A long time ago, we asked everyone to show their desktops, and we figured it would be nice, on this (for me) cold and dreary Monday to do that all over again, over two years later. The questions remain the same: cluttered or clean? Icons or no icons? Dual or single panel layout in GNOME? How free-form is your Plasma desktop? Are there any real computer users in here (as in, using CDE)? Read on for my own two desktops.
This is my Windows 7 desktop on my main machine. Fairly clean, even though I do use the desktop as a dumping ground for files I’m currently working on.
My test machine can run anything it wants, but the stable factor is Ubuntu 8.10, running GNOME.
Show us yours!
http://i42.tinypic.com/wkmxqv.png
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
How did you get KDE 4 on PCLinuxOS?
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.
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
Really nice background.
What are those circles showing CPU / RAM?
Where can I get them?
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
RiscOS on the Acorn Archimedes, I think.
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.
Purrrfect!
:-/
Sorry.
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/434/sshot2xv4.png
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/9681/sshot1uk6.png
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)
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
gorgeous view… where is that?
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
Archlinux :
http://uppix.net/0/e/c/dc9a5f7a516aa60c49ac56afc70fe.png
http://uppix.net/d/a/3/6b6e94230f4a59450f844288849ad.png
Edited 2009-02-02 19:17 UTC
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?
Running Vista SP1
http://img32.picoodle.com/img/img32/3/2/2/f_desktopm_3061002.jpg
beautiful, isn’t ?
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…
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.
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
)
oh. my. agod.
I went crosseyed the second I opened it up!
Bandwidth exceeded, lol.. use a public service.
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.
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7900/desktopyd6.png
..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.
<a href=”http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/34812/Eksternt/TLZ_Screenshot.jpg“>S…
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.
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.
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
http://beauregard.ch/shot.png
Looks nice. I don’t recognize the app, though. Looks similar to ratpoison or xmonad..
Edited 2009-02-02 21:16 UTC
Here is my Ubuntu 8.10 desktop
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r240/ddonley/mydesktop.png
It’s 10.5.6
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/8373/bild1pr7.png
http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu60/codelion/screen.jpg
Pretty much a stock OpenSolaris box, running the default Nimbus theme on Gnome.
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
Mac OS X 10.5 on iMac G5 http://i40.tinypic.com/x3imf9.png
Windows XP on EeePC http://i44.tinypic.com/2rmxw92.png
Edited 2009-02-02 19:52 UTC
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
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
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
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…
ubuntu intrepid, gnome do 0.8 and the babe is bianca beauchamp. Hope you like!
http://www.janietz.de/mine.png
Should come out to California. We got sunny skies and 60s here. High of 71 tomorrow.
Weather for Winnipeg, Mb
Currently:
-12f
Flurries
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.
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.
http://tinyurl.com/at3sbj
Win XP SP2 64bit. I’m lovin’ it.
What’s your dock/panel thing at the bottom? That looks pretty cool.
http://i44.tinypic.com/2nj0ht.jpg
Openbox on Arch (the best Linux distro there is – FOR REAL!) – 2 little conkys and pypanel.
http://omploader.org/vMTdicA
http://omploader.org/vMTdicQ
http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs436&d=09050&f=screenshot950.png
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
This is my Ubuntu 8.10 desktop.
http://i43.tinypic.com/14obntu.jpg
Hope you like.
Mazzel
Windows 7 Beta 1 Build 7000
http://www.southofdallas.com/blog_images/MoreonWindows7Beta_BE39/Wi…
http://kotisivu.lumonetti.fi/samusini/screenshots/2009-02-02.jpg
Arch Linux and KDE 4.2 featuring Bespin theme. Been after that maccish feeling…
http://imagebin.org/37344
Edited 2009-02-02 21:04 UTC
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/1647/picture1bz0.jpg
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?
🙂 Hi,
here is mine:
http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/3945/snapshot2kg5.jpg
I’m using Slackware-current.
This is my Fluxbox desktop on Gentoo Linux, using 2x1280x1024 monitors (dualhead, no xinerama):
http://personal.inet.fi/cool/l33tmmx/fluxbox-screenshot.png
… 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).
http://img12.imagehosting.gr/out.php/i438549_screenshot1.png“>
http://img12.imagehosting.gr/out.php/i438550_screenshot2.png“>
http://zulutek.uw.hu/desk.png
http://i695.photobucket.com/albums/vv319/cm_49/desktop.png
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.
http://cellblock.homeunix.com/img/fbsd_7.png
A bit old. I dropped the emacs menubar since then.
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
my arch linux desktop with awesome3 wm:
http://phisphere.deviantart.com/art/shades-of-gray-111433228
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
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
<a href=”http://imagebin.org/37357“>http://imagebin.org/37357
http://mitglied.lycos.de/a7dx44o0dxa9s2r/desktop_20090202.jpg
dwm http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3160/2955033107_956bb3c729_b.jpg
openbox http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3146/2672218612_ba04ab3720_b.jpg
http://flickr.com/photos/dittobox/3242667863/sizes/o/
http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=currentdesktoplq5.jpg
Edited 2009-02-02 23:05 UTC
Here is my ZevenOS 1.1 Preview 10 Desktop
http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200902030012101024x768ssq8…
Elfen lied. My favourite Anime ever, but entirely messed up
http://invitel.hu/on/z/ss20040625.png
Kubuntu 8.04 (KDE 3.5.9)
Edited 2009-02-02 23:28 UTC
Warning, it’s almost a meg even at 15% loss since it’s
5120×1200 – two 24″ LCD’s at 1920×1200 and a 17″ at 1280×1024 (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
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!)
and here it is
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3501/3249117724_58edf2eef6_o.png
Edited 2009-02-02 23:43 UTC
Here’s mine, currently on SuSE 11.1:
http://www.plausiblefish.org/2009/02/02/my-desktop/
broken. The lightbox just hangs, if you middle click to bypass the lightbox ****otry, it’s 404.
Edited 2009-02-02 23:56 UTC
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
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 (1680×1050) 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
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b61/tekmate/snapshot1-2.png
That wallpaper is sweet. Where is it from?
I can’t find it again. If you want I can email it to you.
http://terii.kbcowboy.net/images/computer/20090202-desktop.jpg
Arch Linux + PekWM. Dual 1600×1200.
My Ubuntu 64 Desktop.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3506/3249251370_cecb6ae066_o.png
That’s a nice one.
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.
Btw here is my work desktop:
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/2397/screenshotvc1.png
old Scientific Linux 4 (read customized RH) with old gnome.
Mine:
http://jlarocco.com/images/newsc.jpg
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
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.jpg
Edited 2009-02-03 01:41 UTC
You do realise that the WWW is world-wide, don’t you ?
Here is my desktop.
http://i39.tinypic.com/m9cfaw.png
Nothing to advanced very simple.
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.
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
Ubuntu 8.10 with overglossed Methacity theme and Oxygen iconset (yup the latter is the default in KDE 4.x):
<a href=”http://ml2mst.googlepages.com/ubuntu8_12.png“>
Edited 2009-02-03 03:37 UTC
Dude, thats a cool background, where do you get it from?
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)
My eyes! They bleed!
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.
http://djmtheory.com/images/screen.jpg
What about…?
http://www.amigaworld.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/grab002.png
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
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.
Just a default kde 4.2 on top of a sidux gnu/linux distro
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
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
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.
http://i40.tinypic.com/28st35x.png
Kubuntu 8.10 with KDE 4.2 on my work laptop.
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 1280×800 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).
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174/2918458684_48776c85f1_o.png
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
Eeepc and XMonad+gridselect:
http://omploader.org/vMTJpYg
T61 + XMonad
http://omploader.org/vMTdlZg
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/qSsqV61f4IQ2utIy7GtWbQ?feat=di…
This is my main computer on work!!! Runs OpenSuSE 11.0
http://flickr.com/photos/holizz/3250385636/
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.)
Here is mine :
eeepc / Debian Lenny / xrandr for dual screen handling / AwesomeWM :
http://omploader.org/vMTdlcQ
yes, I know, I love CLI too much
http://nulani.net/~nulani/images/mundilfari1.png
Been looking for a replacement for Pypanel. It likes segfaulting too much.
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.jpg
Edited 2009-02-03 14:02 UTC
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21022088@N07/3051328876/sizes/o/
http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img=/3/2/3/f_dsktpm_abef987.png&sr…
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.
Here is a screenshot of my OzOS E17 desktop.
http://picasaweb.google.com/mmesantos1/UntitledAlbum#
Maybe its so fancy, but I like it.
http://picasaweb.google.pl/sobkas/RNe#5298621856887927970
http://tinyurl.com/dcdtu3
333Mhz Pentium II (Deschutes)
256MB Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mabu2342/3251477314/sizes/m/
http://error32.is-a-geek.com/picdump/0b7b9884e0e9ce91aeb23e04538ce2…
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
Here is my Leopard Machine:
http://itiz.in/390b
OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_106
http://www.storageserver.be/images/osnewsdesk.jpg
What window theme are you using there? I like it…
what mpd client are you using?
http://apex.homelinux.net/desk.png
Ion: Zero useless fluff since 2000.
Edited 2009-02-04 02:43 UTC
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.
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.