I guess it’s that time of year again. Lets compare our desktop wallpapers once again. Just remember that your wallpaper, the icons on your desktop and the apps running in your system tray tell a story about you. So keep in mind that there will be at least one comment in this thread in which someone will say “OMG, I can’t believe you are using XYZ! XYZ sucks!” Or maybe not. Conversations here tend to be way above the level I usually expect from the rest of the internet.
Anyways, here is my XP box:
And here is my Kubuntu setup I use at work:
It’s boring and plain because I sometimes hook this machine up to a projector and displaying a flashy wallpaper at a business meeting is usually not a good idea.
This will probably be a little bit disappointing, but I currently don’t have a junker laptop I mess around with by installing obscure linux distros. All the ones I used in the past fell apart and I just didn’t feel like investing money in repairing them. So no third screenshot this time.
Also, yes – I always put the Windows task bar on top of the screen. That’s where it belongs, no? In linux boxes I will often leave it on the bottom because the virtual desktop pager tends to be easier to get at in that position.
Now it’s your turn. Take a screenshot of your desktop, upload it somewhere (for example flickr, imgur.com, etc..) and post a link in the comments. Note that my spam filter is a bit touchy and it totally hates link spam – so if you have more than 3 or 4 URL’s in your post, it may block you.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/5816/desktoped.png
http://i.imgur.com/8q1vZ.jpg
Arch Linux running openbox. The system monitor in the upper right is conky, and the systray in the lower right is handled by trayer (icon in systray is Exaile). No desktop icons or panels. Background found via Stumbleupon at some point.
Somehow I like the Vista-ish style of the wallpaper.
Also, any reason for not upgrading to W7? Vista really pales in comparison.
I think I messed up the HTML. :P
http://imgur.com/fYMQF.jpg
My primary laptop with a pretty standard Ubuntu setup, the standard Human theme with a customised Homosapien window decoration.
I use xmonad these days (at home, not from where I’m posting) so there’s nothing at all to see in a screenshot, as it’s a tiling window manager. If there are no windows, the only thing to see is the background image and nothing else. If there are any windows, they consume the entire screen and have no decorations. It trades all eye candy to squeeze out every last drop of (user) efficiency.
http://i.imgur.com/U8nhw.png
wmii is, by far, the best tiling window manager!
My Desktop:
http://i.imgur.com/kiK4r.jpg
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/563/desktop17022010.png
Nothing unusual besides the use of cplay as music player :)
(Also, i’m thinking of removing that terminal in the background, i almost never use it)
Mine are pretty dull, since I have a single screen setup and mostly stick to the default theme for both XP and Vista.
Laptop
Gaming Rig
Now you know my IP and my security suite, happy hacking !
Laptop
That’s my current setup so far, I used to use RocketDock to hold most of my stuff and I had a clean desktop. Later on I decided to do away with the dock and use the Quick Links area more.
This is my laptop at home: LINKY
I will post my work computer later.
@ reacocard:
I was about to ask where the wallpaper was from, but then I read the rest of the comment. :P
Jay wrote:
Yep.
Also, I’m lazy.
@ Jay:
I fixed it. This is why I have the little buttons above the comment box. Highlight a word, click on “link”, paste in URL into the box and you are set.
@ Chris Wellons:
But what is the background image? That’s still interesting. :)
@ Hexren:
Wide desktop is wide! 3 screens?
@ Zel:
I can’t help but notice that we seem to have very similar tastes in video games. :)
@ Craig A. Betts:
Hey, I’ve seen that Hummer wallpaper in the last thread. Time to shake things up man! ;)
@ Luke Maciak:
Yes, those are 3 20″ screens, I am a believer in multi monitor efficiency plus it gives my living room that command center look ;)
Here we go :D
http://imgur.com/Gy1uK.jpg
Here’s mine:
http://i.imgur.com/8GB3C.png
It’s Scientific Linux, with a bunch of apps I need, nothing more, nothing less.
[flame]BTW Scientific is waaay better than Fedora [/flame]
Mines quite a basic setup – ubuntu, with conky for sys info. embedded terminal on the desktop (compiz hack), usually running vim. I also have yakuake running with irssi.
http://imgur.com/72jXz.png
http://i.imgur.com/Ou79e.png
I’m currently away from home, so i only have my ibook with me. It runs ArchLinuxPPC, with window maker.
Little late to the party but here’s the desktop on my Ubuntu partition on my desktop PC:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4069/4368887599_8bc709ae0e_b.jpg
And then the desktop on the same PC’s Window’s 7 partition:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/4368887689_01290ac6cd_b.jpg
I also have a netbook and a regular 15″ Dell laptop, but I figure that’s enough!
Hey I was just thinking, we should do a “post your command center” sometime. No cheating and cleaning up beforehand though!
the little netbook
@ Rob:
I’m in. Gonna search for a cam the next days.
Pardon me for being late! I rotationally use 3 computers daily:
Gaming Desktop (DIY PC): http://imgur.com/WhCbb.jpg
MacBook (late 2009): http://imgur.com/E2pap.jpg
Work Laptop (Thinkpad T400): http://imgur.com/0J93R.jpg
@ Rob:
where did you find that firefly image? excellent. i want a copy.
http://imgur.com/b5qBn.jpg
My desktop sucks at work. Just windows 7 with INTEL wallpapers recycling through every now and then..
I sure wish I could run Kubuntu @ work. God.
My iBook’s desktop. I try to find a way to get screenshots from my other computers but I haven’t had very good luck with it. After I get ImageMagick to work on my own linux distro/OS X I will post images for 4 desktops of my secondary machine and the X environment that I use on OS X (I am running X rootless on this screenshot with wwm window manager)