Post Your Desktop "Background screenshot"

Irishwhistle said:
Thanks! :) When I put a very heavy load (or at least heavy for me it uses a little less than 700MB... here's what's running:

Firefox with four tabs open
A Dolphin file manager
A terminal
Konqueror
Amarok
Gimp
Frets on Fire
Compiz
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Lolz, thats what my 2 2gb Vista laptops use at idle :P

I'm curious as you what exactly is going in your screenshot. It looks cool but I'm trying to guess what the function is :o

I'd love to try linux again, but I just can't be bothered to relearn a new OS. Maybe it's from using Windows for the past 13 years, but every time I use a different OS (Linux or OSX) I just get frustrated cause nothing works the way I like it.
 
speedyink said:
Lolz, thats what my 2 2gb Vista laptops use at idle :P

I'm curious as you what exactly is going in your screenshot. It looks cool but I'm trying to guess what the function is :o

I'd love to try linux again, but I just can't be bothered to relearn a new OS. Maybe it's from using Windows for the past 13 years, but every time I use a different OS (Linux or OSX) I just get frustrated cause nothing works the way I like it.
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lol :P

That's a desktop switcher... it normally shows up as a cube, but since there's only two desktops it shows up as a plane.

I kinda want to dual boot XP, but I've used my activation key one too many times and don't want to spend the money to buy it again. But yeah, Linux is awesome, it is a little tricky getting used to at first... fortunately the first computer I ever used was a System 7 Mac and then I switched to a Compaq XP rig, and then by the time I was 11 or 12 I started using Linux and have used a combination of XP, various Linuxes, OS X, and Vista since... so basically I'm used to learning a new OS... it helps at times. :)
 
Working on a custom Windows 7 theme for Ubuntu...

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Irishwhistle said:
That's a desktop switcher... it normally shows up as a cube, but since there's only two desktops it shows up as a plane.
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Aaah, Gotcha

Irishwhistle said:
I kinda want to dual boot XP, but I've used my activation key one too many times and don't want to spend the money to buy it again. But yeah, Linux is awesome, it is a little tricky getting used to at first... fortunately the first computer I ever used was a System 7 Mac and then I switched to a Compaq XP rig, and then by the time I was 11 or 12 I started using Linux and have used a combination of XP, various Linuxes, OS X, and Vista since... so basically I'm used to learning a new OS... it helps at times. :)
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I would think that would be helpful..

Nice windows 7 theme by the way.
 
patrickv said:
yeah man, super uber resoulution i wonder which graphic card supports it. better get one :P
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patrickv said:
Small your picture is, difficult to see it is :P
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SHUT UP! lol Try uploading a file that size (i know its actaullly small) with dial up! half the time the uploads fail!

Ill try to get a bigger pic if yall stop teasin me :P

and the size is like that because i have a 4 inch LCD monitor, which is by the way, aweome for gaming. I had to steal the ATI Rage Pro out of my little brothers computer so that I could actaully set the resolution low enough for the monitor.
 
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speedyink said:
^^^ Nice!

You're tempting me..a lot..how easy is it to get it like that?
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Thanks! :)


It's not hard at all as long as long as your nVidia card configures easily.

Basically all you have to do is turn on the desktop effects (Compiz) if they aren't automatically enabled (that's important for the dock to work.) Then you run the command:

Code: 
sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator
to install the dock. Then you just need to install the icons and the theme. The theme uses the aurora engine (basically it's just an engine that tells ubuntu how to render the windows) so you have to install that... and fortunately that's a cinch using this package: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Aurora+Ubuntu+Package?content=62227

Just download it and open it... it's all automated.

Then you download the theme which is basically instructions for the theme engine. You get that here: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Aurora+Leopard+BSM?content=92131

Just drag and drop the file to the theme manager (System>Preferences>Appearence) and Walla! you have a new theme.


Then just get some icons... I got mine here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin/ , but you can use any icons you like.

Then I deleted the the panel on the bottom, opened Avant Window Navigator from the applications menu, right clicked on it and configured it. Then I dragged icons on it.

The final thing is the cursor... just go to the appearence preferences, click customize, then click pointer. The best one is the black one called "DMZ (Black)"

I think I may of had to manualy add the panel background, but that takes all of five seconds.
 
This is mine. The theme is Nvidia Zune theme. I think I got it off deviant art. Using Windowblinds. And the background is, of course, Carmen Electra.

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I resized it, I'm on a 37'' HDTV. I didn't know how big it would be on a normal screen.
 
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