Show off your Linux desktop

nice desktop you got there specially the invisible menu bar,dock, clock,date
and the wallpaper
got link to that awesome wallpaper ?

 

Right click the gnome panel and select properties, then change it there.

I'll find the wallpaper link or post it here

 

Autumn leaf wallpaper

 

^^^ Finally found Properties. I must've clicked wrong spot. Also moved panel to top of screen. Thanks for the wallpaper.

 

running 10.04

 

dvtm on OpenSUSE 11.3

 

Dirty


Clean


Kernel: archlinux 2.6.35
WM: compiz standalone with emerald

 

Damn the size

hmm okay how do I make my pictures as small thumbnails (click reveals full size)?

 

You can use an external image hoster. They will give you a thumbnail including a link to the original image. You then attach the thumbnail with the link to your forum post. Have a look at the links behind the previously posted thumbnails to find some external hosters.

btw: What is a Pardus wallpaper doing on an Arch machine?

 

Cheers for the info

Couldn't find a non branded wallpaper with a similar theme, so I picked the official pardus one. Since my photoshop skills sucks I don't know how to remove the name and just use the lovely leopard instead

 

Arch+dwm

 

What about this?:


It's just a quick and dirty attempt that I did with Gimp, so there might be some imprecision if you look closer. You won't need Photoshop for that. Actually a simple image editing program like kolourpaint will do in this case. Just pick a small selection close to the letters (the smaller and closer - the better) and copy it over the letters.

 

Ice, do you have a link to that wallpaper?

 

sure do... there ya go
Silver Ubuntu - Linux Wallpaper 362109 - Desktop Nexus Technology

 

Thanks, looks great on Windows 7. I'll try it out on Kubuntu shortly.

 

Here's mine, OpenSuse 11.3.

 

This is one of Mints built in desktops.I think it's purdy kewl.Ahh crap!Give me a second.The file was to large for the forum uploader.

This is how I have my desktop set up.Just plain and simple.Absolutely no clutter.

 

Yeah but even then the results turns out pretty bad, at least on my native resolution 1680x1050.

If I upload the original picture in 1680x1050 would you care to take a shot and see if you can make it look good withou the logo?

Thanks

 

how about this greenfish?

 

I could try, but I'm not a professional either. If not only the resolution, but also the background shades are much finer than the ones in the image you uploaded, I can't tell if I can produce a nice result.

@1ceBlu3:
How did you do your image? I see the background has completely different lighting conditions. I guess you cut out the lion and pasted it over an empty background that you created from a smaller tile of the original background an then added some brightness gradient.

@greenfish:
If you don't care that much about the background lighting conditions I'd just take 1ceBlu3's image.

 

pretty much..but i didn't add any different lighting..
after doing the image i tried it on my desktop and it looked the same as the original..lighting wise..mmm..i could always darken up the background some..? unless its not that big of a deal...

 

Sabayon 5.4 KDE 4.5.3

 

I really like the desktop and toolbar, theZoid, very clean and tidy.

 

Very nice Zoid.

? first I heard of Sabayon. It looks like a derivative of Kubuntu at least to me. What's the draw of Sabayon and is it noob friendly like Mint, my favorite version of Linux?

 

It's based on Gentoo.
What makes it look like a Kubuntu derivative to you? Is it only the KDE desktop? You shouldn't judge a book by its cover and you shouldn't judge a distro by its desktop.

Sabayons intention is indeed to make Gentoo noob friendly. But comparing it to Kubuntu or Mint is no good idea. Gentoo works differently than Debian, so comparing distros based on them will never give you reasonable results.

 

Thanks, it doesn't sound like Sayayon is for me.

 

Very nice, how is it? I've been wanting to try it.

I wouldn't say it's not for you, but I would say it's a bit different.

Also, make sure you remember that KDE does not mean Kubuntu, and that things using KDE aren't derivatives of Kubuntu, and Kubuntu uses a pretty much default KDE setup.

 

It's the only distro I've found that plays nice with my sound hardware, i.e. music and headphones sound good. I've tried everything with Mint including recompiling the new source files from the alsa project. Seems to be a new-hardware-dell thing.

but yeah, it's pretty decent....I thought is was kinda cool they put Hulu Desktop in the repo.....I've had no crashes, zero, up to now. Think I'll keep it for a while. Sabayon is the first distro I used my second time around, i.e. this century, so there's some sentimental value....haha

 

Give it a spinsky and see for yourself...you might be surprised!

 

This, but then without the (double) workspace switch in the task bar and some more stuff on the desktop. (=standard wolvix background , just like it)

As my laptop's broken I can't really post the shot itself, but this is the same bg..
http://wolvix.org/screenshots/wolvix-2.0.0/shot1_wolvix-2.0.0-beta1.png

 

@Thunderwolf:
Do you know something about the progress in the Wolvix 2 development since the release of beta2?
I know there were some snapshot releases, but I didn't have a look at them. Somehow I feel sorry that most of the Slackware derivatives seem to die slowly.

 

still cruising along with Sabayon; checking different themes:

 

No one likes arch and dwm?

Arch is like gentoo except you dont have to compile from source.

dwm is a tiling wm. Know the aero snap feature from windows 7? Well think about dwm like aero snap except you can snap more than one window at at time and automatically. Manual tiling wms require you to make containers for tiling but it gives you more control. I hate desktop environments. They are heavy and bloated and most of the eyecandy I could accomplish with compiz standalone.

 

I'm lazy.
If I still want something more basic than Debian/Linux I take one of the BSDs.

I like the idea of tiling, especially on wide screens. But somehow I can't get rid of some of my floating habits. Therefore I mainly use fluxbox on systems without DE.

You don't have to compile Gentoo either.

Umm... no.

Is this really the way how windowsers use tiling (if they have it at all)?

I hate eyecandy. It wastes space on my desktop and distracts from real work. There's nothing wrong with a gnome-core or lxde-core installation with clearlooks/mist on Debian.

 

I use KDE. Not for eye candy. I use KDE because it is fast, highly configurable, and offers great software in a nice package. I'm also a part time Openbox user. I use gnome sometimes but I dislike it. LXDE is just buggy, ugly, and not very configurable.

 

Does that also apply to your X41? I made the experience that KDE 4 is very slow on older Intel chips.

Where is it buggy and which configurability are you missing? Sure it doesn't have a lot of nice GUI wizards, but I found everything I was looking for so far in plain text files.

 

I'm using Arch and this is why:

Arch is IMO best bleeding edge linux distro. It's something between a little bit lame (sorry for this word, ubuntu fans, please, don't kill me ;d) Ubuntu and pretty hard Gentoo.
With Arch you can still build your own system form scratch, but you don't have to compile everything. I'm also fan of tiling WMs, currently using Awesome

 

I said this? Don't get me wrong. I love LXDE. For that matter, I don't like gui wizards.

For tiling, you can use pytyle. It works with all EMWH-compliant wms.

 

Use pytyle. It tiles but still lets you have your floating-ness.

How do you not compile Gentoo? You only have a couple binaries for Gentoo, like for Firefox and Openoffice.

Unfortunately, yes.

Same with me. Of course, if you're going to use lxde-core, might as well use openbox.

 

Arch was born from LFS (Linux From Scratch) I read a long time ago....yes, I'm sure other influences.

 

Before I kill you please elaborate. This noob is all ears.

 

KDE runs great on my X41.

As for buggyness, it involves my hatred of lxpanel.

I prefer tint2 for a lightweight panel, and I barely use a file manager.

 

No. Wrong quote on my side.

Thanks! I'll give it a try. My last attempt was bluetile, but it's still a bit buggy.

I got you wrong. I thought you were talking about a stage1 installation from scratch, not about packaged software.

Sure I could put everything together without packages, but because I'm lazy and use almost all packages that come with lxde-core, I prefer to install that.
btw: I use openbox in Gnome as well.

 

Ubuntu=You get everything out of the box. However, it comes with a lot of extras that you might not need, so that's where Arch/Gentoo comes in. It starts you out from the command line, and you install/compile almost everything that you need.

 

Actually, it was independent, but yes, it was inspired by LFS and especially CRUX.

 

After installing Ubuntu you get everything working. That's boring

 

I think Mint 10 is a good compromise.It isn't loaded with everything,and it does have a few programs that may not be useful to many.I'd rather add what I want than to have to sort through all the extras that some distros comes with just to find what I want.Just my opinion as a noob.I have used a few different distros.

 

So that's what you meant, typing make commands! Been there, done that, now just wanna focus on what I want to do, not to look at compile/link messages scrolling by in the tty window.

 

LOL !!

 

Well technically, almost *ever* distro is based on LFS. LFS isn't even an actual distribution, it's a book .