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Desktop Thread - Did you buy new clothes? Show us your 'tops!

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  • DírhaelDírhael NorwayRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    desktopet.jpg

    Yes, winter's here... Forgot to backup my Aero CD Art Display skin before installing Win7 RTM a while back, so I had to remake it. Now when that's done, my desktop looks pretty much like my old one except the new wallpaper.

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  • LoxleyLoxley Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Bowtie

    Awesome, thanks :mrgreen:

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  • Joe ChemoJoe Chemo Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    tMmp2aQ

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  • VistiVisti Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Now that's minimal. Openbox?

    here's mine: I wish I knew how to set names of tags instead of just numbers, but I can't work it out.

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  • Joe ChemoJoe Chemo Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Yeah. I have it set up to look like that when I'm playing my xbox on my second monitor. When my 2nd monitor is displaying another desktop, it goes back to the dual-screen wallpaper I posted a few months ago.


    And by "I have it set up" I mean "I'm not exactly sure why it does this and I can't be bothered to fix it".



    My tinkering habit has really died down lately. I think it's the fact that I'm no longer unemployed.

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  • VistiVisti Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    That'll do that.

    Also, BOTP:
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  • Joe ChemoJoe Chemo Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    I haven't used awesome in about half a year, so the syntax might be out of date, but here's mine:
    -- {{{ Tags
    -- Define tags table.
    tags = {}
    for s = 1, screen.count() do
        -- Each screen has its own tag table.
        tags[s] = {}
        -- Create 9 tags per screen.
        --for tagnumber = 1, 6 do
          --  tags[s][tagnumber] = tag(tagnumber)
            -- Add tags to screen one by one
           -- tags[s][tagnumber].screen = s
            --awful.layout.set(layouts[1], tags[s][tagnumber])
       -- end
        tags[s][1] = tag({ name = "term" })
        tags[s][1].screen = s
        awful.layout.set(layouts[1], tags[s][1])
        tags[s][2] = tag({ name = "www" })
        tags[s][2].screen = s
        awful.layout.set(layouts[1], tags[s][2])
        tags[s][3] = tag({ name = "misc" })
        tags[s][3].screen = s
        awful.layout.set(layouts[1], tags[s][3])
        tags[s][4] = tag({ name = "music" })
        tags[s][4].screen = s
        awful.layout.set(layouts[1], tags[s][4])
        -- I'm sure you want to see at least one tag.
        tags[s][1].selected = true
    end
    -- }}}
    



    The default method (1-9) is still there, just commented out.

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  • fragglefartfragglefart Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Dírhael wrote: »
    desktopet.jpg

    Yes, winter's here... Forgot to backup my Aero CD Art Display skin before installing Win7 RTM a while back, so I had to remake it. Now when that's done, my desktop looks pretty much like my old one except the new wallpaper.

    That looks nice man, do you have a source?

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  • DírhaelDírhael NorwayRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Dírhael wrote: »
    desktopet.jpg

    Yes, winter's here... Forgot to backup my Aero CD Art Display skin before installing Win7 RTM a while back, so I had to remake it. Now when that's done, my desktop looks pretty much like my old one except the new wallpaper.

    That looks nice man, do you have a source?

    Sure, I uploaded a copy to the dump :)

    2_thumbs_1255685710.jpg

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  • fragglefartfragglefart Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Dírhael wrote: »
    Dírhael wrote: »
    desktopet.jpg

    Yes, winter's here... Forgot to backup my Aero CD Art Display skin before installing Win7 RTM a while back, so I had to remake it. Now when that's done, my desktop looks pretty much like my old one except the new wallpaper.

    That looks nice man, do you have a source?

    Sure, I uploaded a copy to the dump :)

    2_thumbs_1255685710.jpg

    Awesome, thanks!

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  • CmdPromptCmdPrompt Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Arch + wmii on my server.
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  • Joe ChemoJoe Chemo Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    :^:

    Like the Neon Genesis reference.

    Can I get your .bashrc?

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  • CmdPromptCmdPrompt Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Sure.
    txtblk='\e[0;30m' # Black - Regular
    txtred='\e[0;31m' # Red
    txtgrn='\e[0;32m' # Green
    txtylw='\e[0;33m' # Yellow
    txtblu='\e[0;34m' # Blue
    txtpur='\e[0;35m' # Purple
    txtcyn='\e[0;36m' # Cyan
    txtwht='\e[0;37m' # White
    txtrst='\e[0m' # Text Reset


    # Check for an interactive session
    [ -z "$PS1" ] && return

    alias ls='ls --color=auto'
    PS1="\[$txtblu\][\[$txtcyn\]\u\[$txtwht\]@\[$txtcyn\]\h \W\[$txtblu\]]\[$txtwht\]\$\[$txtrst\] "

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  • DiannaoChongDiannaoChong Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    So I have 2 new monitors that are very very sexy. The resolution comes to 3840x1080. I have found a total of maybe 5 wallpapers that fit this resolution, or are bigger(so they basically fit). Anyone have good sources for multimonitor wallpapers?

    Deviant art had a total of 2-3.

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  • VistiVisti Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Did you look at the first hit in google for your resolution + wallpaper?

    http://desktop-pictorials.com/DualScreen/DualPage01/Page01.html

    some are nsfw, but there are some quite nice ones, it seems.

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  • SithDrummerSithDrummer Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Interfacelift.com has plenty of huge, multi-monitor wallpapers.

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  • DiannaoChongDiannaoChong Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Visti wrote: »
    Did you look at the first hit in google for your resolution + wallpaper?

    http://desktop-pictorials.com/DualScreen/DualPage01/Page01.html

    some are nsfw, but there are some quite nice ones, it seems.

    Generally the response from google was "olol download this '[MATCHES YOUR SEARCH TERMS]' wallpaper .exe free!" maybe the googlefu was weak. Thanks for the links.

    Edit: also alot of these sites are just blowing up regular sized wallpapers to fit the resolution....

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  • ArcSynArcSyn Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    So Windows 7 is basically here, I know a bunch of you are running it. What customizations are out there for it? Anything for good multi monitor support?

    Any good gadget sites other than the official Windows one?

    edit: Apparently I just read that in Vista you can set a wide image to tile, and it will natively span it across your multiple monitors. Anyone tried this with 7? I only have multiple monitors at work so I won't be able to try it until Thursday since I have training till Wednesday.

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  • DiannaoChongDiannaoChong Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    ArcSyn wrote: »
    So Windows 7 is basically here, I know a bunch of you are running it. What customizations are out there for it? Anything for good multi monitor support?

    Any good gadget sites other than the official Windows one?

    edit: Apparently I just read that in Vista you can set a wide image to tile, and it will natively span it across your multiple monitors. Anyone tried this with 7? I only have multiple monitors at work so I won't be able to try it until Thursday since I have training till Wednesday.

    This is the only way to get a wallpaper to go across more then one monitor in win7 at the moment.

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  • FremFrem Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    10-19-09.jpg

    So I've been trying out KDE 4.3. It's not bad, actually. That widget on the desktop behaves just like a file management pane, except that you can hover over items to drill down deeper into your files. Double clicking pops open the full file manager at your current location.

    I also kind of like how the taskbar is just a bunch of desktop widgets lumped together. Heck, even standalone icons on the desktop are just automatically generated launcher widgets. I wouldn't give it to my dad without an explanation about the abstraction (drag + drop could be slightly confusing this way), but the flexibility is nice.

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  • Joe ChemoJoe Chemo Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Kde 4.x hasn't been kind to me in the past. Have they cut down on the bugs?

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  • VistiVisti Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    What kinds of bugs were you having? I haven't spotted a bug yet in kdemod from pacman.

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  • FremFrem Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    KDE 4.0 and 4.1 both randomly crashed a lot when I tried them in Ubuntu. There were also a lot of blatantly stupid UI issues which I can only assume were bugs.

    KDE 4.2 seems to be pretty solid so far. The only major bugs I've found so far are
    1. KDE's lack of support for multimonitor without either xorg.conf editing or running xrandr from the command line.
    2. Kopete keeps popping up messages about the online status of friends, even though I've tried to disable that like five times.

    It also doesn't support several of my laptop's shortcut keys that Gnome recognises. Nothing too serious.

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  • Joe ChemoJoe Chemo Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Frem pretty much nailed it. Plus some weird graphical glitches -- improper rendering or something.

    I might give 4.3 a shot then.

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  • Paul MalmsteenPaul Malmsteen Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Just my mac desktop. Bonus points to those that recognise the background.
    Desktop.jpg

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  • joshgotrojoshgotro Deviled Egg The Land of REAL CHILIRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Is that let the right one in?

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    does it?
  • Paul MalmsteenPaul Malmsteen Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Yep, good job *bonus points*

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  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Cornfield? Cornfield.Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    How do you look at that all day? <shudder>

    Anyway, festive:
    bvm_desktop_20091013.png

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  • VistiVisti Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Joe Chemo wrote: »
    Frem pretty much nailed it. Plus some weird graphical glitches -- improper rendering or something.

    I might give 4.3 a shot then.

    Do that, I'm on 4.3, albeit using kmess instead of kopete and it's been nothing, but sunshine and lollipops. Even with different window managers. Plasma just keeps on trucking under both openbox and awesome.

    edit: Oh, man, could you paper me that wall, Itunes?

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  • LostLost Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Just my mac desktop. Bonus points to those that recognise the background.
    Desktop.jpg

    Awesome movie choice!

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  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Nothing amazing, just my new mac desktop so far:
    Screenshot2009-10-22at31608AM.png

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  • elliotw2elliotw2 Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Visti wrote: »
    Joe Chemo wrote: »
    Frem pretty much nailed it. Plus some weird graphical glitches -- improper rendering or something.

    I might give 4.3 a shot then.

    Do that, I'm on 4.3, albeit using kmess instead of kopete and it's been nothing, but sunshine and lollipops. Even with different window managers. Plasma just keeps on trucking under both openbox and awesome.

    edit: Oh, man, could you paper me that wall, Itunes?

    I've been using KDE 4.x since the first version dropped, and I've not had any trouble at all with it.

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  • joshgotrojoshgotro Deviled Egg The Land of REAL CHILIRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Screenshot.png

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    does it?
  • SithDrummerSithDrummer Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    That desperately needs a source, josh.

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  • joshgotrojoshgotro Deviled Egg The Land of REAL CHILIRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
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    does it?
  • SithDrummerSithDrummer Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    That is so excellent. Thanks a lot!

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  • TK-42-1TK-42-1 Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    wow. thats the coolest thing ive seen in a long while

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  • FremFrem Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    elliotw2 wrote: »
    Visti wrote: »
    Joe Chemo wrote: »
    Frem pretty much nailed it. Plus some weird graphical glitches -- improper rendering or something.

    I might give 4.3 a shot then.

    Do that, I'm on 4.3, albeit using kmess instead of kopete and it's been nothing, but sunshine and lollipops. Even with different window managers. Plasma just keeps on trucking under both openbox and awesome.

    edit: Oh, man, could you paper me that wall, Itunes?

    I've been using KDE 4.x since the first version dropped, and I've not had any trouble at all with it.

    Even Linus Torvalds jumped to Gnome when KDE 4.0 came out, so I don't feel too bad for having waited a few versions.

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  • VistiVisti Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    What? He did? That seems strange. He's never had high thoughts on Gnome. I would imagine he just didn't update for a while.
    or wrote his own DE.

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  • dexodexo Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    CmdPrompt wrote: »
    Arch + wmii on my server.
    2v9rxa0.png

    What's that font?

    My arch machine. Wall is on random rotation, I'm a fractal nut, but my wall folder has way more than that.
    screen1f.png
    screen2r.png

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