The last time we did this, it was still 2010, so it’s been a while. Since I’m having a hard time finding interesting things to write about today (unless you guys want a story about Apple losing another iPhone prototype at a bar, or about Samsung’s god-given quest to launch a tablet/smartphone for each number between 3 and 10), let’s do one of those old-fashioned and quaint ‘show us your desktop!’-things. I’ll start.
This is my Linux desktop. I use GNOME 2; KDE 4 still won’t work properly for me (this is like, I don’t know, the 5th or 6th hardware configuration I’ve tried? I’ve given up), Unity feels like My First UI, and GNOME 3 looks and works like one of those concept cars – it looks great on photos but it has no engine and the interior is made of clay. I’m currently planning a switch to Xfce to future-proof my Linux experience.
I use two operating systems on a daily basis. For anything related to work (90% of my computer time since I only reboot into Linux once I know for sure I’ll have no work for at least a few days), I use Windows 7. If you want a screenshot of that, it’s basically the same as the Linux one above, except with a Windows 7 taskbar at the bottom. I’m boring like that.
Just for funsies, since I’m using this thing quite often – this is what the desktop on my iPad 2 looks like.
Well – fire away!
Here is mine!
http://www.minimalblue.com/gallery/screenshots/big/xmonad-20110814….
Screenshot snapped on my Lenovo X200.
OS: gentoo linux
Windows manager: xmonad
Terminal: rxvt-unicode
Audio player: audacious
Mail client: mutt
Text editor: vim
IRC client: irssi
Terminal multiplexer: tmux
Compositing manager: xcompmgr
Nice, very clean. Xmonad intrigues me; I just haven’t gotten around to messing with it.
How did you set up xmobar to show progress bars? Would it be possible to share your configuration files?
I’ve uploaded everything here:
http://www.minimalblue.com/projects/index.html#dotfiles
🙂
Awesome! Thanks for this. It’s nice to know there are other xmonad fans out there.
You think you’re boring? I have Ubuntu 11.04 installed with Unity 2d, and I still have the default wallpaper installed for the last 4 months!
What about: take any default look (with the exception when on Windows of the Luna generation, I never got used to the Fisher Price style; “classic” on those), tone down any remotely vivid colours (neutral grey “wallpaper” for example), and… turn off desktop icons :>
Real freedom fighters have FF, not Chrome. Ha. 😉
As shown here: http://cl.ly/0B3f1Q0K0O2I3y1M3l0O
I only have 2 computers – this 2011 13 inch MacBook Air I’m currently typing and my iPhone. Less is More =)
I used to use 9wm, now that was minimalistic 😉
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23667510@N03/6105463431/in/photostream
From my fully-text-oriented era. I used 9wm, 9wmmenu, Mutt, aterm, links and nvi on Debian stable.
Edited 2011-09-02 12:08 UTC
http://wstaw.org/m/2011/09/02/kde_17-07-11.png
Plasma theme is Gaia10
Window decoration is nitrogen
Icons are ALLGREY- UniQ Edition
Color set is Google+ colors
Why you no seed? Sad monkey =(
Looks like 0 seeds on the torrent, indicating that it’s almost dead and there’s no one else to upload to. Could also be that his uploads are counted to his data cap by his ISP. I’m in the same boat: I can only afford to keep a ratio of 1.2.
That’s beautiful. I’ve duly noted your setup!
Dave
Here’s my laptop under Arch with me updating packages and checking on a thread in the forum:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4074189/Screenshot1.png
Same setup, minimised so you can see the backdrop:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4074189/Screenshot2.png
And my boring Windows 7 home screen on the same machine:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4074189/Screenshot3.png
My backdrops come from http://interfacelift.com . My machine’s specs are as follows:
Dell Latitude D620
Core2Duo @ 1.83Ghz
1.5GB RAM/320GB HDD/Dell DVD-RW
Dell Wireless 1390 (Broadcom 4311/4312)
Dell Bluetooth 350 module
Nvidia Quadro NVS 110m with 64MB RAM
Arch 3.0/Xfce and Windows 7 Ultimate Retail (original OS was WinXP Pro, I still have the original restore discs if I decide to move the license for 7 to another PC)
The theme under Arch is Oxygen-GTK.
Well! Actually your Windows 7 desktop looks better because of a blue-green clean wallpaper and without any icons! It is looking better than arch desktop
I like it!
Edited 2011-09-02 09:24 UTC
Interesting. I spend most of my time in Arch as I’m just more comfortable there; I feel that I have a fine-grained control of the OS and I’m much more familiar with what’s going on at any given moment. Windows exists on my laptop for the purposes of rooting my older Android phone (there’s some irony!) and playing a few Windows-only games that don’t work well under Wine. That’s why it’s so Spartan.
I use LibreOffice instead of MS Office — I actually prefer its interface to the modern Office versions — and various other free and open source packages in Windows. In fact, Windows itself and a couple of games are the only commercial components of my Windows installation.
I’ve been considering a regression back to Windows XP and saving my Windows 7 license for the next desktop I build. It would probably be more compatible with my older games anyway (Thief series, Star Trek Armada, etc).
Very nice wallpapers!
Scientific Linux running on my X60s laptop, with Nimbus theme and a picture of the space shuttle docked with ISS and the Earth hovering above.
At work, twin 19″ UXGA displays running Windows 7, classic interface, the left monitor used for work and the right monitor used for remote desktop. Wallpaper is a Lincoln MKR concept vehicle.
And this computer, running Vista, 1440×900, with the bamboo wallpaper that came with Windows.
Edited 2011-09-01 23:32 UTC
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20099899-37/apple-loses-another-u…
I don’t find it on the front page here, but I’m in a hurry. Apologies if it’s already posted.
Nobody cares, dude.
Fedora 15 with Xfce 4.8 after I just logged in, so I don’t have a lot of stuff running.
Running Xfce in CDE mode is probably the most interesting thing about my desktop.
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/2267/screenshot0901201106381.png
I tarted my desktop up with Casey Stoner taking a corner at Indy and my Win7 VM.
http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/6268/screenshot0901201107035.png
Nothing wrong with CDE mode! It’s one of the nice things about Xfce.
Nothing wrong at all.
I just don’t think it’s commonly used.
I think CDE mode is a more efficient use of the desktop, and it kind of makes me feel like I’m using one of those old Unix workstations I used to lust after. If I could find a modern pizza box case, I would be a very happy nerd.
Does anyone have any tips on how to set up “CDE Mode” on XFCE? I understand that before version 4, CDE mode was pretty much all there was, but that this has changed.
It’s pretty much a neglected use case in Xfce, now. You can’t really recreate the CDE/Xfce 1&2 panel any more, the ‘minimise to desktop’ implementation is pretty spartan. The above examples are about as close as you can get.
There’s very little here. http://i.imgur.com/hpM22.jpg
Here is mine:
http://devio.us/~kpedersen/screenshots/c19.png
I’m on the OpenCDE team. This screenshot is a couple of builds old but most of the changes underneat the hood anyway.
At work I use Windows 7, which I enjoy a lot.
Always loved CDE, +1 from me.
Excellent, I wasn’t even aware that OpenCDE existed. Cheers.
Hey, didn’t even know there was an OpenCDE.
Will give it a try over the weekend, thanks for the tip!
I knew about an effort to open the original CDE source code:
http://www.petitiononline.com/opencde/petition.html
but hey!, didn’t know anything about your project.
Thanks for sharing!
Awesome! Brings me back to OpenVMS running Motif days…
What a coincidence. I just took these on a whim a couple of days ago.
My Desktop:
https://ssokolow.deviantart.com/art/LXDE-0-5-0-Desktop-Clean-2559009…
Explained:
https://ssokolow.deviantart.com/art/LXDE-0-5-0-Desktop-explained-255…
Here’s mine : http://i.imgur.com/bnsmj.png
OS: Arch linux
Window manager : awesome
Terminal : terminal (xfce)
Audio player : mplayer
programming editor : vim
IRC client : irssi
Wow, awesomeWM looks…awesome. I might have to try that!
Another one using the Awesome Tiling WM:
http://i.imgur.com/qN92e.jpg
The background shows the High Tatra mountains, in the middle the current unix timestamp is spelt out in japanese, showing the “time”
OS: Ubuntu linux
Window manager: Awesome
terminal: Sakura
browser: Opera
quick-launch: Synapse
All my PC’s are Debian Testing with the exception of my work/home laptop.
Debian Sid/Testing with GNOME3 from experimental.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1394905/desktop.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1394905/desktop-1.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1394905/desktop-2.png
I’ve used this thing about 12hrs a day for the past year and a half. The best thing to be attached to Dell in a long time. Don’t get the model they have now though.
http://www.dell.com/au/p/alienware-m11x/pd
Mine must be the most boring: Because I can’t concentrate well I run all my applications fullscreen on a seperate virtual screen. Even on my 21″ screen at home…(Thom’s nightmare I believe
)
http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/7890/201109020212241366x768s.png
Showing Arch Linux, with xmonad and emacs.
Nice! Ha! It always surprises me to see people coding in LISP… (I have no problem with the language at all, I like it … but I also like Ada and it surprises me when people use that as well).
I’m curious to see who else uses relatively old machines for their daily use boxes? I think the last time I posted a screen shot I was still using my NeXT Turbo Color daily. It’s a 33mhz 68k with 128mb of ram and a 4gb hdd. I’ve sicne sold it and was running up to date hardware.. but I’ve regressed back down a few notches.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/helfer/6104830094/in/photostream
Description :
My current set up. It’s a bit cramped but functional. I sold my PC to raise money for a trip as well as my other laptops. So I’m stuck using ol’ Faithful for a bit
Toshiba Portege 3110ct
Pentium II 300mhz
128MB PC100 RAM
40GB IDE HDD
800×600 10″ LCD
Intel i855 IGP
Single USB 1.1 slot currently with a 64GB USB key attached
Single PCMCIA/Cardbus slot with a PCNet b/g/n WiFi card
Running Crunchbang Linux with the Liquorix kernel.
OpenBox is the Window Manager.
I use XChat for IRC, Pidgin for IM, Terminator for my shell, GEdit for text editor, links2 in graphics mode for my browser unless I have to have JavaScript, in which case I fire up Midori.
I read eBooks on it using Calibre’s viewer app. Works surprisingly well for ePub and PDFs and what not.
Over all, as long as I watch what I’m doing, the laptop runs great for its specs. I usually have at least two instances of links2 running, an ssh session, a terminal open, file manager, pidgin with at least one chat, and xchat with 6 channels open, going at all times.
Edited 2011-09-02 00:38 UTC
Love love love Toshiba’s old Portege’s. I had a 3110CT myself until it died a few years ago. Loved it.
yes! They are fantastic laptops. exceedingly well built. The 3110ct is still amazingly thin. I’ve had mine for pushing 7 years now. One of the best laptops I’ve ever owned.
Nice to see “links -g” in action!
If someone would add tabs from elinks to it, it would be the perfect lightweight browser :p I seriously adore it.
Wow! That’s awesome!
Wow! I’m amazed that such a tight configuration is still functional in these times when software is so overweight.
My Desktop runs stock Windows 7 with some minor tweaks.
http://i.imgur.com/vJJB5.jpg
That wasn’t particularly interesting, so here’s a composite screenshot of my netbook in quad-boot;
http://i.imgur.com/DMvsF.jpg
I’m impressed. How functional is Android w/o a touchscreen?
Nice; probably the only Windows desktop that’s ever impressed me (because of how similar they all look, I guess). I had no idea it was so customisable (you’re using third party stuff to do it?).
He said it’s quad-boot. That’s four different OSes, not four different Windows skins.
I was talking about the first screenshot. In ‘how similar they all look’, I was referring to other Windows desktops.
In that case, I officially don’t get it. The 3rd party quick launcher replacement seems to be the only real modification (replacing the VS isn’t exactly exceptional).
Well, I’m afraid I’ve never seen Windows look something other than stock before. Granted, I don’t really spend much time looking for ways to customise the appearance of an OS I hardly ever use, or looking for screenshot’s of people’s Windows desktops.
Whether it’s common or not, I like it (the cleanliness), and it surprised me initially.
Here is mine:
http://www.besenbruch.info/osnews/screenshot.png
Thom is thinking of changing to XFCE, I finished changing from KDE3 earlier this year. This is XFCE 4.8 on Ubuntu Lucid (10.04), running on a netbook, powering an external monitor.
Note the two versions of Windows, 98 for Bible software, and 2000 for some old astronomy software and Word Perfect 10. The Bible software gets used weekly for my job.
The astronomy software has been replaced by Linux versions. The Word Perfect documents are too complex for LibreOffice to import, but as I never change them, they all had PDF versions made. I haven’t run Windows 2000 in over a year.
Two other points: XFCE runs easily with 256 meg. of RAM. It does a great job of launching and running programs. It looks decent.
The wallpaper is a photo I took of a Song Sparrow in the University of Wisconsin – Madison Aboretum, and processed with GIMP.
Some of you guys with dual monitors need to check out backgrounds that are specifically designed for dual monitors. If both monitors are next to each other, it has a nice long pano picture of whatever subject matter.
Not very exciting, but
http://tinyurl.com/3uqua97
Of course, the coolest thing about my setup can’t be seen: Window focus follows mouse, with no auto-raise. It’s the only way to point.
FYI, if you’re still wondering how to get the scrollwheel to sloppy focus correctly, check out Wizmouse or Katmouse. The reason it doesn’t sloppy focus by default on Windows (even when you enable focus follows mouse) is due to conflicts with a few legacy apps.
I use sloppy on linux but I find it unpleasant on Windows. Know of any way to control the auto-raise delay?
To control x-mouse features in Windows, under the key
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
is a value “UserPreferencesMask”
the first hex value, add 41h to the first value for focus follows mouse + auto-raise, or, add 01h to the first value for focus follows mouse without auto-raise (which is what I have it set to)
For example, the value for my key was “9E 3E 07 80 12 00 00 00”
I edited it to “9F 3E 07 80 12 00 00 00” to get “focus follows mouse”
If I had wanted full X-Mouse, I’d have edited it to “D9 3E 07 80 12 00 00 00”
To control the delay, set “ActiveWndTrkTimeout” (in the same key to the decimal value you want in milliseconds (i.e. setting it to 333 is 333ms, or, 1/3 of a second)
You can turn on the focus follows mouse feature via the accessibility control panel (I believe), but auto-raise is activated as well. Editing the registry by hand is the only way to get sloppy focus without auto-raise.
Edited 2011-09-02 10:50 UTC
Okay, try this: open an application with 2 or > panes, manually focus one, then try to scroll in the other.
If it works, congrats; you’ve probably already got the thinkpad/synaptics software installed. If it doesn’t, check out Wiz/Katmouse. Wizmouse works better in Vista/7.
Granted, focus within an application isn’t affected, but I only use one app that it actually matters to me (the wonderful Total Commander). It’d be nice if the left or right panes activated based on where the cursor was without me having to click, but since that is the only app I use that it matters, I’m not worried about it. I’d rather make accommodations for one app manually than install one that might affect such behavior.
I’ll note that the KDE apps I use on a regular basis also don’t respect sloppy focus within the app (or, if they do, I haven’t noticed).
I’ve been using XFCE on my professional desktop for quite a while (see last year’s: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/2WlQcmMAPccH4hFAJ5vhAg?feat=di…).
Here are a couple pics from the current setup:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/vz2hTEiyDSD_cfUDuS4PXA?feat=di…
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/8qGt8F1NaWauMjY4IAU4WQ?feat=di…
As I comment on the second pic from this year, the “Window Menu” panel applet has ruined me for all other window managers. They don’t have something that works as well as it, and worse, they have similar things that behave differently … I just can’t switch tasks as efficiently without it.
The other nice thing about XFCE is the gentile, subtle, composing that never rips, tears, or distorts. (I’ve tried unity, gnome with compiz, and kwin, and they all flake out at some point in my dock-undock-suspend-unsuspend-dock cycle.)
Ubuntu 10.04 (on a mac mini server)
http://ajtgarber.deviantart.com/art/My-Desktop-256267217
(its on deviantart as I wasn’t sure where else to put it)
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/695/screenshot0901201109482.pn…
Arch Linux
XFCE4 Next WM Style
Candido-gPerfect Style
Erectus-Green Icons
Ubuntu Font
Background: http://skysurvey.org/3000_CC_BY-NC.jpg
Bit boring here it is:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67032602@N05/6104431313/
Standalone Compiz
Xfdesktop
Gkrellm
Cairo GLX-Dock
The picture is a Molecular Orbital plot generated by MacMolPlt from an ab initio calculation in GAMESS (General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System).
The wallpaper shows the Goddesses Maat and Isis.
All running on my old Ubuntu 10.4 LTS system
Edited 2011-09-02 02:08 UTC
Boring? Not at all. It looks good.
Here’s mine:
http://i.imgur.com/tgqw9.jpg
It’s Window XP with a simple theme hack and a nice wallpaper.
What’s the name of the explorer toolbar hack? Styler Toolbar?
Yes, it’s Styler Toolbar.
Luna Inspirat is the name of the theme. I got it here:
http://krosavcheg.deviantart.com/art/Luna-Inspirat-102972534
http://devio.us/~brynet/june-2nd.png
Pretty much the same as last year.
No syntax highlighting for C diffs?
Or does OpenBSD only have a monochrome video driver for your hardware? (i’m kidding
). It’s very austere, i like the style and i’m sure the contrast is helpful. But you really could consider syntax highlighting 
I don’t like or want syntax highlighting, I had the diff open in nvi.
ATI Radeon Mobility HD 4250 is used by the chipset, it works fine on OpenBSD with the newer ati DDX..
2D EXA/Xv and r600+ DRI/OpenGL all work fine.
You win
I must ask: Do you enjoy the ultra-widescreen 1366×768 resolution, or does it annoy you? I’m still getting used to my D620’s 1280×800, which is less extreme than what you have. My last laptop was an Apple PowerBook G3, with a 1024×768 res. I miss my vertical pixels, especially in the console.
It’s also annoying on Windows 7 with that fat toolbar (I know I can shrink it but I like the default look, very KDE 3.x).
That’s the native resolution of the panel, or what the DDC returns for it.
Most of the portable systems I’ve owned in the past had terrible LCD screens, this being one of my first “newer” systems left me fairly impressed. Easy on the eyes, text is clear and colours vibrant.
By comparison I have a LCD TV connected over VGA on another system with a native resolution of 1360×768, and it is visibly harder on the eyes.
I figured it was the native resolution, just as 1280×800 is on mine. My question was more about whether the extreme horizontal vs narrow vertical space was a problem for you. Personally I prefer a 5:4 ratio, as in my 1280×1024 desktop LCD, and I’m trying to get used to the laptop. It’s the same width as the desktop but I’m losing a lot of vertical space.
I know that 224 pixels may not seem like much, but it’s enough to make me consider moving my Windows 7 taskbar to the side, and configuring Xfce in a similar layout. In fact, I’d say the only thing better about the laptop’s widescreen is that movies are just barely letterboxed.
I will also say that my desktop has a much more vibrant and natural picture, and obviously has a much higher color bit depth than the laptop. There is some noticeable dithering on the laptop’s screen that makes me think it’s a cheap 18-bit unit. I doubt I’ll be able to find a 24-bit replacement panel for it, or if I did, that it would be worth the cost on this already four year old machine.
Ohh, so close to my old desktop.
See my other comment:
http://www.osnews.com/thread?488139
I have a background and when a window is in the background it does grey text instead of white text.
Although the screenshot is older.
Strangely enough, I’m on GNOME 2 now. Still using aterm.
I’m thinking maybe I want to try GNOME 3, but I probably need to write some extensions to make it useful to me.
Edited 2011-09-02 12:21 UTC
I forgot to mention in my original post, but I’m running cwm in OpenBSD base along with xterm, xbattbar, xbiff and xclock.
Fairly typical LED display, BASIC options.
http://www.mr-gadget.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/altair_8800.jpg
KDE 4 works for me:
http://panzi.deviantart.com/art/Screenshot-Summer-2011-256279975
Nice wallpaper.
Dirty:
http://ompldr.org/vYTV3Zg/dirty.jpg
Clean:
http://ompldr.org/vYTV3ZQ/clean.jpg
Xfce 4.6, Compiz, my own tiling scripts using xdotool, my own GTK+ and Emerald/Xfwm themes, typefaces pretty much ripped straight out of OSX. RSS bar and system stats via Conky, sticky notes via Xpad.
It ain’t pretty but it ain’t designed to be; I spend most of my day on here, the priority is to minimise eye strain.
Tiling scripts, conkyrcs and/or themes can be uploaded upon request.
Oh and my Win7 host w/ Capriccio VS and ClassicShell:
http://ompldr.org/vYTV3Zw/win7.jpg
Thanks for the ClassicShell mention, looks nice, I will try it out.
Would You mind sharing them?
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CARAT9XO
The wm_y/x scripts control placement, the w/h scripts control size. The scripts ending with _cu are cumulative ie. they grok the current window placement/size and add/subtract from it.
Argument syntax is simply wm_*.sh number number, where the first number is the divisor (ie. divide screen axis in to X many pieces) and the second is the multiplier (ie. place/resize window to X many of those pieces). The _cu scripts accept negative values for the multiplier.
Example args:
wm_x_cu.sh 20 -1 #move window 1/20th of the screen left
wm_w.sh 10 2 #make window width 2/10ths of screen width
You’ll have to modify the scripts a bit, yourself, as the screen resolution, panel width and window border variables aren’t dynamic and are currently set for my 1920×1080 screen with 2*20px panels and 19*2*2*2 window borders. I could have used xrandr to at least get the current screen res but I was using a pretty old rig when I wrote the scripts and was afraid of latency. So, yeah, if your windows are overlapping, or slowly wandering up/down inappropriately, it’s probably because those variables aren’t set correctly.
IIRC, I haven’t written the scripts in such a way that they’ll work with non-whole numbers. If you try to divide your 1024 screen by something like 7, it probably won’t work. Also, for the cumulative scripts, the sleep period between moving/resizing and re-focussing the window is only necessary if you use sloppy focus and might need to be adjusted, depending upon how responsive your window manager is. I find that timing works fine in compiz but not in Xfwm. I also don’t indent any of my code so… sorry.
My shortcuts are as follows, in case you’re wondering:
Shift+Win+WASD for the cumulative move scripts. Ctrl+Win+WASD for the cumulative resize scripts.
Shift/Ctrl+Alt+QWERTASDFG for the x/w scripts.
Shift/Ctrl+Alt+ZXCVB for the y/h scripts.
Thanks You very much, I will look at them asap
Thanks for sharing your scripts.
I’m thinking to switch from Gnome to XFCE and I like a lot the look of your desktop.
Would you mind sharing your wallpaper from this one: http://ompldr.org/vYTV3ZQ/clean.jpg
Thanks
http://wallbase.cc/wallpaper/1167028
Not pretty, kidding me? Simple, elegant, sleek, and as you mention it easy on the eyes. Love it!
No shit! The tiling makes your “dirty” desktop look so clean. I wish I had that. It’s a shame I can’t seem to know how to use Linux on a daily basis and stand it.
My main desktop (5 screens)
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/2055/blender107.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/oxUAZ.png
some more (older) pics at:
http://www.quebecgeeks.net/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=98257#p98257
Laptop:
http://www.quebecgeeks.net/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=104091#p104091
OS: Gentoo Linux
Wallpaper: custom
Theme: custom
Awesome config: github.com/Elv13
Application: Kate, Konversation, rxvt-unicode, Dolphin, KCalc, Qt Assistant
Laptop Icon theme: any-color-you-like 0.8
Edited 2011-09-02 05:16 UTC
You’re my favourite so far 🙂
How do you manage to have 5 screens?
By coincidence, Gentoo people are having a ‘desktop-screenshot’-contest just now, too. So here’s my Fluxbox desktop entry for that: http://sc.gentooligans.com/image/anonymous/2011/07/10/cyberpunkrock…
SHOT: http://ompldr.org/vYTV3cw
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/21/screenshot20110901at110.png…
2010 MacBook Pro 15.4 inch and anything else in virtualbox.
Debian Stable here, even with the default wallpaper. Gnome 2 as Desktop. Backported 2.6.38 Kernel.
That’s it – and I am superhappy with it 🙂
Not really minimal, but light on resources.
tint2 panel
wbar program launcher
conky
new openbox-menu
System is vintage 2001.
http://i51.tinypic.com/14t3n1i.jpg
My current desktop, with Ubuntu 11.04: http://ubuntuone.com/p/1Cy9/
Theme: http://simplygreat.deviantart.com/art/Unity-Light-GTK2-245894922?q=… with some tweaks + Faenza icons
My lappy with Ubuntu 10.10:
http://ubuntuone.com/p/10ky/ … although this is an old screenshot, and I have a new wallpaper now
Theme: eGTK with tweaks + Faenza icons
Plank dock
And finally here’s my lappy with slow and stupid Win7:
http://ubuntuone.com/385t9n3rYfYJscTONolmRC
Theme: http://dpcdpc11.deviantart.com/art/Leaf-Visual-Style-for-Windows7-1…
Rainmeter, leftsider etc.
Grey and very spartan (I really need to make my desktop look less glum!): Arch Linux 64-bit, Openbox, Tint2, Cairo-compmgr.
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/7358/201109020844171680×1050.png
Hey, another person who does Favicon bookmarks on the bar! I’ve been teased by a couple of friends for that, but I’m a very visual person so it works well for me. Combined with Firefox Sync it makes for a no-hassle bookmarking setup.
Yes, same here, my eyes automatically zoom in on any graphical representation and recognize it long before my slow brain finishes processing text so for me it’s much faster to find my way with favicons.
I wish I had the Open Look back, my favorite since 90s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Openwindows.jpg
Olwm/Olvwm, the window manager for OpenWindows, is still available in some Linux distributions as well as in the ports/pkgsrc for various BSDs. Some quick searching revealed the following, so it’s still out there:
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/wm/olvwm/README.htm…
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/olvwm
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/olwm
Also, on Google, I saw, but didn’t track down, hints that OpenBSD and FreeBSD have it too, and even possibly Ubuntu, which makes sense as Debian has it.
If you’re looking for more than just the window manager, I’m not sure if one could also find the utilities (or replacements) that went along with the wm in Sun’s Open Windows desktop, though XVfilemanager does exist: http://step.polymtl.ca/~coyote/xvfilemgr_main.html
See http://xwinman.org/olvwm.php for a link to a tarball with icons, menus specs, etc. to jazz up olvwm.
Edited to add comma in first line.
Edited 2011-09-02 18:13 UTC
older xfce:
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs36/f/2008/285/5/8/DarkGrey_LightGrey_X…
current:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17417019/dailies.png
Todays screenhosts:
https://picasaweb.google.com/105578805161081445084/OsnewsShowUsYourD…
(load avg changes color depending on load)
That’s my xmonad setup with xmobar and stalonetray
I’m using xterm… it seams to work better than urxvt with vim
Here are some of my older fvwm screenshots
http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=130904&postcount=316
Just wanted say author, thanks for this topic…
It gives fresh ideas (sometimes)
Gnome 3 annoyed me when it was released, so I stayed with Gnome 2 while I looked for tools to replace all the little glue stuff Gnome does (screen locker, run dialogue, panel, etc.) and wrote my own tiny session manager to allow for logout and root-less halt/reboot (http://i-know-nothing.co.cc/jsession).
I mostly start stuff with keyboard shortcuts (via XBindKeys) and Kupfer. The window decorations are the most compact emerald theme I could make with the theme creator GUI thing (different colour for windows not in focus, of course). The terminal’s rxvt-unicode, and Conky’s on the bottom-right.
http://ompldr.org/vYTV4dw
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/202/screenshot0902201110575.pn…
simple Arch+XFCE+kupfer(GnomeDo without dependencies)
Here is my desktop running KUbuntu
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r3f4Nkw9zic/TNUdSj0DzLI/AAAAAAAACfc/JUzC4…
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1879450/Screenshot-1.png
Firefox has a nice tiling plugin and the vanilla Gnome Shell, GTK and icon themes has been replaced.
Edited 2011-09-02 09:30 UTC
What’s the name of the tiling extension for FireFox?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tile-view/
What tile you are currently “in” is a little bit too discrete IMHO so sometimes I open stuff in the wrong one but generally it works well.
Sorry, mine would be pretty boring, as I use stock Windows 7 and don’t customize anything. I also use Ubuntu in a VM for better connectivity to our remote Linux systems. But still, it’s stock Ubuntu with the default theme, so again, boring.
I’ve got work to do. Never understood the fascination with tweaking desktops and desktop shells. I spend 99% of my time using apps.
I spend 90% of my time using apps and 10% figuring out how better to use apps. Believe it or not, you can improve upon default workflows dramatically.
At my full time job it’s a shared terminal so I can’t customize it at all, however the screen is a maximised browser interface full time so there’s actually no need for it. At my part time job I’m stuck using WinXP for bench testing purposes, but the machine is more or less mine to customize to my heart’s content. Oddly enough, I haven’t done much other than dropping to classic desktop mode (Win98/2000-ish) and putting up a nice backdrop. I’m not tied to my desk at the part-time, as I’m the only IT support staff and I’m always on the move during the work day.
On my personal machines, especially the laptop, I find that the time spent customizing in my off hours greatly improves my morale sitting in front of the machine for long periods of time. I do most of my side work on the laptop, and that consists of mostly web design and development, and the occasional VNC support session. I do all of that from Arch, as I am most comfortable working in that environment. Having a low-eyestrain theme and a logical window arrangement with good keyboard shortcuts makes my workflow quite fluid. The Windows 7 side is pretty much all entertainment, so it is appropriately Spartan.
Hello,
this is my MacBook 17″ Desktop. Simple, but nice.
http://cl.ly/3O103D3H2M1a2O3g3r14
I’m currently developing an iPhone/Android App in Titanium for a client.
This is my current layout in OSX Lion.
http://goo.gl/5E1D2
http://goo.gl/zxmAb
4 virtual desktops with different Tron Legacy wallpapers.
I normally have.
Desktop 1: Firefox + Thunderbird
Desktop 2: Whatever I’m really working on.
Desktop 3: Terminal
Desktop 4: iTunes
http://goo.gl/Pnzzd
Xubuntu with Greybird GTK theme, default icon theme with faenza tray icons.
Wallpaper: http://artescritorio.com/wallpapers-de-magic-the-gathering
Edited 2011-09-02 11:22 UTC
It looks like the link is not working anymore:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6184/6108288223_b8b8300419_b.jpg
Here is my own made window manager/media center called xurfaced:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=virb2zOi02k
Netbook // GRML (Debian Sid) // ScrotWM
http://ompldr.org/vOXpnMg.png
Am I the only one using Window Maker? Screenshot to come when I get home from work.
You are not alone
I’m still using it in an old computer running Linux 2.4.
http://i.imgur.com/7kiZL.jpg
that shot was taken some years ago though.
http://www.fileden.com/files/2010/3/8/2787526/bblean.png
http://ompldr.org/vOXp0cg
Edited 2011-09-02 13:09 UTC
Excellent. One thing I miss with Win7 is having bb4w work correctly.
Here’s mine:
http://ompldr.org/vYTYxMA
OS: Archlinux
WM: Xmonad
editor: vim
browser: firefox+pentadactyl
shell: zsh
IRC client: weechat
Mail: mutt
Usenet: slrn
terminal emulator: urxvt
terminal multiplexer: tmux
music player: mpd+Practical Music Search
colorscheme: low contrast grayscale everywhere
I’ve completely switched to Windows 7, because I found it more fast for doing job without loosing time in watching this thingy and that thingy and this new app and that new app it just works as expected and nothing else.
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/7034/desktoprz.png
Here’s mine: Windows 7 Ultimate 1920×1080.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19004216/DesktopW7.png
Right now I am testing out Ubuntu 11.10 on my notebook (and I am huge fan of Unity since my previous Gnome setup was similar to Unity even with Docky on the left hand side with dodge mode enabled).
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/8074/notebooksep1101.png
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/2039/notebooksep1102.png
P.S. I love these post as I always curious as to how people have their desktops setup.
My desktop with the awesome tiling wm.
Not much of a desktop, but showing the firefox with the vim addon and nosquint. Nice and relaxed on the eyes when working long hours.
I dont use any file manager either. Got thunar installed, but almost never use it. Bash is way faster and more practical for anything but finding photos with random names…
Hoping to become totally mouse-independent pretty soon
This setup pretty much scares off most intruders.. Dvorak keyboard layout helps quite a bit too
http://k.min.us/ibdFd6lBBMAEZD.jpg
clean – http://dorsal.ath.cx:81/img/awesome-zen.png
dirty – http://dorsal.ath.cx:81/img/awesome-zen-busy.png
wallpaper (1440×900) – http://dorsal.ath.cx:81/img/dark-link-is-hiding-in-the-bushes.jpg
Debian Testing with Awesome.
The upper right corner shows battery state in percentage and time remaining, wifi SSID and signal strength, currently playing track on MPD, time/date, and the tiling layout.
The applications on display in “dirty” are The Widget Factory to show off my Gtk theme (which I have Qt set to follow in qtconfig), Luakit, and urxvt with a zsh prompt. I also use Vim, irssi, ncmpc++, Iceweasel 6 with Pentadactyl and Mutt like tons of other people, but my configurations for those are pretty stock.
This is sort of a “screenshot within a screenshot” post, since I’m hosting these images on my Sheevaplug running Debian Squeeze.
EDIT:
This is all running on a Dell Latitude E6410 laptop with a 2.4GHz i5, on-die GPU, 2GB DDR3 (trying to seat the second 2GB DIMM has been… fun), and a 250GB HDD.
Edited 2011-09-02 15:46 UTC
Thanks for posting the wallpaper, I am so stealing that!
(god that sounded like a Facebook post…sorry)
Wait, the 2010 edition was on 31st Dec, barely 8 months ago. It’s a bit too early for a new edition, my machines aren’t changed a lot since then. I didn’t even install Lion yet.
The thing that changed the most on my desktop is the desk. And the house it is in.
Windows 7 Pro (I have ultimate too, but didn’t need it for this machine).
In our house we have 2 operating macs and 2 operating PCs (by operating I mean constantly used as my kids home school via a virtual academy, I work from home and my wife manages us all).
http://www.mikesjunkyard.com/images/ss20110902.JPG
I also have my window borders set to a size of 1. No fat there.
Also, I keep the apps I use most often on my explorer bar…
In order:
Console2 (starting PowerShell)
Postbox
Explorer
IE 9
A script for building/compiling our company website
A script to start JBOSS
I am in flux with editors right now. I have used UltraEdit forever, but am liking Sublime and have E installed as well. UltraEdit will probably win in the end, but I love some of the simple but useful features of Sublime and E, like multi-select/edit.
Other apps I regularly use would be BeyondCompare, TortoiseSVN, FileZilla, RDC, and Putty.
Edited 2011-09-02 16:32 UTC
https://by2.storage.live.com/items/F20119059169B7CC!607:Scaled1024/s…
This is my workstation full on at work. Running Linux Mint Debian XFCE. It’s never on the internet, only local network so I needed an all in one distro for remote desktop.
Just ubuntu Unity (Still trying to get used to it
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/2106/desktop2011.png
c:\
“Bad command or filename.”
(You forgot the greater-than sign at the end.) 🙂
Nice!
Reminds me, I better go see what’s new with freedos.
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Here’s mine running Mageia 1 with Openbox, Tint2 panel and Conky.
http://tinyurl.com/3uj2c2f
Can you post your conky config?
I find it funny when people with quad core processors and 8GB ram use xmonad or fluxbox or anything else that doesn’t really need more than a Pentium 1 from 1990s.
The low RAM/CPU usage is a side effect, although a welcome one when I’m doing Java programming for my university courses or running multiple VMs with GUIs. I just like that I can open a bunch of windows on a given virtual desktop, and they’ll automatically arrange themselves well, optimizing screen space. It’s very keyboard-oriented, to the point where I can completely shut off my touchpad and nub-mouse and still be completely productive.
TBH I find it pretty mental as well. Don’t get me wrong I like a nice responsive system … but these days even Win7 tricked out runs pretty well on a £250 desktop.
I have some older systems (SGI Indy, Sun Blade 100) and even those can run KDE 3.5 with OpenBSD perfectly fine … not too much lag.
I think it is more of a hobby trying to configure the environments themselves than anything else. It is a bit involved.
Edited 2011-09-02 18:41 UTC
I’m actually a lot more productive with Window Maker than with anything else. In the past I’ve run XFCE, KDE (1.1.2 on Mandrake all the way to 4.2), maybe others, but I’m always more productive in Window Maker. The reason behind it is that I always know exactly where to look for everything I need, no matter how many monitors I have (far right is the dock, second block down is the date/time, below that is Docker, below that is the screen locker, no surprises). When I gave XFCE a shot a couple months ago, I gave it up after a couple hours because it just doesn’t work for me on dual-head, while WM is still perfect.
You do realize that there are other reasons for using xmonad, openbox etc than resource usage, right?
Personally I find it more funny when people with quadcore and heaps of ram overlock and watercool their systems “to make them faster”.
Indeed, I have a Core i5, 4gb ram but I use Openbox because I find it fast and comfortable and would use it even if it was heavier on resources.
That said it’s certainly not a bad thing when the system does all you want of it and is also very lean, as it means you have alot or ram available to that which you really boot into the system for: applications. (and I regularly use alot of memory hungry apps)
My Arch 64-bit system uses 129mb ram when fully booted into x, that’s less than XP used on this machine and that was 32-bit (64-bit code is ~30% larger).
In short, I find it doubtful that with the hardware standards of today people are using lean window managers because of resource usage, but the small memory footprint is still a nice side-effect.
Running my i7 930 at the default 2.93ghz and running it at 3.21ghz is the difference between having to close my *nix VM before emulating the PS2/GCN and not having to close my VM before emulating the PS2/GCN.
It’s not that ridiculous, it’s not as if web browsing and email are the only use case.
I find it funny when people make statements like “there is all that cool XYZ, why would anyone use ABC”, as if all that flamewars passed by in a far far far away galaxy…
And here is mine showing the latest Amiga Operating System (4.1 Update 3) and my application Jack* running on top.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/61283734@N03/5826311367/lightbox/
*A multi-purpose application that includes amongst other things an App-Store, File Manager, Screen Capturing, Slideshow manager and a basic Image Editor for rotation, resizing and changing file formats such as WebP, JPG, PNG, BMP and so on.
Edited 2011-09-02 17:12 UTC
Really nice. But the nicest thing is that you are using the latest version of Amiga OS.
http://imgur.com/qTB4x,
Pretty standard Win7 tbh … I normally have Sharepoint running (not recommended by MS … but I don’t give a monkeys), VS 2010, SQL Server and Skype and Steam Chat and I am transitioning to Chrome as my main browser (no JSON view plugin yet)
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/713/screenshotjyx.png/
Custom GNOME 3 Session Shell that I call Ux
1) Mutter Window Manager
2) Avant Window Navigator for the docks
3) Synapse for launching apps, opening files and perform other actions
4) GNOME 3 for the underlying tech.
5) Distro is fedora
Well, the Linux desktop is still the same boring gnome2-powered F14 desktop from last year, because it’s used for serious work, and keeping a constant UI and set of glitches is what works best for this.
I’m currently using my Windows desktop (it’s better for gaming and musical scores editing), so here’s a pic of it.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/827/windesk.png/
Edited 2011-09-02 19:25 UTC
Here’s my desktop – Debian Unstable with KDE 4.6.5
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/51/snapshot6hb.png/
Awesome wallpaper!
Here’s mine.
http://i.imgur.com/ormVo.png Ubuntu 10.10 with modified gnome desktop
Edited 2011-09-02 20:04 UTC
Trying again. Sorry about the last one. I discovered I can edit these things. Now I have two with the same link. What a noob I am!
http://i.imgur.com/ormVo.png Ubuntu Desktop
Edited 2011-09-02 20:07 UTC
Here are two grabs from AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3 running on a Sam440ep 733 Mhz/512MB Ram and Radeon M9 (64MB Ram) :
http://www.amiga-ng.org/resources/WorkBench.jpg
and
http://www.amiga-ng.org/resources/Worbench2.jpg
Hope you like them.
the dock is hidden down there and converted to 2d mode and set to show only running applications because i never use it.. don’t like a pile of icons and weird stuff in my way. use full screen mode for pretty much everything that will allow it.
http://cl.ly/25443b45253T0G003v1r
Here are my four computer setups that I use.
Desktop PC:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24121428/Desktop%20Pictures/My_Desktop_…
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24121428/Desktop%20Pictures/My_Desktop_…
Mac Laptop:
Macbook Pro 13 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24121428/Desktop%20Pictures/My_Desktop_…
Dell XPS Laptop:
Windows 7 Ultimate 32 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24121428/Desktop%20Pictures/My_Desktop_…
Edited 2011-09-02 23:02 UTC
How come your taskbar doesn’t look like a standard Win7 taskbar? Is it themed?
Here’s a screenshot of my ASUS K50IN running Windows 7 Ultimate. It’s nothing special, Intel Core 2 Duo T5900 @ 2.20GHz with 3GB of RAM and an nVidia GeForce G102M with 512MB RAM, but it gets the job done.
Clean: http://i.imgur.com/1l3y9.jpg
Chrome + Winamp: http://i.imgur.com/WVDkT.jpg
Icons are courtesy of Mattahan [this guys is just amazing] [ http://mattahan.deviantart.com ] and the wallpaper is by JoeJesus and can be found here: http://joejesus.deviantart.com/art/Stellar-208926632
Edited 2011-09-02 23:10 UTC
My desktop with apps shown: http://i31.fastpic.ru/big/2011/0903/70/1d75f3d2edc18aecd72f4bcb675d…
and hidden: http://i31.fastpic.ru/big/2011/0903/36/684c3a59cc7871147736956bd997…
OpenBSD -current on ACER Aspire One AO531h. Software shown: cwm, xstatbar, XXXTerm, uxterm, tmux, ksh (and also pkg_add, scrotwm, less and vim could be found used).
Fairly typical on OpenBSD, I suppose…
Wish they had xstatbar for Linux
Cwm rocks, btw. I’m back on EvilWM for floating duty on the netbook nowadays (ScrotWM for tiling), but here’s a Cwm shot from a few months ago.
http://ompldr.org/vN2RpZg
A very standard Lion desktop, a bit messy (I carried over from Windows my old habit of having some files and folders on the desktop).
Screenshot of my work PC (Ubuntu Linux 11.04):
http://bildr.no/view/965637
The audio-recorder is from
https://launchpad.net/audio-recorder
And the wallpaper
http://i1.no/0cpx/
Edited 2011-09-03 10:09 UTC
I know that noone will probably read this as i am very late to show my desktop. But i have reasons =D
https://sites.google.com/site/judgen/_/rsrc/1315063746334/mozillaplu…
It is AmiWM with a nice gtk theme.
I read it.
I don’t know why I always believed that you used OS X as your main OS?
I figured I may as well post my Haiku install before the comments are locked:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4074189/haiku.png
It’s running on a Pentium IV HT 3.2GHz machine with 2GB RAM and SATA hard drives. A bit overkill for Haiku but it’s definitely the most responsive OS in my house!
I opened up every app in the Applications folder except the Installer to show how conservative Haiku is with memory. All those apps and less than 250MB consumed! I love it.
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q31/iPower/ubuntu1010.jpg
I’ve got an ibook G4, an AMD64 3200 desktop for a Media Center PC, a P3 for another Media Center in the bedroom, a P4 for a 14 track audio recording/video editing workstation in my studio, and another P3 for a file/dhcp/dns server for the network these are all attached to. They all run Dream Studio, my custom distribution (dream.dickmacinnis.com), and look like this: http://dream.dickmacinnis.com/forum/sites/default/files/images/4~*~…
Ok so my current setup. PCLinuxOS KDE Mini setup they way I like it. 🙂
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-s0lpnwRQyTg/TmQC1PhkPKI/AAAAAAAAG…
My operating system is Ubuntu 10.10. The gtk theme is GTK2-notif2(heavily modified by me). I like the Solaris motif look along with modern icon set and nautilus-elementary.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/830/desktop1f.png/
Haiku/BeOS: http://ompldr.org/vYTdtdw/screenshot1.jpeg
OpenBSD: http://ompldr.org/vYTdteQ/mydesk.png
Xubuntu/Mint Linux: http://ompldr.org/vYTdteg/scr.jpg
Fedora 14 with Nvidia drivers, “light” Compiz enabled, Win2k3 Server virtualized with Oracle VM
http://i51.tinypic.com/2cejces.jpg
my desktop is gnome 2 with MWM as window manager, im on a netbook http://t.co/LoRzLRy