Show off your Linux desktop

Here's my Ubuntu 8.04 desktop:
http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd340/Emor01/Screenshot.jpg
I got the awesome background image off:
http://pixelresort.com/ (I think).
Likey? .
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linux looks pretty **** good judging by these pics. i think imma try it out. i just need to do some more research and see if I can run a dual OS.

 

Post up your system specs and we'll tell ya real quick like....

 

http://wubi-installer.org/
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I finally got sick of my old set up... so I went for a subtle look that doesn't stand out... its very easy on the eyes because everything is grey!

OS X icons, GIMP fyre wallpaper, Blender metacity theme.

 

Holy smokes the Ibex default wallpaper is sweet!

 

Are you serious? I think it looks like a coffee stain...

 

Exactly; it's ``artistic''.

 

"You don't understand, its artistic?"

How many times have I heard that after dissing a piece of "art"?

lol

 

Well it's better than the elephant skin thingy IMHO....

 

After much inspiration from phoochka's screenshot on page 297 of Ubuntu forum's conky thread ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5429457&postcount=2967), and much help from the wonderful people there, I went along with a sci-fi/halo-ish conky. Each one of the conkies have some sort of sci-fi computer terminal theme to it. I'm pretty happy with it as well. It's like a ship commander looking out through the screen readouts as he approaches a foreign planet.



Anyone have any suggestions on anymore sci-fi stuff that I can write in?

The next goal for me would be to try to achieve some sort of dynamic loading animation. Like, for example, with my network conky, some way for it for ">>Creating Satellite Protocol..." to come out first, then after 2 seconds, ">>Establishing Connection...", and so on.

I believe that would require tons of conky scripts, and many bash sleep scripts.

I think someone else on that thread suggested something similar as well.

 

How astonishingly nerdy!

 

:cry: I can't help it.. Conky is just so... so... configurable. All my female friends just looked at me and said "nerd!"

 

Could you post your conf file? is it possible?

 

WOW! That's AWESOME... Indeed, very nerdy . The one things I'd change though, is the wallpaper, there's so many space/sci-fi wallpapers, I honestly think there'd be something a bit more... 'WOW' xD.
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Sure..

Here's the one for the conky in the lower-right. The system one:

Code:

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# fiddle with window
use_xft yes

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 400 5

#maximum_width 3

# Draw shades?
draw_shades yes

# Draw borders around graphs
draw_graph_borders yes

# Text stuff
draw_outline no # amplifies text if yes
draw_borders no
xftfont Eurostile:size=9
xftalpha 0.7
#font arial
uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 3

# border margins
border_margin 2

# border width
border_width 10

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color white

own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
#alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
alignment bottom_right
#alignment mr

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 5
gap_y 0

text_buffer_size 2048
# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
${font Eurostile:size=9}DEVA System Uptime:${font} ${uptime}
${alignr}${offset -40}${font Eurostile:size=13}Authorization ID:${font}   517-OSIRIS-3
${alignr}${offset -27}${font Eurostile:size=11}Security Clearance Level:${font} 4-BLACK


${offset 78}${font Eurostile:size=10}TERMINAL ACCESS INITIATED
${offset 88}${font Eurostile:size=10}Running Diagnostics...

${offset 100}${font arial black:size=8}CORE 1: ${font} ${cpu cpu1}% ${voffset -2}${offset 15}${font arial black:size=8}CORE 2: ${font}${cpu cpu2}%${voffset}
${offset 100}${cpubar cpu1 4}
${offset 100}${cpubar cpu2 4}
${offset 100}${font arial black:size=8}RAM: ${font} ${memperc}%
${offset 100}${membar 4}

${offset 100}${font arial black:size=8}ROOT: ${font}${fs_used_perc /}% ${voffset -2}${offset 29}${font arial black:size=8}HOME: ${font} ${voffset -1}${fs_used_perc /home}%${voffset}
${offset 100}${fs_bar 4 /}
${offset 100}${fs_bar 4 /home}
${offset 100}${font arial black:size=8}XP: ${font} ${fs_used_perc /media/disk}%
${offset 100}${fs_bar 4 /media/disk}

${offset 100}${font arial black:size=8}BAT:${font} ${battery}
${offset 100}${battery_bar 4 BAT0}

${hr 2}
${offset 143}${hr 3}

${offset 121}${time %A, %B %d %G}
${offset 247}${font URW Gothic L:size=28}${time %I:%M %p}${font}

${offset 70}${hr 2}

Here's the one is the lower-left. The mpd one:

Code:

###Configuration###
# maintain spacing between certain elements
#use_spacer right

# set to yes if you want conky to be forked in the background
background yes

use_xft yes
override_utf8_locale yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
#xftfont Sans-12
#xftfont DejaVu Sans-12
#xftfont wenquanyi-zenhei:size=8
#xftfont HandelGotD:size=12
xftfont Eurostile:size=12
#xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono-8
#xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8
#xftfont Andale Mono-9
#xftfont Clean-8
#xftfont cubicfive10:pixelsize=9
#xftfont squaredance10:pixelsize=14
#xftfont swf!t_v02:pixelsize=10

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 1
mail_spool $MAIL

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_type override
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 0 0
#maximum_width 1490

# Draw shadows for the text?
draw_shades yes

# Draw outlines that amplifies text?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
border_margin 0

# border width
border_width 0

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color DarkGrey
color3 white
color1 black
color2 888888  #dark grey
color3 CECECE  #white-ish

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment tm
#alignment top_left
#alignment top_right
alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right
#alignment middle_right
#alignment bottom_left

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 6
gap_y 40

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

short_units 1

###End of configuration###


# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
${font Eurostile:size=11}UTSF AI EKR-5719 Marcos
  ${font Eurostile:size=9}>Output System Process Residue...

${offset 20}${font WenQuanYi ZenHei:size=15:bold}${mpd_artist} - ${font WenQuanYi ZenHei:size=15:bold}${mpd_title}
${offset 40}${voffset -7}${font WenQuanYi ZenHei:size=10:bold}${mpd_album}
${offset 60}${mpd_bar 5, 350}  ${voffset -3}${font font URW Gothic L:size=11}${mpd_elapsed} / ${mpd_length}${font}

Here's the one for the upper left. The weather one:

Code:

###Configuration###
# maintain spacing between certain elements
#use_spacer right

# set to yes if you want conky to be forked in the background
background yes

use_xft yes
override_utf8_locale yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
#xftfont Sans-12
#xftfont DejaVu Sans-12
#xftfont wenquanyi-zenhei:size=8
xftfont URW Gothic L:size=10
#xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono-8
#xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8
#xftfont Andale Mono-9
#xftfont Clean-8

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 1
mail_spool $MAIL

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_type override
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 0 10
#maximum_width 1490

# Draw shadows for the text?
draw_shades yes

# Draw outlines that amplifies text?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
border_margin 0

# border width
border_width 0

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color DarkGrey
color3 white
color1 black
color2 888888  #dark grey
color3 CECECE  #white-ish

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment tm
alignment top_left
#alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right
#alignment middle_right
#alignment bottom_left

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 6
gap_y 40

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

short_units 1
text_buffer_size 4096
max_specials 2048
max_user_text 64000
###End of configuration###


# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
${font Eurostile:size=14}Terrain Condition Analysis...
  ${font Eurostile:size=10}>>Calculating Current Conditions...
     >....Done

${offset 28}${font arial black:size=14}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=CN}, ${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=CO}
${offset 28}${font ConkyWeather:size=80}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=WF}
${voffset -155}${offset 136}${font URW Gothic L:size=35}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=HT --night}
${voffset -74}${offset 247}${font ConkyWind:size=20}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=WD}
${offset 247}${voffset -12}${font URW Gothic L:size=8}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=WS --night}${font}${offset}
${offset 136}${voffset 7}${font URW Gothic L:size=12}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=HM}${font}${offset} ${voffset -2}${font arial black:size=8}HUMIDITY
${offset 247}${voffset -17}${font Moon Phases:size=12}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=MF}${font} ${voffset -4}${font arial black:size=8}MOON

${hr 2}

  ${font Eurostile:size=10}>>Extrapolating Localised Forecast...
     >......
     >....Done

${voffset -5}${offset 28}${font arial black:size=14}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=DW --startday=1 --endday=1}
${voffset 8}${offset 28}${font ConkyWeather:size=30}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=WF --startday=1 --endday=1}${font}
${voffset -45}${offset 77}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --startday=1 --endday=1}
${voffset -5}${offset 77}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=LT --startday=1 --endday=1}
${voffset -5}${offset 77}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=PC --startday=1 --endday=1} ${font arial black:size=9}RAIN

${voffset -95}${offset 218}${font arial black:size=14}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=DW --startday=2 --endday=2}${font}
${voffset 8}${offset 218}${font ConkyWeather:size=30}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=WF --startday=2 --endday=2}${font}
${voffset -45}${offset 265}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --startday=2 --endday=2}
${voffset -5}${offset 265}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=LT --startday=2 --endday=2}${font}${offset}
${voffset -5}${offset 265}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=PC --startday=2 --endday=2} ${font arial black:size=9}RAIN

${offset 28}${font arial black:size=14}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=DW --startday=3 --endday=3}
${voffset 3}${offset 28}${font ConkyWeather:size=30}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=WF --startday=3 --endday=3}${font}
${voffset -40}${offset 75}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --startday=3 --endday=3}${font}
${voffset -5}${offset 75}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=LT --startday=3 --endday=3}
${voffset -5}${offset 75}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=PC --startday=3 --endday=3} ${font arial black:size=9}RAIN

${voffset -95}${offset 218}${font arial black:size=14}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=DW --startday=4 --endday=4}
${voffset 8}${offset 218}${font ConkyWeather:size=30}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=WF --startday=4 --endday=4}${font}
${voffset -45}${offset 265}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --startday=3 --endday=3}
${voffset -5}${offset 265}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=LT --startday=4 --endday=4}
${voffset -5}${offset 265}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=PC --startday=4 --endday=4} ${font arial black:size=9}RAIN

Here's the one for the upper-right. The network one:

Code:

###Configuration###
# maintain spacing between certain elements
#use_spacer right

# set to yes if you want conky to be forked in the background
background yes

use_xft yes
override_utf8_locale yes

xftfont URW Gothic L:size=9

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 1
mail_spool $MAIL

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_type override
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 350 215
#maximum_width 1490

# Draw shadows for the text?
draw_shades yes

# Draw outlines that amplifies text?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
border_margin 0

# border width
border_width 0

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color DarkGrey
color3 white
color1 black
color2 888888  #dark grey
color3 CECECE  #white-ish

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment tm
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right
#alignment middle_right
#alignment bottom_left

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 15
gap_y 24

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

short_units 1

###End of configuration###


# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT

${font Eurostile:size=9}>>Creating Satellite Protocol...
 >>Establishing Connection...
 >>Scrambling DPL Algorithm...
   >Begin Trasmission:
   >
   >${font}
${offset 15}${font arial black:size=8}FLEET FREQUENCY:${font} ${alignr}${addr eth0}
${offset 45}${font arial black:size=8}SHIP FREQUENCY:${font} ${alignr}${addr ppp0}
${offset 15}${font arial black:size=8}ADMIRALTY REPORT UPLOAD:${font}  ${alignr}${upspeed eth0}kb/s
${offset 15}${font arial black:size=8}FOREIGN NOISE DECODED:${font}  ${alignr}${downspeed eth0}kb/s
${offset 15}${font arial black:size=8}RADAR PING:${font}
${offset 15}${upspeedgraph eth0 12}
${offset 15}${downspeedgraph eth0 12}

Four altogether. I think the codes are still a bit messy, and untidy. But I'm happy that it works. Had to almost completely re-learn conky because my weather displayed 2 locations and had too much ${font}, ${offset}, etc stuff and wouldn't run. I still haven't gotten it so that I can right-click it so my Openbox menu comes out, but one thing at a time, I guess. Other tweaks might be to add more 'style' to the other 3 conkys so they look as dynamic as the system one, which I'm very proud of. The mpd one uses a chinese font to display the title, artist and album because I listen to some Chinese songs as well. Thankfully, the English displays quite nice as well.

I've been looking around for wallpapers, but couldn't find any WOW ones. If you can offer any suggestions, I'd be very thankful.

 

http://wallpaperstock.eu/Space/NASA+Space+Wallpaper+0012.jpg.php?p=*full-image
I use this one, it's sort of low-res though, but it looks fine on my 17" laptop which is 1440x900. I like it, but I don't know if you'll find it WOW-ing(xD).
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How did you manage to set it up so you could get your network ip address?

 

WOW. Is that from Halo? That's epic! What is that?

${addr eth0} for wired, ${addr wlan} for wireless. (Not too sure about the wireless. But wired I'm sure. It's eth"zero".)

 

no, meant the second address

 

Second address? I use a pppoe connection, so I also use ${addr ppp0} What's the difference between eth0 and ppp0?

 

no idea heh, nevermind then

 

QFT.

 

What does he/you mean by that?

 

quoted for truth

 

Not that! I meant the contents of the quote...

 

I'm not sure, but I think where I got it from they called it Nasa Wallpaper... so y'ah. Lol.

 

While we're at it, my desktop at the moment

 

That's my current Linux desktop. There's some .txt files on the left of my desktop that I don't want people to see(password info), so that's why it's covered up, lolz.
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Most of us have cubes Emor, I have a cylinder though

 

I've not got around to trying out the other plug-ins xD. I might tomorrow .
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Ahhh.. so it maybe not be actually FROM NASA, just CALLED NASA.

I'm at the point now where I can't really be bothered with cubes/cylinders anymore..

 

since i have 2 different sized monitors this is why it looks like this

 

Whoa. Isn't that a bit inconvenient?

 

not really. the smaller one is the laptop 13.3"(1280x800). thats where i keep my messenger and chat windows, terminal and other crap. and the bigger one is my main screen 17"(1280x1024) where i do most of my work

 

Just installed Kubuntu 8.10....still needs a lot of work...but here it is quickly....

 

I've switched from the really dark black look to something your average AI fanatic would have...

I'll be changing it sooner or later, just wanted to see what it'd look like
BTW, theZoid, your desktop looks pretty cool. I'm starting to consider trying out KDE again. Probably won't, but meh .
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EDIT: Oops, I uploaded my actual background image. Changed now- to anyone wondering.

 

YAY! I see me in the window! I'm famous!

 

i like to keep everything simple... except the background

 

Is that cairo-dock? How's it doing for you? It was always quite twitchy for me.

 

Yes, it's cairo. it took me a long time to configure it in my favor but i haven't had any problems with it. I like how the developer keeps releasing a new version monthly and it comes out more stable with each release.

You should probably try now. they even fixed that famous bug with taking more resources every time you change something on configuration screen.

 

It always didn't go to well with my xcompmgr..

 

Theme: Mac4Lin GTK Aqua v0.3
Icons: MacUltimateLeopard
Wallpaper: AllDayLong
Dock: Avant Window Navigator

 

I've seen several arch systems in here running a script with an ascii image of the arch logo and some system info, can someone post it here or give me a link to where I can find something similar?

 

You mean that thing in the terminal? I've seen blackbird have a screenshot or two of that in his Arch Linux review.

 

I have a fancy analog clock now thanks to opera widgets, heh.



sawfish window manager theme 'sawbench'
gtk clearlooks-myst

 

That reminds me of Cairo-clock. I love the one with the smiley face theme. It was so cute.

 

I forget if I posted this one yet...











Enjoy!

 

nothing special..
The look changed a bit but I do not have any recent deskshot with me.

 

kde or kdemod?