2 for the sake of a unified look and feel but also simply because I tend to prefer most GTK2 applications. I stay away from gnome libraries and gnome dependencies as much as possible, preferring the simplest applications to do the task at hand.

Applications include Firefox, Thunar (file manager), Sylpheed (e-mail), Tea (text editor), GIMP, and PyMPD (for a mor iTunes like front end to my music).

That all said, here's some simple screenshots:

http://www.dotink.org/~gent/content/Images/Screenshots/email.png

http://www.dotink.org/~gent/content/Images/Screenshots/noapps.png

http://www.dotink.org/~gent/content/Images/Screenshots/terminal.png Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Gent) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197573 http://osnews.com/thread?197573 Well here is my FC6 Desktop with kde 3.5.5

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y292/techman32/fc8mac.jpg Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Techman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197574 http://osnews.com/thread?197574 not a lot going on really but here it is.

http://tkfiles.storage.msn.com/x1pGHpas_o48lmbzL4IwHOwIYl7UeE6XKz76... Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tweakedenigma) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197575 http://osnews.com/thread?197575 http://rohc.drobe.co.uk/desktop.JPEG

yup its a RISC OS one - best there is

Happy hogmanay :-) Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (epistaxsis) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197576 http://osnews.com/thread?197576 http://www.csulb.edu/%7Emevans/screenshots.html

Old Linux and Mac screenshots. I think the Mac is 10.0 beta or maybe 10.0. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vondur) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197577 http://osnews.com/thread?197577 good to see you've used digitalblasphemy.com too :-) Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (epistaxsis) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197581 http://osnews.com/thread?197581 I was going to include a shot of Andrea, but the editing time expired first.


I also could have shown my Windows XP side of the machine which currently is running only Corrs wallpapers.


But then I'd have to reboot...:-) Sun, 31 Dec 2006 07:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (richardstevenhack) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197582 http://osnews.com/thread?197582 Here it is running Vista:

http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotwq7.png

I just bought two new disks and striped them into RAID0, so Vista gives me the highest possible disk perf index. The rest is: Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR2 PC6400 and ATI X700. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (como) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197583 http://osnews.com/thread?197583 Brace yourself:

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/3869/vistahd7.png Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Xaero_Vincent) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197584 http://osnews.com/thread?197584 I do the same thing with my desktops (Ubuntu and WinXP). I've gotten accustomed to having just one taskbar at the top. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (supersteve1440) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197586 http://osnews.com/thread?197586 Two years and half years ago I had a webpage with my Gnome desktop:
on my desktop machine,
Gnome 1.4 (April 2002)
Gnome 2.0 (November 2002)
Gnome 2.4.1 (Februari 2004)

http://marc.geerlings.googlepages.com/index.html

Todays laptop, Gnome 2.6.1, Beryl:

http://marc.geerlings.googlepages.com/screenshot.jpg Edited 2006-12-31 08:51 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (makkus) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197587 http://osnews.com/thread?197587 My friend and I are having a disagreement over which is better, having a nice picture in the background - or funtional features. I say functionality is more important, and besides - I can incorporate a background image if I wanted, but I preferred the simple beauty of gradients. Besides, there are folder-linked images that display wallpaper-stickies, so there is a kind of wallpaper - it just changes.

I posted a few more:

http://jam.t35.com/index.php?n=Main.ScreenShotsEdited 2006-12-31 09:06 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JacobMunoz) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197588 http://osnews.com/thread?197588 Most of the time it looks like this:
http://martin.ankerl.com/files/desktop-eclipse.png
IMHO KDE's fullscreen-feature is the most important feature of the window manager :-)

Other than that, I like it very clean:
http://martin.ankerl.com/files/desktop-martinus.png
I don't even have a tasklist, I use alt+tab or the middle mousekey on the desktop. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (martinus) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197589 http://osnews.com/thread?197589 Um... that carpet, that wall paper, and those drapes...

Nuh uh. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (umccullough) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197590 http://osnews.com/thread?197590 Looks nice and clean. The Tree with the birds is beutifull wallpaper, u know where I could get it? Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bibe) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197591 http://osnews.com/thread?197591 Hello,

my desktop is a mixture of SGI, HP-UX and OSX GUIs (well, sort of I am running CentOS and FVWM 2.4.x as my window manager.

http://jagor.srce.hr/~brapejak/desk/desk.png

Happy New Year to all OSNews readers! Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Branx) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197593 http://osnews.com/thread?197593 Although OSX is on my main Mac, I still use my OS9 Mac daily!

http://upitfree.com/v2/out.php/i1780_os9.png Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (d4rkn1ght) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197594 http://osnews.com/thread?197594 This is my desktop running on a dual P3.
http://invitel.hu/rogerius1/Pictures/screen.png Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rogerius) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197598 http://osnews.com/thread?197598 Hello,

I've used a proof of concept on Windows XP, developed for Toy'd (http://www.toyd.org), it looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGJGfNWkS4Y

Lots of improvements have been done, still proof of concepts, you can see them here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKtxa5ilW2Q

Toy'd is still under development, all 3d features won't be available on the first release. We're hardly working on it, stay tune

Happy new year all !

Arnaud Vallat Sun, 31 Dec 2006 11:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rnoway) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197599 http://osnews.com/thread?197599 Its a octane dual300. It runs irix 6.5.27 and some kde stuff from nekochan (big thanks).

http://upitfree.com/v2/show.php/2417_llnlxftp.png.html

i actually use this for my day to day stuff

*silently weeps* Sun, 31 Dec 2006 11:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (manumental) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197600 http://osnews.com/thread?197600 Hey all,

http://dark.sin.khk.be/gentoo_may_2006.png
Thats my Gentoo + Fluxbox desktop. The screenshot is taken in may but it still looks exactly the same now.

If interested, the wallpaper can be downloaded at http://dark.sin.khk.be/wallpaper/3D/alien2.jpg

Happy new year! Sun, 31 Dec 2006 11:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Dark) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197601 http://osnews.com/thread?197601 This is for the "Who needs windows anymore"
http://boby.joe.free.fr/screen/ubuntu-desktop-03.png
Ubuntu Dapper with Smooth-2000 gtk-theme and custom window borders based on JS-Classic. Icon theme is human. Plus some windows fonts


The next one is to illustrate the "You are not some kind of a developper if you still need an IDE"-thing

http://boby.joe.free.fr/screen/ubuntu-devel.png
gnome-terminal in fullscreen, with VI to edit some C code development. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 11:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (leibowitz) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197602 http://osnews.com/thread?197602 http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/2051/screenshotnd3.png

GNOME 2.16 + Clearlooks + (modified) Mist icon theme. On Gentoo. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (GhePeU) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197603 http://osnews.com/thread?197603 I try to put things on my Warp toolbar (which disappears into the background until I doubleclick somewhere on the desktop), but that hasn't helped. :-)

I opened up one of the toolbar folders to display some of the graphics programs I play with here. No shortage of software in OS/2 land...

http://www.visi.com/~rsteiner/richwarp.gif

Oh yeah... The wallpaper is based on a world bitmap and is dynamically generated (wrapped around a sphere) every 30 minutes with a specified viewpoint, light sourcing location, etc., using a little program called globe. You can see the config screen here:

http://www.visi.com/~rsteiner/richwrp2.gifEdited 2006-12-31 12:16 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rcsteiner) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197604 http://osnews.com/thread?197604 This is what I see when I log in to my laptop. (After starting X ofcourse)

http://www.m0en.org/images/screenshots/ss.png Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (-Anders) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197605 http://osnews.com/thread?197605 Something like this:
http://www.eugenia.co.uk/images/dual2.jpg
The only difference with my current desktop (the picture is quite old), is that the email client is now on the right side, and the Trillian/Winamp is on the left side of the screen (so this way I can access the desktop icons too). Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197606 http://osnews.com/thread?197606 Here's mine:

jack@vasquez:~$ uname -a
Linux vasquez 2.6.18-3-powerpc #1 Sun Dec 10 17:59:01 CET 2006 ppc GNU/Linux


;) Happy new year everyone! Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jack Malmostoso) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197609 http://osnews.com/thread?197609 Where did you get that terminal background??? I WANT IT!!! Can't be the original game graphics... Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (biffuz) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197611 http://osnews.com/thread?197611 First Windows 3.1 screenshot :-)

http://www.biffuz.it/misc/windows31.gif

This is my Program Manager as it looked in 1995, just before ruining it by installing Windows 95. Yes, I really used _that_ color for window title bar, and I still like some of the concepts in the Win3.1 interface.

I'm not going to post my BeOS, Zeta and XP desktops, because I made some hard drive swaps and they're not ready yet, and I just don't like my Mac desktop because I don't like Finder and the Dock at all :-( Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (biffuz) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197617 http://osnews.com/thread?197617 As seen on my MacBook this morning...

http://eagle.he.net/~sjwood/misc/screenie.jpg Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (CocoaCoder) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197619 http://osnews.com/thread?197619 There are (surprisingly?) quite many dwm screenshots here already, but one more shouldn't hurt.

http://w-ber.ormgas.com/screenshots/dwm.png

This is uncluttered desktop at its best. No root menus, no icons, no menu bars, no nothing. The temperature readings are my two Pentium III processors. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (w-ber) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197620 http://osnews.com/thread?197620 http://68.45.180.45/Screenshot.png Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (adamk) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197621 http://osnews.com/thread?197621 My last Windows XP desktop for 2006!

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/7529/last2006shotcopyeg9.gif

Hope you like it Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DBAlex) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197623 http://osnews.com/thread?197623 Here is my desktop :]

http://vanheu.ca/album/_photos/screenshots/plusNew/bg_riadh.png Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (holywood) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197625 http://osnews.com/thread?197625 My desktop:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/339636982_dfa67f69ee_o.jpg

:) Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gribson) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197626 http://osnews.com/thread?197626 Thanks for giving the link of your wallpaper ! Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (holywood) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197627 http://osnews.com/thread?197627 Heres mine, I like to keep things tidy.

Gentoo ~amd64
Gnome 2.16
Clearlooks
Open World icon theme.
"Clearlooks Hack" window border.

http://andrew.nelless.net/screenshots/desktop/osnews-31-12-2006.png (500KB)

...my home folder is a mess though xD Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (baadger) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197633 http://osnews.com/thread?197633 A screenshot here with the wonderful snow-plugin for Beryl running on Ubuntu Edgy.

http://www.eovermeer.nl/~biker/screenshots/ss-osnews.jpeg Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Biker) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197635 http://osnews.com/thread?197635 Here is my contribution. I keep my machine clean and organized.

http://agnustic.blogspot.com/ Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aGNUstic) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197637 http://osnews.com/thread?197637 It's all just for fun, nothing 'leet' going on. Heck the idea is not even original.
I hope you'll be harassed by scrip kiddies for having no humor Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (czubin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197638 http://osnews.com/thread?197638 This is my primary workstation running XP SP2 -

http://battletech.hopto.org/images/desktop_dec_2006.jpg

21" center @ 1600x1200 (sometimes bumped to 2048x1536 for 3dsMax and Autocad), 17" to the left @ 1280x960 (NOT x1024 - no ****ed up aspect ratio for me) with the taskbar in portrait so I can actually SEE THE TITLES of running applications (*** SHOCK ***) and finally a 15" on the right @ 1024x768... I used to have a 19" over on that side, but it shit the bed... of course since they are all running an ACTUAL 100dpi physical, XP is set to 'large fonts/120dpi' (since windows is designed to run 96dpi 'internally' at a physical 75)

So that's a whopping 3,904 pixels across - and nowhere NEAR enough for what I do... (I seriously need two more of these 21" CRT's). The outer monitors are running off a PCI Radeon 9250, while the center one is on pair of PCI express Ge7600GT in SLI - all from the same machine... and I STILL have a third PCI express slot free

Normally there's a lot more showing on the desktop than there is right now - I've usually got three copies of win32pad open editing HTML, CSS and Javascript (and sometimes a fourth for php/mySQL), paint shop pro going, copies of Opera, FF , IE6 and IE7 open for browser testing (with Safari open on Dellmac), a copy of 98 and a copy of Ubuntu running in MS virtual PC (for testing IE5, Opera 8.5, Konqueror - as well as font rendering differences between large fonts/small fonts, cleartype/standard, freetype vs. windows, etc, etc, etc...) Oh, and let's not forget the multiple copies of acrobat pro running full height on the center display...

Thankfully, being sunday it's a slow morning.

I'd post up my linux P2 laptop, but that's just a stock Xubuntu install... I'd post up pics from the Dellmac (Inspiron 2500 running OSX 10.4.8) but that's just stock with the stock 'stones' pic... and the G3 laptop - well, System 9 is just embarrassing (there's a reason it's being converted into a wall mounted LCD picture frame)Edited 2006-12-31 17:00 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deathshadow) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197639 http://osnews.com/thread?197639 Here ya go:

http://www.deviantart.com/view/25814423/ Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (czubin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197640 http://osnews.com/thread?197640 thx alot 8) Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bibe) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197641 http://osnews.com/thread?197641 This is my actual desktop fedora core 6 kde 3.5.5
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y292/techman32/fc6fresh.png Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Techman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197647 http://osnews.com/thread?197647 what is the the name of that wallpaper? Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aGNUstic) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197649 http://osnews.com/thread?197649 http://www.barfuss-jerusalem.org/images/screenie.jpg Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ironhead Haynes) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197655 http://osnews.com/thread?197655 Yeah, they have some nice art there. I need to find that picture again, I had totally forgotten about it.
matt Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vondur) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197662 http://osnews.com/thread?197662 Font settings are default Ubuntu Edgy as far as I remember. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (slight) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197663 http://osnews.com/thread?197663 Gnome settings:

Font is 'Sans', though I don't what Ubuntu actually maps it to I'm afraid.

Subpixel smoothing (LCDs)
96dpi
Full hinting
Pixel ordering is RGB Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (slight) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197676 http://osnews.com/thread?197676 This picture is pretty old, but I submitted it an Architextual (that's not spelt right, but looks nice to I'm leaving it) forum a few months ago, and I'm too lazy to upload another to photobucket.

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a366/robinsonworld/grab2.jpg

Enjoy! Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AmigaRobbo) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197683 http://osnews.com/thread?197683 Here's a screenshot of my current desktop. I run Windows XP SP2 (heavily personalized) and run Kubuntu in a VMWare virtual machine. Unless I am using Kubuntu to do something graphics-heavy, I normally run its software through an X-Server running on Windows which allows me easily use Linux software and Windows software together.

I get the transparent effects via Ecliz_Deluxe2 (Ecliz_Deluxe_Tranz scheme) skin for Windowblinds. The icon bar on the right is Windows PowerPro as is the text above the system tray. The start button has been removed (with StartKiller) and replaced by Free Launch Bar menus.

http://i10.tinypic.com/4g79zrt.jpg Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (RandallS) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197693 http://osnews.com/thread?197693 http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45704313/

KDE 3.5.5 w/flameboy freebsd wallpaper

there's a little bit going on on the kicker.. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (somnambulant) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197710 http://osnews.com/thread?197710 Excuse me, but why was my post modded down? Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (adamk) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197711 http://osnews.com/thread?197711 http://68.45.180.45/Screenshot2.png

Adam Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (adamk) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197724 http://osnews.com/thread?197724 Can you do that in 1600x1200?

http://www.dubbayoo.net/files/pics/screenshots/ubuntu_121106.jpg Mon, 01 Jan 2007 02:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Dubbayoo) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197738 http://osnews.com/thread?197738 XFTP! Yayness! Haven't seen it in a while. Not in this century, that is Mon, 01 Jan 2007 04:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nilfilter) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197744 http://osnews.com/thread?197744 - KDE 3.5.5.
- kompmgr (beryl/compiz are still lacking compared to kwin)
- Clearlook/Klearlook styles (GTK/QT)
- 1920x1200 (Dell 2407)

Snapshots.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/340443112_c64d9f7719_b.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/154/340446176_77882841e4_b.jpg

- Gilboa Mon, 01 Jan 2007 06:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gilboa) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197745 http://osnews.com/thread?197745 My first Mac! The Mac 512k with System 3.3 I still use this machine all the time to play classic games like Asteroids, Pac-Man, etc... I just haven't got over this one since I got it in 1984!

http://upitfree.com/v2/out.php/i329_mac512k.png Mon, 01 Jan 2007 06:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (d4rkn1ght) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197748 http://osnews.com/thread?197748 Beryl Murrina Goodness!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zervin/340498594/ Mon, 01 Jan 2007 07:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (HeLfReZ) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197752 http://osnews.com/thread?197752 I believe it's from here : http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/12/22 . You'll just have to cut it out and resize it yourself Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ultimatebadass) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197758 http://osnews.com/thread?197758 Here's my OS X today: http://gryzor.fotki.com/desktopwallpapers/

I was working with Logic Mon, 01 Jan 2007 13:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Gryzor) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197759 http://osnews.com/thread?197759 Nice wallpaper!

Do you have a download link? Mon, 01 Jan 2007 13:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gilboa) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197762 http://osnews.com/thread?197762 Which wallpaper is that? I've been looking for some good dual monitor wallpapers and I really like that one. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 14:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aphistic) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197764 http://osnews.com/thread?197764 shots:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/44608922
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45466696

wallpaper:
http://vermaden.proplayer.pl/gfx/wallpapers

apps:
/usr/ports/deskutils/gxmessage
/usr/ports/deskutils/when
/usr/ports/devel/geany
/usr/ports/polish/ekg
/usr/ports/sysutils/conky
/usr/ports/sysutils/mbmon
/usr/ports/sysutils/screen
/usr/ports/x11-wm/fluxbox-devel
/usr/ports/x11/fbpanel
/usr/ports/x11/xterm Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vermaden) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197765 http://osnews.com/thread?197765 Because they think your desktop is 'orrible?

Maybe they don't like the "bloke" wallpaper, not to my taste either, but I wouldn't mark people down for their personal tastes. but there you go. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AmigaRobbo) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197769 http://osnews.com/thread?197769 "Because they think your desktop is 'orrible? "

That's not a valid option for moderating down posts, now is it?

Adam Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (adamk) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197772 http://osnews.com/thread?197772 Love the background screen for your KDE desktop. Do you know where in Europe this image was taken. My wife used to live over there and we cannot remember the name of this location.
Thanks. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ransomdawn) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197774 http://osnews.com/thread?197774 http://users.telenet.be/nicdm/afbeeldingen/SchermafdrukOS.png

greetz Mon, 01 Jan 2007 17:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nicdm) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197779 http://osnews.com/thread?197779 My macbook desktop

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/161/341007624_cdf920d547_o.png Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (eirikrus) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197794 http://osnews.com/thread?197794 I got the same wallpaper somewhere, too bad my friends mock it. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (czubin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197795 http://osnews.com/thread?197795 Here is my BeOS5 desktop running on Pentium III with old stabile Mozilla and Midnight Commander as file manager.

http://hinux.hin.no/~michailt/shots/desktop_be2.jpg Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mikhailtch) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197797 http://osnews.com/thread?197797 Now called Window Maker, my favourite window manager. To each his own I guess.

Slackware 11.0 / Window Maker;
Eterm windows "embedded" into the desktop (Eterm -x --buttonbar no --scrollbar no --trans), fixed WxH and "always on bottom";
XMMS trying to hide itself at the top;
and the necessary dockapps in the lower right.
1440x900

http://hwhq.com/temp/Desktop_SS/Penelope-01.01.07.png Edited 2007-01-01 19:30 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (CeePhour) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197830 http://osnews.com/thread?197830 Where did you get that wallpaper? Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zizban) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197837 http://osnews.com/thread?197837 Well the image is called "truecolorsofstrasbourg" so i gues it's taken in Strasbourg. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Chris) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197844 http://osnews.com/thread?197844 I'm surprised you have a wife. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ejk-) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197854 http://osnews.com/thread?197854 Here's my Freespire desktop.....
How Ya like it????


http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/9190/fsdsktp6po4.png Edited 2007-01-02 00:20 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jlt2007) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197878 http://osnews.com/thread?197878 BeOS is my primary operating system and will continue to be for some time. Here is the desktop of one of my more frequently used systems.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/163/341838910_b2716e0c3e_o.png Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zebis) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197879 http://osnews.com/thread?197879 http://ubuntuforums.org/gallery/data/2/Screenshot38.jpg Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zam001) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197927 http://osnews.com/thread?197927 Here's mine, very minimalist

http://www.darkarts.co.za/projects/evilpoison/attachment/wiki/WikiS... Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (clive) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197940 http://osnews.com/thread?197940 Kubuntu Edgy, looking fairly defaultish. I'm not sure how long I'll keep the purple for

Flickr terms require that I link to the photo page, click on 'all sizes' to see it large.

http://flickr.com/photos/canllaith/342331070/ Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (canllaith) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197943 http://osnews.com/thread?197943 now that the fun is over :-)

But here's mine:
http://img478.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200701021016482048x768spm6... Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (negativity) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197950 http://osnews.com/thread?197950 uname -a:
Linux mnamadarc001 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 22:28:26 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

Screenshot:
http://oscompatible.com/brewmastre.png Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (brewmastre) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197964 http://osnews.com/thread?197964 here:

http://gallery.dislense.com/2007jan/desktop20070102

greetings,
Endre Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (somac) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197971 http://osnews.com/thread?197971 I am unable to download it, although I can see it, the browser (Opera, Safari, FFox and Camino) all do the same... could you please compress it?

Thank you.

Note: Also tried wget... the file is broken or incorrectly handled.Edited 2007-01-02 15:04 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Gryzor) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197972 http://osnews.com/thread?197972 Try this link:

http:// firsttube.com/uploads/adam-buuf.zip

The server didn't know how to serve an icontainer file. Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?197973 http://osnews.com/thread?197973 http://zappa.halden.net/~kfo/screenshot.png

Window Maker 0.92.0
X Window System Version 7.0.0
Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)
Opera 9.10 . Build 521 for Linux. Qt library 3.3.7.
Linux dh0379 2.6.18-1.2239.fc5smp #1 SMP Fri Nov 10 13:22:44 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

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Kjartan F. Ohr Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ZH7yw8wvd) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198015 http://osnews.com/thread?198015 That did it, thank you. Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Gryzor) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198085 http://osnews.com/thread?198085 I'm impressed... How are you moving Gnome menu's outside of the application? Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ma_d) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198118 http://osnews.com/thread?198118 current desktop, using litestep http://themes.ls-universe.info/download.php?view.8 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sryo) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198129 http://osnews.com/thread?198129 This is on my old laptop that I play around with. Was feeling bored one day, and came up with this.
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r94/linuxrebel/Screenshot.png Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OMRebel) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198201 http://osnews.com/thread?198201 http://netpython.blogspot.com/2007/01/genflux.html Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (netpython) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198212 http://osnews.com/thread?198212 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/343967824_041004bee4_o.png

Xubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10) with the MurrinaFancyClearlooksSky GTK theme. Oh, and Beryl.

OK, I too use beryl-manager to turn Beryl on when someone's watching Edited 2007-01-03 12:48 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Vincent) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198458 http://osnews.com/thread?198458 I stumbled across it on DeviantArt:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/13889593/

You're right, there is a severe shortage of good dual-screen wallpaper art! Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gdi2k) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198496 http://osnews.com/thread?198496 http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?img=harmony.3f3.jpg

........and no it ain't a fake this is the real deal.

thingi Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (thingi) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198511 http://osnews.com/thread?198511 gdi2k, PLEASE leave us a link for that wallpaper, that's amazing! Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (panickedthumb) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198512 http://osnews.com/thread?198512 aha, thank you Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (panickedthumb) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198657 http://osnews.com/thread?198657 I tried to reply yesterday with the link, but apparently it didn't work. Anyways, it's one I found at DeviantArt:

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/13889593/

Enjoy! Fri, 05 Jan 2007 07:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gdi2k) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198822 http://osnews.com/thread?198822 I currently have two desktop machines. My windows box is a pretty default install... nothing fancy. I use it for playing EQ2 and WoW and such.

My laptop on the other hand I use for programming, work, email, chatting, etc. Currently it is running Ubuntu 6.10 + Beryl.

I do not use a taskbar (I hate task bars...), so I generally organize my windows on virtual workspaces, keeping things like Firefox and Evolution maximized to their workspace. When all else fails I use the window list (you can see the icon for it in the top right corner), or more recently I have started having beryl show scaled versions of each window for the workspace I am currently on.

I do not keep any app launching icons either, as being an ex MacOS X user I have grown WAY to used to using tools like Deskbar, using Control+Space to bring it up any time I need to launch something.

Sorry for the file sizes of the pics being large... I have not really bothered to convert them.

http://www.lorinel.com/photos/screenshots/Screenshot.png
http://www.lorinel.com/photos/screenshots/Screenshot_3d.png
http://www.lorinel.com/photos/screenshots/Screenshot_deskbar.png Edited 2007-01-05 21:53 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lorinel) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?198901 http://osnews.com/thread?198901 http://imagepolis.com/img.php?img=20070106292616511.jpg Edited 2007-01-06 01:14 Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (roko) Comments