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Friday Desktop Thread - 08/23/02 *OFFICIAL*

Aaaaarrrrgggggh, stupid ISP was down this morning, preventing me from starting the FDT! 🙁

Anyway, I hereby declare this thread OFFICIAL. Since no one has done so yet, I will post the ever-so-important links:

UXTheme lets you use new skins in Windows XP.
Coolmon and StatBar put system info on Windows desktops.
GKrellM puts a system monitor bar on UNIX desktops.
Dockapps are another way to get system info on UNIX, if your window manager supports them. Electrode uses these.
Transparent is a program that can remove the solid color backgrounds from desktop icon labels on Win95/98/ME/NT/2K, allowing your wallpaper to show through.
Rainlender puts a calender on Windows desktops.
Desktop Weather puts weather info on Windows desktops.
Pic hosting services: Skroob's Paulson's Adul's
Anyone who posts a drag-and-drop link will be dragged and dropped off of a 3-story building.

How to take a screenshot

Windows: Hit printscreen (not alt+printscreen or any other combo), then paste in paint, photoshop, etc. Then save as JPG or another browser-friendly format.
UNIX: Use The GIMP, ksnapshot, or the command import -window root filename.jpg.

Let's see yours! Please mark pics that can't be safely opened at work, or in the presence of parents or wife. It's hard to enjoy an FDT when you have to have your mouse on the 'close' button in case a pic of half-naked woman pops up. :frown:

My desktops:
All are Slackware Linux or Linux From Scratch systems with the Fluxbox window manager.

Living Room Workstation:
Desktop JPG PNG
Pic Small JPG Big JPG

Bedroom Workstation:
Desktop JPG PNG
Pic Small JPG Big JPG

Server:
VNC Desktop JPG PNG
Pic Small JPG Big JPG

Laptop:
Desktop JPG PNG
Pic Small JPG Big JPG
 
Wow, that's some clean desktops.. how do you guys do it? I must have at least 50+ icons on my desktop and therefore too embarrased to screen capture it.
 
Originally posted by: kt
Wow, that's some clean desktops.. how do you guys do it? I must have at least 50+ icons on my desktop and therefore too embarrased to screen capture it.
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Menus.. menus.. and more menus. 😛

I converted the "My Music" and "My Pictures" into a menu for applications I use.
 
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