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I thought it this would be fun everybody. I thought it might be interesting to compare desktop screenshots and see what other SoylentNews user interfaces look like. Tiling window manager or stacking? Desktop environment or not? Are you minimalist? What operating systems are you using?
What about your phone/tablet/phablet?
I'll start: Desktop and Cellular Phone.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by buswolley on Monday February 16 2015, @11:36PM
Ha!
Screenshots before or after I dump all my desktop items in the "Old Desktop" folder on my Desktop?
A folder which, incidentally, has a fuzzy recursive structure (e.g. Old Desktop/Old Desktop/Old Desktop/Old Desktop/Old Desktop..)
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(Score: 4, Funny) by buswolley on Monday February 16 2015, @11:38PM
Before ppl get upset
its actually
(e.g. Old_Desktop/Old_Desktop/Old_Desktop/Old_Desktop/Old_Desktop/../..)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17 2015, @01:49PM
Why not write that directory simply as Old_Desktop/Old_Desktop/Old_Desktop? ;-)
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Tuesday February 17 2015, @05:12PM
Because I don't know how deep it really goes.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by The Archon V2.0 on Tuesday February 17 2015, @08:06PM
To underscore the fact that once you get that deep the only sane thing to do is back out, quickly.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Tuesday February 17 2015, @01:57AM
How funny, except mine is "subDesktop", several deep of course filled with stuff I've forgotten about and probably really need to work on.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Wednesday February 18 2015, @02:02PM
That's how I do my backups! Except I try to be more descriptive...
EXTERNAL_DRIVE_2014/DESKTOP_BACKUP/HP_BACKUP/DELL_BACKUP/DESKTOP_BACKUP/MOM_BACKUP/2006_MY_DOCUMENTS/OLD_MUSIC_FILES/08_Smashmouth_Walking_on_the_Sun.mp3
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 18 2015, @06:31PM
Yes, I know if I go too deep I'll find evidence of all my old Napster piracy a decade ago.
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 16 2015, @11:46PM
WTF
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 16 2015, @11:47PM
Yeah I know, no image tags.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Subsentient on Monday February 16 2015, @11:57PM
Actually, I rather like this idea. I always enjoy these kinds of things. I hope lots of people post real screenshots.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 5, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday February 17 2015, @01:47AM
This [imgur.com] is my desktop. With my computer name in the top right corner obviously redacted by some rudimentary image manipulation application.
You'll notice it's pretty much minimalist, for a number of reasons: First is that, since it's Linux, it can't do anything other than browse the web (which is why no porn is stored locally), take screenshots, serve as a pocket calculator, or kill its crashed applications; as you can see from the Panel above. The lone exception on the panel (that is, a useful application), is Transmission (a bittorrent client used for illegally stealing music and movies).
You would be able to see actual things happening (audio and video recording and editing, computer-algebra systems, 4-D CAD/CAM with fluid and heat-transfer simulation packages, Integrated Development Environments that don't look like they're stuck in the '70's, etc.) had I showed you all my Windows desktop, but I think that's a little much for this stage in our relationship.
(Score: 3, Funny) by coolgopher on Tuesday February 17 2015, @04:44AM
bittorrent client used for illegally stealing music and movies
Okay, two things:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17 2015, @09:18AM
Whoosh.
That whole post was nothing but sarcasticly repeating stereotypes.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17 2015, @09:24AM
Yes, if you are the government or friendly enough with the government (e.g. rich enough), you can simply make or have it made legal when *you* do it.
We hear all the time about dictators that have stolen billions from the people. Don't think that they broke any laws to do so. When it comes to dictators, that Judge Dredd "I am the law" quote holds true.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday February 17 2015, @04:47AM
Well I'm sure many will be like me and not post screencaps as we've have to spend too long redacting shit. My desktop not only has my real name on my user folder but it also has my Steam ID and my real IP address as I have a network monitor to keep an eye on my LAN. Needless to say that isn't the kind of info that I would want to just broadcast to the world, not to mention "weird desktops" is really something only Linux guys bother with for the most part, Windows users change a few things but are mostly happy with the defaults.
TLDR? My desktop is Win 7 with a Vista Black taskbar but not gonna Doxx myself to show it.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Wednesday February 18 2015, @01:20AM
Not all of us Hairy, I like a live desktop myself. (Win8.1) No icons, hidden taskbar, and a beautiful dream (what Stardock calls their live wallpapers) of Earth gracefully flowing beneath the ISS. (I posted caps further down so I don't want to post them in a reply.)
Of course, KSP spends more time on my desktop than my wallpaper does!
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 1) by NickFortune on Tuesday February 17 2015, @12:58PM
The trouble is, screenshot threads tend to end up as "who can find the coolest wallpaper" contests.
That said...
Screenshot
Wallpaper link [deviantart.com]
(Score: 1) by NickFortune on Tuesday February 17 2015, @01:00PM
Heh. Messed up for the formatting for the screeny somwhere
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/OyKVL68.png [imgur.com]
(Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday February 17 2015, @02:22PM
Haven't seen Enlightenment in the wild since early 2000's. Such a rare sight!
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 1) by NickFortune on Tuesday February 17 2015, @03:22PM
FVWM, actually. Just as old, but probably in slightly wider use.
I've got this setup so heavily customised that these days anything else feels like trying to type while wearing boxing gloves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 18 2015, @12:34AM
This reminds me of a BBS I used to lurk in the late 90s and early 00s.
RIP &T.
(Score: 5, Offtopic) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Monday February 16 2015, @11:46PM
Slow news day?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by buswolley on Monday February 16 2015, @11:51PM
Actually, this is a test to see if a Soylenter can provide a real screenshot showing his/her stuff off WHILE NOT compromising your identity.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday February 17 2015, @02:15AM
Anybody who can compromise my identity based on the screenshot I provided in my post above gets a free blowjob*.
* from a man
Anybody who can post less meaningful but factually accurate information related to computer information or psychological profile gets a free handy † .
† that is, handjob
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday February 17 2015, @03:16AM
Pardon my paranoia, but methinks I'll pass this time (SN already has my email, I disclosed by posting the info I'm living in Melbourne and I grew up in one of the former communist countries in EE. I think that's enough).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17 2015, @02:08PM
Well, I guess you could simply create an account at the SoylentNews Wiki [soylentnews.org] and upload the image there. ;-)
However the Wiki doesn't seem to be accessible through https.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 17 2015, @10:14AM
http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-02172015-040103am.php [zimagez.com]
I think I pass the test. There's not much on my desktop to identify me.
One "feature" of my desktop - anything minimized on my right screen is "invisible". There is no icon. Anything that I might not want seen in a screenshot is moved to the right screen, and minimized. To find it again, I click anywhere in open space, select "Windows" and click the hidden window to bring it into focus.
I'm a distro hopper, and I've found myself chasing the latest and greatest Enlightenment desktops. Sparky in this case, but Sabayon, Bluestar, and others have done great things with Enlightenment.
Oh - as a distro hopper, there really isn't much identifying stuff on any of my desktops. THAT stuff is pretty much kept stashed on a separate hard drive from the OS drive, not on my desktop. When I nuke and reinstall, everything is still where it was for the past years, no need to put it all onto the desktop!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by K_benzoate on Monday February 16 2015, @11:47PM
Go home SoylentNews, you're drunk.
This isn't a chan.
Climate change is real and primarily caused by human activity.
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Monday February 16 2015, @11:49PM
http://i.imgur.com/t23bK92.png [imgur.com]
Like I said the other day. I reconfigured.
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(Score: 2) by buswolley on Tuesday February 17 2015, @12:05AM
http://i.imgur.com/vGl3UE2.png [imgur.com]
Fixed
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(Score: 1) by drgibbon on Tuesday February 17 2015, @12:27AM
Ahh yes, PixelDungeon. I put so many hours into that game I had to wipe it from my phone so that I could get some work done :P
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(Score: 3, Informative) by buswolley on Tuesday February 17 2015, @01:11AM
Its not bad game at all, at least one of the better adapted for the phone. You might also note that behind it I have Shattered Pixel Dungeon, which is a fork.
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(Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Tuesday February 17 2015, @01:11AM
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Tuesday February 17 2015, @01:14AM
Honestly, I haven't used it much yet... New install, and I didn't have it on stock android. I do appreciate having it though.
But you know what, Ill try it right now playing some mixes from this site:
http://musicforprogramming.net/?c=four [musicforprogramming.net]
Awesome mixes for working.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by buswolley on Tuesday February 17 2015, @05:15PM
Hey DSP manager is very nice. Much appreciated.
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(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Wednesday February 18 2015, @01:46AM
Cool pic of Duna.......er, uh, nevermind........:D
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Wednesday February 18 2015, @01:55AM
Took a bit for me to find the reference. :)
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(Score: 3) by Subsentient on Monday February 16 2015, @11:54PM
My current SubLinux 2 desktop.
http://universe2.us/collector/SubLinuxNodoka3.png [universe2.us]
XFCE 4.11 (unstable 4.12)
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 5, Touché) by ilPapa on Tuesday February 17 2015, @12:31AM
You guys just want to laugh at me for my Justin Bieber wallpaper. I refuse to give you the satisfaction.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Tuesday February 17 2015, @01:39PM
I expected questionable anime. I'm vaguely disappointed.
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(Score: 2) by pnkwarhall on Tuesday February 17 2015, @09:18PM
Ha! Your "questionable anime" comment reminded me of college -- I couldn't believe that all these guys would bring laptops to class w/ wallpapers consisting of almost completely naked chicks in sexual poses. I could **never** put a wallpaper like that on a computer I would be using in public spaces, and I don't understand how they had no shame!
Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
(Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Tuesday February 17 2015, @10:23PM
And the ones who have no shame, some of them completely own their shamelessness. I have had someone ask which of the women in his fetish wallpaper was, in my opinion, more attractive.
(Score: 2) by pnkwarhall on Tuesday February 17 2015, @11:11PM
I hope their faces were visible, at least.
Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Thursday February 19 2015, @09:30AM
According to questionable research, you're more likely to remember it if faces aren't visible [soylentnews.org].
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(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Tuesday February 17 2015, @12:36AM
I have a boring Windows7 on my personal laptop.
I've already promised myself that when I graduate, I'll put a BSD on it with maybe Enghitenment. I always wanted to give it a try (actually played it a couple of hours once, and was ecstatic with the amount of fiddling it provides). Else I'm a traditional "window" kind of guy. I like to tile on my terminator, tho.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 17 2015, @12:45AM
running ubuntu (no time for distro hopping anymore) with lxde.
got 'Heartbeat' (BBC show) on one monitor, firefox on the other.
It looks all purty and shiny.
GO GUAKE!!! I LOVE YOU GUAKE! YOU IS MY BEST FRIEND, GUAKE.... Muah!
Disclaimer: I love guake. A lot. Install linux, then install guake. I'd install guake first, if i could.
Love guake.
F12: oh, there you are, my precious.
F11: oooh, full screen! Shiny!
F12: bye, my love. [this is my crying]
F12: ooooh! [orgasm]
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1) by drgibbon on Tuesday February 17 2015, @01:07AM
running ubuntu (no time for distro hopping anymore) with lxde.
Does not using Ubuntu imply distro hopping? ;)
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 17 2015, @01:12AM
it implies, i probably would be spending a lot of time trying arch, maybe slackware, maybe even lfs.....
if there is a heaven, you'll find me sitting in front of a mega-computer with 4 monitors, trying them out, and even the bsd's.
here on earth, there just isn't time.
boohoo for me, i know. :)
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(Score: 2) by melikamp on Tuesday February 17 2015, @01:55AM
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 17 2015, @12:25PM
Are you the REAL JOHN (COUGAR) MELIKAMP??? :)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by melikamp on Tuesday February 17 2015, @05:38PM
(Score: 1) by drgibbon on Tuesday February 17 2015, @05:53PM
Ok, but it sort of sounded like other distributions are for tinkering and playing with, while Ubuntu is what you use if you need to get work done, which I don't think is necessarily true. I don't know, I feel like I hear that a bit, "I used to play around with Linux distros, but then I just had to get things done so I use Ubuntu". No problem, but there are many distributions where one could just install the base set of programs needed to get-work-done™ and quit tinkering with the system. Unless you choose the LTS version, Ubuntu is actually quite fast moving. Anyway, not saying you meant any of that, just thinking aloud.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 17 2015, @06:13PM
No... i installed ubuntu as my main desktop because it is what i'm used to (went from macmillan redhat 5.2(ish) to redhat 6 to debian, mandrake, etc.)
Then found Ubuntu (before it became the 'evil' desktop). Put it as my main work desktop while i dabbled.
Now, i just use it because there is no time for dabbling again. I have a netbook with Arch installed, but hate the small keyboard.
No time, too many distros to try.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 17 2015, @10:29PM
IMHO - Ubuntu appeals MAINLY to those who fit one or more:
A: Don't really understand Linux, and Ubuntu "just works".
B: Need a long term supported OS, without the cost of Redhat support.
C: Are satisfied with "good enough".
There are probably as many reasons for sticking to Ubuntu, as there are Ubuntu users. I abandoned Ubuntu for almost the same reasons that I abandoned Gnome. I didn't like the road they were on, and I certainly didn't like the "my way or the highway" attitude. Linux users have always been a terribly independent bunch, so many of us just don't fit into the Ubuntu crowd. Can't call them sheeples, exactly, because they have thrown off the reign of Microsoft, but they don't value their independence as much as some of us do.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17 2015, @07:16PM
got 'Heartbeat' (BBC show) on one monitor,
And you're sitting in front of the computer? Why aren't you out there getting your money's worth out of your free bus pass?
(Score: 5, Funny) by Buck Feta on Tuesday February 17 2015, @12:49AM
Desktop [google.com]
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(Score: -1, Troll) by tftp on Tuesday February 17 2015, @01:05AM
I have several desktops, and they are full of stuff. I have no time to sanitize the images. Besides, what purpose would it serve? It would be far more practical to ask for a favorite wallpaper, with links for downloading.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by kbahey on Tuesday February 17 2015, @01:17AM
Don't like posting screenshots, for various reasons ...
But, for my phone, it is an Xperia ZL, and runs the regular Sony Android (KitKat). But to make it even faster, I have Nova Launcher [google.com], which I recommend for anyone using Android.
On my tablet, an old Acer Iconia A500, I use OmniROM 4.4.4 KitKat [tegraowners.com] as well, also with Nova Launcher.
For my desktop, I have been using KDE since forever, around a decade and an a half. First on Mandrake Linux, then on Ubuntu. Don't specially love or hate KDE, it just gets the job done. I can probably live with XFCE or LXDE. Just waiting to see how this systemd thing will settle, and choose a distro that allows me to not use it.
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(Score: 1) by EmeraldBot on Tuesday February 17 2015, @01:43AM
Desktop [imgur.com]
Sorry for the horrendous artifacts, it looked fine when I took it. Sadly, Imgur mangled the quality...
I have two screens, the left one is my trusty 1280x1024 I've had for many years, the one on the right is my 1680x1050. I do all my work on the left one, while the right one functions as a giant scratchpad. I use the i3 tiling window manager, that's audacious as the media player, and I use xterm with tcsh on FreebSD 10. In real life, the colors are much richer, in particular the text is gold and not piss yellow. Sorry again...
Give a man a fire, and he's warm for a day. Light a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Tuesday February 17 2015, @03:42AM
How are you viewing Soylent in green? Something seems wrong about that ;)
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(Score: 1) by EmeraldBot on Tuesday February 17 2015, @05:37AM
How are you viewing Soylent in green? Something seems wrong about that ;)
Ah, yes. The green theme is called "vt100", and you can get it under "Preferences->Homepage" on the left, in the themes menu at the top. As to why I use it, I'm simply a sucker for old looks ;) Well, okay, and my eyes are very light sensitive, so I try to view dark themes where possible. Not a fan of bright white... Amber would be perfect, as that would match my terminal, but I suppose I can't have everything exactly right...
Give a man a fire, and he's warm for a day. Light a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
(Score: 3, Informative) by islisis on Tuesday February 17 2015, @08:54AM
http://files.diamondsky.org/images/snapshots/simplicity.png [diamondsky.org]
it sounds like something you might find useful to do, anyway, so here's a link to a FF extension which toggles the colours
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggledocumentcolors-198916/ [mozilla.org]
you can add a keyboard shorcut and toolbar button and take back your internet ;)
(Score: 1) by EmeraldBot on Tuesday February 17 2015, @07:27PM
i could have sworn you were overriding the page preferences to keep the browsing experience uniform, like i do!
http://files.diamondsky.org/images/snapshots/simplicity.png [diamondsky.org]
it sounds like something you might find useful to do, anyway, so here's a link to a FF extension which toggles the colours
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggledocumentcolors-198916/ [mozilla.org]
you can add a keyboard shorcut and toolbar button and take back your internet ;)
Wow, thank you! As embarrassing as it sounds, I had no idea there was an extension to override page colors. Thanks! I'll look into this, then my desktop life will be complete.
Give a man a fire, and he's warm for a day. Light a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday February 17 2015, @11:58AM
I generally have 2 tags for browsing (one shown). One for chatting (irssi on various IRC networks). One with an xterm in /tmp that I can just jump to quickly. One for A/V control (xterms where I have alsamixer and launch mplayer or mpg123 (shown). And a few that are empty (e.g. where I'll put the mplayer window after launching).
Phone? The old n900's still going strong: http://fatphil.org/tmp/PerfectPhone.png
Note - my slashdot experience is now in glorious VT colours too - thanks for the hint! This is one of the biggests mistakes of the IT industry in the last 30 years - monitors are not paper. Black on white is horrible compared to white/yellow/amber/green/something-pale on black.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1) by EmeraldBot on Tuesday February 17 2015, @09:46PM
Tiled here too - dwm: http://fatphil.org/tmp/PerfectDesktop.png [fatphil.org]
I generally have 2 tags for browsing (one shown). One for chatting (irssi on various IRC networks). One with an xterm in /tmp that I can just jump to quickly. One for A/V control (xterms where I have alsamixer and launch mplayer or mpg123 (shown). And a few that are empty (e.g. where I'll put the mplayer window after launching).
Phone? The old n900's still going strong: http://fatphil.org/tmp/PerfectPhone.png [fatphil.org]
Note - my slashdot experience is now in glorious VT colours too - thanks for the hint! This is one of the biggests mistakes of the IT industry in the last 30 years - monitors are not paper. Black on white is horrible compared to white/yellow/amber/green/something-pale on black.
Is that a powerpc processor? Now THAT is cool, I wish they made modern day powerpc computers. Your phone setup is a lot more interesting than mine, mine is so close to stock Android I didn't bother to take a screenshot of it :P
I'm glad the vt100 trick helped! I agree, whoever came up with making everything black on white has clearly not used a terminal for any length of time. Black on white isn't equivalent to reading a book, it's equivalent to staring straight into the sun. If you want to take it a bit farther, I actually found a really neat Firefox (also supports Seamonkey!) extension today that allows you to define two color profiles. The first one is by beloved amber on black while the second is the completely default one that comes with Firefox. I can switch between them whenever I like with a shortcut, which allows me to keep all the ergonomic niceties of my colorscheme while still being able to quickly reset things for troublesome sites that rely on defining their own colorschemes. If you're interested, you can find it here [mozilla.org]. It appears to be very old ("Now supports Firefox 4!"), but still works perfectly on Firefox 35. Might be worth a try, I've really grown fond of it and I've only used it for a couple hours. I've spent years on creating the perfect desktop, and I believe I've now got it ;)
Give a man a fire, and he's warm for a day. Light a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by crutchy on Tuesday February 17 2015, @01:56AM
sometimes a link to a screen cap from my toshiba i5 lappy gets posted on IRC when something weird or awesome happens (usually SN or bot related), so some of you prolly already know i use a virtualbox with debian wheezy with xfce and some gnome junk thrown in for good measure (gedit prior to going full tard is awesome). the host OS is windows 7, but that doesn't get used for much except the odd game and delphi programming.
i like multi-monitor. even though lately i've been using my laptop on the couch with just the one screen, sometimes i plumb up one of the 23" from my desktop
the desktop is debian jessie with xfce. dropped tard version of gedit for mousepad on it. doesn't really get used much but having two screens does make it handy for web development.
there's also a server that runs debian but i mostly just ssh into that so a screen cap would be pretty boring.
i like wallpapers with not too much going on, but maybe a bit of abstract stuff going on. i used to have conky set up but don't bother anymore. conky is awesome for making a desktop look more nerdy
even though these sorts of stories aren't the main focus of SN, i think it would be good to see more of them pop up on weekends occasionally (esp if the queue is low). a plain ol' news site can be fairly impersonal so things like journals, polls, 'ask soylent's etc are all good to help develop a sense of community.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ah.clem on Tuesday February 17 2015, @02:52AM
I run windows 7 on my Carbon. I have about 80 close-up photos of bamboo that I rotate randomly every 15 minutes. On my Nexus 7 I run live wallpaper - snow falling in a forest. I change it with the seasons. On my Blackberry I have a photo of the view from the lanai of my favorite restaurant on Oahu. Pretty boring and old-school. Oh, yeah, and the Blackberry - I know, I know...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17 2015, @03:35AM
I like to be reminded of important things [imgur.com]...
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17 2015, @04:21AM
...when a tramp-stamp is too subtle.
(Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17 2015, @04:37AM
Just watch it flutter by...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17 2015, @08:08AM
Why is this modded troll?
As requested, I posted my desktop. It's been my desktop for several years.
How is that a troll?
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17 2015, @10:56PM
Geez Louise! It's just a little skin [imgur.com], folks. I can see not liking it. I can even see some of the more prudish being offended.
SN asked for screenshots. One was provided. A real, honest-to-goodness screenshot of a real, honest-to-goodness desktop.
How is this a troll? If you don't like it, it could be modded 'disagree', 'overrated' or even 'flamebait'. But 'troll'? WTF?
(Score: 2) by ah.clem on Wednesday February 18 2015, @05:08PM
Woah - Imagine that when she's 80! That's just gonna be nasty , but props for, erm... something. I really had thought I'd pretty much seen everything, but that is certainly a new one for me. I wonder if her OB can keep a straight face during an exam? I suppose it's better than a bunch of arrows strategically pointing down with "In here, in here!" tattooed above... so, what's on the obverse? A caterpillar head? (Sorry, couldn't resist.) It's gettin' a little "4Chan" in here...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by arashi no garou on Tuesday February 17 2015, @04:43AM
Yes, it's an odd couple, but I find myself most productive in Slackware on the desktop, and Windows Phone is the only smartphone OS I can stand to use for more than five minutes.
Slackware64 running Window Maker on my workstation: http://imgur.com/FkKE2IG [imgur.com]
Windows Phone 8.1 on my Lumia 521: http://imgur.com/UrZVCGp [imgur.com]
This machine dual boots into Haiku OS as well, but I'm compiling some packages right now so I'm not going to bother with rebooting to grab a screenshot of that OS.
(Score: 1) by engblom on Tuesday February 17 2015, @06:03AM
It is very nice to see some are still running WindowMaker. IMHO it is one of the best traditional window managers ever made. Personally, I never saw anything better with Fluxbox and the other *box that mostly took over everywhere.
WindowMaker runs faster than *box without using more resources. It also does everything you want and allows you both to use a graphical built in tool for configuring as well as text files. The only thing Fluxbox does which WindowMaker does not is tabbing random windows together. However, there is much WindowMaker can do which Fluxbox & Co does not do.
(Score: 2) by arashi no garou on Tuesday February 17 2015, @11:58AM
Over the years I've gone back and forth between Window Maker, Openbox, and Fluxbox, and I'm in Window Maker now for the reasons you mentioned, plus it just looks better than the others. I've also always been fond of NeXT and GNUStep, and it fills that desire as well. I got tired of spending hours setting up Openbox in Slackware to be as good as Window Maker always was out of the box, and it seems that the older I get, the less time I have to devote to twiddling around.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday February 17 2015, @09:21PM
Back in the day there was Blackbox, which was really nice. I used it for a while back in the late 90s. That begat Fluxbox and Openbox. Blackbox was better. It was less fussy,
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1, Troll) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday February 17 2015, @05:07AM
Link. [kindgirls.com]
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2, Insightful) by engblom on Tuesday February 17 2015, @06:07AM
In some computers I use Xmonad, in other dwm. Both are doing the same: tiling windows.
Because I am using a tiling wm, there is no reason to have a background. I would almost never see it.
I am using a mix of OpenBSD and different Linuxes.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17 2015, @07:26AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17 2015, @08:52AM
here you go: http://postimg.org/image/6ujx0wgjl/ [postimg.org]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by DNied on Tuesday February 17 2015, @10:44AM
Here goes:
Screenshot [devio.us]
I have no desktop, so I thought I'd show how I like to read SoylentNews.
The window manager is Ratpoison, running on Slackware 14.0. Also starring: xterm, GNU screen, w3m, gkrellm.
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Tuesday February 17 2015, @05:18PM
fascinating.
subicular junctures
(Score: 1) by EmeraldBot on Tuesday February 17 2015, @08:11PM
Here goes:
Screenshot
I have no desktop, so I thought I'd show how I like to read SoylentNews.
The window manager is Ratpoison, running on Slackware 14.0. Also starring: xterm, GNU screen, w3m, gkrellm.
WOW. And here I thought my setup was barren, compared to most... Also, is that an 800mhz processor? You have an awesome setup, gotta say. Looks very functional, especially if that processor really is only 800mhz...
Give a man a fire, and he's warm for a day. Light a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
(Score: 1) by DNied on Tuesday February 17 2015, @11:02PM
Only while idle or under light load. When needed, it goes up to 2 GHz using frequency scaling. That's how I usually set it.
(Score: 1) by EmeraldBot on Wednesday February 18 2015, @01:52AM
Only while idle or under light load. When needed, it goes up to 2 GHz using frequency scaling. That's how I usually set it.
Ah, now I see. I thought it's top speed was 800mhz...
Give a man a fire, and he's warm for a day. Light a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday February 17 2015, @09:18PM
I'm running Slackware64 14.1, but I use Window Maker [windowmaker.org], and have done since about 2001 or 2002 when AfterStep went totally mental (and a bit unstable) with ludicrous superfluous eye-candy.
Over the years I have suffered various versions of Windows, GNOME and CDE on Solaris, Ubuntu (whatever Fischer-Price abomination that has these days), KDE (*gag*)... You name it.
The best "desktops" - whether that's just a window manager or a full-blown environment are simple, reliable, and get out of your way when you've got things to get done.
And don't get me started on the lack of xterm on most modern distros... They expect you to use some broken, slow, under-featured eye-candy desktop-integrated terminal, if at all.
Now get off my lawn.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1) by dentonj on Tuesday February 17 2015, @10:51AM
Nothing special. Typically I'm just doing CCIE lab prep.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday February 17 2015, @12:40PM
We will see if anyone recognizes this (other than the obvious url giveaway)
http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/fitted/620x348/Bill-Gates-Hints-at-the-Return-of-Microsoft-Bob.jpg [softpedia-static.com]
This is what I started with back in '81. I think its visually more appealing than most "stylish" "modern" UIs. It was also easier to use, on average.
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/trs80iii/screen1.gif [obsoletecomputermuseum.org]
I could post a real screenshot but it would be excruciatingly boring. All my machines are the same, work, home, freebsd, legacy linux, whatever. With the obvious exception of the old winXP gaming drive thats used for nothing but steam games. This makes life considerably easier, always the same keys. I also have three machines with three monitors on the desk both at work and home. Most of the time, shell to the left, emacs (or a game or something) on the middle, and browser (or xpdf) on the right. AFS home means shared home dir on all machines at home.
Xmonad with trayer bar on the top and a xmobar. I usually have about 3 virt windows. In xmonad, with my xmonad.hs, alt-number switches my window. I don't do much with xmobar but burn about a pagefull of junk to display... the time. Lame, but its formatted the way I like it, whatever.
First window "alt-1" has urxvt with multiple tabs, usually each is SSHed into something "big" (or sometimes extremely small...) and all those sessions run tmux. So I got tabs in tabs in tabs. In urxvt my tabs are selected with function keys. In tmux I've bound the shift-arrow keys. So alt-number1 to select window, then f1-fsomething to select the machine I'm ssh'd into, then shift-arrow to wiggle from tmux window to tmux window.
Second window "alt-2" is usually emacs. Next story on SN will surely be "what emacs packages do you use" and I'd be dead without helm, flycheck, etc. I usually set up sshfs sessions to put other machines filesystems into my ~ so thats how I use emacs to work on remote things. Emacs runs locally, and doesn't know its accessing everything thru sshfs. I have little scripts to handle my sshfs sessions and key based auth and all that. I don't use my mouse with emacs, although I guess its possible. You don't want to know how many buffers I sometimes have open in emacs after a long day. Helm helps with that too. And projectile. And projectile-helm.
Third window "alt-3"is usually chromium. Sometimes FF (long story).
(Score: 1) by WillAdams on Tuesday February 17 2015, @12:59PM
Available here: http://www.xericdesign.com/earthdesk.php [xericdesign.com]
I got it off a magazine CD-ROM, then had to upgrade when upgrading to Leopard (or Snow Leopard)
I actually find it useful as a quick overview of whether or not an e-mail correspondent will be awake or no, and it lets me keep somewhat aware of what the weather is like for various relatives (at least whether or no it's cloudy).
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Wednesday February 18 2015, @01:13AM
Nice.
I had never heard of this program. Thanks! Might have to give it a spin.
It seems to be a lot like Stardocks old Deskscapes which I run.
http://imgur.com/a/5w9lo [imgur.com]
Got to love a live wallpaper of the home dirtball!!!
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday February 17 2015, @02:52PM
At work, so here's the laptop (minus extra displays): http://i.imgur.com/YtMEDNY.jpg [imgur.com]
Enjoy : )
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17 2015, @03:12PM
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/atjrheg117yiopx/Screenshot%202015-02-17%2023.08.50.png [dropboxusercontent.com]
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Tuesday February 17 2015, @05:03PM
My desktop is whatever background-image the script pulled when starting X (well - currently from a list of one image, one of the stock debian images since about a decade ago).
I never really got this whole idea about icons so I have a setup without any icons, any software I use often is accessible via hotkey (Alt+F5 for urxvt for instance) or possible to pull up in text-menus (Altgr+F8, or rightclick) but the majority of the software is simply launched by typing it's name and parameters into an open terminal..
Somehow I find it a lot faster to just hit [Alt+F5] o p e r a [enter] [^D] than having to reach for the mouse, send everything to the background, drag the pointer over and click.. and that is for a program I open often, I dread to think about how it would be for the stuff I rarely open
(Score: 1) by Freejack on Tuesday February 17 2015, @05:17PM
Typically I don't keep anything on my desktop other than the trashcan.
Warning, the image is large being a four monitor array.
http://schelin.org/pngshow.php?id=8090 [schelin.org]
Carl
I am not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going.
(Score: 2) by pnkwarhall on Tuesday February 17 2015, @11:22PM
You get the award for the weirdest wallpaper in this thread, and the weirdest wallpaper I've ever seen in my life. It does communicate a distinct worldview pretty well though.
Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
(Score: 1) by Freejack on Wednesday February 18 2015, @03:31PM
It's a Reedit image from the Video Game crowd of PCs over Console gamers. I got it from a totally different source and found the history later. The side borders are there because the height just fits. The two black boxes on the top left and right are because of the monitor layout. 4 23" Acer monitors. One in the center, one rotated 180* above it, and two rotated 90* and 270* on either side. It gives me a piece-together 4k display :)
Carl
I am not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going.
(Score: 2) by pnkwarhall on Wednesday February 18 2015, @09:21PM
PC gamers over Console gamers
OK, that explains it very well. I read it in a different, more general, way -- technology, futurists, transhumanism vs/contrasted/above primitivism, fundamentalism, naturalism... ugh, too many -isms, sorry.
Thanks for the explanation!
Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
(Score: 2) by present_arms on Tuesday February 17 2015, @05:47PM
here's mine :D http://myphotos.mypclinuxos.com/images/presentarms/desktop2015.png [mypclinuxos.com]
http://trinity.mypclinuxos.com/
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday February 17 2015, @06:08PM
My Desktop at home has a number of different Backgrounds that it rotates through. I have a Tux Pengin Mascot Background, a demotivational Anime background, a background from the steam holiday sale (The X-Com Unknown Snow Globe.), an Anime background that's Win 7 themed, and maybe a couple others. Mostly, I just stick with the basics other than my rotating backgrounds. Would have Linux, if it were not for Games.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Informative) by darkfeline on Tuesday February 17 2015, @06:48PM
No screenshots, but I guess I'll post my setup.
I run Arch Linux. I use dwm to manage my windows; simple is best. I use the default systemd; YMMV. I run rsyslog alongside journald (best of both worlds). I make use of the user mode for systemd, allowing me to run and manage services as a user, such as gpg-agent, urxvtd, and mpd.
I use Chromium as my web browser, with uMatrix serving all of my blocking/filtering needs. My multi-tool is Emacs, with Evil for text editing, newsticker for RSS, and mu4e+isync (mbsync) for email (although I use vanilla Vim for light editing and on my servers).
I use Jack as my main audio server, with all of my applications routed into non-mixer as my audio mixer. Non-Jack applications get routed through ALSA -> PulseAudio -> Jack, but that's mainly for videos in Chromium because everything else I use supports Jack. My music player is mpd, for coding sessions, and I use cantata as a frontend when I need it.
I use urxvt as my terminal emulator, tmux as my muxer, zsh as my shell, ranger as my file manager, and Vim as my text editor (though I now program in Emacs using Evil). I have a lot of Python scripts to automate my workflow, some of which I have installed as custom packages using Arch Linux's stupid easy packaging via ABS and pacman.
Both Emacs and my shell environment are heavily configured; I believe in sharpening your tools.
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 2) by Kunasou on Tuesday February 17 2015, @10:59PM
At home, I still use Fedora 20 since I don't know if I will move to another distro or just stick with the recent systemd additions. My DE is Xfce4 and compositing is managed by compton (to avoid the tearing that happens when using xfwm4). Since I started using docks (five years ago) I can't live without having one (even though I always use alt+tab to switch between windows), as a launcher they work well. There's a lot of games depending on wine but they run surprisingly well, even though I haven't been playing too much lately. I should do a cleanup of desktop icons, several ones haven't been used for months. I don't know why but Russian support started to work weird in my fedora and now to tag songs I need to use AIMP3 or I'll end up with corrupted tags.
A screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/gdiDZDJ.jpg [imgur.com]
Since I have two screens one usually has a drawing and the other a photo, the secondary also has Conky on it (I used to have gkrellm).
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Wednesday February 18 2015, @12:46AM
A screenshot won't do justice to my desktop, which uses Stardocks Deskscapes on Win8.1. A loop of Earth from the ISS missions 28 and 29 that is absolutely stunning. I have no icons at all on my desktop, and run everything from the taskbar which is located on the left side of my screen and hidden. So when idle it is absolutely beautiful to watch. Especially the Auroras.....stunning.
I was going to link to the download page until I realized there is no preview.
Very relaxing live wallpaper.
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Wednesday February 18 2015, @01:05AM
OK, here be the screenies!
http://imgur.com/a/5w9lo [imgur.com]
Some KSP shots.....just because.
http://pslytelypsycho.imgur.com [imgur.com]
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 1) by srobert on Wednesday February 18 2015, @01:29AM
Subject line says it all. So minimalistic, it's not worth a screenshot.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Wednesday February 18 2015, @02:26PM
I'd post a picture but I'm never on Soylent from home... ;)
I use Enlightenment, I've got six virtual desktops arranged in two rows of three. Never understood the point of virtual desktops until I got this laptop -- turns out they're GREAT when your system has the power to run more than one thing at a time! So I've got two rows of three and I use the top row for fun, bottom row for work. The top right (primary) has Firefox on the left half and a transparent terminal on the right (Conky lives under that terminal), second desktop is my secondary terminal and VirtualBox, third desktop is...let's just say private browsing. Across the bottom first I have Kate for development, then probably Chromium or a tertiary terminal depending on what I'm coding, and the last desktop is miscellaneous -- been holding The Gimp this week as I've been working on graphics for my personal website.
I've got this cool Arch Linux wallpaper with a double helix thing down the right side -- I think it was originally blue, but I've changed it to red. And I've got Conky set up overlaid on that. Inside the helix from the top down we've got a clock and uptime, then a set of rings showing CPU load and clock frequency, temperature, and a graph of load over time. Below that is a set of partial rings showing disk space on each hard drive, RAM, and battery. Bottom right corner is a network graph and instantaneous network speed readout, then my volume/brightness bars, and above that is readouts of my virtual datacenter (Proxmox server) -- CPU and memory utilization of each server, along with a readout of HTTP status codes from the log files and a readout of all active user sessions. Cyberpunk style security -- because there's nothing actually of value on that server.
(Score: 2) by SlimmPickens on Friday February 20 2015, @06:17PM
https://i.imgur.com/g0thaJ8.jpg [imgur.com]