Show off your Linux desktop

Ahhhhh......Rubbish!

 

I'm gonna try to learn a new OS...again lol.
This time its NeXTSTEP, well, GNUStep.

 

Go, Thomas!!!

 

My desktop so far is boring, photo is of quad core Nehalems (desktop since there are no notebook cpu photos):

 

Not bad. You could find wallpapers that would improve the aesthetics of the thing.

 

Check out http://interfacelift.com/ for wallpapers in almost every display resolution.
These are two particularly nice ones:
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details.php?id=1301
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details.php?id=1324

 

I also LOVE DeviantArt.....you can find a real gem there sometimes!

 

Latest Desktop.

 

Nice desktop, Thomas!

 

Looks nice, Thomas.

 

Yeah, deviantART is great. The only problem is that they might not have wallpapers made for laptop display resolutions, like 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, etc. That's what InterfaceLIFT is great for, but if you want something that's not too generic looking, deviantART is the place to go.

 

I love InterfaceLIFT. I've got a wallpaper from there on my Ubuntu right now. I should post it sometime.

Edit: I think I've seen those two wallpapers from InterfaceLIFT mentioned a bit earlier.

 

Here's some of my recent shots:

Darkbuntu w/ Light background - shadow shows off more on the dark, but I like the wallpaper better. Using a glass like top panel. Bottom panel is a solid color set slightly darker than the bottom of the glass panel set to about 80% transparent to make it appear that it is one large panel.
Darkbuntu
Using the Overglossed Emerald theme, and a combination of nuoveXT and LiNsta icons. Modified the "extras" folder icon in the LiNsta icon pack so that the orange folders would be the default folder icon within the nuoveXT icon pack. Bottom panel bar was included in some vista panel bar package at gnome-look. Top panel is just a solid color tinted gray with about 25% transparency. Copied over some of my Windows fonts.


Bright Vista Like
Vista Q Emerald

 

Here's my desktop

Between my background and NBR its a wonder I get any work done

 

How do you enable transparency of various windows? I have looked but the Compiz settings manager is so damn full of settings!

 

That would be wayyyy too distracting for me......lol

 

Compiz has a lot of settings, that's for sure. :yes:

 

Thomas, nice job!

EneergE, I really like the contrast in your Darkbuntu w/ Light background.

You guys (all you Linux gents) are inspiring. One day I'm going to have to quit fooling with the distro hopping and actually try to learn to do something useful with Linux . . . like install a decent video card, get the cube up and going, and put up a good-looking desktop - important stuff. LOL

Seriously, some of the stuff you guys post really looks great.

 

Custom theme, this is my partner's(in the distro) "preview".

 

Bog,

The setting for enabling transparency is under 'Effects --> Trailfocus'

 

Ah, thanks for the help!

 

You might be surprised to know that there's a lot of important stuff you can do in Linux without a GUI

 

Here's mine. Please rate and comment. EDIT: Here's my Firefox for June too, please rate and comment also.

 

Oh yeah. In time, I want to run a non-GUI distro.

 

Just put on some very dark sunglasses, and whammo bammo, no GUI! lol

EDIT: back to the dark floorboards

 

Nice Zoid, you've changed that one panel like 50 times now though.

 

Here's mine:


If you notice on the right, my swap is 0%. My Ubuntu somehow doesn't want to mount the swap. If I go to GPartEd from Administration and right click the swap partition, it'll always ask me to "swapon". How do I solve it?

 

Looks nice. About your problem, you're supposed to turn swap on, that's why they came up with an easy name for it "swapon". If you turn swap on you'll use swap, if you do the opposite "swapoff" then it'll be off.

 

Sorry took so long to reply. I sold my laptop a few weeks ago and haven't kept up with this forum.

System specs app is Screenlets running Circle sensors: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Circle+Sensors+Screenlet?content=75677

And the launcher is Cairo Dock, using the djoole theme: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/cairo-dock/

 

problem is, once i reboot or something, the swap is off again

 

Then i'm sorta lost, maybe reformat your swap?

 

Thanks.

 

I'll try that. But I don't think that'll solve the ubuntu-not-mounting-swap-automatically problem

 

@zephyrus
open up /etc/fstab. then type "sudo blkid" in a terminal. check the uuid of your swap partition and if its not the same as in /etc/fstab, change the uuid of your swap partition to the one you see from blkid

 

how do I check for the uuid? "df"?

EDIT: Opps, I know what you mean now. That fixed it. Thanks!

 

Different panels now Still working on trying to make it Sick lol

 

Looks sick.

Ok, I promised a screenshot...

 

Compiz is so awesome...especially the transparent windows.

 

Sick, sick and sick I'm thinking of putting compiz on my Xubuntu install....won't be lightweight when I get done with the mouse lol

 

Looking pretty good, but you seem to be missing a competent desktop environment there....

 

Hwy, I'm in those!

 

still changing things.....

 

LOL..
Well, Im prolly gonna buy an Eee PC in the next 2-3 months.
May install Arch Linux on it

 

Xubuntu is for old machines? Kiss my Xfce !!

PS: eeePC is cool....I want one.

 

LOL....Xubuntu isn't exactly lightweight....

 

I love it...to me it's what gnome should be.

 

LOL....
I'll stick with a heavily modded Gnome

 

It's awesome.

Relax, I'll try some other desktop environments sometime.

Yup.

 

Waaahhh!!! I can't take screenshots of Compiz Fusion. They don't come out right. What's the secret?

 

Gant Icons for Xfce....cartoonish....trying to figure out if I like them....would anyone like to opine?