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I think it's a great idea if you're on a *nix system to include a uname -a as well.

I have a Sun Blade 100 running as a (poor mans)network storage at home. When I feel like logging in thru remote X11, I'm welcomed by a nice and uber lightweight E17 desktop that almost makes me forget I'm using an old low end sparcv9 workstation. I encorage you to grab everything off cvs and compile it for yourself. I can send a tarball of my e17 local compile and a list of CSW packages you would need have installed.

Happy new year y'all

Thats cool but I don't like Enlightenment at all.

I'm not too fond of e16. but e17 looks great so far. It's pretty customizable, so most people's likes should be covered.

Very nice wallpaper.

Cool wallpaper - whats it from?

found it at http://www.wakachan.org/ (there's a age limit and lots of pictures aren't work safe )

Hmm... it "contains" a character by Dmitry Popov from his image called "Ninja" -> http://www.jetarts.net/g1_img_8.shtml . You can find more of his works on that site. In other words it's a rip, not that it matters here but I just wanted to give credit to the original artist.

I think you need a new monitor, everything looks kinda fuzzy.. o.O;

Really really nice wallpaper collection.

You could take on the world with that setup X3

Where did you get that terminal background??? I WANT IT!!! Can't be the original game graphics...

Please gimme your wallpaper!

http://borkedweb.com/background1280.jpg

Nope, Wintermute beat you to it.

Nah, you weren't the first and there is no sin in posting s Windows desktop here; they asked for your desktop not for "Any OS but Windows" desktop

Desktop modding is an obsession with a large number of Linux users... It's not surprising that they're very well represented in this thread.

I used to do it as well:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~chris129/images/

Hey Windows Desktop is still pretty modable. Mine isn't that 'alien' because I am into minimalist design.

I suggest you use TweakUI from MS to remove that recycle bin!

gpedit.msc will also allow you to remove the recycle bin.
"user configuration" "administrative templates" "desktop" "remove recycle bin icon from desktop."
Enable it.

Edited 2006-12-30 21:04

I'm right behind you.. tempered a bit with Fedora on VMware.

Great!

Now we know you have to fix your taxes ;-)

Love the background screen for your KDE desktop. Do you know where in Europe this image was taken. My wife used to live over there and we cannot remember the name of this location.
Thanks.

Well the image is called "truecolorsofstrasbourg" so i gues it's taken in Strasbourg.

Thats amazingly minimalist!

A true minimalist wouldn't even use a window manager.

He'd type out the X11 functions to call himself?

Just use GNU screen with out X - now that's minimalism.

then again, a dwm package (were anyone silly enough to package it) would definitely be smaller than a screen package. Screen 4.0.3 package on Arch Linux = 480 K. DWM full source directory with everything compiled (i.e., uncompressed, WITH source) = 228 K.

> A true minimalist wouldn't even use a window manager.
> Just use GNU screen with out X - now that's minimalism.

Well, I live in the real world: I use screen, it's a wonderful tool, but I don't see any reason why I don't have to use X. Shall I have to write my svg files by hand, or edit audio session using split? I don't think so.

I'm a concrete minimalist, I follow what is - for me - the most efficient and pleasant way to make things done

> Well, I live in the real world

I did operate with X and without a window manager for a few months, at least on my work machine. The work didn't involve very much, so the lack of a window manager freed up some screen real estate and ensured that the interface elements were always in predictable spots (the geometry parameter is a very useful tool).

I also setup a computer for my father without a window manager. All he wanted was a web browser and email client, and anything else on the screen confuses him terribly. Having Navigator launch full screen, without the possibility of other stuff appearing on the screen or of things moving around greatly reduced the burden of his technical support team (me). And it saved the aforementioned support team from being awaken at strange hours by the telephone.

To this day I regularly use screen and bypass X altogether. It is great because you can simply detach the screen, login to the machine from a remote site, and continue from where I left off. I understand that you can do that graphically with tools like VNC, but screen is faster and ssh is more available.

The minimalist approach may not appeal to everyone, nor is it useful in all circumstances. But it is a valid approach in the real world.

As for my desktop: in normal circumstances, I use whatever is stuck in front of me. Bouncing around between computers (including Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X) means that I cannot have a consistent desktop experience anyway. It also means that I would have to spend considerable time tweaking each system. So why bother?

I love it when people customize their system to the point I can't even figure out how it functions anymore! That is an awesome config XD

yes, this is not wimp(1)

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMP_(computing)

look closely at what? windows xp or the midget porn?

Below "midget porn" is a folder called "haha I got you."

Edit: Freudian slip.

Edited 2006-12-30 18:54

fsckit I got you.
If any of you don't read digg. See
http://forum.surfermag.com/forum/showflat.php?Number=1123180

for the real accident.

hehehe, must be the midget porn folder.

Nice metal music there on your folder! May I suggest some bands you might like?

Demise of Eros
Arch Enemy
Decapitated
Agathodaimon
Dagoba
Adagio
Deadlock
Soilwork
Beseech

YMMV

Edited 2006-12-31 03:04

Hubba Hubba.

Um... that carpet, that wall paper, and those drapes...

Nuh uh.

Am I inspired to customize my desktop? sometimes
Am I inspired to go back to fvwm's configuration? No, it makes baby jesus cry.

No, it makes baby jesus cry.
hehe, sometimes

I think most people who use Windows, OS X, KDE, Gnome and XFCE don't customize as much as those using the lighter WM's.
Using Fluxbox on my media pc I think I'd sooner customize that one than the KDE I use on my laptop. I haven't looked into it, but I think it might be easier to do so as well.

Heh, you know I do really like to see a fancy desktop but only when they belong to other people! when it comes to my own I can never be arsed to bother.

Heh, you know I do really like to see a fancy desktop but only when they belong to other people! when it comes to my own I can never be arsed to bother.

I guess that is why i posted mine. I was really hoping to see some tricked out desktops.

Some of the wallpapers are fabulous but everything else is kind of blah. heh.

oh well. just a good waste of time on a saturday morning.

I think every geek passes 'desktop madness' at least once in their life

I mostly modified kde to the extreem, tuning it here and there , day in day out, making improvements and then suddenly, the next day, start out a complete different theme. My poor friends had to endure these user-hostile desktops each time

But these days I gotten lazy and only want 4 things:
1) Quick acces to multimedia (musi, complete movies)
2) Quickly developing my small projects
3) No cluttering, I need to have overview (the bigger the screen the better
4) My daily dosis of internet news & comics

you customized it so much it looks like a green version of every other desktop

I am always pleased to see that there are other Bad Religion fans in the world

We were driving through New Mexico recently by the VLA, and I played American Lesion for my wife, and she was fairly shocked (having been exposed to incessant blaring Bad Religion from me for years). Can't beat that dirgey version of Cease...(Living on the Fault Line is also particularly fantastic)

Nice screenshots there, innerlogic (AUTOMATONS IN BUSINESS SUITS, SWINGING BLACK BOXES!)