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.
(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 ;)
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