Desktops

also:

Nachtsider wrote:Ah, enough about Linux already. We get it - you love Linux.

I'm surprised no-one said that before

LoC978 wrote:

TTIO wrote:I notice it's only ever the Windows desktops that are cluttered

all a preference. anyone can clutter or not clutter their desktop in any OS. check myself and Rusty. then check Cherubino. nothin' wrong with a clutterered desktop, if that's how you operate... and don't try to tell me that a mac 'launcher' doesn't count as clutter.
personally, I try to keep desktop icons down to one line on the side... and only stuff I use regularly goes there.

'Twas a joke
But it seems that generally Linux/Mac desktops are less cluttered. Certainly for me, compare my Windows one to my Linux one. And I have twice as many icons now
But yes, it is down to the individual...

On a side note, I have the Desktop Cube working now :O
Unfortunately, you can't launch/interact with apps whilst the cube is open, so I have yet to find a way to take a screenshot

That are mine (well my current one is the first the second was the previously one...I change them every now and then^_^)

Boston Legal ( I think this paintball-gun is great ^0^):



And Triela:

linux desktops are uncluttered because you can't get any software for it !

That guys got a left handed USP!

that's 'cause he has the mad cow.

That guys got a left handed USP!

See my desktop post for your answer.

a buh

*ahem* the Kirk 'awesome' poster. Kirk=William Shatner=Denny Crane from Boston Legal... who has the mad cow.

Here's mine:

Spoiler:

Sorry, but I don't know how to copy my actual desktop.

Press Print Screen (takes a screenshot of everything on the monitor) or Alt+Print Screen (current window only). Then just paste it into paint or something

TTIO wrote:Press Print Screen (takes a screenshot of everything on the monitor) or Alt+Print Screen (current window only). Then just paste it into paint or something

I’ve tried doing both, but nothing ever happens. The cursor blinks and that’s it.

Did you open MS Paint and then use the Paste command? Hitting the PrintScreen button just loads a copy of the desktop image into a memory buffer. It doesn't create an actual image file like OS X does when you screen-capture something.

Time to post my desktop.

(Thumbnail)


Sorry about it being so large. Its because I use Duel monitors to work with.

Very Nice Tommy...

ElfenMagix wrote:Very Nice Tommy...

thanks man.

I thought it was time for a change on Windows. And I've been completely and utterly drawn into Utawarerumono. Mostly the latter

Spoiler:

Very nice man.

TTIO wrote:I thought it was time for a change on Windows. And I've been completely and utterly drawn into Utawarerumono. Mostly the latter

Spoiler:

Is that the original Deus Ex you have there?

I don't know...colored/full image desktop are rather distracting these days.

So, my current desktop (centered in the middle with an all-black background):




and for next week:

Is that the original Deus Ex you have there?

You're not a gamer unless you have a copy of Deus Ex.

It's the demo

Someone reccomended it on the Wolvix forums, so I thought I should give it a try. Still haven't actually started it (too engrossed in Utawarerumono )

I love trying to get through the Deus Ex games without killing anyone.

maverick375 wrote:

Is that the original Deus Ex you have there?

You're not a gamer unless you have a copy of Deus Ex.

Spoiler:

LoC978 wrote:I love trying to get through the Deus Ex games without killing anyone.

I like to get through the game using stealth to kill and snoop around.

I love that freaking game. I remember that if you walked into the ladies bathroom, later on during the mission briefing you'd get told off for it.
ROFL! I mean, it might not seem special now, but back then it was amazing.

Back when I was a kid I could spend hours just chucking objects at people and watching them go "WTF?"



....

SHIT!! I CANT FIND THE DISK!!

Yay!

Will have to get to that at some point...

I love trying to get through the Deus Ex games without killing anyone.

Good luck...

Panzer IV wrote:

I love trying to get through the Deus Ex games without killing anyone.

Good luck...

it was impossible in the first game, though you could do it with minimal loss of life.

in Invisible War, it was possible, but the endgame was incredibly difficult, since those power-armored troops couldn't be incapacitated in a nonlethal manner... just had to sneak around em.

Here's mine:

Wait a minute. XP? Swap? I thought M$ always referred to it as virtual memory?

I have to say though, nice picture
And I want all that system info on Windows now too. I didn't know you could do that

TTIO wrote:Wait a minute. XP? Swap? I thought M$ always referred to it as virtual memory?

I have to say though, nice picture
And I want all that system info on Windows now too. I didn't know you could do that

Thank you very much I like my picture a lot too
And you can't get the system info, temperature, RAM usage, etc. to show up by default on Windows. In order to do this I had to use this thing called HUD Desktop, and I found info on how to install it here. The reason why it's called swap is most likely because this was created by a Czech guy.

Demosthenes wrote:Thank you very much I like my picture a lot too
And you can't get the system info, temperature, RAM usage, etc. to show up by default on Windows. In order to do this I had to use this thing called HUD Desktop, and I found info on how to install it here. The reason why it's called swap is most likely because this was created by a Czech guy.

Very interesting style.
I might not be such a computer fanatic as Tommy, but this style of displaying system information is very organized.

I'll ask Tommy to put it on my Laptop

Sora wrote:Very interesting style.
I might not be such a computer fanatic as Tommy, but this style of displaying system information is very organized.

I'll ask Tommy to put it on my Laptop

Yeah, that does look very nice to have. I'll start messing around with that right way

It took me quite a while to figure out how to get it to work, it was a lot simpler than I thought it would be, lol. It was also the reason why I switched my laptop from Vista to XP (not that it won't work on Vista, it's just a bitch to it).

My latest wallpaper:

AAAARIIIENS!!!

Yeah, Chinese girls must raise bad memories with you.

They have super dogpile and glomping abilities capable of exhibiting megaton force.

LOLZ J/K

PIG TAIL LOLI!!!

can't remember where i got the desktop pic from

kind of scares me cuz i just had an alien dream. @o@

Volcrim wrote:can't remember where i got the desktop pic from

That is from Makoto Shinkai's 秒速5センチメートル / Five Centimeters Per Second.

He released a number of wallpapers from his films and I have them all as they are all awesome.

Volcrim wrote:

can't remember where i got the desktop pic from

That is an epic wallpaper

I would upload my latest, but photobucket is being sucky

...a real American hero:

New desktop - giving props to Soul Calibur 4.

I am far too lazy to make a new wallpaper....i dont leik to use pre-mades...


its a compitition

Kiskaloo wrote:

Volcrim wrote:can't remember where i got the desktop pic from

That is from Makoto Shinkai's 秒速5センチメートル / Five Centimeters Per Second.

He released a number of wallpapers from his films and I have them all as they are all awesome.

Yup,for months I would just switch between different wallpaper from that movie;I just couldn't choose just one

currently my desktop pics seemed impossible to resize, anyone know what's wrong?

New one lol

Eden of the East's ED animation.

Thats lovely

what if i made a really annoying animated wallpaper of that like really slowed down.

I would have the pencil just slowly turning maybe have some change to the trail behind it. and id have the two figures running. but really slow and id have to try to keep annoying bits out that would mess wiht my desktop.

I need sleep then ill think of this again and attempt

Woo! Got it working
Turns out it was an Opera 10 bug



I have XKCD and Dilbert widgets! Though, that screenshot is a bit out of date, I've gotten rid of the Wolfram Alpha widget since then...

tsundere9kagami2 wrote:what if i made a really annoying animated wallpaper of that like really slowed down.

I would have the pencil just slowly turning maybe have some change to the trail behind it. and id have the two figures running. but really slow and id have to try to keep annoying bits out that would mess wiht my desktop.

I need sleep then ill think of this again and attempt

Active Desktop lives on.

Despite the awesomeness of Cassandra, I decided to switch to a more mellow, classy looking background. We'll see how long this one lasts, I tend to go through backgrounds like "tissues at a snot party."

(Bonus points to anyone who knows where that quote comes from )

Kiskaloo wrote:

tsundere9kagami2 wrote:what if i made a really annoying animated wallpaper of that like really slowed down.

I would have the pencil just slowly turning maybe have some change to the trail behind it. and id have the two figures running. but really slow and id have to try to keep annoying bits out that would mess wiht my desktop.

I need sleep then ill think of this again and attempt

Active Desktop lives on.

Well the only thing that it could get in the way of is the 3 icons i
keep in the top left corner...any maybe the sidebar(but even that i can
make be gone). Everything else i keep in the dock.

anyone got a very convincing picture of shattered glass? i wanna make my desktop look like my screen is broken ^_^

XD

Unfortunately, I don't. However, this reminds me of the time in the IT crowd where there was a small fire in the building. They put a monitor in front of it, and their boss mistook it for a screensaver

TTIO wrote:

I dare you do use THIS for a wallpaper instead

done deal