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What does your desktop look like?

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MARKMENTAL
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5121 Post by MARKMENTAL »

Not that flashy, but I like GNOME 3
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5122 Post by GarryRicketson »

Please learn to thumbnail images
Thank you
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This is what I see when someone does not use a thumb nail, some of us don't have huge, "big screens",like they use for TV ..mine is a normal computer screen aprox 1200x900

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5123 Post by MARKMENTAL »

GarryRicketson wrote:Please learn to thumbnail images
Thank you
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This is what I see when someone does not use a thumb nail, some of us don't have huge, "big screens",like they use for TV ..mine is a normal computer screen aprox 1200x900

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Understood, should be fixed now, it should be a tiny thumbnail which takes you to the full size image when clicked.

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5124 Post by GarryRicketson »

Thanks, yes , that is better

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5125 Post by ghostblader »

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Unity is dead, so Im back to Debian (Sid with Cinnamon)

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5126 Post by ruffwoof »

MARKMENTAL wrote:Not that flashy, but I like GNOME 3
I'm a recent convert also (Debian Jessie/Gnome 3)

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5127 Post by GarryRicketson »

Debian stretch, with Xorg and OpenBox, on VirtualBox VM,..
Host system, Debian 7 wheezy,
Very minimal, no DE, no Libre Office, etc,...
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5128 Post by MARKMENTAL »

ruffwoof wrote:
MARKMENTAL wrote:Not that flashy, but I like GNOME 3
I'm a recent convert also (Debian Jessie/Gnome 3)

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Well now im running XFCE on Sid :lol:
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5129 Post by ruffwoof »

MARKMENTAL wrote:
ruffwoof wrote:
MARKMENTAL wrote:Not that flashy, but I like GNOME 3
I'm a recent convert also (Debian Jessie/Gnome 3)

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Well now im running XFCE on Sid :lol:
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I too have drifted. Gnome is not as productive as having direct icons of your most frequent programs in the panel (which I like to have at the top of the screen). So now running Jessie Stable pure (no nonfree or contrib), LXDE, booted frugally (like a liveCD, but on HDD) no changes preserved, (unless I flush them to disk)

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Frankly amazed. Openshot, blender, audacity, inkscape, recordmydesktop, devede, mplayer ... (for multimedia), Libre (full office suite), Evolution (mail, notes, appointments, calendar, contacts ..etc) .... and all working really well.

Also I've tweaked the initrd.img so that the main filesystem can be contained within a file filesystem that can be copied and run from a NTFS partition (read/write). I allocated a 8GB file filesysystem, but its only using around 3GB. Less than 1.5GB compressed. Also have a bootable USB ... so conceptually download the 1.5GB compressed filesystem file, uncompress it on either ext or ntfs and with a small USB (less than 60MB) as a boot USB ... boot it up and have a extensive desktop that provides most of the functions that I use/require. I also have single click options to load skype and masterpdfeditor ... but they're outside of pure Debian. I haven't tried installing backported Kodi as of yet.

Quick to boot and run, as changes are being written to memory rather than disk. But with the option to flush changes to disk if desired (so persistent across reboots).

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5130 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

Debian jessie (and a sprinkle of carefully selected backports) running tmux with mksh in the left-hand-side window, ranger at the top-right and htop in the bottom right corner:

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We don't need no stinkin' GUI...
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5131 Post by MARKMENTAL »

@ruffwoof
Yeah the only backports I use on my jessie installation is the mozila firefox-esr one. Since if I can get the latest release of an ESR stable firefox, why not?

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deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ jessie-backports firefox-esr

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5132 Post by Lysander »

How I like it - dark and minimalist. This is my first Debian install, coming from Ubuntu then Mint. Debian was a bit more of a learning curve, but I'm very happy to be here.

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5133 Post by Linadian »

Lysander wrote:How I like it - dark and minimalist. This is my first Debian install, coming from Ubuntu then Mint. Debian was a bit more of a learning curve, but I'm very happy to be here.

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Yep, Debian is more DIY, but it's worth it, the 'buntus are more like training wheels, and they have been known to add 'tweaks' (especially in browsers, this is why I switched to Pale Moon) to generate revenue, Canonical is a corporation, corporations love money. I occasionally make donations to FOSS projects that deserve it.

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5134 Post by sjukfan »

Openbox, tint2... yeah... that's it. Usually filled with tons and tons of windows. The grey area is outside monitor area, the right screen is flipped so it's 1024x1280, great for emails or reading pdfs or whatsnot.

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5135 Post by debiman »

sjukfan wrote:Openbox, tint2... yeah... that's it. Usually filled with tons and tons of windows. The grey area is outside monitor area, the right screen is flipped so it's 1024x1280, great for emails or reading pdfs or whatsnot.

http://i.imgur.com/KUix4wa.jpg
heh, really nice background images.
unfortunately i'm not so good with pop icons; care to explain a little?

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5136 Post by sjukfan »

debiman wrote: heh, really nice background images.
unfortunately i'm not so good with pop icons; care to explain a little?
On the left we have Zee Captain from the web comic Romantically Apocalyptic. It's... a bit weird. But hey, so am I 8) It's important to read all the way down to the comments on every page or you'll miss a lot. Later on the comments of other readers can be pretty useful because there might be things you've missed.
On the right, just Lord Vader having a cuppa. Got to do something to calm his nerves some times :D
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5137 Post by debiman »

^ thanks!
i thought maybe there was some sort of meme about d. vader drinking tea...

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5138 Post by ruffwoof »

GarryRicketson wrote:Debian stretch, with Xorg and OpenBox, on VirtualBox VM,..
Host system, Debian 7 wheezy,
Very minimal, no DE, no Libre Office, etc,...
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Debian Jessie standard liveCD (console only), added xorg and openbox and it was quite nice. Added tint and tweaked around a bit and it was nicer. Started adding more (Libre, Skype, Kodi, Openbox ...etc) and overall very quick operationally, especially when booted as a single filesystem.squashfs (frugally)
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Less than 15 second bootup on my old hardware ... very nice!

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5139 Post by Lysander »

ruffwoof wrote: Debian Jessie standard liveCD (console only), added xorg and openbox and it was quite nice. Added tint and tweaked around a bit and it was nicer. Started adding more (Libre, Skype, Kodi, Openbox ...etc) and overall very quick operationally, especially when booted as a single filesystem.squashfs (frugally)
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Less than 15 second bootup on my old hardware ... very nice!
You just made me time mine! From POST, 19 seconds to login screen on 8.7. Not bad!

And for the thread, my most recent desktop.

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5140 Post by ruffwoof »

Lysander wrote:You just made me time mine! From POST, 19 seconds to login screen on 8.7. Not bad!
Love your wallpaper of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park (California) (searched using Tiny Eye reverse image search) :)

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 :mrgreen:

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