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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: 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.
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(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.