systemd-analyze time I guess. If you count from when turning the PC on ... well mine takes ages to run through BIOS and then waits a while for me to maybe press DEL or a Fn key ... before finally getting to the grub menu That alone is around a 30 second wait on mine. Then more usually another 30 seconds to get to the Debian login prompt.Lysander wrote:Are we counting from switching on the computer or from when GRUB loads the OS? If it's the latter I'm sure for me it's about 7-8 seconds or so till the login screen.ruffwoof wrote:I have seen others with newer kit down at 5 seconds
EDIT: Just timed it, 7 seconds.
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What does your desktop look like?
Re: What does your desktop look like?
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
That is all very nice, but let's keep in mind the topic is :
What does your desktop look like?
Not "How fast can your computer boot"
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The shot of Half Dome may have come from this webcam: http://www.sierracamnetwork.com/viewcam ... te-valley/ or have been taken from the same location. It generates a lot of beautiful wallpaper candidates.Lysander wrote:Thanks for the confirmation of location! I had no idea where it was but suspected it was somewhere in the US. What a beautiful location.ruffwoof wrote:Love your wallpaper of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park (California) (searched using Tiny Eye reverse image search)Lysander wrote:You just made me time mine! From POST, 19 seconds to login screen on 8.7. Not bad!
systemd-analyze plot >s.svg and then viewing the (large) svg file shows that wicd (network) is the bottleneck for me. Without that would be a second or two faster. My setup gets to the login prompt and networking messages are still showing as I've entered the userid and password, so perhaps the timing might be several seconds less if I swapped wicd out ... but I like it personally.
I have seen others with newer kit down at 5 seconds
Are we counting from switching on the computer or from when GRUB loads the OS? If it's the latter I'm sure for me it's about 7-8 seconds or so till the login screen.
EDIT: Just timed it, 7 seconds.
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
Indeed, thanks for the link. Very interesting to see the same location in different state during the day.stevepusser wrote:
The shot of Half Dome may have come from this webcam: http://www.sierracamnetwork.com/viewcam ... te-valley/ or have been taken from the same location. It generates a lot of beautiful wallpaper candidates.
And here's a photo in situ
Re: What does your desktop look like?
Debian standard (command line) ... added xorg, openbox, compton (shadow effects), stalonetray (tray) ... and if you edit the openbox menu to have blank label values, leaving just icons ... then the effect is quite nice IMO
If in obconf you set a 1 pixel left screen edge margin, then even if a window is 'full screen' you can still mouse over to the left screen edge and click to access the menu
Openbox Pipe menus options are a nice feature, this one just has a menu item that pulls in the date and time
Add in Brightside for hot corners and set a corner to start skippy-xd ... and you can have a tiled view of all open windows simply by mousing into a corner
From there you can either click to focus, middle or right mouse click to minimise or close the window(s).
All with no KDE, Gnome, LXDE, Xfce ... etc, installed (nice and lightweight ... quick too). That said some elements are worthy of being installed ... pcmanfm file browser, lxinput (keyboard/mouse settings), lxapperance (theme etc.) are good additions IMO.
I've set the key bindings so that left click on the desktop launches the openbox menu and right click starts up the desktop-switch/open-programs menu ... as I'm not fond of the default clicking the middle (scrollwheel in my case) 'button'.
If in obconf you set a 1 pixel left screen edge margin, then even if a window is 'full screen' you can still mouse over to the left screen edge and click to access the menu
Openbox Pipe menus options are a nice feature, this one just has a menu item that pulls in the date and time
Add in Brightside for hot corners and set a corner to start skippy-xd ... and you can have a tiled view of all open windows simply by mousing into a corner
From there you can either click to focus, middle or right mouse click to minimise or close the window(s).
All with no KDE, Gnome, LXDE, Xfce ... etc, installed (nice and lightweight ... quick too). That said some elements are worthy of being installed ... pcmanfm file browser, lxinput (keyboard/mouse settings), lxapperance (theme etc.) are good additions IMO.
I've set the key bindings so that left click on the desktop launches the openbox menu and right click starts up the desktop-switch/open-programs menu ... as I'm not fond of the default clicking the middle (scrollwheel in my case) 'button'.
Re: What does your desktop look like?
Choosing wallpaper is not an easy task! I have probably spent quite a few hours on it overall today. Maybe part of the problem is too much choice?
Anyway, this is what I have settled on for now. A while back I remember having abstract wallpapers, and this hit me this evening.
Anyway, this is what I have settled on for now. A while back I remember having abstract wallpapers, and this hit me this evening.
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[quote="Lysander" A while back I remember having abstract wallpapers, and this hit me this evening.[/quote]
Nice wallpaper!
Nice wallpaper!
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
Thanks for share it. I will look at this.
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
Latest addition:
I am changing my wallpaper a lot at the moment. Normally it is once every few weeks/months, at the moment it is once every few days.
I am changing my wallpaper a lot at the moment. Normally it is once every few weeks/months, at the moment it is once every few days.
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
Clean Crunchy with Debian 9 Stretch and auto-updating menu. Tint2 is there, but auto-hidden.
And with Skippy-XD
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
Picture speaks for itself. Somewhat less obvious however is the menu button ... which is for JWM
Plan is to stay with oldstable (currently Jessie, until Stretch enters oldstable perhaps in a couple of years time). Everything just works (if it ain't broke...).
Re: What does your desktop look like?
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
Fancy a animated wallpaper?
I use jwm for windows (and panel/tray) management and pcmanfm --desktop for desktop icons. Turn off pcmanfm --desktop ... and you're left with no icons, just the tray. You can then use that desktop space to play animated gifs .. or whatever. I've set up a looping mplayer playlist
(loop 0 is loop forever, using the root window as the output and I've scaled to my 1280x720 (720p) TV monitor that I use).
Turn the desktop back on again (in my case pcmanfm --desktop) ... and all of your icons reappear again. Toggle as desired.
For the animated wallpaper you could use online content (this is a low quality example)
Pulseaudio along with pavucontrol is nice, as pavucontrol shows all outputs on a single tab and you can dial up/down the volume of individual sources as desired (perhaps turn down the 'wallpaper' volume to turn up the radio or a youtube ... etc.).
I use jwm for windows (and panel/tray) management and pcmanfm --desktop for desktop icons. Turn off pcmanfm --desktop ... and you're left with no icons, just the tray. You can then use that desktop space to play animated gifs .. or whatever. I've set up a looping mplayer playlist
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#!/bin/bash
cd /home/user/Desktop/Docs/scripts
echo lady-gaga-poker-face.mp4 >playlist
echo lady-gaga-judas1.mp4 >>playlist
echo lady-gaga-bad-romance.mp4 >>playlist
echo gossip-heavy-cross.webm >>playlist
mplayer -vf scale -zoom -xy 1280 -loop 0 -rootwin -playlist playlist
Turn the desktop back on again (in my case pcmanfm --desktop) ... and all of your icons reappear again. Toggle as desired.
For the animated wallpaper you could use online content (this is a low quality example)
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mplayer -vf scale -zoom -xy 1280 -loop 0 -rootwin mms://media4.abc.net.au/broadbandkids/20070521_1500/story1hi.wmv
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240 GB Toshiba Q300 SSD
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