Post Your Desktop Screenshots - 2009

[b2bwild]

My latest.

Gentoo ~amd64, KDE 4.2.4 w/dual monitors. One at 1680x1050, and the other at 1280x1024.



Link to more in my sig.

Nice one, It been a long I haven't used KDE.

[starsunflower]

Btwild: Nice desktop--very clean. I've never seen that skin or icon set. I haven't dabbled enough with KDE to see what skinning options there are available out there. Definitely cool.

Gruven: I love the desktop background with the feathery colorful design. How many distros are in these shots? So you have dual monitors in Gentoo. Neat. I hear that Gentoo is definitely not for newbs. I tried Sabayon a while back, before the major changes to the package management. I was not able to do wireless though, and was playing with my very first distros at that time while working an 80 hour work week, so didn't have time to tinker with figuring things out. I am not sure if there was even a package management system installed by default. I remember looking and looking trying to find it, lol! So was there native dual monitor support, drivers available, or did you just hack your xorg.conf to get it working?

Nopycckn: I'm a super big Vlad fan. A bunch of his desktop backgrounds just make me smile so much!

Oh so many distros, so little time. I'm going to have to try some of the newer ones. I haven't gone distro hopping in a long time. My most recent was gOs. I ran that for about a day in a VM and got bored with it, lol. I think my curiosity stemmed from wanting to try out an android! My bandwidth here kinda sucks, so I have to remember to do downloads at night when everyone's asleep.

I'd like to play with the KDE wm again some more too. I did not know that you could do more than one of those icon box things. I know them as "fences" from stardock's win version of something similar. I wonder if stardock stole that from KDE, lol!

Oh, and sorry for all the questions, but Gruven: What app are you using for that system monitor in the colorful feathery screenshot? That's rockin' sweet! It blows away the little boxes I have on my panel! I have tried the google sidebar but have not seen anything like that in linux before.

[gruven]

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Gruven: I love the desktop background with the feathery colorful design. How many distros are in these shots? So you have dual monitors in Gentoo. Neat. I hear that Gentoo is definitely not for newbs. I tried Sabayon a while back, before the major changes to the package management. I was not able to do wireless though, and was playing with my very first distros at that time while working an 80 hour work week, so didn't have time to tinker with figuring things out. I am not sure if there was even a package management system installed by default. I remember looking and looking trying to find it, lol! So was there native dual monitor support, drivers available, or did you just hack your xorg.conf to get it working?

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Oh, and sorry for all the questions, but Gruven: What app are you using for that system monitor in the colorful feathery screenshot? That's rockin' sweet! It blows away the little boxes I have on my panel! I have tried the google sidebar but have not seen anything like that in linux before.

There is only one distro in this shot, but on my screenshots page it is either Gentoo or Fedora.

I had to create my own xorg.conf for dual monitors to get different resolutions, but I usually create my own anyway because I just do. I am not a huge fan of automation in that area.

I do have a wireless card in this box, it is based on the ralink rt61 chipset, and use the Gentoo native tools to manage it, and the wpa_gui tool to look for other access points. That comes with wpa_supplicant.

All of my "boxes" are kde plasmoids except for the system monitor, and that is just Gkrellm. It has been in linux for longer than I can remember.

My desktop backgrounds I got from deviantart.

I will even post my xorg.conf for reference and help with dual monitors if need be. It should be noted that I use xorg-xserver version 1.6.1.901.

xorg.conf:

Section "Module"
    Load	"glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option	"Xinerama"	"0"
    Option 	"AllowDeactivateGrabs" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier	"Keyboard0"
    Driver	"kbd"
    Option 	"AutoRepeat"	"500 30"
    Option 	"XkbRules"	"xorg"
    Option 	"XkbModel"	"pc104"
    Option 	"XkbLayout"	"us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier	"Mouse0"
    Driver	"mouse"
    Option	"Protocol"    	"ExplorerPS/2"
    Option	"Device"      	"/dev/input/mice"
    Option	"Buttons"	"7"
    Option 	"ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
    Option 	"Emulate3Buttons"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "DFP-0"
    HorizSync   30-81
    VertRefresh 56-75
    Option	"DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "DFP-1"
    HorizSync   31.5-80
    VertRefresh 56-75
    Option	"DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Nvidia 8800GT"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    BusID	"PCI:1:0:0"
    Option	"NoLogo"	"true"
    Option	"NVAGP"		"0"
    Option	"RenderAccel"	"true"
    Option   	"DPI"   "96 x 96"
    Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
    Option	"Coolbits"	"1"
    Option   	"UseEdidDpi"   "false"
    Option	"CustomEDID"	"DFP-0:/etc/edid/samsung-edid.bin; DFP-1:/etc/edid/cornea-edid.bin"
    Option	"TwinViewOrientation"	"RightOf"
    Option	"HorizSync"	"DFP-0: 30-81;DFP-1: 31.5-80"
    Option	"VertRefresh"	"DFP-0: 56-75;DFP-1: 56-75"
    Option	"ConnectedMonitor"	"DFP-0,DFP-1"
    Option	"FlatPanelProperties"	"Scaling=Native"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen0"
    Device      "Nvidia 8800GT"
    Monitor     "DFP-0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
    Option	"TwinView"	"1"
    Option	"metamodes" "DFP-0: 1680x1050_60 +0+0, DFP-1: 1280x1024_60 +1680+0"
    Option      "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1680x1050"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier  "Simple Layout"
    Screen	0 "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

If you have any other questions please just ask.

[starsunflower]

I now have a desktop with nvidia, so it's a bit easier for me these days, although with 3 monitors things got a lil' glitchy via the nvidia driver config gooey. It's so nice to have dual. Been jonesing for it baad. My lappy has a Ricoh graphics card, and I was worried that if I got things all set up via xorg.conf and had to quickly grab the laptop and go, I'd have problems--not thinking that I'd be savvy enough to quickly change to a backed up xorg.conf file. Anywhoo...

Did you get the skin for that Gkrellm system monitor on deviantart?


I'm pretty newbish...been running Ubuntu as host OS for about a year now. Before that I dabbled. It wasn't until I got a desktop and had it full time next to the laptop and then got used to running it full time before reformatting the lappy. I also had issues with needing a database. I learned how to import a M$ access db into OO Base and was happy as pie to make that happen. I held onto Dreamweaver for some time too, until it started burying my processor and really heating up my systems. I'm now finding myself using gedit or geany or notepad++ in wine most of the time.

I'd like to spend the winter getting more familiar with KDE. I just get hung up on the app menu, or whatever it's called. I really dislike that new style menu layout that I actually first saw when running Sabayon about 3 years ago. It's weird -- like the vista and win7 I think before those OSes came out. I just like the classic hierarchical menu system. I added it, but it still takes me a while to dig around, as I have the little custom drawers set up in the gnome environment. I'd like to check out the cairo dock at some point too.

[gruven]

The new kde menu system allows you to set the old style by right clicking the menu icon, and select "Switch to Classic" and it is the hierarchical menu. I really like the new one, and usually just either search from the main menu, put a lot of stuff in favorites, or hit alt-f2 and run programs from there.

Even though notepad++ is nice, I usually prefer Kate to anything. It is the best text editor/development environment I have found (well, except for vi, but we won't go there).

I got the gkrellm skin from <-- GKrellM@muhri.net -->.

Yes, the way I have my xorg.conf setup, I would have to change it to take away a monitor, but this is a desktop so it doesn't matter. You could pretty easily setup a "hotplug" dual monitor setup with the nvidia-drivers, and I may try that soon.

[Stoil89]

I.In February - pinky
1.File name: linux_izgled-11022009.jpg
2.Background: Dawn/Hikari
3.Icons: Puppy 3.01 default + a few from a crystal theme
4.IceWM theme: Fresh!Valentine
5.Running applications: XMMS (skin: xmms-256), skype, gaim, seamonkey

II.In April - gray colours
1.File name: linux_izgled-08042009.jpg
2.Background: Gray girl
3.Icons: Puppy 3.01 default + a few from a crystal theme
4.IceWM theme: Fresh!Gray
5.Running applications: XMMS (skin: xmms-256), skype, gaim, seamonkey

III.Again in April Puppy 4.2-like
1.File name: linux_izgled-14042009.jpg
2.Background: Puppy 4.2 default.jpg
3.Icons: DeepThought set + a few from a crystal theme
4.IceWM theme: Fresh!DT42
5.Running applications: XMMS (skin: Almond-orange, rounded), skype, gaim, seamonkey

IV.In June - Vista style
1.File name: linux_izgled-16062009.jpg
2.Background: Think Linux
3.Icons: Puppy 3.01 default
4.IceWM theme: Ice_Vista_Black
5.Working applications: XMMS (skin: Almond-darkblue, rounded), gaim, seamonkey

V.Again in June Ubuntu style
1.File name: linux_izgled-22062009.jpg
2.Background:Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron default
3.Icons: Puppy 3.01 default
4.IceWM theme: IceBuntu
5.Running applications: xmms (skin: blended-human), seamonkey, skype, gaim

#Regular Linux user since August 2007
#Using Puppy 3.01/USB installation since 15.10.2007|Kernel 2.6.21.7, IceWM 1.2.26|256 MB personal storage file
#Note: Other parts may be posted if new screenshots are made and new part will be made if the limit of 5 files per post is exceeded.

[Rubberman]

Here is a snapshot of my dual-monitor wallpaper and icons (no apps shown). The mountain is El Pico de Orizaba in Veracruz, Mexico taken from the veranda of a friend's house in Xalapa, the capital of the state of Veracruz. I bought the property next door to my sister's house there that has a nice view of the peak. AFAIK, this is the second highest peak in North America, after Mt. McKinley in Alaska. I think it's about 6,000 meters (over 19,000 feet) and snow-capped year-round, even though it is in the tropics. 40 miles away is the coast of the Gulf of Mexico... Another factoid - some of the best coffee in the world is grown on the slopes of Orizaba - tasty!

Anyway, sorry I had to gzip the jpeg, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to attach it!

[rokytnji]

Stoil, like what you are doing with Puppy. Looks Killer.

Rubberman, Veracruz. Neato. Nice Shot and you bought some nice digs next to that. I'm jealous. LOL

Gruven, your skill set is always admired by me.

[Stoil89]

#This part is made because of exceeded file limit in the previous post and no URL-s allowed for me for now.

VI.In July 2009 - XP style
1.File name: linux_izgled-05072009.jpg
2.Background:Azul
3.Icons: from Windows XP, XP-styled
4.IceWM theme: Silver XP
5.Running applications: xmms (skin: winamp classic), about IceWM-window

[djap]

Nothing too special here...
Using ghost theme for KDE
Came across the wallpaper somewhere don't remember anymore where.
Plastique theme for Window and different elements (been my favorite for a long time)