I shall make no bones about the fact that this request is purely filler material, but such threads have been a success in years past. Dear OSNews readers please furnish us with your wondrous and diverse desktop screenshots and machine specifications! Considering that I have used the same wallpaper and platform since 2006, there is no great insight that I can bring to the table. Also, whilst I’m here–OSNews Asks: How have mobile OSes changed your habits this year?
Show Us Your Desktop 2010
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dylansmrjonesThat’s why you have a cleanup folder on the Desktop to put stuff in when taking screenshots for OSNews
You could call it “Notes” or “Assorted files” or “Docs” :p
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frajoMy favorite OS, eComstation 2.0, enjoy!
You are not the only one.
Here’s my minimalistic version of eCS 2.0:
http://rolofs.net/album/scr/ecs20-20110104d.png
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Here is a screen capture of my desktop. I’m running
Gentoo AMD64 gnome build with a custom wallpaper.
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l304/genblood/Gentoo-SS-061210.pn…
Also, Happy New Year too …
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Here is my simple Fluxbox window manager with gkrellm and conky on Gentoo
http://i51.tinypic.com/24l3rih.png
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Why to run this pool every year again and again? results are obvious:
OSX user – everybody nice usefull desktop
Gnome user – if they bother to tune up they can match OSX
Win7 user – all about background
KDE user – ugly as hell as usual
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_Wannes_
This is my desktop, running on a Compaq Presario CQ61 (4Gb RAM; 500 Gb Hard drive; 15.6″ screen, 1366×768) with Windows 7. Attached to it is a LG E22500V-PN (22″ screen, 1920×1080, with lovely pink powerlight ).
I personally like my desktop clean. Only 2 items on the desktop, with top priority (working on my HTML-skills and my thesis), and a number of sticky notes.
A question for the OSnews-readers: I’m currently using yahoo-widgets with JC Sticky Deluxe. I haven’t found any other widget so good for post-its, it can be resized, only displays the text, instead of a bar on the top that cannot be used, and so on… Does anyone know a better alternative? I’m trying to keep my computer as clean as possible.
<a href=”http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/4427/showusyourdesktop.jpg“>…
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http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a366/robinsonworld/xmaseve.jpg
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What hardware is that running on? Acube? Sam440?
pegasos 2, it’s a Amiga OS4.1/MorphOS 2.7 dual boot (well, it actually got Debian 5 and SUSE 11.something on it as well, but.. well you know, PPC Linux, not exactly cutting edge these days..)
That situation may improve with the recent PS3 hack, hopefully.
In fact, might as well put the MorphOS side picture up:-
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a366/robinsonworld/newyear11.jpg
Agiga rocks!
Nice! Very nice. Wish I still had my amiga tower…
If you had an Amiga 1200 PPCfitted accelerator tower, here’s quite an impressive Video considering it’s running on 604e 233Mhz CPU on a Motherboard that came out in the early 90s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khS4TcsZ1nM
I found a for sale ad for it, real cheap back around 2000. I brought it to an a/v hardware specialist (who used Amigas to do his own work) and he fixed it up. Ran well for another year, then had some hardware issues. By that time OS X Beta was coming out and I switched my focus to that along side my BeOS machine. Picked up a G3 tower on ebay… and used OS X primarily for the next 8 years. When Windows 7 beta came out I switched and have been using IT primarily.
But when we moved 5.5 years ago, I didn’t have room for the hardware so I left it with someone…
Cool video, thanks!
XFce running on Slackware64-current. Intel Pentium D, 2.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/hitest/slack64.jpg
http://img510.imageshack.us/i/desktop2010s.png
KDE 4.6 RC1 on top of Arch Linux
What’s that image from? Got a source?
http://b.imagehost.org/0696/desktop.png
You know..
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http://i.imgur.com/4qQtm.png
Current: Acer Aspire D260 Netbook
Future: ION 2 Netbook
Nice dock icons!
What are you using to handle 2 1680×1050 displays? If I recall correctly, the current Atom line is limited to 1440×900 on external displays.
isn’t your comment targeted at VMax’s post?
Oh yes, I opened but pictures and got confused, sorry 🙂
dwm on Debian netbook, monocle as default layout. My Efika *nix install sports a truly spartan ROX desktop that only I can behold and like
<a href=”http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/319/e/4/dwm_netbook_by_nicep…
Nothing wrong with sparse or simple. My desktop is the busiest it has been in years. I like to keep it bare, really.
I love the OS. WebOS is by far the best mobile OS at the moment.
I hate the hardware and that you can’t find any VOIP apps ;(
http://img522.imageshack.us/i/desksa.png/
From time to time I update my wallpaper to one of the recent photos I’ve taken. This one is specifically nice given the extraordinary winter
I am sitting at my laptop at the moment doing some coding.
Pretty much how it looks most of the time.
My laptop is an Amilo PRO:
Screen: 12″ 1280×800 laptop display
Screen: 24″ 1920×1080 external display (but my laptop gfx card can’t handle that high
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CPU: Core Duo @ 1.86 Ghz
Memory: 2048 Mb DDR2
Graphics: Mobile Intel 945 (256 Mb)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
Screenshot: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/mZ3Z7XT5qOtG4WdN3zpPsQ?feat=di…
I also have a computer in the living room that mostly my girlfriend uses:
Screen: 42″ ATEC TV
CPU: Core i3 @ 3.07 Ghz
Memory: 6144 Mb DDR3
Motherboard: ASUSTeK P7P55D LE
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 210 (512 Mb)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Screenshot:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Zyt_of85SLMF-4L_08Q8Dw?feat=di…
I also have an XP and an Ubuntu (always latest) virtual machine, both vanilla setup.
My HTC Desire with Android 2.2 has made me able to quickly check stuff out on the ‘net. For example which movie some actor was in or a word I can’t define.
I also get a notification sound when I receive emails.
Happy New Year!
(I know! I am so boring now when I have switched to Win7
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I haven’t used MS VS in years. Has it changed much (other than the languages it supports)? Doesn’t look much different.
We are 95% Java in house now… some PHP, some Ruby/Rails… I kind of miss the MS platform.
Actually I am coming from Linux development so this is my first time using VS. I like it, I never really got attached to other IDEs and preferred vim.
The most notable difference in VS 2010 is that you can drag all parts of it around. Place different portions of the application wherever you want. For example I have Errors and Output on my laptop screen. They also rewrote it using WPF so it looks somewhat different (although everything is pretty much still at the same place).
Also the “Call Hierarchy” feature is handy when you want to see exactly what gets called.
What IDE do you use? I am particularly interested in a good IDE for RoR (preferably if it runs on Linux and can access SFTP mounted folders
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I develop in Eclipse (or in Eclipse-based IDEs, at least – RTC and RDPower) – it is great, “call hierarchy” is essential both for Java and C/C++. Eclipse has done re-positionable views for quite a while now – clearly it is handy.
I’ve not used it, but the Dynamic Language Toolkit provides Ruby support:
http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=techn…
Not sure how it’d be for RoR – but maybe someone’s already extended it specifically for RoR …
VS2003 is the last one I used – I quite liked it … but can’t say I’d go back for anything but .Net development.
Well, I have Netbeans, which is decent and MyEclipse but… I am afraid I am very old school in that I do 90% of my work in a simple text editor. Right now (Windows) I use UltraEdit mostly. On OSX I use TextMate.
But Netbeans has very good support for Ruby/Rails and it is much simpler to configure and use than Eclipse/MyEclipse.
But when we were a mostly MS shop we used Visual Studio (some 8 years ago we shifted to Java). I liked it, actually…
I’m thinking of just going completely webbased for my editor with Bespin/SkyWriter https://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/ or Cloud9 IDE: http://www.cloud9ide.com/
But I think it still needs some polish before I’ll do it. For now it’s mostly gedit, geany or just plain vi.
yup, sloppy, way too much crap open, but here you go:
http://mypage.iu.edu/~somogyie/screenshot.png
FYI, OSX 10.6, MacBook Pro i7 with the hi-rez matte screen.
Working on two things: developing a multi-scale Schrodinger equation, and writing a NATIVE Cocoa DjVu widget (The only DjVu viewer for OSX is the QT based abomination, I’m so fed up with it which is why I’m writing a real Cocoa DjVu viewer).
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Nice! I love seeing snapshots of peoples’ work/code… I’d share mine but it would get me fired.
I suppose I could show some personal, Euphoria code I was working on at one point (implemented a web site in Euphoria, but now I switched my server to GoDaddy and I am way too cheap to pay to be able to have a server that would support Euphoria – so PHP it is).
Finish this and I’ll love you forever.
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I’m going to set up a source forge site for it. Right now, I’m working on the scrolling behavior working correctly.
I’m following the interface definitions from Apple’s PDFKit very very closely, I basically want the DjVu kit to be drop in compatible with Apple’s PDFKit. Reason being, Apple’s PDFKit works very nicely, and if the interface is close, it can be dropped right into PDF applications like Skim.
Out of curiosity, why sourceforge? I hardly see any new projects using it nowadays, it seems to be about GitHub for smaller things and Google Code if you need a bug tracker.
If you want something a bit more sophisticated than GitHub and don’t want to depend too much on Google, Sourceforge is still a viable option.
After all, you don’t really need to use that messy sourceforge project page. In the case of my project, all nice stuff happens on Trac and the SVN repository.
Probably out of habit mostly, already have a SF project. The library I’m using, djbulibre is also hosted on SF. As a personal preference, I like svn, never really cared for git. Also, I like how SF also gives you web storage for your project.
It’s very nice seeing some TeX code again since I haven’t really seen any after I left the academic world. Nice and disturbing at the same time as my general feeling is that any concerns for quality are relegated to the afterthought status. Moreover, there’s nobody I revere as much as M. Knuth in this computing world of ours.
Oh, almost forgot: you have some scary readings!
My new x201t, the left-hand taskbar is great with the touch screen. I am using Dexpot for virtual desktops; a requirement for dealing with the 12.1″ 1280×800 screen.
<a href=http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5203/5270914195_359efd9c67_o.png>…
your screenshot is not available.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmspooner/5270914195/
Nice and original! You’re one of those rare people who have their taskbar on the side, which I suspect is easier done on Win 7 than on previous versions of Windows.
I’ve just finished watching an episode of Criminal Minds and your screenshot, with all the viewports, makes me think of those stacks of windows and small viewports we see in such shows or movies where a “technician” is frantically hitting the keyboard as if they had an itch at the tips of their fingers…
http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/3289/desktopkl.png
OS X 10.6, obviously. The displays are a 23″ widescreen next to an old 19″ 4:3. This is my wallpaper as of 3 days ago.
Heh! Love it! I am going to buy my son a better monitor soon, I will probably snag his old one and set up my workspace with duals… but I have to find SPACE first.
Your desktop is so white. And so black. Split personality? I love it. What is the duck for?
Yeah. I thought it was going to be an eyestrain when I made it, but it turns out that there’s pretty much always something open on top of it. And the shadows look so much cooler.
The duck is the icon for Adium, the awesomest, most awesome multi-protocol IM client ever (if you don’t need A/V). Curiously, it’s not the only duck related application on my computer (Cyberduck FTP client).
Ubuntu Maverick, Asus M51VR-AP138 and fishing!
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/4096/desktop2010vd.png
That a pike fish? Thought they liked colder water, never seen them around lily pads.
Pike or pickerel… I grew up in MA and lived in NH… there were always lily pads in the ponds and lots of pickerel…
I’ve never seen lily pads in Lake Michigan, and I’ve caught a Pike there, didn’t realize they live as far south where there are lily pads.
Nice desktop.
Ah! Well… Lake Michigan. I’m used to small lakes and ponds.
Thanks.
There are plenty of lillypads up here in ontario canada and aparently in michigan, too…
http://www.google.ca/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.moz…
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Ubuntu 10.10 on a desktop.
That is crazy wallpaper!
The unmistakeable David Lanham http://dlanham.com/
Ohhhh yessss! Now I remember the look, I remember him from a series of icons he did years ago.
Yeah. I actually found his artwork after seeing Thom’s desktop in the last one of these “show us your desktop” things.
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Whoa! I think I having a flashback!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8161850/20101231.png
Oh no, don’t tell me you kept the horrible and ugly uTorrent 2.2 skin. I had to downgrade back to 2.0.4 just to rest my eyes from the 5-year old girl color scheme. God, I was relieved after that.
Anyway, clean desktop. I like the yellow/brown and black combination.
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There’s a way to go back to the old icons. I don’t know where I found it, though. Maybe Google is more knowledgeable on the subject…
just download and apply the old skin
http://download.utorrent.com/utorrent.2.0.4-v2.btskin
It is so great to be able to use Xubuntu at work!
http://picasaweb.google.com/107137192221734068765/Screens#555687563…
Tron Legacy theme.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5337791/GNOME-Shell-Tron-Legacy-Preview3.pn…
Nice! I quite like gnome-shell. I thought i wouldn’t, but i must admit it looks better and better for every time i look at it. To me, gtk3 and that whole new shebang is what’s most exiting though. In with the new, out with the old!
Holly bananas, is that Gnome 3.0 Shell?
This theme looks really sweet
Yep, thought I’d do a Tron theme(Work in progress on deviantART) Which I quiet like to use myself.
Really like GS and the fact it uses CSS3.
An old version. Newer versions have a different overview layout.
As others said, this looks very nice, though I would spontaneously believe that such a dark theme with bright and fuzzy UI widgets would hurt the eyes after looking at it for some times.
Maybe lowering screen brightness would do the trick though.
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It’s mainly the overview that’s got a lot going on but it’s not like you sit and look at the overview all day. The workspace is just the panel you see all the time.
Gorgeous!
Awesome!
badass!
This is the best I’ve ever seen so far. It kicks serious ass while seeming usable.
And your drop that bomb with a mere “Tron Legacy theme.” I wasn’t prepared to take that visual hit. Throw a warning next time!
How did you reach that? What system is it? Native or very tweaked customized?
GNOME Shell uses CSS3 for the way it looks and themes, so yes it’s just customised CSS. I’ve done many themes so it’s pretty easy for me now and the CSS file is pretty easy to understand.
The default theme is just plain black, monochrome.
http://picasaweb.google.com/DrRippStudwell/OSXScreenshots#555687735…
2010 Mac Mini OS X 10.6.4
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/3441/new1290551203.png
I think we have a winner.
I think so
Yes indeed! In the hardcore category first and then in every other category possible.
Hat off!
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q31/iPower/My%20Desktop/Ubun…
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (the last ubuntu ever on my computer)
Love the wallpaper!
Why they last one? Moving on to another OS?
don’t like what they are doing with ubuntu
Where is that wallpaper from?
Don’t remember
My Ubuntu 10.10 desktop with Docky dock and Faenza icons http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/2043/screenshotoor.jpg
I love the clean and clear look of your desktop. The colourful Dock in contrast to the dark taskbar.
My desktop: <a href=”http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/3092/screenshotcz.png“>
Ubuntu 10.10 – Docky – Gnome 3 “Stripes” wallpaper – “Lucidity-Dark” iconset
A humble Fedora 14 (x64, Gnome) desktop.
http://theosperiment.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/capture4.png
I’ve finally realized that Gnome won’t fix their panel contrast problem, so I made myself a background image which solves the problem in a few minutes. The wallpaper is the output of a gimp tutorial which I like.
Computer : Asus N61JV
About mobile OSs, well, I can now ditch those silly paper calendar and read emails and OSnews on the go, plus comment a little. It’s a nice gadget, but it didn’t revolutionize my life more than a PDA would have. After all, I bought this phone mainly for texting without the bugs of low-end text phones going in the way.
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Ok since you asked:
http://www.pohunek.free.fr/temp/2010-12-31-182023_1366x768_scrot.pn…
fluxbox + conky + pcmanfm on arch linux,
HP Probook 5310m
Not much to see here
Nice.
Laptop, Arch, KDE: http://tessmonsta.deviantart.com/#/d2o1o8o
Netbook, eepc701, Jolicloud 1.1: http://ow.ly/i/6Ro1
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Nice… I commented on your shot on dA…
Hai,
I’m running Arch linux on this machine:
AMD Semrpon 2000+
1GB DDR
80GB Maxtor + 1TB Transcend
http://d.imagehost.org/0605/2010-12-31-182548_1280x1024_scrot.png
Nice and clean.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/57689831@N05/5310244398/
Mac OSX 10.6.5
Awesome! Reminds me of some demos back in the late 90s with blob effects. Demoscene for life!
So many memories of nights in my dark room killing my eyes on the CRT screen with assembly and Pascal code… I feel so nostalgic.
http://sj87.hopto.org/screenshots/2010-12-31.jpeg
Default Plasma theme (Air) and some random wallpaper I accidentally put on and started liking… From DeviantArt, I think.
After seeing the screenshot I started liking the wallpaper as well. Will you please share it ? (deviantart is kind of big)
Still my old trusty IBM ThinkPad T42.
Windows XP with Ambient theme.
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/2482/dtopl.jpg
Those icons bring back some nostalgic feelings in me.
Ah XP, how I hate that I miss you.
Wow!
And some people dare kick XP in the rear end… sigh
It’s what XP should have looked like in the beginning
Here’s my current 1337 Ubuntu 10.10, don’t take it too serious 😉
http://img153.imageshack.us/i/ubuntu1010311210.png/
How did you manage to get that incestuous child of WinMacLinux?
http://oi52.tinypic.com/35i2io6.jpg
I’ve been with this system for 18 months now. I originally downloaded it to “try it out.” Haha. As a former long-time Debian fanboy, I can’t believe I’ve stuck with this Gentoo based distribution for so long. It’s that good!
Nice looking!
openbox + bmpanel2 + conky + wbar
http://i.min.us/idWnQI.png
ArchLinux, KDE 4.5.4
My setup has 9 virtual desktops, each one with a different activity/background!
I also use panoramic wallpapers across 2 desktops to form one image, and change between then with Meta + arrows shortcut, or using the pager widget.
Desktop 1:
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/8656/desktop2ar.png
Desktop 2:
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/7379/desktoptm.png
Desktop 3: (Jack server/RT DSP)
http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/9769/desktop4a.png
Desktop 4:
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Desktop 5:
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Desktop 6:
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Desktop 7:
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Desktop 8: (Monitoring)
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/8382/desktop3f.png
Desktop 9: (Gaming)
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the “beast of burden” is a
AMD Phenom II X6 1075T based system with 16GB of ECC RAM, a 2TB disk as boot disk and 4 1TB disks configured as RAID5 for data. The ATI 5570 graphic adapter drives an Eizo 22″ S-PVA monitor with 1920×1200 pixels. The OS is an Ubuntu 10.04.
My wife plans gardens. So she uses this system mainly for image manipulation (Raw Therapee, GIMP), drawing plans (inkscape) and presentations (open office, scribus).
I mainly use it mainly to develop software. That is what the 16GB of memory are for. Testing software often is running a database server, an application server, a webserver and a client as separate virtual machines.
Beside this my wife uses an IBM Thinkpad T42 running Ubuntu 10.04 as a portable system. Mainly to present her work to her customers.
And my wife also has become the main user of the Archos 5 Andoid based tablet I originally bought for myself 🙂
Myself is quite happy with a MSI Wind U100 netbook running on — you may guess it — Ubuntu 10.04 as a portable system. I sometimes take it even on bike tours.
Wait, my historic SGI Indigo Elan R4000 still features the 4DWM desktop.
pica
PS Sorry no screen shots. Neither my wife nor me have a Flickr, ImageShack, … account.
Nice. My system is similar… I am going to add another 8 gigs to bring it to 16 in January.
Yes, even a tool can be nice. As my wife I prefer working with nice tools.
pica
That’s why I’m using ImageShack. I’m not social enough to have an account to any image sharing sites and ImageShack lets you upload stuff without an account.
or at least one of them. Thanks to Stratoukos
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/1953/desktopwn.png
pica
I see a Visual Studio 2010 ultimate CD KEY on your desktop. Naughty boy.
You’re making an assumption there
I record keys in text files for non free and open source software I have purchased and paid for.
Was going to add the same; who doesn’t store their licence keys in text files?
Yes, why not. You only see a part of the key. Just enough for Microsoft to verify it is my key. But not sufficient to install it 😉
Well, my MSDN subscription allows me to install an unlimited number of Visual Studio IDEs beside other Microsoft products.
But only for development und testing purposes. Not for productive use. Hey, isn’t developing software the productive use of an IDE?
pica
No need for an account to post images at imageshack. That’s one of the reasons why I like it. The price you pay for this is indirect access to the pictures…
EDIT : Dammit, something did this before me.
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Just curious…do you do any profiling of your monitor (or printer), and how?
I have a similar setup (Core i7, 12GB, NEC 26″ wide-gamut display) running Arch Linux. So far, I’m doing most of my photographic post-processing in an XP VM, since my camera raw software (Nikon Capture NX2) only runs on Windows. I use digiKam/ufraw for simpler edits and JPEG conversion, since it can make use of the quad-core CPU, but the Nikon offering has more capabilities at the moment.
I’ve profiled the monitor by booting into Windows natively, but haven’t tried checking it with the VM setup.
I’d post my desktop, but it’s a pretty boring vanilla XFCE setup. Busy backgrounds tend to cause me eye fatigue after marathon computer sessions.
My Fedora install has a “Color management” tool in Gnome’s settings menu, which seems to do exactly what you want. Maybe you can install it too, it’s called gcm-prefs (GnomeColorManager).
Here’s a screenshot (in French, sorry) : http://img834.imageshack.us/i/gcmprefs.png/
Hope this helps
The ATI Catalyst Control Center offers color adjusting controls. We do not own a color adjusting hardware. To adjust the monitor my wife simply compares a photo taken at neutral lightning conditions with the original object. My wife typically uses a photo of her crayons to do this visual callibration.
We do not print photos ourself. So we have no need to callibrate a printer. BTW, how to color callibrate a simple black & white laser ?
My wife uses RawTherapee to manipulate raw as well as TIFF and even JPEG files. She tried RawStudio before, but prefers RawTherapee. One handy feature is the white balance using a white area on the photo. Just select a white area — a part of a number plate, the white outer of an eye, a white flower, snow, … — and press the white balance button afterwards. Done.
pica
http://www.mikesjunkyard.com/images/ss20101231.jpg
Wow, what a dashboard. You’re controlling almost everything.
Do you have also the Windows sysinternals suite by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell installed ?
pica
No but it looks interesting. Actually it looks very familiar… I might have had it on my previous system, that I gave to my son.
My linux box start to get boring just conky, tilda, gkrellm, aterm in fluxbox so i making from my gaming box now.
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/9439/kek01.jpg
Default
http://i.imgur.com/yOyrI.jpg
Left menu (autohide): window selector, hide all windows
http://i.imgur.com/tiqKx.jpg
Right menu (autohide): main menu, cpu monitor, clock, network manager, indicator, workspace switcher, trash
http://i.imgur.com/rP7Gz.jpg
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p89/drumhellar/desktop-1.png
currently setting up a webserver for a buddy, doing a practice run on a virtualmachine to make sure it works first.
Wish I could run FreeBSD on my desk, but my laptop’s graphics seem to not want to work. Chip is supported, but on my laptop it does this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwLS27D94ec
fglrx works fine, but it’s Linux only
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/6199/screenshotdbo.png
Lovely.
It’s rare to see music represented by a bass clef instead of the ever-present treble clef.
Wish I had the luxury of such spare space. It makes me think of a museum.
Coincidentally, while switching from this page to your screenshot, I realized my mouse pointer under vista is exactly the same as yours in the picture.
http://b.imagehost.org/0115/desktop2.png
Truetype fonts + zune theme + boobs.
Now stop using XP so I won’t have to test in it anymore
Care to share a link to the wallpaper? I’m seriously thinking of putting it in my work XP notebook, it’s so ugly 😀
Sure
http://lxixixl.com/keyword/anime%20love%20background/
http://ompldr.org/vNnNzZQ
How mobile OS changed my habits:
– Obsessive (work) email checking through free time, everywhere (e.g. when standing in line in shops, sitting in car while not driving…)
– Final collapse of last remnants of social graces. If I’m bored with a particular situation, I start fiddling with my N900 (email, incl. replying to emails, browsing…).
– Started top-posting (proper quoting is PITA in mobile email clients)
At the moment:
http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/4671/osnewssnap1.png
(yeah, it also betrays what I’m doing at new years eve – getting some freetime coding done after some beers).
Starring in the photo:
– Vanilla Maverick desktop
– Qt Creator
– My favorite program in existence, Leo ( http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html )
– Ipython “sh” mode (I use it as my shell)
– QmlReddit, my current toy project (available for N900, Symbian, MeeGo netbooks + everywhere Qt runs)
http://img704.imageshack.us/i/65636757.png
http://killswitch.alentagh.com/dd.png
On my trusty Thinkpad T61, running Windows XP.
Chrome says this site has malware.
hm…that’s interesting…
although, I don’t use the most reliable hosting provider of all…
anyhow, sorry about that…the image linked there should be squeaky clean as far as I know
http://img209.imageshack.us/i/doctorpepper12312010.png
Xubuntu 10.10, erthlite1.jpg as the wallpaper
http://img525.imageshack.us/i/screenyp.jpg“