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2012 desktop thread (nsf56k)

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    right click on your start bar
    left click properties
    left click the box next to "auto hide the task bar"

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    well yeah, but I meant like, get rid of it :V

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Huntera wrote: »
    UI8Ky.jpg

    I did some fiddling with other rain meter skins and I'm pretty happy with this one.

    It also fits the Space Marine background pretty well, I think.

    the font is a little jaunty for bringing the wrath of the emperor to the faces of the greenskins via the teeth of His Holy chainsword

    but the angles and such are really good

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    edited June 2012
    I changed my wallpaper for the first time in four years

    from this, only covered in at least three dozen shortcuts and documents:

    steampunkish.jpg

    to this:

    pyrodesktop.jpg

    I'm satisfied with rainmeter but I'd like something a little more stylized to match that wallpaper

    Shorty on
  • HunteraHuntera Rude Boy Registered User regular
    Yeah, sadly there is no 40k inspired font I can use for that stuff or I would.

    Oh and that theme is Magnum if anyone wants it.

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    well it wouldn't have to be calligraphic High Gothic script

    just something a little blockier, more workaday

    less, you know, friendly

  • SticksSticks I'd rather be in bed.Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    Buttlord wrote: »
    Sticks wrote: »
    This is what I'm using currently. I have it cycling through about 3 dozen background though.

    desktop.jpg

    hey you have that background saved

    can i have it

    wallpaper-394434.png

    edit: hmm photobucket resized it. So, I just uploaded all my current ones to imgur

    imgur.com/a/CLUrd

    Sticks on
  • HeisenbergHeisenberg Registered User regular
    I just found a pretty good blu ray screenshot site. Their selection isn't huge but it's good enough.

    God damnnit, they don't have a gallery for Tree of Life.

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    I want a good way to replace my taskbar that isn't ObjectDock

    I don't want to be constantly taunted by things I can't do because I'm not gonna buy it

    also, anyone have any other rainmeter skins? I have simplemedia but I want some more!

    The one in my post with the purple space is called bar 3.0

    The one with the office stuff is called You.

    They are both by dondraper1.

    There is one called Victorian that looks "neat", but wouldn't want forever.

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    #pipe wrote: »
    Rocketdock is opensource and free and super customizable

    you have just changed my entire life, this is fucking awesome

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    way too busy for me, but if this is your kind of thing, you might like it.
    avengers_s_h_i_e_l_d_os_by_daelnz-d53bcju.png

    http://rainmeter.deviantart.com/gallery/23941137#/d53bcju

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    here are links to the ones I was talking about

    Bar 3.0
    you_by_dondraper1-d50vu4l.jpg

    Animus Skin
    assassin__s_creed_rm_prototype_by_heenriko-d4s1me8.jpg

    Victorian
    victorian_rainmeter_by_dondraper1-d4kjjwr.png

    Period.
    period__by_dondraper1-d4nj0hb.jpg

    Langly on
  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    I feel like I am pimping this dude's stuff, but I really like it.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Gotta break up the Langly post train we've got going on here.

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  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    edited June 2012
    bar is pretty nice, I just threw that on

    I think I might put my taskbar stuff into Bar and reinstall ObjectDock to get rid of the taskbar

    hmm, any of you have a good, sleek music player? I am tiring of itunes, I want a little no-frills player, maybe just with a library, no like, radios or downloads or nothin'

    Depressperado on
  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    bar is pretty nice, I just threw that on

    I think I might put my taskbar stuff into Bar and reinstall ObjectDock to get rid of the taskbar

    hmm, any of you have a good, sleek music player? I am tiring of itunes, I want a little no-frills player, maybe just with a library, no like, radios or downloads or nothin'

    VLC

    make a folder that is your music library, and the new VLC has a section that will identify it and make that the library in the program.

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    Man, with bar and rocketdock and taskbar eliminator, I am really liking my setup.

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    yeah, I have VLC for watching movies and TV shows and stuff

    I was thinking Foobar or something, but that's low-class

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    Taskbar Eliminator

    yes, delicious

  • ArangArang HUEY LEWISRegistered User regular
    I use winamp for listening to music, but I suspect it might be because I've been using it since like 1998

    still, it has everything I want in a music player

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  • ShanksShanks "THAT FELLOW" Registered User regular
    foobar is great. What more do you need?

    I made this wallpaper around the time I first started doing comic edits, and it's been in my rotation ever since.

    yUss1.jpg

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  • I Win SwordfightsI Win Swordfights all the traits of greatness starlight at my feetRegistered User regular
    i use spotify because my dad has a premium account and i have foobar because i am snooty and listen to flac files sometimes

    lfYVHTd.png
  • DarricDarric Santa MonicaRegistered User regular
    edited June 2012
    LLbpS.jpg

    Darric on
  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    I happily use itunes because it's the only thing that does everything I want a music player to do

    I thought it was fuckin up a while back but it turned out to be a problem with the switch accessing the music library on a remote drive, but while it was glitchy I tried pretty much every music player I could

    Foobar, winamp, songbird, zune, VLC, etc etc etc

    nothing went even close to handling podcasts as well as iTunes, nothing organized the library as well, nothing had anything like iTunes DJ which is something I use every day

    I like iTunes man. It might be a bit of a processor glutton, but it's got a lot of nice features that are lacking elsewhere.

  • JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    Langly wrote: »


    how do I do this

    can I do it on windows?

  • TefTef Registered User regular
    solution for me was just never connect my iphone/ipad to my PC, back them up to cloud storage and then use VLC for all media playing stuff.

    Fuck you itunes (on windows) you bloated piece of butt.

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  • Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    i use itunes and spotify

    im on a mac

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    Beasteh wrote: »
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  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    I like iTunes well enough now

    On windows so yeah it is bloated and doesn't run as well as it should but

    Works nicely.

  • Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    Man, with bar and rocketdock and taskbar eliminator, I am really liking my setup.

    Yes this.

  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    I have one of these for every pokemon

    TPG5X.png

    I should set up rain meter or something

    icGJy2C.png
  • Mx. QuillMx. Quill I now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually... {They/Them}Registered User regular
    I changed mine to accomodate a new Rainmeter skin.
    desktop-1.jpg

    I also swapped to RocketDock, but haven't been able to get it to auto-hide when watching a video in full screen. I know there's the general auto-hide feature, but I like seeing it on the desktop. Anyone know if that's a hidden setting?

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    Joolander wrote: »
    Langly wrote: »


    how do I do this

    can I do it on windows?

    That is on windows 7.

    Download rainmeter. Click that link and download the skin/wallpaper.

    Load the skin and drag the different things to where you want them on the wallpaper.

    Edit the weather skin to include your yahoo weather code (yahoo weather, look up your zip code, click on "extended forecast" use the three letter then series of numbers code in the url. )

    Download taskbar eliminator and rocketbar if you want to completely replace the start bar.

  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    Thanks to this thread, I have about 30 more wallpapers in my rotation.

    THANKS GUYS

  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    Make sure you run rainmeter as an administrator

  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    I changed mine to accomodate a new Rainmeter skin.
    desktop-1.jpg

    I also swapped to RocketDock, but haven't been able to get it to auto-hide when watching a video in full screen. I know there's the general auto-hide feature, but I like seeing it on the desktop. Anyone know if that's a hidden setting?

    Got a clean version of that?

    aTBDrQE.jpg
  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    I changed mine to accomodate a new Rainmeter skin.
    desktop-1.jpg

    I also swapped to RocketDock, but haven't been able to get it to auto-hide when watching a video in full screen. I know there's the general auto-hide feature, but I like seeing it on the desktop. Anyone know if that's a hidden setting?

    you can set it to not be Always On Top?

    that way you don't have to auto-hide it, and it just sits behind your windows

  • Mx. QuillMx. Quill I now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually... {They/Them}Registered User regular
    Oh.

    Thanks. Now I feel stupid.

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    nah, I did the same thing, I just installed rocketdock yesterday :V

  • ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    I used to spend hours and hours modifying my desktop and using custom themes and all that junk. It is way less necessary with Windows 7 though. I just really like my taskbar, it looks nice. It is why I don't really use docks anymore. Also Fences is great because I don't care about cleaning up my desktop anymore, I can just hide it all with a click. I can store all the junk I want on my desktop now.

    Also this is my current setup.

    629Db.jpg

    http://atlanticus.tumblr.com/ PSN: Atlanticus 3DS: 1590-4692-3954 Steam: Artreus
  • Mx. QuillMx. Quill I now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually... {They/Them}Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    Skeith wrote: »
    Got a clean version of that?

    Edit: Aha, found the right one. Spoilered for huge.
    wall-ewallpaper+%25289%2529.jpg

    Mx. Quill on
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