Topic awaiting preservation: Your Desktop

I thought it would be fun to see everyone's desktop.

Like Tao said, "A bit like I was letting everyone into my living room". I think she (or is a he, gah, cant remember, kill me) means his/her cell though ;D

Dis mine, if anyone cares.

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Sexy Demoness cel

running liteste? or is that windowblindz?

mine is boring as hell really. I'll post it when it get back to the homestead

Later,

C:\


~Binary is best~

Litestep and Windows Powerpro actually :P

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Sexy Demoness cel

I don't have anything special in my desktop. Actually, I like it clean. There is no icon, no clock, no reminder, no bars, nothing at all, just the wallpaper, that I change once in a while (once every three months, as an average, I'd say).

As for the theme, I'm using the default Silver XP Style that comes with WinXP.

Currently, my wallpaper = my desktop is a montage of four pictures of New York, taken when that blackout happened. I took the photos from some famous site and made the lame montage. Originally, it's a 1024 x 768 2.25 MB bmp file.

My current desktop

we do this *a_lot*. Fantastic opportunity to clean up the nasty desktop and the timing's always just right

today's at work

ok....along with these if you're running anything other than standard stuff can you put what it is.
just curious as to what some of you might be running.

Like that groovy little menu that JK has on his desktop....is that Trillion?


Later,

C:\


~Binary is best~

Judgign by the icon, my guess is that it is Trillian ;P

Concerning my crap, as said, its just Indie LS, Windows Power Pro, Rainlendar, and MCL (the official site seems down, tho, hence this other link).

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Sexy Demoness cel

Today, this , but it changes alot.

small
large

These are from work I'll get from home when I get there.

Nothing special, trillian and Winamp in matching Dervish skins, the desktop ( and my screensaver) from http://creaturesinmyhead.com



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

[This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 02-13-2004).]

Pretty boring. I'm even tired of Aragorn. He needs to go.

desktop

Amerasu

That's just creepy db

Amerasu

Still mine
I must admit I'm finding this really interesting
JK, What's that as your office png? 'Tis more like a football pitch than a monitor, totally groovy.
Alevice, I haven't seen a layout like yours either, transparency abounds I think I'd like a calander like that. Also groovy (Guess who is listening to the Monkeys).
Oh flop! I've closed all the windows with the images in them so I can't comment now. I'll post this and come back.
::tao::

Here is mine... My inspiration.


Sanity is optional... (and so is clothes!)

Wolfen's Sig Site

Mr Mabry - What do you mean by "we do this a lot"?

db - errmmm.....

bit - that winamp skin is sexy. where did you got it?

tao - I already posted what makes my desktop (and some other funcionalities) be what it is. Rainlendar is what you need. You dont need 2k/xp for the transparncey btw.

wolfen - yu gi oh? well...meh :P

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Sexy Demoness cel

Changes every few weeks depending on the mood swings, sometimes plain and simple like this one, to busy desktop images of nature.

Hack A Mac

cheers
kromaZ

My current desktop (after a little house-cleaning):

norm's desktop

oooh okay... yay.

Here's mine. I keep it pretty basic. Most of the time I don't even have an image, just a black background, but I have been fiddling with poser lately... I keep the desktop links updated through a database, and they are continually changing depending on current projects. One click access is nice in that regard.



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bitdamage! where did ya get that trillian/winamp skin!?

CPrompt, yes, Trillian, the Geek Blue skin, tho I may change to dervish now that I know it's got a matchin Winamp skin =0

Tao, I'm not sure if that was a question or giving me a hard time, almost sure it's the latter

Alevice, "we do this a lot" means... we do this a lot! Show each other our desktops that is. If you click my "a_lot" link you can see some of my submissions over the years. I actually like it. It one of the dumb things that we do a lot around here that I enjoy, I like looking at other people's messes.

Izz, man. *shakes head*

and home

Jason, honestly I feel like such a twerp
I've not seen a dual monitor set up before. So the thought that it could be a screenshot of your desktop over two monitors, never troubled my brain at all. What's more, I thought you must have some kind of monster widescreen monitor that I just had not heard of before
And here's me thinking "I don't need any more therapy"
Alevice

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Like Tao said, "A bit like I was letting everyone into my living room". I think she (or is a he, gah, cant remember, kill me) means his/her cell though ;D

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I was one of those fortunate enough to have a tastefully padded cell with a little living room annex. I've not used Litestep or PowerPro, I like the way you have your DT, and that calender appeals to me more and more. I want one btw Tao is Yang
db what's "Crazy Browser"?
bitdamaged, I like the idea of matching skins, I'll have to check that out.
Amerasu, apart from my wallpaper, which, having a digi cam, I change almost daily. I have kept my Warcraft desktop for a couple of years
Wolfen, ah Macs, I remember them fondly. Dig that artwork too. Which reminds me, sometimes, when I am working on an image and I'm a bit stuck. I set it as the wallpaper, so my subconscious can go to work on it while I'm doing other things on the computer.
kromaZ, that's a nice clean affair. Are those custom icons you have? That reminds me to make some myself.
norm, whoa, it that a scrollable startbar? Nice pic.
eyezaer, heh another wide screen M62?? I definitely need more astro' pictures.
Ramasax, thanks for the info (re Trillian chat today). I'm going to work on making an active destop later on. Thanks for showing me that feature, I had totally missed it.
Jason, your setup looks great man! You seem to have tailored it to suit your req's and it looks efficient. It must be a blast to use.

I think I have you all beat for boring, try XP in classic mode, with just a 30% neutral Gray Backdrop. It must be the Color Control Geek, showing. But it is on dual 19" monitors so that's got to count for something. Well and the picture of Merlin.

Really Boring Desktop

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Tao: Never did that before. What I do is put up wallpaper that gives me inspiration, and gets me motivated to do my work. that background is one that has been doing it for me now.

Well, here is mine. I like to keep things clean... And almost nothing is running yet, I've just turned on the computer.

By the way, for the people who knows Shadowness, my wallpaper is made of their new homepage.

Edit : is made of their previous homepage : they've just changed it for the release of Shadowness v4.

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If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.



[This message has been edited by Moon Shadow (edited 02-14-2004).]

Running Gnome 2.4

Running KDE 3.1

Running XP

Later,

C:\


~Binary is best~

[This message has been edited by CPrompt (edited 02-14-2004).]

Your server seems to be down, c:\.

I like the idea of an active desktop. So I quickly made this and put another skin on it. Active

:::tao:::
[ed] link and adding a thought. "If wishes were horses, we would never have to walk" [/ed]



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I think I'm going to change my desktop as well. Instead of some photos of New York city, I'm thinking on using a photo of Tuscany's countryside, from yannarthusbertrand.com.
That's quite a change!
Toscana, Italia

[This message has been edited by viol (edited 02-14-2004).]

Desktop
Wallpaper

my other desktop:

yellowdog

this is just the default desktop for YellowDog Linux. I also have an OS 9 desktop (triple boot on my PowerBook), but it is way boring...

I am tempted to change my desktop. I am particularly considering either LiteStep or Object Desktop.

I tested out LiteStep, and while it is cool, it seems like a pain to modify to my liking.

Anyone tried the Object Desktop suite?

Amerasu : Thanks.

JK : Too cool.


Taobaybee : Crazy Browser is an IE skin/shell sort of thing that blocks pop-up, uses tabs, can clear history/cookies at close, and a bunch of other options that IE should have always had, anyway. I use it almost exclusively.





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whats the head shaking aboug mr pretty pc?

In the past I have already used Style XP (http://www.tgtsoft.com/), it's a cool program, but I never found a skin that had no flaw, then I gave up using it.

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Anyone tried the Object Desktop suite?

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Is that another one of those Stard*ck products? Sorry, I'm firmly anti-Stard*ck. I like to preserve things like RAM and system stability for actual applications, rather than waste them away with bloatware skinning apps.

Eh... I'll post my desktop when I have the time.

Here's mine. I change it pretty often though, and I like to keep them pretty simple. I forget where I found the image, but it was from one of the sites in a fractals thread someone started a bit ago. Some of those images were incredible.


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Qui sème le vent récolte la tempête!

Ramasax - If you wanna try out LS, I'd rather suggest you to get one of the independent builds, rather than the regular release. The later provides you lots of stuff you wont ever use, and its quite annoying to get it to work right. I can send you my own step.rc if you want.

Object Desktop is not only not free, but as Oz said, it does eat Ram as hell, and just provides a pretty gui, but zero real functionality.

If you still want simpleness to configure and pretty gui, I'd rather point you to Aston shell. not the best around, but quite simple and pretty.

Tao - Get the calendar over one of the links i posted in my third post on this thread. ¬¬

Mabry - Ah. i wasnt really sure what were ya talkin bout.



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Sexy Demoness cel

My NT, GNOME, KDE and Ximian desktops are all box-stock to keep the transfer size down. They're all in the other room and, being basically lazy, I usually access them across the LAN using TightVNC on my XP box.

The XP box is just another dual-monitor rig. Full size (163KB) Half size (44KB) I keep it clear of icons, so I included the stuff pinned to my Start menu. (Stop laughing and pointing. A certain editor is required by a client who pays on time and in full.)



[This message has been edited by brucew (edited 02-15-2004).]

This is the setup I'm going to stick with for a while (I think). Did I mention that I have been using Style XP for this er experiment. I've also put another skin on foxy.
I want to investigate this Active Desktop thingy further too. See where that takes us
Alevice, thanks I'll check it out.
I did think twice about adding anything on my computer that I did not actually need or use. Especially after the recent complete reformat. But, my eyes like seeing nice things and I'm fortunate to have a computer with enough umph to handle a little extraneous beauty (booty)

Active desktop is nice, but its far from have the extensiveness of an actuall shell.

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Alevice, thanks for trying to get new information into my dullard brain, by "shell" do you mean a programme? For I am as a mere tadpole in the sea of information technology.
::tao::

Yeah, that is what I kind of thought of stardock products. I used windowblinds long long ago and it was a hog, just checking to see if it had improved. I am looking more for productivity enhancements than eye candy anyway (well, maybe a little).

Alevice, I am going to give one of those independent builds of LS a shot. One thing I missed immediately and can't live without is the quicklaunch or an equal alternative, at least it wasn't there by default wehn I was testing it out.

Tao: By shell she means the native windows user shell, explorer.exe - LiteStep is an alternative shell that will run in its stead. Gee, that probably doesn't help much. I guess a shell can be described as a program which controls the way you interact with your PC.



[This message has been edited by Ramasax (edited 02-15-2004).]

Desktop.

Well that nearly lasted 6 hours.
Jason, that active desktop you sent me is spot on to the kind of thing I had in mind. I've been having great fun with it. Eventually I had a good look at it in DW recognised how to change a couple of things. So here it is slightly tweaked.
Tweaked

Ramasex - Quick launch, huh? Well, don't really expect it to have something like that by default. The indie builds make you write everything by yourself, without the annoyance of already build themes that may just be purposeless for you.

Powerpro can emulate something liek that quite easy, tho (yeah, talk about having multiple crap to get stuff to work right, but its just Powerpo is so damn cool).

tao - There is acltaully plenty of already built html desktops around, I myself have one that bothered to recode, and get as inspiration for a couple of elements of my startup page.

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Ok, I'll bite (warning - big...) http://www.dmsproject.com/test/desktop.jpg

Currently running talisman wtih an old downloaded wallpaper, will probably skip it though, a resourse hog...
/Dan

{cell 260}
-{ a vibration is a movement that doesn't know which way to go }-

DmS, you have good eyes. Your font size looks so small to me.

while we are at it, what about Desk tops?


[antique sigs are us]

Sorry to not reading at all all you comment!

I can't understand, for myself my screen is always full of windows, stuff, etc...

I feel you are not so much hard worker and quite superficial people

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I am Canadian

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Sorry to not reading at all all you comment!

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Why are you sorry? Nobody asked you to read any comments!

I have found that I really like the xfce4 window manager. I like to use Xemacs for all of my coding, with XMMS for my music listening needs. Thunderbird and Firebird (until Firefox makes it way to freebsd) make up my email and browser clients, Eterm for all of my terminal connection needs, and no open source desktop is complete with out using The Gimp to acquire the screen shot.

-Dan-

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Why are you sorry? Nobody asked you to read any comments!

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Sorry to be sorry,... people in montreal are always sorry,... about nothing but most of the time....

He.... I will try to avoid to be sorry again for no reason, It's some kind of bad habit I will have to lose.

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I am Canadian

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I feel you are not so much hard worker and quite superficial people

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How perceptive of you.

:::tao:::

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I feel you are not so much hard worker and quite superficial people

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Sorry you feel that way.

I feel that you are ignorant in saying so. Many people here have tuned their desktops to be more productive, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Alevice: Aston seems to be what I was looking for. Doesn't seem to be eating any more resouces than explorer would. Only downside is it isn't free, although if it lasts a month without any problems I may shell out the $28. Unless I find an alternative that is free and works as well. Still have some organizing to do in the menu, buthere's a shot.



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I feel you are not so much hard worker and quite superficial people

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piss off

Later,

C:\


~Binary is best~

mine is boring
sorry for the link to DA, but my server is currently down
desktop


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viol: I'm running 1600x1200 on a 19" and I'd run even higher if my system allowed it
I just love beeing able to have lot's of windows open at the same time.
Usually I run 1-3 browsers, mail, trillian and maguma (an IDE for PHP) & MySQLFront at the same time.
I need more real estate perhaps 2x 21" flatscreens would suffice
/Dan

{cell 260}
-{ a vibration is a movement that doesn't know which way to go }-

[edited] double post, stupid me [/edit]
/Dan

[This message has been edited by DmS (edited 02-16-2004).]

... aarghhh ... geek-sh*t!!

The Windows part of my world (resolution now improved to 3584x1344) - I normally use the Matrox Multidesk software (comes with the dual-header) to provide 4 stacked desktops - 1=general work, 2- graphics (fullscreen Photoshop/ImageReady), 3 - Code editing and testing (RealEdit - Zend Studio 3.0), 4 - monitor - VNC/Exceed sessions to all my other boxes) and I run about the same setup at work, just a different wallpaper.

My Linux Laptop (picture is redhat 7.3 kde3.0 - now upgraded to fedora core 1 - KDE 3.2) ... I use KDE's built-in desktop manager to give me 4 desktops, set up as per the windows box above

For visuals I run 2x21" Iiyama 451 crt screens via 2 x 4-way KVM switches (one for KV+M1 the other for just M2)

I couldn't screendump the other dual-header (my linux webdev box) because I'm at work and it's at home, but it would be boring anyway, 'coz it only looks like a 3584px x 1344px version of the laptop ... and the last box - the firewall/web/mail/ssh/shoutcast server - only has a text screen.

BTW - I got everything I have from junkpiles and closing-down companies except for the laptop, and that came as part of a redundancy package ... so the whole shooting match has cost me $0 so far ...


Bug-free software only exisits in two places
A programmer's mind and a salesman's lips



[This message has been edited by trib (edited 02-16-2004).]

hehe trip you play worms world party... good decision

If I had the money, this is the one monitor I'd buy. Just one would be enough for my needs, actually, more than enough.

Sony PremierPro

$2600.00????......man....that's one heck of a price for a monitor...
I don't think I could bring myself to spend that much money on a monitor. I'll just stick with my 2 ton boulder on my desk

Later,

C:\


~Binary is best~

I've been toying around with alot of program launchers and I like them. I'm seriously considering using litestep or hoverdesk, although I've heard that once you install litestep, it's hard to undo it, so I'm hesitant. Anybody know the differences between the two?

Mine

Anyone else a MacHall fan?

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Ramasax - There is a workaround on Aston's expiration, mail me if you want further info ;D

and Worms. Armageddon > Worms: World Party

EDIT:

jive - neither the official ls distribution nor any independent build is hard to uninstall. I have not used hoverdesk tho.

oh and btw...KUPO!
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[This message has been edited by Alevice (edited 02-17-2004).]

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desktop.

"Nothin' like a pro-stabbin' from a pro." -Weadah

I have the uncreative green that comes with new PCs.

My desktop is just a simple slate blue color.

This is my desk's desktop

:::11oh1:::

Win2K.
Fedora.

Gentoo with Fvwm

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"There are 10 kinds of people; those who know binary, those who don't and those who start counting at zero"
- the Golden Ratio -

I believe I've done a thread like this before.

So?

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Sexy Demoness cel

what is the record for most replies to a post?

that would be the conundrum post...

I think it hit something like 200 replies.

trib vs fraxyl pong match was heading up to 150 when we closed it down ...


Bug-free software only exisits in two places
A programmer's mind and a salesman's lips

We must start another comundrum thread...that was fun


[This message has been edited by Skaarjj (edited 02-20-2004).]

I know, I know my desktop is mess ... hopefully you don't see the content of the folders labelled #XX bakup buro
And no, I don't play all those games ( except when I go to a LAN ), I simply let the icons 'coz they look cool here, and I play Q3 sometime.

I'm on a desktop rampage now. I installed litestep, (which seems ok), the trial version of hoverdesk, (seems pretty good). But I found a couple of really good apps: objectdock and Y's Dock (discontinued). They are skinnable applauncher that are alot alike the macs OSX's dock launcher. Best of all it's free! Anyways, I found it useful. Tell me if you do also.

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I didnt when i tried it some months ago :/

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Sexy Demoness cel