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    Show off your Linux desktop

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by pixelot, Mar 22, 2008.

  1. pixelot

    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    New desktop, and finally a background picture I can claim to have taken myself. Took this shot today on a backcountry spring drive. :cool:

    [​IMG]

    [​IMG]


    In other news, school keeps me really busy, and I'm usually catching up on non-school stuff over breaks, so not much time on NBR... :eek:
     
    pixelot, Mar 20, 2011
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  2. lmm11

    lmm11 Newbie

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    Very nice, ThinkLover. Maybe I'll have to give Awesome a go sometime...
     
    lmm11, Mar 20, 2011
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  3. theZoid

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    Good to see you back, Mr. Pix..... :)
     
    theZoid, Mar 20, 2011
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  4. theZoid

    theZoid Notebook Savant

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    I've put Scientific Linux 32 on my little Vostro 1220 12 incher....all works OTB btw. I guess you have to like BLUE :)
     

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  5. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    [​IMG]

    OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with Xfce :)
     
    Thomas, Mar 27, 2011
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  6. ThinkLover

    ThinkLover Notebook Consultant

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    Thomas, I see you're using 38 kernel - does your Thinkpad suspend/hibernate properly? I've got suspend broken after updating to 37.3 and it's still broken in 38.1 :(
    I'm wondering now if it is mainline bug or BFS pathes related...
     
    ThinkLover, Mar 27, 2011
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  7. theZoid

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    On my Precision laptop, suspend/hibernate won't work in any distro unless dma remapping is turned on as boot option with this as a last option in grub:

    intel_iommu=on

    this works with the stock Scientific Linux kernel; with debian it wouldn't work this way until I installed the liquorix kernel.

    With thinkpads, I have no idea....but just to give you an idea of the kind of things we're dealing with.
     
    theZoid, Mar 27, 2011
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  8. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Suspend works perfectly, but I know not of hibernation.
     
    Thomas, Mar 27, 2011
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  9. ThinkLover

    ThinkLover Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks!

    Thanks, but my problem is that it was working perfectly and then broke after kernel update, so it must be kernel-related.
     
    ThinkLover, Mar 28, 2011
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  10. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    [​IMG]

    [​IMG]

    Fedora 14.
     
    Thomas, Mar 29, 2011
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  11. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Added conky, made it more minimal:

    [​IMG]
     
    Thomas, Mar 29, 2011
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  12. ThinkRob

    ThinkRob Notebook Deity

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    And, from the "Dear Lord why would you do that? What the hell is wrong with you?!?" department comes my current desktop:

    [​IMG]
     
    ThinkRob, Mar 29, 2011
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  13. stealthl

    stealthl Notebook Consultant

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    Ha Ha __ Love it!
     
    stealthl, Mar 29, 2011
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  14. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Epic.
    (filler)
     
    Thomas, Mar 29, 2011
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  15. naticus

    naticus Notebook Deity

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    What Icon set/theme is that??
     
    naticus, Mar 30, 2011
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  16. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Both part of The Elegant Gnome Pack.
     
    Thomas, Mar 30, 2011
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  17. cassar

    cassar Notebook Evangelist

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    :err:

    [​IMG]
     
    cassar, Apr 9, 2011
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  18. Rodster

    Rodster Merica

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    Very nice, Thomas :)
     
    Rodster, Apr 9, 2011
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  19. Primes

    Primes Notebook Deity

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    urban terror, I used to play that. :)
     
    Primes, Apr 9, 2011
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  20. cassar

    cassar Notebook Evangelist

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    :twitchy: im still playing it :D next version urban terror HD will be released this year too its really joyful game to play for free :spinny:
     
    cassar, Apr 9, 2011
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  21. lupusarcanus

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    lupusarcanus, Apr 17, 2011
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  22. theZoid

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    theZoid, Apr 17, 2011
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  23. theZoid

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    Thomas...I just noticed you and I have very similar join date, posts, rep etc......very similar NBR career ;)
     
    theZoid, Apr 17, 2011
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  24. theZoid

    theZoid Notebook Savant

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    The time sure does fly...seems like this thread was started yesterday... :cool: :p
     
    theZoid, Apr 18, 2011
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  25. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Haha, very similar, old timers? :p
     
    Thomas, Apr 18, 2011
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  26. Ayle

    Ayle Trailblazer

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    [​IMG]

    After quite some time of not using it, I'm finally back to KDE. :D
     
    Ayle, Apr 19, 2011
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  27. Thaenatos

    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    Yep this is my the desktop I revived for work. :)

    [​IMG]
     
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    Thaenatos, Apr 19, 2011
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  28. theZoid

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    Hey hey hey....another SCII player! awesome :)
     
    theZoid, Apr 19, 2011
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  29. Thaenatos

    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    LoL I was bored at work watchign graphs move and I figured Id test the theory of SC2 being only gold class (meaning requires a custom setup to work) and I proved it wrong...at least for me. I installed 1.2.2, downloaded the game client and worked just as flawlessly as it does on windows.

    Now I dont expect the best FPS on my 4+ year old desktop at work, but the fact that I can run it so easily and its stable is more then enough for me! I ran a quick 1v1 for 20 mins and it seems to run pretty well, now I need to test large battles and battle net matches. I know I can connect to my account and the menus work but I need to test actual battle net functionality. Now Im starting to regret selling my XPS just a little bit.

    Specs:

    e6850 Dual core CPU
    2gb DDR2
    200GB 7.2k HDD
    7950GT oc
     
    Thaenatos, Apr 19, 2011
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  30. Joel

    Joel coffeecoffeecoffeecoffee

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    Just installed my favourite version of Ubuntu on my laptop, Karmic Koala. :)

     
    Joel, Apr 21, 2011
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  31. measure

    measure Notebook Geek

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    Are you running it with updated software at least? This might show how little I know about Ubuntu (and perhaps a bit of how much I don't like it), but it seems like a funny thing to have a favorite version of a distribution. I suppose this is what using a rolling-release distribution has put into my mind.

    Anyway, I recently bought an IBM R50p, which has a 1600x1200 screen. So a strictly tiled WM was just a bit too much. Thus I have openbox installed along pytyle, and it's working quite well for this set up:

    Floating:



    Tyled (via PyTyle):



    The document viewer is evince running with a gtk theme which looks like Motif. I love Motif and which there were an xdjvu similar to xpdf, alas there is not!

    I have openbox configured so that my dwm-disciplined fingers are put to good use (all of its keybindings were removed and inserted were the DWM keybindings and their default actions).

    Anyone who ever resizes documents by hand to view them side by side should seriously consider PyTyle. It works with the WM quite well.

    Thanks,
    Ryan
     
    measure, Apr 21, 2011
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  32. lupusarcanus

    lupusarcanus Notebook Consultant

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    My favorite version of Ubuntu was 9.10 as well. I didn't like many of the releases afterwards.
     
    lupusarcanus, Apr 21, 2011
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  33. Joel

    Joel coffeecoffeecoffeecoffee

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    Out of all the other versions of Ubuntu I've tried, 9.10 feels the most stable to me.
     
    Joel, Apr 21, 2011
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  34. Thaenatos

    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    While I did like 9.04 alot, 10.04 and 10.10 have been quite good to me. Stable as can be. But everyone has their preferred version. :)
     
    Thaenatos, Apr 21, 2011
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  35. silentivm

    silentivm Notebook Guru

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    KDE 4.6 on my Acer 7720:

    [​IMG]

    GNOME 2.32 on my Acer 5532:

    [​IMG]
     
    silentivm, Apr 21, 2011
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  36. cassar

    cassar Notebook Evangelist

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    ubuntu replaced with my first linux distro opensuse since i don't like the new ubuntu unity nor gome 3 i guess im going to stick with opensuse kde

    [​IMG]
     
    cassar, Apr 22, 2011
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  37. naticus

    naticus Notebook Deity

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    Xubuntu 11.04 with XFCE 4.8 on my Netbook in sig. Runs great, fast and looks beautiful.

    [​IMG]

    The panel on the bottom ( dock at bottom) auto hides and appears only when you hover over the bottom-middle of the screen.

    Xubuntu gets a lot of flack, but this release 11.04 is quite impressive. It is my new main distro on all but one machine.
     
    naticus, Apr 29, 2011
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  38. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Thomas, Apr 29, 2011
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  39. talin

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  40. theZoid

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    Nice and clean, my kind of desktop :)
     
    theZoid, Apr 29, 2011
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  41. theZoid

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    Nice...they're bound to get it right sooner it later...that would be my pick also if I used *buntu.
     
    theZoid, Apr 29, 2011
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  42. cassar

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    Ubuntu Unity OS
    :D
    [​IMG]

    J/K
    4 th lols
     
    cassar, Apr 30, 2011
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  43. naticus

    naticus Notebook Deity

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    Crunchbang on my Sager.

    [​IMG]
     
    naticus, May 9, 2011
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  44. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Debian Wheezy:
    [​IMG]
     
    Thomas, May 12, 2011
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  45. Joel

    Joel coffeecoffeecoffeecoffee

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    Switched to Ubuntu 10.10, I think I'm going to keep Linux on my laptop now...

    It's pretty bland, just installed it so I gotta setup Conky and whatnot.

     
    Joel, May 15, 2011
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  46. chris-m

    chris-m Notebook Evangelist

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    No clutter. Just a clean Linux Mint 11 (gnome 2) desktop w/ Avant window manager. Works for me. I'll probably stick with it for a while.

    [​IMG]
     
    chris-m, May 22, 2011
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  47. Thaenatos

    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    SImple but Im happy. Debian squeeze running gnome and compiz.
     

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  48. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    [​IMG]

    Kubuntu 11.04
     
    Thomas, May 23, 2011
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  49. naticus

    naticus Notebook Deity

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    Damn KDE has soooooo much going on. It's crazy lol.
     
    naticus, May 24, 2011
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  50. Gintoki

    Gintoki Notebook Prophet

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    I agree, I'm not looking for debate but I think I'm going to use KDE the next time I use a Linux distribution. Gnome and Unity have disappointed me.
     
    Gintoki, May 26, 2011
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