Topic awaiting preservation: Everybody show your desktops!

It's about time to do this I'm guessing...

Please show your desktops in thumbnails so dial-up users dont have to wait.
If you have no place to host your desktop screenshot, I suggest you use ImageShack.

err... this is boring... Unless yalls can guess what the desktop pic would be if it was not blurred.

So... what shot was it?

Hmm... could use some cleaning up I guess?
Though I always thought that was what those ducks were there for..


http://kussatz.com/asylum/kucktop.jpg

heh, I have a folder called "desktopper" that I stick all that rubbish into.

http://www.deviantart.com/view/3239811/

(Edited by _Mauro on 12-31-2005 14:22)

I'm not going to show mine because it's neutral grey. I hardly ever see my desktop so I didn't bother making it aesthetically pleasing.

For the longest time I used that photograph of someone's sister swinging on a line. I think it was Izzay's sister, but can't remember for sure. Awesome photograph and made a damn find wallpaper.

While my real-world desktop suffers from chronic entropy, I like my PC desktops clean. As a rule I keep no launchers on them and files and folders live there only temporarily while I work on them. I also lean towards wallpapers that don't overpower application windows. Under XP, I ?Pin to Start Menu? 24 of my most frequently used apps.

My primary workstation is a dual-monitor rig, which presents special problems for wallpaper. To my mind, the two halves should look good both on their own and together. The awkwardness of two inches of plastic and air down the middle should be minimal.

Three years ago I hit on this image from NASA which I use as wallpaper when I boot under XP. It had to be adjusted a bit so that most landmasses aren't split.



I use a similar one when I boot under Fedora Core 3 and a larger, 2560x1024 version on the PC I use at a client's office:



The primary workstation uses the digital imput of the left montitor. Attached to its analog input is a KVM switch connecting my Linux boxes.

My Fedora Core 2 box used mostly as a test server where I can test, crash and burn stuff before updating the production web server. Also used for my backup repository and it has the basic desktop apps installed in case my main PC blows up or something. This photo is from a friend's reef tank:



My Ubuntu 5.10 box, used mostly to mess around and occasionally to support clients' Unbuntu users. It's hard finding something to go with Ubuntu brown. I kinda like this artist's kinda manga style, and it's brown.



And finally, my NT4 box, rarely used now, where I test sites under 4.x browsers and applications pokey old hardware. When I had the time and equipment for photography, I shot rolls and rolls of sunsets. This one is of the North Coast of America. To cut down on clutter, I use TightVNC to access this box, hence the XP frame around it.





(Edited by brucew on 12-31-2005 22:52)

I change mine once a week, wether I need to or not

home desktop

to be continued...



(Edited by JKMabry on 01-01-2006 00:55)

Jason loves Homer like Germans love Hasslehoff: laptop

You had to go and mention germans and homer in the same sentence did you? Now I'm all thristy like.

That was my sis, WarJ- a blurry pic from a wallclimbing place? After a little photoshoping it became my background for a while there, too.

Yeah, that's the one, Petskull. Damn fine photo. The things that were wrong with the photo were wrong just right.

Yeah, man... that was a total action photo. When I posted it, is was straight from the camera with no modifications at all. I still think it's really cool- works out great that I can't take pictures to save my life..

Well, I think I did the code for that right. It's a (slightly blurry) pic of my first baby, Orion, who we had to have put to sleep in June after he suddenly got sick and it turned out he had end-stage liver cancer that had gotten to his lungs. Would have been 10 years old in October. Not sure when I'm going to change it, but right now I have the new baby, Cayman, on the work laptop, but it's an older pic of him. He's 5 months old today and is probably over 60 lbs by now, the little cow of a Golden.

EDIT - Tao, where did you get the WoW skin at? That's pretty cool looking.

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EDIT - Tao, where did you get the WoW skin at? That's pretty cool looking.

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Wondering the same.

The Skinny
Windows Skin
Apocalypse_67
WinAmp Skin "umbilical blisters" by intolerant

When we had a thread like this about a year or so ago Share Your Desktop! It sparked my interest. So I got myself a free copy of WindowBlinds I'm thinking of having a go at skinning myself
Also I might like to try an active desktop as a homepage too, see what that's like.
Ah so much fun to have...

I was thinking of getting the WoW game, it sounds great, but at this time that is not to be. So yo console myself I wrapped myself in the skin
::tao:::: ::cell::

(Edited by Tao on 01-01-2006 23:01)
[doh]New year, two edits already.
The first time I remember seeing windows skinned was when I first started to work my way through the Doc's "Hands On" tutorials. This was still before I was an inmate here and I noticed the look of Doc's PhotoShop MMmm photoshop in the screencaps. Old wood and leather style i think it was. This was I thought, totally befitting of a Master Guru and thought he must have made it himself.
It was only when I was an inmate here asking questions about the Docs tutorials that someone told me that it must have been skinned. [/doh]

(Edited by Tao on 01-01-2006 23:14)

a pic I took from a cabin woman and i stayed at last year.

Later,

C:\

Well mines a lot less clean than it used to be, but I lurve the Union Jack at the moment.



Cheers,



(Edited by Blaise on 01-02-2006 19:48)

office

My Desktop -


(Edited by WebShaman on 01-03-2006 22:40)

my current desktop

http://reisio.com/desktop/index.xhtml

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warjournal said:

For the longest time I used that photograph of someone's sister swinging on a line. I think it was Izzay's sister, but can't remember for sure. Awesome photograph and made a damn find wallpaper.

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I'd like to see that.

I remember +Fav'ing that image on DeviantArt WS =).

Dream



Reality

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InSiDeR said:

I remember +Fav'ing that image on DeviantArt WS =).

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I love that graphic.

WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

(@lan, create a folder called "mess" or "desktopper" or whatever. It will become the messy spot of your comp, which helps organize the rest)
(@people who look for a way to efficiently organize theyre comps, my way is: one programs partition, ~20GB, one data partition, for the rest, one swap partition, for the speed, and on the data partition,
data is organised by media types: images, demos, videos, music, games, etc. which is exactly the same as the beyondwonderland structure. One "junk" folder on the desktop, and every once in a while,
I grab all files in the junk folder by media type, and move them to the relevant data folder)

Yeah seriously, people should stop using their Desktops as storage, it's so inneficient, I don't even think it's a good idea to use for commonly used applications, that's what the XP start menu is for and hell, even the Quick Launch.

Current at work is just the default winxp wallpaper, with windows classic style, filled with e-postits and documents.

Regarding the documents organization issue, i think it entirely dpends on the person's preference. I for one, despise winxp start menu, it's too huge, and never use the programs menu there, takes too much time :P For programs, I prefer to use the quick launch (my task bar has two levels (top for quick launch and bottom for windows) and is set on autohide). My desktop holds documents and images i need quick access, either from an open dialog (its easy to press the "go to desktop" button, and much faster than the tree) or when windows starts; that also means there is a decent amount of icons in there.

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Something else

Sexy Demoness cel

Yeah, I quite agree with Alevice, to each his preference, to quote my words:
my way is:

Plus lan was maybe kidding and in reality, has a super clean desktop (after all, which pic is the real one?)
It's just that after years of spending time structuring, maintaining, organizing, classyfying files, I find that this classification worked for me.

And I am glad somebody once gave me the "messy spot" tip which led me to be able to find my files quickly.
I had computer users remove the "my comp" & "network places" from theyre desktops, some browse their pc using windows exlporer exclusively, others remove explore.exe altogether
as a graphical environment. To each his own really.

A tiny detail about my organisation: in my mind, the sequence is human => media types => media related activity => applications and file types associated to activity => activity
So when I want to do "2d graphics" of any kind, I immediately relate it to the proper locations and paths.

It is nothing brilliant at all, just easy to use and relate to for ME.

It's my winter theme



(Edited by bitdamaged on 01-04-2006 20:58)

(Edited by bitdamaged on 01-04-2006 20:59)

I haven't customized anything on my computer since I rebuilt it and lost everything recently. My old Desktop was Dark Portal from WoW. Either that or Mind Circus that was posted by... uh... Nimrod(raw) wasn't it? I had a regular selection of fractals that I had taken a liking to but alas... most are gone.

My preferred method of organization from my desktop is to create a new toolbar and point it at a folder full of shortcuts. Efficient Man's Start Menu... Show me what I want... not all that other crap. In point of fact, I also point a new toolbar to my working directories. That way my active files and programs are available at all times. Not to mention hot keying programs and voice activation (which I need to set up again).

GD

reisio: I have the original picture, but no place to host it.

I'd like to change the buttons on the right side of the save widget in WinXP to allow me to jump to another directory- anyone know how to do that?

edit: oops



PII 233 RAM256 Win98SE with (unofficial) SP2.01

bah

(Edited by outcydr on 01-05-2006 04:25)

I hate to have to admit it, but the reality is in fact reality

That's not the worst; I also have 3 x mess/accumulated crap files on my d/top as well

Can't seem to help myself - sometimes I just shut the whole show down because I can't bring myself to sacrifice any of the 12 => 15 windows I just gotta keep open for some reason

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/17910270/

(Edited by mas on 01-05-2006 08:17)

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I hate to have to admit it, but the reality is in fact reality

Can't seem to help myself - sometimes I just shut the whole show down because I can't bring myself to sacrifice any of the 12 => 15 windows I just gotta keep open for some reason

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Ian, these are also the classic symptoms of being under prescribed. Better have a word and get
your dosage increased

::tao:::: ::cell::

Yeeehaaah

First pills for the New Year - they're fresh right; you're not trying to trick us with runout stock

(Edited by lan on 01-05-2006 23:35)

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Petskull said:

reisio: I have the original picture, but no place to host it.I'd like to change the buttons on the right side of the save widget in WinXP to allow me to jump to another directory- anyone know how to do that?

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if reisio wants the pic, you can email it to me Petskull and I can host it for a bit for you.

What "save widget" are you talking about?

email it to curtadkins at gmail dot com

Later,

C:\

I keep the stuff I use on the Quick Launch area of the Taskbar, and keep the Desktop empty of icons.

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Petskull said:

reisio: I have the original picture, but no place to host it.

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http://imageshack.us/ ?

Norm, I've been photographing squirrels all last year, that desktop image is tremendous. Now that's what I call a buff grey

::tao:::: ::cell::

buff grey

http://imagehost.blogpulp.com/images/466507797.jpg

I know, it's boring, but I work to much to take the time to have a cool desktop.

Thanks, reisio..

The 'Save Widget' I'm talking about is the box that pops up when you hit 'Ctrl+S'. You'll notice it has about 5 buttons to the left, to include 'Desktop', 'My Computer', 'My Documents', and so on. The buttons are shortcuts to directories. What I was saying is that I'd love to hack one of those buttons to be a shortcut to, say, ''C:\Petskull\ArsenalOfPorn\etc\'

Edit-- Well, shit- I might as well post my background then...


*whisper* Damn, Pets is such a party-pooper *whisper*

(Edited by Petskull on 01-08-2006 08:39)

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Petskull said:

the box that pops up when you hit 'Ctrl+S'. You'll notice it has about 5 buttons to the left

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Aaah - you were talking about some buttons on the right side of the save widget last time...

Those can be changed with Microsoft's TweakUI - here's a link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

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kuckus said:

Those can be changed with Microsoft's TweakUI - here's a link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

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ah....I've also wondered how to change those.

Later,

C:\



(Edited by CPrompt on 01-09-2006 12:28)

Thanks for the image.

Templar's Desktop

Who says everything's gotta be in a line!

The full size version is here: http://www.deviantart.com/view/14980607/

Still the same. Then again, I had not really touched my computer in almost 5 months, till about 2 months ago. I just have not had the gall to change it yet. Besides, I still think this is one of my best sexy coloring jobs I have done to date.


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(Edited by Wolfen on 01-13-2006 20:54)

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