What does your desktop look like?

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hellfire[bg] · #766 Post by **hellfire[bg]** » 2008-03-26 09:46

My current desktop - the picture is of a Su-25 from the Bulgarian Air Force

stoffepojken · #767 Post by **stoffepojken** » 2008-03-26 10:03

Openbox with xcompmgr.
Apps: Conky and URxvt.

eazy24 · #768 Post by **eazy24** » 2008-03-26 22:35

Debian lenny fluxbox,adesklets,idesk

Arrakiv · #769 Post by **Arrakiv** » 2008-03-27 06:51

Sure, why not? Here's the latest incarnation of my desktop:

That's Fluxbox with conky, thunar, and three terminals open: one running finch, one running irssi, and the last one for the convenience of just having a terminal open.

dickr · #770 Post by **dickr** » 2008-03-27 08:26

hellfire[bg] wrote:My current desktop - the picture is of a Su-25 from the Bulgarian Air Force

Damn! Confusing!
I am a pacifist, but why do they make weapons so beautifull?

KOTAPAKA · #771 Post by **KOTAPAKA** » 2008-03-27 11:19

Here is mine. Quite plain but performance is very good - with nautilus, Gnome and ... well most of the default debian configuration RAM usage is 150/1024MB without swap. I had some very nice GTK themes that blended with my wallpapers but for some reason I cannot find them so I'm stuck with those ugly ones

Arrakiv wrote:Sure, why not? Here's the latest incarnation of my desktop:

That's Fluxbox with conky, thunar, and three terminals open: one running finch, one running irssi, and the last one for the convenience of just having a terminal open.

What are those transparent windows? I see a chat client - how do you make it use a terminal?

mechmg93 · #772 Post by **mechmg93** » 2008-03-29 14:21

debian unstable - custom kernel - kdebase on asus eeepc

Arrakiv · #773 Post by **Arrakiv** » 2008-03-30 00:18

KOTAPAKA wrote:What are those transparent windows? I see a chat client - how do you make it use a terminal?

The transparent windows are just terminals which had their backgrounds set to transparent. I used a program called alltray to remove their borders (no doubt there's an easier and better way of doing that). I have finch (IM) in one of the terminals and irssi (IRC) in the other one. The one under conky is just a normal terminal. Finch and irssi are designed to use the terminal, so it didn't take much doing to get them running in one. :-)

Of course there's the question of 'why use terminal clients', but that's a whole issue of its own. Simply put: I like the aesthetics and find them basically as easy to use.

Lou · #774 Post by **Lou** » 2008-03-31 16:37

I always come back to icewm

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2102/237 ... 058f_o.png

plb · #775 Post by **plb** » 2008-04-02 17:09

And I always come back to fluxbox

http://devnulll.blogspot.com/2008/04/ap ... nshot.html

MeanDean · #776 Post by **MeanDean** » 2008-04-02 20:34

and I usually end up being lazy and using gnome.....

Telemachus · #777 Post by **Telemachus** » 2008-04-02 21:48

MeanDean wrote:and I usually end up being lazy and using gnome.....

Dude, you are lazy: you don't even have a fancy-pants, bad-ass prompt to show that you are a true hax0r. I'm not sure whether to be disappointed or impressed. I got tired of the black background, so now I'm using the (default) Gnome desktop wallpaper, but this is Openbox, Conky, Ipager, Perlpanel and Rxvt.

plb · #778 Post by **plb** » 2008-04-03 23:52

updated a bit..
http://bp3.blogger.com/_AidzMpC2lTI/R_V ... ranode.jpg

you can find the theme at box-look.org

#779 Post by **canci** » 2008-04-04 15:59

Arrakiv wrote:Simply put: I like the aesthetics and find them basically as easy to use.

So do I! Trying to migrate as many things as possible to console lately...

Your shot is very nice! I have the same wallpaper somewhere. What is your GTK theme?

Bulkley · #780 Post by **Bulkley** » 2008-04-04 16:15

plb wrote:And I always come back to fluxbox

I did for many years, but last year I switched to Openbox. It is very similar but easier to configure.

ry64 · #781 Post by **ry64** » 2008-04-05 02:31

My old KDE desktop (before I switched to GNOME):

My GNOME desktop:

infinitycircuit · #782 Post by **infinitycircuit** » 2008-04-05 03:40

My Sidux installation, running fluxbox.

GTK theme: aud-Default
Fluxbox theme: antiX
Conky config: by anticapitalista, with minor changes
Background: something i found on deviant art
Terminal: urxvt

I have two semi-transparent urxvts running, each with a separate screen session, and the one on the right is a screen session tunneling through ssh with my desktop. I use dmenu for my run box.

plb · #783 Post by **plb** » 2008-04-05 15:54

Bulkley wrote:
plb wrote:And I always come back to fluxbox
I did for many years, but last year I switched to Openbox. It is very similar but easier to configure.

I've tried openbox. In fact, I made themes for it that are in the debian pkg for openbox-themes. Openbox is alright but I still prefer fluxbox.

jayson.rowe · #784 Post by **jayson.rowe** » 2008-04-06 15:58

Sadly I took a step away from Debian for a while, but sure enough I'm back

Running Debian Sid w/ XFCE now.

katofiad · #785 Post by **katofiad** » 2008-04-06 17:48

Plain desktop, idle

With all panels showing

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