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Desktop screenshots?

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Lifer
I admit that part of the reason I use Linux is for the, in my opinion, highly stylish ways in which we customize our Linux desktops. Anyone wanna throw their desktop screenshots up? I just reformatted recently and am still deciding how I want to customize, here's where I sit now tho.

Kubuntu 7.04 with Beryl
 
I haven't gotten the customize bug yet, so I only moved and changed a bit in gnome. I mostly used transparency to make it show the wallpaper cause I love the texture on it.

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I eventually want to add a yz bar like widget to get rid of some of the icons. If anyone have any suggestions on where to get one, please let me know.
 
Originally posted by: SSP
I haven't gotten the customize bug yet, so I only moved and changed a bit in gnome. I mostly used transparency to make it show the wallpaper cause I love the texture on it.

LINK

I eventually want to add a yz bar like widget to get rid of some of the icons. If anyone have any suggestions on where to get one, please let me know.
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A little launcher like Mac's have? Try AWN (Avant Window Navigator).

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Taskbar entries were modified a bit to hide sensitive information. Didn't feel like making a new SS.
 
Here's my first desktop, as you can see via the thumbnails at the bottom I currently have 8 desktops.

Be aware though that even though I scaled it down ~75% from 1680x1050 but it's still ~700K and since I'm hosting that myself it'll be slow loading, I can only do ~40KB/s up.
 
I still can't manage to spread my work across multiple desktops. It's just...too much work to go out of my way to do so.
 
I still can't manage to spread my work across multiple desktops. It's just...too much work to go out of my way to do so.
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I hit Alt+F# to switch to # desktop instead of Alt+Tab to switch windows. It's actually less work because I don't have to worry about windows overlapping, minimizing, etc.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
I still can't manage to spread my work across multiple desktops. It's just...too much work to go out of my way to do so.
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I hit Alt+F# to switch to # desktop instead of Alt+Tab to switch windows. It's actually less work because I don't have to worry about windows overlapping, minimizing, etc.
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Definitely. I didn't use multiple desktops right away when I first migrating to Linux either, but after getting used to it things are actually quite a bit easier. With beryl, I just use the default ctl+alt+arrow key to switch desktop cube faces and like Nothinman said, it saves a lot of time.
 
I plan on giving Compiz a try once the compiz-fusion packages hit sid but one thing I always miss when switching to another WM is the E16 desktop mini-windows. They're awesome because they're live updated thumbnails and I can even manipulate the windows in them, i.e. I can drag a window from desktop 0 to desktop 3 while on desktop 2 by dragging the window thumbnail between the mini-windows.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
I plan on giving Compiz a try once the compiz-fusion packages hit sid but one thing I always miss when switching to another WM is the E16 desktop mini-windows. They're awesome because they're live updated thumbnails and I can even manipulate the windows in them, i.e. I can drag a window from desktop 0 to desktop 3 while on desktop 2 by dragging the window thumbnail between the mini-windows.
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Yeah. That's pretty neat functionality. I don't even have thumbnails of my other cube faces to see what's going on. This is something I'd like to rectify.
 
Yeah. That's pretty neat functionality. I don't even have thumbnails of my other cube faces to see what's going on. This is something I'd like to rectify.
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And you would think that it would be simple to do with the compositing stuff too.
 
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y160/razorback130/Xubuntu.jpg">Xubuntu desktop
</a> I run it on an old P4; my Ubuntu box is at my parents' house.
 
I'd post mine, but it's currently bone-stock GNOME. I might get some better icons, though.

I have a 1ghz Pentium-M, usually clocked down to 600mhz, so I can't exactly afford a lot of window-dressing.
 
I wish I knew how to customize Linux at all. Running Ubuntu Feisty fresh install and I can't figure out how to make anything look/work better. I can't even get video card drivers to install.
 
Originally posted by: fyleow
Originally posted by: joshsquall
I wish I knew how to customize Linux at all. Running Ubuntu Feisty fresh install and I can't figure out how to make anything look/work better. I can't even get video card drivers to install.
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If you're using that Nvidia card in you sig then just go to restricted drivers and enable the nvidia drivers. I don't have Ubuntu on right now but it's under Administration if I remember right.
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That's my desktop. I'm running Ubuntu on my laptop with integrated ATI graphics.
 
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