OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20895/Show_Us_Your_Desktop_2009_Edition Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 18 May 2013 23:25:34 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Comment by Stephen! http://www.osnews.com/thread?346674 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346674 http://i42.tinypic.com/wkmxqv.png Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Stephen!) Comments Windows and coloring http://www.osnews.com/thread?346679 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346679 I am a KDE guy myself, but I do like that GNOME shot. (Except for the glass of Murrina.) Very soothing and I could see me getting work done without distraction on that.

The windows shot however... Can windows really not color the all UI elements to match the rest of the rest of the UI? I have Vista for school, but I only use it once every couple months, and then with the classic UI. The blueish gradients really contrast with the red tinting everywhere else. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BigDaddy) Comments My Ubuntu desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346681 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346681 This is my Ubuntu 8.10 desktop. Haven't gone too crazy. Just nice.

http://i44.tinypic.com/2hx24ps.jpg

Hope you like.Edited 2009-02-02 18:54 UTC Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (xshodan) Comments RE: My Ubuntu desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346682 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346682 Really nice background. ;) Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TLZ_) Comments Here's my rather old Morphos 2.1 desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346683 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346683 http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a366/robinsonworld/Grab-1.jpg


Anyone remember what this is?

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a366/robinsonworld/SCREEN.jpg Edited 2009-02-02 19:02 UTC Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AmigaRobbo) Comments here's mine http://www.osnews.com/thread?346684 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346684 http://i36.tinypic.com/e6a791.png

I also have a generic KDE 4 desktop on Ubuntu for watching flash videos, mainly, it's the only thing I can't do in Haiku currently. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (IanDumych) Comments Hehe http://www.osnews.com/thread?346685 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346685 Purrrfect!

:-/

Sorry. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (xshodan) Comments Comment by ichi http://www.osnews.com/thread?346686 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346686 http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/434/sshot2xv4.png
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/9681/sshot1uk6.png Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ichi) Comments Comment by czubin http://www.osnews.com/thread?346687 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346687 Is it embarassing if you only use the default theme with a different wallpaper? No need to show fancy pictures then I suppose ;) (ubuntu & mac btw) Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (czubin) Comments My Desktop: KDE 3.5 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346688 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346688 Running in Fedora at my school. I run Debian at home, same exact desktop layout though.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a93/dexteralm/snapshot1.png Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (almendez) Comments Comment by zoken4 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346689 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346689 Archlinux :
http://uppix.net/0/e/c/dc9a5f7a516aa60c49ac56afc70fe.png
http://uppix.net/d/a/3/6b6e94230f4a59450f844288849ad.png Edited 2009-02-02 19:17 UTC Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zoken4) Comments My Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346690 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346690 Running Vista SP1
http://img32.picoodle.com/img/img32/3/2/2/f_desktopm_3061002.jpg

beautiful, isn't ? Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mehdi311ggg) Comments RE: My Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346693 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346693 I could come over and end it painlessly...

Do you even use half of those applications? It does remind me of my dad's desktop where he forgot what half of the icons are supposed to do... Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (czubin) Comments Ubuntu 8.10 on an EEE PC 1000H http://www.osnews.com/thread?346696 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346696 http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7900/desktopyd6.png Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pascal16) Comments OS X isn't very customizable http://www.osnews.com/thread?346697 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346697 ..and I'm fine with that.(But my GNOME-setups where never that adventerous either...)

I have tuned down OS X colors (find the intense blue and the traffic-sign colors a bit noisy.) Also the wallpaper is very calm as well.

Screenshot Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TLZ_) Comments XP + LiteStep + TrueTransparency http://www.osnews.com/thread?346698 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346698 http://img382.imageshack.us/my.php?image=orb4qe6.jpg

Windows XP running orb4 for LiteStep [ http://www.ls-lab.com.ar ], amusement for TrueTransparency and a wallpaper by ether. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sryo) Comments kde or enlightenment, four desktops and clean http://www.osnews.com/thread?346699 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346699 I try to limit the icons on my desktops with none-shortucts being temporary downloads and such. KDE3 provides a flexible desktop on most of my machines while Enlightenment or lighter desktops work against older hardware. Except on Windows, four desktops is a minimum for me as each desktop has it's own purpose including the one that always has four cli terminals open and waiting. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jabbotts) Comments Comment by miscz http://www.osnews.com/thread?346700 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346700 Vista SP1 and Gnome on Ubuntu 8.10. I find myself using Windows a lot these days. Shouldn't have bought that Radeon HD4870, all I do now is gaming ;)

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/1387/vistafr5.png
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/5173/gnomerk8.png Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (miscz) Comments E17...... http://www.osnews.com/thread?346703 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346703 http://beauregard.ch/shot.png Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (drkwolf) Comments My Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346704 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346704 Here is my Ubuntu 8.10 desktop

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r240/ddonley/mydesktop.png Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (raver31) Comments Leopard on MacBoook http://www.osnews.com/thread?346705 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346705 It's 10.5.6

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/8373/bild1pr7.png Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SK8T) Comments RE[2]: My Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346706 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346706
Do you even use half of those applications?

Of course
what's the problem of it ? Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mehdi311ggg) Comments Pretty much a stock OpenSolaris box http://www.osnews.com/thread?346707 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346707 http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu60/codelion/screen.jpg

Pretty much a stock OpenSolaris box, running the default Nimbus theme on Gnome. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pantheraleo) Comments RE[3]: My Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346709 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346709
"Do you even use half of those applications?
Of course what's the problem of it ? "

What do you think heirachical menus are for. I think you use the start button on Windows systems. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chemical_scum) Comments Italian Desktops http://www.osnews.com/thread?346710 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346710 One of the most important italian newspaper, repubblica.it, is running a "Show your Desktop" poll right now...

It is a huge success, over 100 galleries of desktop screenshots, (25 photos each) in just a few days.

It's an interesting sample of desktop platform distribution, here in Italy.

Here is the link: http://www.repubblica.it/speciale/2009/mio-desktop/index.html

Click on "Guarda le foto" (italian for "Look at the pictures") to see the galleries.

Note: in italian "Il mio desktop" -> My Desktop Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (paoloverri) Comments RE: My Ubuntu desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346711 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346711 What are those circles showing CPU / RAM?
Where can I get them? Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FunkyELF) Comments From my Corporate Desktop machines http://www.osnews.com/thread?346712 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346712 Mac OS X 10.5 on iMac G5 http://i40.tinypic.com/x3imf9.png
Windows XP on EeePC http://i44.tinypic.com/2rmxw92.pngEdited 2009-02-02 19:52 UTC Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jokkel) Comments KDE 4.2, simple-ish http://www.osnews.com/thread?346713 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346713 http://imagebin.ca/view/b9szmtY.html

As a bonus, the desktop image was uploaded to imagebin by dropping it into the bottom-right desktop widget.

Using openbox as WM because kwin effects don't work right on this computer anyway. Arch Linux.Edited 2009-02-02 19:54 UTC Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ralsina) Comments Background with terminal http://www.osnews.com/thread?346714 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346714 I decided to show you just my background when apps I'm working in are minimized. Normally, I have a two pane layout which fits well into this resolution.

The terminal is a bonus to see some UI. As you may guess, I like it simple and low-key. The desktop is empty on purpose. If I want to start a program, open a document, etc., I use tilda.

http://fopref.meinungsverstaerker.de/div/lame.png

The system is ArchLinux with Fluxbox.Edited 2009-02-02 19:59 UTC Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ford Prefect) Comments Ubuntu 8.10 SS http://www.osnews.com/thread?346715 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346715 Running a pretty blue setup with Ubuntu 8.10. I love the os, but I love the look of Leopard even better. I couldn't really find everything I wanted in one place, so it's a mash of different things I found to work nice.

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/5803/desktopsr0.png Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rdforsyth) Comments Here's http://www.osnews.com/thread?346716 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346716 Here's my KDE 4.2 Desktop-- ATM it's using the colour preserving Aya, and the Folderview Desktop Containment. I currently have a slideshow Picture Frame plasmoid on the desktop, and the LCD Weather plasmoid beside the system tray (Which is fuglier than the other Weather Plasmoid but I'm waiting for a new Debian Package for that.) The wallpaper is a 'fall shot' from when I was visiting family.

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q238/James_Spencer/kde-desktop.j... Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Shade) Comments Here's mine http://www.osnews.com/thread?346717 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346717 ubuntu intrepid, gnome do 0.8 and the babe is bianca beauchamp. Hope you like! ;)

http://www.janietz.de/mine.png Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lispykid) Comments Cold and dreary, eh? http://www.osnews.com/thread?346718 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346718 Should come out to California. We got sunny skies and 60s here. High of 71 tomorrow. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vitae) Comments RE: Cold and dreary, eh? http://www.osnews.com/thread?346720 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346720 Weather for Winnipeg, Mb

Currently:
-12f
Flurries Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rdforsyth) Comments RE: Cold and dreary, eh? http://www.osnews.com/thread?346721 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346721 You know this is too funny. ;) A minute after the upload I looked at my screen and thought: I wonder if somebody pities me for the weather. And the next comment was yours. Well, I hope summer will return to munich in time. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lispykid) Comments Comment by Elnahir http://www.osnews.com/thread?346722 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346722 http://tinyurl.com/at3sbj

Win XP SP2 64bit. I'm lovin' it. ;) Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Elnahir) Comments RE[2]: Cold and dreary, eh? http://www.osnews.com/thread?346724 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346724 I agree. We see 90f in the summer, but -60f (35c to -50c) in the winter. Spring is but only a small handful of fortnights! Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rdforsyth) Comments RE: My Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346725 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346725 Bandwidth exceeded, lol.. use a public service. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (maaxx) Comments Win xp + emerge http://www.osnews.com/thread?346726 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346726 http://i44.tinypic.com/2nj0ht.jpg Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (korriban) Comments RE[3]: My Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346727 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346727 Ow, I'm just against clutter and fairly minimalistic. Having applications and or files on my desktop that I don't use would drive me nuts. Best to shove them all in a junk folder. (out of sight and out of mind ;) ) Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (czubin) Comments Openbox on ArchLinux http://www.osnews.com/thread?346728 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346728 Openbox on Arch (the best Linux distro there is - FOR REAL!) - 2 little conkys and pypanel.

http://omploader.org/vMTdicA
http://omploader.org/vMTdicQ Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (RaisedFist) Comments here is mine http://www.osnews.com/thread?346731 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346731 http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs436&d=09050&f=screenshot950.png Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (roberth) Comments Enlightenment + Ubuntu http://www.osnews.com/thread?346732 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346732 heres my desktop. I use e17 on ubuntu. I don't use desktop icons so it looks nice and clean.

http://cdn.betterstream.com/images/1119-my-desktop-.png Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (brianguertin) Comments Comment by Boris http://www.osnews.com/thread?346735 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346735 This is my Ubuntu 8.10 desktop.

http://i43.tinypic.com/14obntu.jpg

Hope you like.

Mazzel Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Boris) Comments My Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346737 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346737 Windows 7 Beta 1 Build 7000

http://www.southofdallas.com/blog_images/MoreonWindows7Beta_BE39/Wi... Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rshol) Comments RE: E17...... http://www.osnews.com/thread?346738 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346738 Looks nice. I don't recognize the app, though. Looks similar to ratpoison or xmonad..Edited 2009-02-02 21:16 UTC Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (urfe) Comments Mine http://www.osnews.com/thread?346739 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346739 http://kotisivu.lumonetti.fi/samusini/screenshots/2009-02-02.jpg

Arch Linux and KDE 4.2 featuring Bespin theme. Been after that maccish feeling... Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SJ87) Comments My workstation http://www.osnews.com/thread?346741 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346741 http://imagebin.org/37344Edited 2009-02-02 21:04 UTC Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jptros) Comments That's mine http://www.osnews.com/thread?346742 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346742 http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/1647/picture1bz0.jpg Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Budd) Comments Wow http://www.osnews.com/thread?346744 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346744 Thom your windows shot looks stunning, but why windows 7 on your main box, do they even have an upgrade path from beta to rc or else it's pointless on your main box? Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (liamdawe) Comments My Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346745 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346745 :) Hi,
here is mine:
http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/3945/snapshot2kg5.jpg

I'm using Slackware-current. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kernel_daemin) Comments Dualhead Fluxbox desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346746 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346746 This is my Fluxbox desktop on Gentoo Linux, using 2x1280x1024 monitors (dualhead, no xinerama):

http://personal.inet.fi/cool/l33tmmx/fluxbox-screenshot.png Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (l33tmmx) Comments A little mix... http://www.osnews.com/thread?346747 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346747 ... of the OpenSolaris's Nimbus theme window border and Fedora's default gtk+ engine (Nodoka). The iconset is Gnome-Colors Brave and the backgrounds of the gnome-panels are custom-made. Oh, I forgot, this is Ubuntu 8.10 (Gnome).

screenshot1

screenshot2 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cyberpython) Comments another clean http://www.osnews.com/thread?346748 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346748 http://zulutek.uw.hu/desk.png Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aacs) Comments Mine http://www.osnews.com/thread?346750 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346750 http://i695.photobucket.com/albums/vv319/cm_49/desktop.png Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cm49) Comments FBSD7 + xmonad http://www.osnews.com/thread?346752 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346752 http://cellblock.homeunix.com/img/fbsd_7.png

A bit old. I dropped the emacs menubar since then. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bm3719) Comments Deceptive http://www.osnews.com/thread?346755 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346755 http://xs136.xs.to/xs136/09061/2009-01-27-142938_1280x1024_scrot214...

It looks like Ubuntu Gnome, but it isn't.

And one with the obligatory open windows

http://xs136.xs.to/xs136/09061/2009-02-02-214553_1280x1024_scrot467... Edited 2009-02-02 21:49 UTC Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mark76) Comments arch linux and awesome3 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346756 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346756 my arch linux desktop with awesome3 wm:

http://phisphere.deviantart.com/art/shades-of-gray-111433228 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (phisphere) Comments RE: Here's my rather old Morphos 2.1 desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346758 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346758 RiscOS on the Acorn Archimedes, I think. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tobyv) Comments A truly Wonderful desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346761 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346761 Here's my Parsix GNU/Linux desktop in all its wonderful glory. Parsix is mostly Debian Testing (Lenny) with a dash of Sid. Of course I have more than a dash of Sid in my mix than recommended I suppose. But, it's stable. Enjoy.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=i5u4qv&s=5 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cmost) Comments RE: Comment by Elnahir http://www.osnews.com/thread?346767 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346767 What's your dock/panel thing at the bottom? That looks pretty cool. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (thinker5555) Comments Gentoo with e17 dual monitor http://www.osnews.com/thread?346768 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346768 http://imagebin.org/37357 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Titul) Comments Fedora 9 Xfce desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346769 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346769 http://mitglied.lycos.de/a7dx44o0dxa9s2r/desktop_20090202.jpg Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (siimo) Comments dwm and openbox http://www.osnews.com/thread?346771 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346771 dwm http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3160/2955033107_956bb3c729_b.jpg

openbox http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3146/2672218612_ba04ab3720_b.jpg Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (binarymutant) Comments RE: My Desktop: KDE 3.5 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346773 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346773 gorgeous view... where is that? Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (banjoze) Comments Mac OS X http://www.osnews.com/thread?346775 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346775 http://flickr.com/photos/dittobox/3242667863/sizes/o/ Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DittoBox) Comments Here's mine http://www.osnews.com/thread?346777 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346777 http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=currentdesktoplq5.jpg Edited 2009-02-02 23:05 UTC Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pyramiao) Comments Comment by Leszek Lesner http://www.osnews.com/thread?346781 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346781 Here is my ZevenOS 1.1 Preview 10 Desktop ;)


http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200902030012101024x768ssq8... Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Leszek Lesner) Comments old screenshot http://www.osnews.com/thread?346782 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346782 http://invitel.hu/on/z/ss20040625.png Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mono) Comments Kubuntu 8.02 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346783 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346783 Kubuntu 8.04 (KDE 3.5.9)Edited 2009-02-02 23:28 UTC Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (serhyy) Comments RE[3]: Cold and dreary, eh? http://www.osnews.com/thread?346788 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346788
I agree. We see 90f in the summer, but -60f (35c to -50c) in the winter. Spring is but only a small handful of fortnights!



Wow, -60. We had that in Chicago once. Wind chill factor and all. That's rough. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vitae) Comments Here's mine http://www.osnews.com/thread?346792 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346792 Warning, it's almost a meg even at 15% loss since it's
5120x1200 - two 24" LCD's at 1920x1200 and a 17" at 1280x1024 (soon to be replaced by a third 24" LCD)

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b243/deathshadow60/desktop_2feb20...

Windows XP x64, 'classic' theme with all the goofy animated bull turned off. Taskbar is in portrait mode on the right with that "Group similar buttons" nonsense turned off, the "hide inactive icons" nonsense turned off, - and the start menu has "personalized menus" turned off as well. The point of a menu is to show you ALL the options, not just the options you happen to have used recently!

Let's just say there's a reason I bitch about Gnome not letting you set the width of one of it's toolbars to more than 128 pixels wide, much less it's half assed behavior towards stretching everything to max height.

Of course that goes with my attitude towards most of the new eye candy garbage - It's like UI designers seem to think it is a cardinal sin to have TEXT displayed to tell you what all those open windows are - instead relying on some goof assed thumbnail so distorted you can't tell any of the windows apart. (am I the only person that finds multitasking under OSX damned near impossible to use? - gimme a ******* taskbar!)

Oh, and here's another shot, this time with a couple windows open.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b243/deathshadow60/desktop_with_w...

Which illustrates how I have to zoom in 30% in opera to make this site useful because it uses absurdly undersized fixed metric fonts instead of dynamic fonts, effectively alienating large font/120 dpi users and being an accessability /FAIL/.

Made even more of a pain in the ass by the fact that the form boxes DO use dynamic fonts, so while typing in text it's better to return to default zoom - GREAT... But what do you expect from a page designed to a fixed width for no good reason.

-- edit --

forgot photobucket is a ****tard about resizing images even if you are under the file SIZE limitations... so excuse the heavy artifacting on the second pic.Edited 2009-02-02 23:42 UTC Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deathshadow) Comments Mint on a whitebox http://www.osnews.com/thread?346793 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346793 and here it is
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3501/3249117724_58edf2eef6_o.png Edited 2009-02-02 23:43 UTC Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (diskinetic) Comments RE: Comment by Stephen! http://www.osnews.com/thread?346796 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346796 Kde4 sure looks nice by default!

Here are my computers:
BeOS http://judgen.googlepages.com/screen1.jpg
Windows XP http://judgen.googlepages.com/screenshot-andLinux.jpg
Windows XP with litestep shell http://judgen.googlepages.com/lsscreenshot2.jpg
Xubuntu http://judgen.googlepages.com/screenshot.jpg
Kubuntu kde4.0 http://judgen.googlepages.com/Screenshot-kde4.jpeg
MacOS X http://judgen.googlepages.com/Mitt_skrivbord.jpg Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (judgen) Comments Comment by moleskine http://www.osnews.com/thread?346797 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346797 Here's mine, currently on SuSE 11.1:

http://www.plausiblefish.org/2009/02/02/my-desktop/ Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (moleskine) Comments RE: Comment by moleskine http://www.osnews.com/thread?346798 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346798 broken. The lightbox just hangs, if you middle click to bypass the lightbox ****otry, it's 404.Edited 2009-02-02 23:56 UTC Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deathshadow) Comments RE[2]: Comment by moleskine http://www.osnews.com/thread?346799 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346799 Thanks for checking, that's bad luck. It now works OK from here. Not that that means a great deal. Maybe a woggle on the wibbly web I suppose. I quite like Lightbox thing, though. Maybe it's a complication too far. Dunno. I tend to swap wallpapers every few days. The stock SuSE ones are soothing on the eye and cleverly done as they change shade through the day, but they're too "pretty" for me. Gotta be a bit more rufty tufty.Edited 2009-02-03 00:20 UTC Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (moleskine) Comments My desktop setup... http://www.osnews.com/thread?346800 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346800 http://i44.tinypic.com/20gdzza.png

My desktop is a fairly typical Ubuntu one. The wallpaper is of an ultra-high res photo of Saturn, taken by the Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting the planet, modified using the GIMP to bring it down to a sane (1680x1050) resolution for desktop use. I use a slightly modified "Mist" theme; the changes included making the window colors a darker gray and inverting the mouse cursor.

I added few of my own often-used programs as launchers in the top panel, as well as the weather applet in the top-right and a system monitor (containing CPU, network and swap usage) in the bottom-right. I currently have a Pardus CD in one of my CD drives and an external hard drive connected, which both show up on the otherwise-clean desktop.

Some shadow effects (ie. the two panels) are completely invisible due to the black in the wallpaper.Edited 2009-02-03 00:21 UTC Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (UltraZelda64) Comments Oops, forgot 7 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346801 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346801 I also had win7 installed last month - did my testing, reported what didn't work...

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b243/deathshadow60/desktop_window...

Which was the same general resolution, but at that time I was running two 21" CRT's and just one 24" LCD. Center CRT caught fire a couple weeks ago (literally) so I figured maybe it was time to go pure LCD. (still adjusting to the COMPLETE lack of real blacks)

The biggest thing that had problems is right there in the screenshot - Audio. My audigy 2 would cut in and out trying to play games and when trying to use my EMU Morpheus alongside the Audigy 2 (basically giving me three EMU 10K chips in one machine - 96 channels on six ports, 384 multitimbral, no waiting - did we mention I usually have a gig of ram sucking down soundfonts?) both devices would alternate cutting in and out. (driver issue in a beta? No, REALLY?)

Which still means it worked better than Vista where the system would BSOD if I tried to play more than 60 measures non-stop in Sonar...

As you can also see, I was able to turn off most of that new taskbar nonsense and get it back to how I like my desktop laid out - though interestingly I left the new Aero enabled (though I turned off all the animated bull) since it seemed to be more 'polished' and less annoying than Aero is under Vista (like say, you change the desktop color you don't get stuck with cyan lines that don't match!) Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deathshadow) Comments Xandros Pro http://www.osnews.com/thread?346802 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346802 http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b61/tekmate/snapshot1-2.png Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JPisini) Comments Workstation http://www.osnews.com/thread?346803 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346803 http://terii.kbcowboy.net/images/computer/20090202-desktop.jpg

Arch Linux + PekWM. Dual 1600x1200. Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (quad3d) Comments Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty 64 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346805 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346805 My Ubuntu 64 Desktop.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3506/3249251370_cecb6ae066_o.png Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dashua) Comments RE: Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty 64 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346806 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346806 That's a nice one. Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (moleskine) Comments RE: Comment by Stephen! http://www.osnews.com/thread?346808 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346808
http://i42.tinypic.com/wkmxqv.png


How did you get KDE 4 on PCLinuxOS? Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lemur2) Comments There you go http://www.osnews.com/thread?346809 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346809 My good old openbox desktop:
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/1959/openbox1oh1.png

and my new enlightenment desktop:
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/6528/e17yb2.png

the ob desktop is the result of about 2 years of iterations, looking for a lightweight taskbar and a few essential systray application to do some extra work (post-it, check email, manage wifi, control the volume).

The e17 desk is quite new, I'm still experimenting with it. It's designed to let windows use the full height, having all the essential stuff (icon only taskbar and clock) in one sidebar. There is actually a launchbar on the top, but it only appears on mouseover. Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (muzzle) Comments Lame desktop... http://www.osnews.com/thread?346810 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346810 Mine:

http://jlarocco.com/images/newsc.jpg Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jlarocco) Comments Quantum Chemistry Workstation http://www.osnews.com/thread?346811 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346811 My desktop is pretty much a default 8.04 LTS (no point in upgrading to 8.10 too much effort to set up all the programs I need and nothing much new I need)

The desktop has no icons on it, a different wallpaper and a few extra applets from default that's all. I keep the Human theme because I like it and I am one:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3520/3249375822_8a6c33920e_o.png

I do not use Compiz as it interferes with OpenGL programs such as the ones shown here. It's only a low powered system but powerful enough to use as a Quantum Chemistry Workstation which is why I am posting my screenshot.

It shows the program Ghemical displaying the Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital (HOMO) of an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) together with it's orbital energy level diagram using the Modified Neglect of Diatomic Overlap (MNDO) Hamiltonian as calculated by the MOPAC 7 program. This can be used in determining the potential reactivity of molecules using Frontier Molecular Orbital (FMO) theory.

Simple eh?Edited 2009-02-03 01:36 UTC Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chemical_scum) Comments Comment by Adam S http://www.osnews.com/thread?346813 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346813 This is my home computer - OS X 10.5.6, considerably more boring than my previous screenshot in the referenced article.

http://osnews.com/img/20895/adam.jpgEdited 2009-02-03 01:41 UTC Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Comments It's not cold here ! http://www.osnews.com/thread?346814 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346814 You do realise that the WWW is world-wide, don't you ? Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mounty) Comments RE: Comment by zoken4 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346815 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346815 That's an exceedingly cool background! It should drive those walking past crazy trying to turn their head to orient themselves correctly.

Any chance we could get a link to it? Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (yelo) Comments My desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346816 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346816 Here is my desktop.
http://i39.tinypic.com/m9cfaw.png
Nothing to advanced very simple. Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kazuki) Comments desktop, what desktop? http://www.osnews.com/thread?346820 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346820 hmmm..'desktop', what 'desktop'?
I haven't had a 'desktop' since 2003. I never understood the 'desktop' concept, something you only see when you're not doing anything. Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jessta) Comments Here's mine http://www.osnews.com/thread?346821 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346821 Ubuntu 8.10 with overglossed Methacity theme and Oxygen iconset (yup the latter is the default in KDE 4.x):

Edited 2009-02-03 03:37 UTC Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ml2mst) Comments Comment by Elv13 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346822 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346822 Current:
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/998/snapshot25lp9.png
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=lqxEQXghkQI
(AwesomeWM2 + dzen2 + conky + idesk)

Previous:
http://ossdb.quebecgeeks.net/snapshot14.png (fulxbox+idesk+conky+bbdock) Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Elv13) Comments RE: Comment by Elv13 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346823 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346823 My eyes! They bleed! Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TrevorB) Comments Here is my OSX 10.5.6 desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346825 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346825 http://djmtheory.com/images/screen.jpg Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (haroot) Comments RE: desktop, what desktop? http://www.osnews.com/thread?346826 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346826 Good point. I have a 30" dell and I can't remember the last time I saw my desktop. I normally have 5+ windows open and about 10 terminal tabs. Currently using gnome but am salivating with anticipation of a completed etoile desktop.Edited 2009-02-03 04:43 UTC Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Darkmage) Comments Comment by DJBase http://www.osnews.com/thread?346827 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346827 What about...?

http://www.amigaworld.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/grab002.png Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DJBase) Comments RE: Mine http://www.osnews.com/thread?346828 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346828 I remember taking a beginning computing class waaaaay back in 1987. I was using a used C64 with GEOS, and had been for months. Then I go into a collegiate computer course, and that naked white prompt was staring balefully at me. I remember asking out loud, "You're kidding, right?"

Hilarious. Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (diskinetic) Comments Two of my desktops http://www.osnews.com/thread?346833 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346833 Gentoo (x86_64) on alcyone:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2162/2338084182_e104102ff3_o.png

Debian [testing] (x86) on electra:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3113/2868904892_257078cb7c_o.png Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jdt2k5) Comments Windows Vista & XP; the Weather's Fair in West Jordan http://www.osnews.com/thread?346834 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346834 Here are mine:
http://ipf2.608.googlepages.com/2009-02-03_002126.jpg

Windows Vista on my main desktop. I've got dual monitors here, so it's a rather large image. My desktop is actually normally a bit messy-- I often have projects that are strewn about on it. But I cleaned it up in lieu of this. ;) I darkened the Aero theme because the original tint of gray wasn't black and shiny enough for me. The background photo was taken on a beach in Washington.

http://ipf2.608.googlepages.com/2009-02-03_002823.jpg

Windows XP on my new netbook. Not much to say here except that the background image is of a pretty temple in Logan, Utah.

I've got a Windows 7 desktop and two Ubuntu desktops I could post, but there's really nothing to see on those.

As for the weather, it's rather chilly 'round these parts, too (West Jordan, Utah-- suburb of Salt Lake City). Though right now is beginning to feel warm to me during the day. Sad. Fifty feels warm. It's been winter too long. ;) Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (weildish) Comments sidux kde 4.2 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346837 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346837 Just a default kde 4.2 on top of a sidux gnu/linux distro Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aunzim) Comments my two current plasma "activities" http://www.osnews.com/thread?346838 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346838 With KDE 4.2 I've got two desktops, or "activities" as they're called in some places.

http://imagebin.ca/view/RJpIbQk.html
http://imagebin.ca/view/eRGbmYl.html

I really like Plasma. I like having different desktops, I like being able to mix up folderviews, and I like the flexibility of the picture frame plasmoid. With picture frames it's a lot easier to compose your desktop.

I also recently used a plasma activity containment for files relevant to a particular project. It makes a lot of sense for me to have the files relevant to what you're working on available on the desktop.

What I'd really like to see for Plasma is: 1. easier to find/edit hotkeys for switching desktop activities; 2. clarify the name scheme.. sometimes it's called a desktop, sometimes an activity; 3. provide an optional way of tying plasma desktops to the traditional virtual desktops provided by the window manager.Edited 2009-02-03 08:34 UTC Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jmcnaught) Comments RE: Comment by Elv13 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346839 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346839 Both the Awesome and Fluxbox desktops are impressive.

Great color coordination, too! I especially like the monochromed icons in the Fluxbox image.

Your desktops sort of remind me of this 2002 Golem desktop by I.P. Julius (that also has decent color coordination and monocrhomed icons): http://solutions-i.org/julius/images/000004.max.jpg His other old Golem desktops are linked here: http://pijulius.blogspot.com/2006/05/my-old-desktops.html

Golem is a great WM -- it is almost as configurable as Enlightenment, but it only uses Xlib and it has a smaller memory footprint than most tiling WMs. Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tupp) Comments My KDE trunk http://www.osnews.com/thread?346840 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346840 Running KDE trunk on my laptop. Pretty nice. I can stand the issues that might crop up since I hack on it myself from time to time:

http://dose.se/mydesk.png Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (elvstone) Comments My OS X desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346841 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346841 http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture1vr7.png

Just standard OS X 10.5.6 on a MacBook with 20" display connected.

Sometimes I customize, just get tired of it too fast to bother anymore.

Oh, bottom right, that's a snipplet of text to paste in Terminal in case the Cisco VPN client breaks again. It reloads the .kext's. Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MahRain) Comments Kubuntu 8.10 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346844 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346844 http://i40.tinypic.com/28st35x.png

Kubuntu 8.10 with KDE 4.2 on my work laptop. Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments DWM http://www.osnews.com/thread?346845 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346845 http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174/2918458684_48776
I use the Dinamic Windows Manager becouse sucks less. In the backend I use xfce for the gtk themes.


I have taken this screenshot from my laptop at 1280x800 however I usually use the monocle layout for the laptop and the task layout (like in this screenshot) in my 21,6" flat panel.
A self made TCL script generates the status bar information ( In Linux is very easy because you only need to read files in the /proc filesystem). Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pmarin) Comments Archlinux and XMonad http://www.osnews.com/thread?346847 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346847 Eeepc and XMonad+gridselect:

http://omploader.org/vMTJpYg

T61 + XMonad

http://omploader.org/vMTdlZg Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Edgarama) Comments My workhorse! http://www.osnews.com/thread?346848 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346848 http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/qSsqV61f4IQ2utIy7GtWbQ?feat=di...

This is my main computer on work!!! Runs OpenSuSE 11.0 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (xoulis) Comments RE: DWM http://www.osnews.com/thread?346850 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346850 http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174/2918458684_48776c85f1_o.png Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pmarin) Comments Comment by holizz http://www.osnews.com/thread?346857 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346857 http://flickr.com/photos/holizz/3250385636/ Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (holizz) Comments The BeOS, still... http://www.osnews.com/thread?346860 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346860 http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~kh/Screen.png

The good old BeOS, not quite standard: I prefer the Deskbar along the top, a la old Mac, instead of its "proper" place at top right. Also, got tired of the primary colours hence the muted tabs, courtesy of Windowshade (when is the Appearance preflet in Haiku going to be finished?) and the leaf which I stole from the Haiku website to replace the blue and red BeOS menu button.

The easy right-click toggling of the icons on-and-off lets me pretend I'm running a tidy ship; actually this desktop is littered with crap.

Background pic is randomised to change at each reboot with a script that leverages BeOS queries and custom attributes: the candidate pics are two or three dozen favourites I have tagged with "background" as a keyword. (This pic = Comet McNaught.) Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nmalth) Comments RE: DWM http://www.osnews.com/thread?346863 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346863 OpenBSD with dwm. As I live in current and compile everything from source dwm is the best DE.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zp2VDBCqvuo/SVFqunSOteI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q1Zx7... Edited 2009-02-03 11:42 UTC Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sakeniwefu) Comments Comment by lidstah http://www.osnews.com/thread?346865 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346865 Here is mine :

eeepc / Debian Lenny / xrandr for dual screen handling / AwesomeWM :

http://omploader.org/vMTdlcQ

yes, I know, I love CLI too much ;) Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lidstah) Comments RE: arch linux and awesome3 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346866 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346866 Wow, that looks great.

I've also taken it to run awesome, but I haven't gotten down to configuring it properly yet (I'm running on the default settings).

Here's a rather old screenshot. I don't use finch anymore, I've started to use bitlbee for my IM'ing needs: http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/3292/snapawesomebf8.jpg Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (wanderingk88) Comments Openbox + Pypanel + Sonata http://www.osnews.com/thread?346870 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346870 http://nulani.net/~nulani/images/mundilfari1.png

Been looking for a replacement for Pypanel. It likes segfaulting too much. Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nulani) Comments RE: Here's mine http://www.osnews.com/thread?346873 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346873 Dude, thats a cool background, where do you get it from? Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (roller) Comments nostalgic http://www.osnews.com/thread?346875 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346875 This made me nostalgic, so her is my current desktop,
I use Linux for work and pleasure, so a clean nice, productive interface is a must for me, but Compiz Fusion is running

Fedora 10, Lenovo T61p, Gnome, Clearlooks NotSoDark:
http://i44.tinypic.com/2qtwqap.png

And the nostalgic part, 7 years in desktop, I regret I don't have my first one: Red Hat 6.0 (all Gnome, even 1.4)

Mandrake 8.2, February 2002:
http://i43.tinypic.com/v6iwkn.jpg
Gentoo 1.4rc1, November 2002
http://i39.tinypic.com/53tl5w.jpg
Gentoo 1.4, April 2004
http://i41.tinypic.com/119ulfm.jpgEdited 2009-02-03 14:02 UTC Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (makkus) Comments Comment by micken http://www.osnews.com/thread?346877 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346877 http://www.flickr.com/photos/21022088@N07/3051328876/sizes/o/ Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (micken) Comments Comment by ntpb http://www.osnews.com/thread?346886 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346886 http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img=/3/2/3/f_dsktpm_abef987.png&am... Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ntpb) Comments RE: Xandros Pro http://www.osnews.com/thread?346896 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346896 That wallpaper is sweet. Where is it from? Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tonys) Comments RE[2]: My Desktop: KDE 3.5 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346905 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346905 I got it off a cool site for wallpapers called InterfaceLift. http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/1782/hilltop_view.h... here is a link to the wallpaper. It's not a real place but a really nice manipulation of some real places. Enjoy ;) Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (almendez) Comments Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346906 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346906 Here is a screenshot of my OzOS E17 desktop.


http://picasaweb.google.com/mmesantos1/UntitledAlbum# Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mmesantos1) Comments RE[2]: Xandros Pro http://www.osnews.com/thread?346913 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346913 I can't find it again. If you want I can email it to you. Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JPisini) Comments Sad desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346914 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346914 Maybe its so fancy, but I like it.
http://picasaweb.google.pl/sobkas/RNe#5298621856887927970 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sobkas) Comments RE: Comment by Leszek Lesner http://www.osnews.com/thread?346921 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346921 Elfen lied. My favourite Anime ever, but entirely messed up ;) Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pgs31) Comments Desktop Screenshot http://www.osnews.com/thread?346927 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346927 http://tinyurl.com/dcdtu3

333Mhz Pentium II (Deschutes)
256MB Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (de_wizze) Comments MacOS X 10.5.6 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346928 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346928 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mabu2342/3251477314/sizes/m/ Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lemabu) Comments Comment by error32 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346929 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346929 http://error32.is-a-geek.com/picdump/0b7b9884e0e9ce91aeb23e04538ce2... Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (error32) Comments My Ubuntu Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346930 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346930 Gnome on Ubuntu 8.10, running Humanoid-OSX-Black-ColoredButtons theme. Looks way nicer than anything I ever had on Windows.

http://i42.tinypic.com/15d56ki.png Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (UnklePhunky) Comments Mac http://www.osnews.com/thread?346955 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346955 Here is my Leopard Machine:

http://itiz.in/390b Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OblivionMon) Comments RE: Comment by ntpb http://www.osnews.com/thread?346957 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346957 While your statement is true, I found it quite interesting to see what OSs people use and how they configure it.
I'm suprised to see so many Linux and so few Windows users. Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jokkel) Comments Opensolaris Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?346990 http://www.osnews.com/thread?346990 OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_106

http://www.storageserver.be/images/osnewsdesk.jpg Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Weeman) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?347012 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347012 http://apex.homelinux.net/desk.png

Ion: Zero useless fluff since 2000.Edited 2009-02-04 02:43 UTC Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (6c1452) Comments My Lmac (Linux Mint) & UbuntuSE (Ubuntu 8.04) Desktops http://www.osnews.com/thread?347014 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347014 I use my LMAC (Linux Mint 4.0 "Daryna") desktop at home

Desktop:
http://i43.tinypic.com/2vlsnkx.png

Internet Apps:
http://i40.tinypic.com/nltmdt.png

Office Apps:
http://i40.tinypic.com/20hk1g1.png

Compiz Cube:
http://i40.tinypic.com/10mveh5.png

My UbuntuSE (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron)for work

http://i42.tinypic.com/f1dqjd.png

http://i40.tinypic.com/k4eb9i.png

http://i44.tinypic.com/2v9682x.png Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (apjas) Comments My suggestion http://www.osnews.com/thread?347017 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347017 Next time, turn on the computer before taking the screen shot. That picture would make Mark Rothko weep. The image challenges me on levels that I didn't possess until the image imbued them upon me. Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (diskinetic) Comments My desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?347022 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347022 http://www.savefile.com/files/1993995

Simple and minimal. Windows 2000 SP4 + SmoothText for better text. Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Quietleaf) Comments RE[4]: My Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?347023 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347023 oh. my. agod.

I went crosseyed the second I opened it up! Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hollovoid) Comments My FreeBSD Box http://www.osnews.com/thread?347028 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347028 http://tinyurl.com/cl4q8t Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lihong) Comments RE: My suggestion http://www.osnews.com/thread?347031 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347031 Best response to my entry in a post-your-desktop thread ever!


Don't worry, some cognitive dissonance is normal the first time you see out of fisher-price land and into the world where window managers are for managing windows and computers are for running programs. Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (6c1452) Comments awesome http://www.osnews.com/thread?347069 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347069 do you now awesome?


http://es.tinypic.com/view.php?pic=iyzt3r&s=5 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (PocoO) Comments text-based apps glory http://www.osnews.com/thread?347085 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347085 Running Ubuntu 8.04.1

http://flickr.com/photos/angelaypablo/3188947022Edited 2009-02-04 12:48 UTC Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (diacritica) Comments XUbuntu 8.10 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347103 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347103 Since last time I got a new laptop (C2D T5670, 2GB) + I'm running Vista + Xubuntu dual boot, the vista side isn't that interesting (Windows Classic, plain background...) but i've been playing about with Xubuntu, I've always liked XFCE since the first time I installed it on Ubuntu (before Xubuntu existed), and since getting an Aspire One I'm liking it even more so decided I wanted it on my main machine, hence the 8.10 install:

Xubuntu 8.10 DesktopEdited 2009-02-04 14:11 UTC Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DBAlex) Comments RE: There you go http://www.osnews.com/thread?347111 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347111 Btw here is my work desktop:
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/2397/screenshotvc1.png

old Scientific Linux 4 (read customized RH) with old gnome. Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (muzzle) Comments xmonad on FreeBSD -CURRENT http://www.osnews.com/thread?347177 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347177 http://repnop.org/screenshots/xmonad-1.png
http://repnop.org/screenshots/xmonad.pngEdited 2009-02-04 17:18 UTC Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbahra) Comments My desk http://www.osnews.com/thread?347194 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347194 http://img98.imageshack.us/my.php?image=deskou0.png

OpenSuse 11.1Edited 2009-02-04 19:26 UTC Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lxstoian) Comments RE: Opensolaris Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?347230 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347230 What window theme are you using there? I like it... Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JW Jones) Comments Puppy (VestaPup) Babee!! :-) http://www.osnews.com/thread?347255 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347255 I have a lot of desktops, but this is one of the better LiveCDs I've found. VestaPup, based on Puppy Linux 3.01:

http://www.visi.com/~rsteiner/Puppy-Vesta-2009-02-03.png

I've installed it on the hard drive and added a few games, but this is actually pretty close to vanilla.

And of course I have to add this. Yes, I actually still use it from time to time. I've opened up a few of my Launchpad trays ... see how many icons from the past you might recognize. :-)

http://www.visi.com/~rsteiner/Warp4-2009-02-04.png

You can tell from some of the icons on the desktop that this installation has been around for a while. I think I installed this one as a secondary installation back in 1997 sometime. :-)Edited 2009-02-05 03:56 UTC Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rcsteiner) Comments RE: Puppy (VestaPup) Babee!! :-) http://www.osnews.com/thread?347256 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347256 Oops. Forgot this one. :-)

http://www.visi.com/~rsteiner/Win95B-QuikMenu4-2009-02-04.png

I hated the Win95 shell, so I used another... This box is one of my play-around-with-old-software boxes. Whee!Edited 2009-02-05 04:15 UTC Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rcsteiner) Comments RE: My desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?347273 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347273
http://www.savefile.com/files/1993995

Simple and minimal. Windows 2000 SP4 + SmoothText for better text.

Wouldn't call that amount of junk frames and borders etc "simple" nor "minimal". Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SJ87) Comments My Work Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?347274 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347274 Debian GNU Linux
Gnome 2.22
Customized Clearlooks theme
TigertCrack Metacity window decorations
Debian Gnome Default Icons
Unknown pixelart background

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/2392/screenshot3ib4.png Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (acid_head) Comments RE: Opensolaris Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?347351 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347351 what mpd client are you using? Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (de_wizze) Comments RE: My Desktop http://www.osnews.com/thread?347400 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347400 Is that your wallpaper or that icons are real? One of my client has a desktop just looks like that, but it's actually the wallpaper itself, therefore we can't click any of it. I think he's playing a prank on me LOL. Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dspratomo) Comments Fedora8 + MythTV http://www.osnews.com/thread?347615 http://www.osnews.com/thread?347615 http://www.painintheassproject.com/images/mythtv/mythtv00.png
http://www.painintheassproject.com/images/mythtv/mythtv01.png
http://www.painintheassproject.com/images/mythtv/mythtv02.png Edited 2009-02-07 14:46 UTC Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (proliant) Comments