What does your desktop look like?

[dariusdor]

Debian Testing. XFCE.

[llivv]

I'm assuming you're asking which motherboard I'm using.

It's this one, all powered directly off a simple laptop power brick which is pretty cool.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/AM1H-ITX/

The only problem was that I can't get the fglrx driver working, but it seems whatever opensource radeon driver that's in the Jessie repos works well enough for me.

yep, that was what I was askin bout... tanks

sorry bout the graphics issues, not much I can say bout um though.

As I was lookin at the specs I stumbled upon these - http://www.asrock.com/microsite/IntelX99/ - slightly advanced /expensive intel boards.
I haven't read new specs in a long time so it sparked the ole noodle.
Maybe in a year of two normal users like us will be usin specs like those too - who knows.

So I also had to double check on my ole fav - that I'll most likely never be able to afford, but HAY it's always nice to read what they are doing these days - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC_T5 - so we'll know what will be in the channel for the gamers in a few years too.

[seoneal7]

[Linadian]

@seoneal7...that's an interesting look, nice wallpaper too.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

@seoneal7 ( ), nice setup...

[phenest]

Gnome Shell looks better with some decent icons:

Wallpaper:
http://postimg.org/image/m2aapsrp7/
Icons:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ ... ent=128143

[Head_on_a_Stick]

PekWM theme here: http://box-look.org/content/show.php/Fl ... ent=166292

[seoneal7]

[Linadian]

Fallpaper

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In case you like it, the fallpaper pic, go full size, right click, save as...

[ChipOManiac]

Back in the days when I was still using KDE 4 I remember nepomuk was an untreatable plague that couldn't be removed. There is another trendy feature that steals focus whenever one types. It used to spring into life when I typed my root password in a terminal displaying the password in plain text for all to see!

I remember that, It was pretty annoying.

[vrkalak]

Host: debian-x-sid
Distro: GNU/Linux Debian-Sid
Kernel: 3.16-3.towo-siduction_amd64
Desktop: Xfce 4.11.7
Xfce Theme: MurrinaVerdeOlivo
Monitor: gkrellm2 (skin > Viridis)
Wallpaper: Another_Castle > http://noahbradley.deviantart.com

[Linadian]

I just built this beast a couple of weeks ago, it's finally loaded and everything working (haven't had the time). See sig for machine specs (yeah, I know, it's not the latest and greatest but it fits my budget and it's NOT Intel or Nvidia, I'm very done with the both of them). The wallpaper is a screenshot from the 1982 movie Blade Runner, one of my all time faves. I ran BurnInTest on purpose so CPU-G shows the CPU's full speed, it idles at 1.4GHz most of the time, which is fine, it lasts longer, I have noticed it throttles up way faster than my old Intel Q9550. The computer's name is Mark-13 after the 'population control' cyborg from the cheesy 1990 cyberpunk scifi horror Hardware.

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[PhilGil]

So many XFCE desktops. No question what the most popular DE is on this forum. Anyway, I'll take one for the team and post my Gnome desktop.





Disclaimer: I do have an XFCE desktop at the office, but it's nothing special to look at.

[Linadian]

Anyway, I'll take one for the team and post my Gnome desktop.

lol

Yours actually doesn't look that bad, but yeah, it's Gnome, which makes me grind my teeth at the best of times.

[ChipOManiac]

Finally had the time to move to DWM. Would have posted one with the current wall, but it's a too much "skin" for some people.

The wallpaper is a screenshot from the 1982 movie Blade Runner, one of my all time faves.

Same here.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

@ChipOManiac -- nice setup
What's the battery indicator?
That works very well with DWM.

[Job]

@Linadian

What driver are you using for that graphic card? I had to buy an Nvidia card because installing the proper driver for the AMD card was not a go for me.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

[Linadian]

@Linadian

What driver are you using for that graphic card? I had to buy an Nvidia card because installing the proper driver for the AMD card was not a go for me.

I didn't install the Radeon proprietary blob, well I did try it but found the firmware-linux-nonfree (it contains the Radeon firmware) and xserver-xorg-video-radeon combo works way better, the blob made my picture smaller than the screen, I think it hates HDMI or some $#1+. Also, I am running the bpo kernel (3.16.x) without upgrading other packages to bpo, that makes a bit of a mess. See the pic below, when you see that in hardinfo, you're good to go. If I'm not mistaken, the firmware/module combo enables the temp sensor for the video card too, I noticed it showed up in gkrellm ("radeon-hwmon" in temperatures) after the firmware was installed and an update-initramfs -u as root. Hope that helped. My video is fast and clean, the blob isn't always the best way to go, glxgears (mesa-utils) showed really high fps and so did other tests, 3D cycles in the billions.



Edit: @Job...I just confirmed 'radeon' doesn't load with the stock (but up to date) older kernel (3.2.x), the video does work with the 'stable' kernel but nowhere near as fast and clean as with the bpo kernel, probably because the firmware is the version that matches the bpo kernel too. The bpo kernel is beckoning you, lol, "install me, install me".

Edit 2: @Job...If you really want to 'fight' with the blob, the AMD Linux driver download page says this,

"The display driver requires POSIX shared memory to be enabled on the system.
Kernal Sources package is no longer required if Kernel Header package is installed.
32-Bit packages must be installed for 64-Bit Linux drivers to install or work"

There are some clues in there for sure but I'm happy with the GPL + non-free firmware.

[steve_v]

Boring, totally boring bog-standard KDE