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hey everyone.
Figured i'd start another AO show your desktop thread, i get awfully curious to know/see what other members "OS" of choice is and there setups. + i know my Broseph Allen love's these types of threads. :p
Anyhow here's my current Desktop win7 64bit Pro..
http://yfrog.com/0s81218408j
Is that 'Network Security Settings' open in notepad? :-P -- It is on your desktop too.
Yep certainly is, not mine network details though.
lot's & lot's of unsecured wireless fun in my neighbourhood. I like to play how many pieces of paper i can print on unsecured networks. :D
Heh. I actually printed out instructions on how to secure wireless networks on a bowling alley's laser printer one time... I was picking up their network from a cell phone place at which I was employed. The next day, it was secured. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by HYBR|D
I'll post a few too ;)
These ones are Window Maker. I LOVE Window Maker! Of all the Desktops and Window Managers you can use, there aren't that many that are REALLY made for Multi Tasking. KDE can do a lot because of the Virtual Desktops, and so can Gnome, but what about older machine? Well, there is FVWM, FVWM2, FVWM95 and FVWM Crystal, and all the ones based on it... But those can be odd when you realize that minimizing a Window basically makes it a small icon on the desktop, and in some cases, it just seems to be gone until you right click or Middle Click to show all the windows. And it does have Virtual Desktops too.
Enlightenment, which I Love too, also has a lot of abilities for multi tasking, and I LOVE it. But one a lot of people have probably seen, which doesn't need much to run, is Window Maker. You can minimize and just fill the bottom of the screen, and then, you can MAKE more desktops. They're called Workspaces in Window Maker.
You right click, select the thing, and just make a new one. And you can also detach the menu, and click on create new Workspace over and over again until you have however many you want.
These are two of my Window Maker themes, and, they are HARD to fine. It annoys me a lot that Window Maker themes are so hard to fine. If you google it, you get taken to a page that doesn't even have any, and when you finally do find a few, they suck!
I miss those days years ago when you went and found them on a huge web site full of them. There were a LOT of Themes for Window Maker, including these ones, that were nice, and looked good. I don't even know what happened to them, but it would be nice if SOMEONE would start up another Window Maker Themes page again.
Anyway, I'll upload more after these. The themes I have left over are basically from me remembering that SUSE always had NICE Themes for Window Maker on the install disks and DVD, so, I took the RPMs, copied them to my server, and used rpm2tgz and rpm2targz and made some Tarballs out of them, and then, unpacked them and grabbed the Themes.
More Window Maker :)
Here are a few more. I'll upload the rest of my Window Maker shots, and I can do some Enlightenment ones as well. I'll have more soon because I'm currently installing FreeBSD 8.0 and I'm going to test it out a bit and see what I can do with it, and I normally use After Step and Window Maker on that too.
These are the rest of the Window Maker ones I'll upload for now. They're all on SuSE, but a few of the past ones might have been Slackware or BSD.
The first three are Enlightenment. First, E-17, and then another of E-17, and then there is another of E-16. Then the other two are Gnome.
Last ones:
The first one is Windows 2000 Professional. I basically opened a bunch of DOS Prompts and made them look pretty lol.
Then, A shot of an OLD Desktop, which is SUSE 8.1 or 8.2 where I'm watching Cannibal Holocaust.
Then a shot of TWM lol.
The next one is a REALLY cool SuSE Manager. I haven't ever seen this on any of OS before, and basically it would load an Xterm, and have those pretty graphics, and that was it. No desktop, no nothing, lol. It was cool though.
The last one is my Debian machine. And 215 days uptime.
:eek: You been busy Allen. :) Westin you going to post a desktop screenie or 2 also?
Yea. My Wife is back in school for a Medical Degree. And I've been looking for a job heh. For some reason those Enlightenment ones from E-17 on Slackware with PNGs showed up REALLY small. But the Enlightenment 16 ones were fine lol. Ah well.
Got a bunch of Window Maker lol.
Here is a post of my desktop. Its not all that special, not too complicated, but its simple and what I like. And effective. Anyways, here it goes:
Here is what my desktop used to look like. I made it all crazy and so much going on. It was cool to show to people who had never seen linux, but wasn't as good for every day use. So I switched to what I have now.
EDIT: I don't know if you noticed gore, but everyone seems to be looking at the first and last of each group of photos, and only a few look at every one. Just thought that was a funny tendency.
I noticed it before. I think it's click boredom. The first and last ones usually get more hits. Lol, the one I said was my Windows screen shot got more than the others.
I use AwesomeWM. It isn't completely set up yet since I lost my previous LUA code recently so no screenshot for you =P
I am currently booted into Windows, which is rare, so here is a screen shot of it...Quote:
Originally Posted by HYBR|D
edit: holy crap that is small... just looked at it... is that AO that shrinks it? It was full size when I uploaded it...
Mine haven't been shrunk. It must be the file format you uploaded it as:Quote:
Originally Posted by westin
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Here is my linux desktop. I will try uploading as jpg.
no pr0n??? your not a geek unless you have some type of pr0n visible on your desktop.:p
I didn't have any on mine either. Anyway, I have FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE installed on my test box now.
It took a while because the machine I use as a test box is a POS.
Specs:
Intel Celeron Processor @ 433 MHz
192 MBs of RAM
ATI Video Card with 8 MBS Video Memory
CD-ROM drive
It came with 64 MBs of RAM but I upgraded it, and it WAS my Mom's machine. It had a 9 GB HD in it, and one day my Mom was like "Hey, earlier, it was making this really loud grinding noise, and it sounded like...Well it sounded weird!"... I listened for a while and heard what sounded like a Disk Drive grinding (BOFH Music) and I said that the drive was going to go soon.
She had told someone at work they could have it but I said no and that they'd need a new hard drive in it, and they were NOT going to be running Windows XP on something like this, or games above DooM.
I decided I'd keep it, and I had got like 2 or 3 new Internal HDs I'd bought for extra storage on my machines, because I was thinking about installing them in two of my machines to have not only extra space, but also to have my Server set up going.
Well, after the 160 GB Drives had been installed (One I put in my FTP Server, which is the VERY first machine I EVER bought, it's an Intel Pentium 3 @ 733 MHz, came with 128 MBs RAM, I upgraded that to 384, and it came with a 43 GB HD, and I've formatted that drive like 200 times, and it's smaller, so I made it the secondary drive and mounted it as /storage and used the new one as / and then the other drive I popped in another machine, and I had that 80 GB drive sitting around and I wasn't sure what to do with it) Anyway, I grabbed the 80 GB Drive, and put it in my Mom's old machine, and started using it.
The machine still works fine, and so I use it. I know it's slow, but, seriously who cares? It's a Computer, it works, and I generally have it like this:
Partition 1 - 4 GBs / Windows 98 SE, basically because of my Magic: The Gathering game on CD that was made WAY back in the day, and it doesn't work on NT based OSs (The one they released after that did but I have the original) and then I'd dual boot with Slackware or something.
Well, recently I accidentally screwed up (After being awake for 32 hours, don't try to screw with a partition table or MBR, lol). I lost the Windows 98 Partition and everything on it.
It said the partition was fine, but when I loaded up cfdisk and looked, it said only 4 KBs were used.... And NOTHING showed up... In other words, I screwed it good.
So I decided "Oh well, just format the whole drive and get it going".
So I grabbed my FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE CD, booted, and realized it only had docs on it and no Ports, so I did an FTP installation. A certain Port (Fedora Core's Core) was always failing, and I couldn't get through that to finish the installation, so I'm like screw it, and I installed just the base system, and started adding Ports I wanted from the bare bones installation.
So, I installed FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE but only the bare bones, and then, from there, installed KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, Window Maker, KDM and GDM, and a bunch of other stuff I wanted like an FTP Server and so on, and then, remembered I needed to install X itself because I'm like "WTF I can't get Window Maker to load... Hmm...That's weird...." And so I installed X, and then got my Mouse and Keyboard working, and then I got everything else working, and now, I have FreeBSD installed by itself on that machine.
So now I've got the box mostly set up, and updated the base system, and when I have some time, I'll get the ports updated too. I'm planning right now to use my test machine basically as a test box, and set up an FTP server on it, and I have SSH on it and Telnet for some other tests I want to do, and I'm going to partially use it also as an extra, though slow, desktop system to see what FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE can do on that kind of crap hardware lol.
I can get some screen shots and pop them up on here, won't take but a few minutes when I get done with what I'm already doing on it.
Anyway, FreeBSD took a WHILE to install because I'd get the installation going, remember something else, and restart it. After 5 days I said OK that's enough! I'm grabbing something else! I grabbed FreeBSD 7.2 and installed, but I wanted 8.0-RELEASE.... So I got it installed finally, and set up, and now it's working great!
I REALLY like it!
nah. I try to stay away from anything that might come in between my wife and I. Just not worth it. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by HYBR|D
LoL. heres my desktops. I like to keep it simple too. Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 OS X style. :D
nice looking desktops you got there Chaos!
:p westin
chaos, I like your Ubuntu desktop. I was thinking of going in the OSX direction, but I figured I would add some of my own uniqueness to it.
Try out Enlightenment. It's REALLY nice, and VERY easy to make it look like OS X. And you don't need much in the hardware arena for it to work right either. I've gotten some of those screen shots of mine with Enlightenment E-17 with Slackware, running on a REALLY crappy machine.
The specs of one of those desktops, are this:
Intel Celeron @ 433 MHz
192 MBs of RAM
8 MB ATI crap video card
And that was more than enough to run Enlightenment E-17 with not only the Rain FX where you have clouds and Rain Drops falling on your desktop, but also, Snow on it, and even Fire and Flames at the bottom, all of which have neat special FX, and on top of that, the Flames looks like real ones. They move and do things like real Fire lol.
Here's mine.
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Originally Posted by The-Spec