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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: 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).