Sorry for the revival of this - but I finally found a wallpaper\rainmeter\rocketdock combo I am happy with which doesn't clutter up my screen too horribly much.
If I remember right - I snagged the wallpaper somewhere off of the PA dump
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
Are you able to upload or send that skin for CD art display to me?
Thanks
Well after my computer being out of commission for a good long while here is my revamped desktop.
I have my old 19" above my newer 24" it works out not too bad, that big ugly black bar on the left of the orange skull picture isn't actually visible. The stars that pop out on the left are normal short cuts, the top right stars are stand alone stacks sorted into game types. The bottom right stars are just my computer and recycle bins. The only things going on in the top monitor is the time and avetunes.
I was won over when I installed and I didn't have to do one iota of troubleshooting -- everything just worked. Although that's probably more to 64bit chakra's credit, than kde's.
I previously didn't like kde because my computer wasn't fast enough to run it smoothly. MULTIVAC handles it like a champ, so my biggest complaint is moot.
The integration is really slick. and it looks purrty. So I'm a fan so far.
Yeah I'm pretty much Desktop OCD and this is way too much stuff for me. Fingers crossed I'm going to have a spare 17" monitor to dual screen with and put winamp and trillian and junk on that.
Sorry for the revival of this - but I finally found a wallpaper\rainmeter\rocketdock combo I am happy with which doesn't clutter up my screen too horribly much.
If I remember right - I snagged the wallpaper somewhere off of the PA dump
Could you source the rainmeter weather and rocketdock? I like very much.
My friend wanted a cheap gaming desktop, and already has a decent vid card (Nvidia 8800GT, from some OEM that suped it up with 512MB of faster RAM and overclocked it), so I got him this along with a better PS: http://www.emachines.com/products/products.html?prod=ET1331G-03w
All in all, he spent a hair over $500 and is actually getting better performance than most that spent $1,000 on a pre-built system. I don't like that it doesn't have mirrored/RAID 1 drives, and the CPU I'm not enamored with, but for the price that includes a decent warranty, not bad at all.
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God that KDE looks sexy. I obviously have gnome running on a fresh ubuntu install on my laptop. Vista in the other partition. It would be Win7 but I have that on my desktop and I am only allowed one computer with that.
If I don't find some prettifying things for the ubuntu I might see if I can do something with KDE, although I don't have the patience for computer shenanigans I had a couple of years ago.
Sorry for the revival of this - but I finally found a wallpaper\rainmeter\rocketdock combo I am happy with which doesn't clutter up my screen too horribly much.
If I remember right - I snagged the wallpaper somewhere off of the PA dump
Could you source the rainmeter weather and rocketdock? I like very much.
The weather is actually a yahoo widget. Called widescape weather.
God that KDE looks sexy. I obviously have gnome running on a fresh ubuntu install on my laptop. Vista in the other partition. It would be Win7 but I have that on my desktop and I am only allowed one computer with that.
If I don't find some prettifying things for the ubuntu I might see if I can do something with KDE, although I don't have the patience for computer shenanigans I had a couple of years ago.
That's not straight KDE, I do believe it's Chakra. Which is just Arch+KDE, but with some prettifying.
Yay, for people putting time and energy into making Linux look attractive!
God that KDE looks sexy. I obviously have gnome running on a fresh ubuntu install on my laptop. Vista in the other partition. It would be Win7 but I have that on my desktop and I am only allowed one computer with that.
If I don't find some prettifying things for the ubuntu I might see if I can do something with KDE, although I don't have the patience for computer shenanigans I had a couple of years ago.
Try out a Chakra liveCD. Comes with KDE, and, for me at least, had perfect hardware detection.
Perfect.
EDIT: Yeah Itunes got it. Arch has a reputation for being time-consuming to set up (which is true). Chakra bypasses all that. I high recommend it if you don't want to deal with tinkering/getting stuff to work properly.
Also, if I might inject, the screens I've posted recently have also been from Chakra, so you can get some quite diverse looks from it. There's also lots of themes.. which might be an understatement..
I highly recommend Chakra as well, it's the best base system with all the tediuosness cut out.
Also, if I might inject, the screens I've posted recently have also been from Chakra, so you can get some quite diverse looks from it. There's also lots of themes.. which might be an understatement..
I highly recommend Chakra as well, it's the best base system with all the tediuosness cut out.
Is it really that user friendly? I'm only even able to get by on ubuntu because I just know how to look up whatever help I need to do things.
It's as user-friendly as Ubuntu, I feel. It's also my experience that it's a piece of cake to find lots of information about any problem you might have through the Arch wiki, which is very extensive.
So, Fences by Stardock's pretty nice when combined with Rainmeter's click-through option. You can get your icons to stay put, no matter how you change resoloutions, and you can double click on the desktop to get rid of all the icons and just have your rainmeter items showing on the background
I've recently come into a 23" Apple Cinema Display, up to which I've hooked my Macbook Pro. For the first time in my life, please allow me to break your hscroll.
those with keen eyes may notice the paper I should be writing, which I have only put a header on so far
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If I remember right - I snagged the wallpaper somewhere off of the PA dump
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I would very much like to steal your orange, got a source?
I also love this picture, but can't find a home for it - it really clashes with my dock icons.
Are you able to upload or send that skin for CD art display to me?
Thanks
I've uploaded the image, but it's 1280x768, so most of you will have to work with it.
Not all of us have 21"+ monitors
... this has nothing to do with anything except my excitement.
I have my old 19" above my newer 24" it works out not too bad, that big ugly black bar on the left of the orange skull picture isn't actually visible. The stars that pop out on the left are normal short cuts, the top right stars are stand alone stacks sorted into game types. The bottom right stars are just my computer and recycle bins. The only things going on in the top monitor is the time and avetunes.
I just set up a new dual-boot gaming rig, MULTIVAC. Win7 is being a bitch, so I just have linux up and running.
Stock kde4, thanks to chakra. I just don't have much time to customize any more. When I do I'll post an update
I previously didn't like kde because my computer wasn't fast enough to run it smoothly. MULTIVAC handles it like a champ, so my biggest complaint is moot.
The integration is really slick. and it looks purrty. So I'm a fan so far.
EDIT: Also, ahem.
Yeah I'm pretty much Desktop OCD and this is way too much stuff for me. Fingers crossed I'm going to have a spare 17" monitor to dual screen with and put winamp and trillian and junk on that.
Edit: Image =/= Thumbnail
I predict it lasts < 3 weeks.
Could you source the rainmeter weather and rocketdock? I like very much.
All in all, he spent a hair over $500 and is actually getting better performance than most that spent $1,000 on a pre-built system. I don't like that it doesn't have mirrored/RAID 1 drives, and the CPU I'm not enamored with, but for the price that includes a decent warranty, not bad at all.
If I don't find some prettifying things for the ubuntu I might see if I can do something with KDE, although I don't have the patience for computer shenanigans I had a couple of years ago.
The weather is actually a yahoo widget. Called widescape weather.
http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/widescapeweather
As far as the rocketdock skin, I'm using the skin called Black Veil. Think it's this one I tweaked a bit to my liking.
http://rocketdock.com/addon/skins/25773
Yay, for people putting time and energy into making Linux look attractive!
Try out a Chakra liveCD. Comes with KDE, and, for me at least, had perfect hardware detection.
Perfect.
EDIT: Yeah Itunes got it. Arch has a reputation for being time-consuming to set up (which is true). Chakra bypasses all that. I high recommend it if you don't want to deal with tinkering/getting stuff to work properly.
I highly recommend Chakra as well, it's the best base system with all the tediuosness cut out.
Is it really that user friendly? I'm only even able to get by on ubuntu because I just know how to look up whatever help I need to do things.
Seriously, give a liveCD a spin. Nothing to lose.
A bit stretched, but it's one of the better Frontier ones I've seen around.
kinda shameless, first result for "fractal" at my desktop res... still looks nice
those with keen eyes may notice the paper I should be writing, which I have only put a header on so far
found here. that blog has a ton of great photos.
So, my HTPC desktop.. imagine a desktop, so original, so brilliant in its conception.. then imagine that desktop at 1920x1080..
Behold!
Shocked eh? What can I say, sometimes I surprise even myself.
And to think, that's displayed on a 40" tv.
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