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Friday Desktop Thread 3/21/03

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Originally posted by: aphex
Originally posted by: SSP
Originally posted by: aphex
Originally posted by: SSP
I have the same desktop with the CPU meter in the background, but i added new icons that I absolutely LOVE! I increased the size to 48x48 and though it looks big, I love the details they have. 🙂

Link
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Im gonna throttle mine up to 128x128 tonight. Get the big boys out 🙂
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Haha, good luck. I tried 64x64 but most of the icons looked sh!tty. 48 was supported by default windows icons so I stuck with that. I dont see how your going to use 128 unless you plan to manually replace all the Icons? :Q
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All of mine are already replaced. 🙂
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:Q How did you do it?!?! I'm gona keep harassing you until I find out! 😛😉
 
My Desktop - 1600x1200, 471K, not work/family/child-safe

Most of you will probably have seen this by now. I don't really tinker with my desktop appearance much after I get it working the way I like it. The functionality part of it however, I'm always tweaking around some.
 
Originally posted by: SSP
Originally posted by: aphex
Originally posted by: SSP
Originally posted by: aphex
Originally posted by: SSP
I have the same desktop with the CPU meter in the background, but i added new icons that I absolutely LOVE! I increased the size to 48x48 and though it looks big, I love the details they have. 🙂

Link
Click to expand...

Im gonna throttle mine up to 128x128 tonight. Get the big boys out 🙂
Click to expand...

Haha, good luck. I tried 64x64 but most of the icons looked sh!tty. 48 was supported by default windows icons so I stuck with that. I dont see how your going to use 128 unless you plan to manually replace all the Icons? :Q
Click to expand...

All of mine are already replaced. 🙂
Click to expand...

:Q How did you do it?!?! I'm gona keep harassing you until I find out! 😛😉
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With a program called Iconworkshop 5.0
 
Originally posted by: Bullhonkie
My Desktop - 1600x1200, 471K, not work/family/child-safe

Most of you will probably have seen this by now. I don't really tinker with my desktop appearance much after I get it working the way I like it. The functionality part of it however, I'm always tweaking around some.
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I don't understand how people get it to look like that.
mine is a wallpaper and some color scheme that windows has supplied.
insane.
 
Originally posted by: aphex
Originally posted by: SSP
Originally posted by: aphex
Originally posted by: SSP
Originally posted by: aphex
Originally posted by: SSP
I have the same desktop with the CPU meter in the background, but i added new icons that I absolutely LOVE! I increased the size to 48x48 and though it looks big, I love the details they have. 🙂

Link
Click to expand...

Im gonna throttle mine up to 128x128 tonight. Get the big boys out 🙂
Click to expand...

Haha, good luck. I tried 64x64 but most of the icons looked sh!tty. 48 was supported by default windows icons so I stuck with that. I dont see how your going to use 128 unless you plan to manually replace all the Icons? :Q
Click to expand...

All of mine are already replaced. 🙂
Click to expand...

:Q How did you do it?!?! I'm gona keep harassing you until I find out! 😛😉
Click to expand...

With a program called Iconworkshop 5.0
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you can make them 128 by jsut going into the registry
search google and it'll show you how
 
Originally posted by: aphex
Originally posted by: SSP
Originally posted by: aphex
Originally posted by: SSP
Originally posted by: aphex
Originally posted by: SSP
I have the same desktop with the CPU meter in the background, but i added new icons that I absolutely LOVE! I increased the size to 48x48 and though it looks big, I love the details they have. 🙂

Link
Click to expand...

Im gonna throttle mine up to 128x128 tonight. Get the big boys out 🙂
Click to expand...

Haha, good luck. I tried 64x64 but most of the icons looked sh!tty. 48 was supported by default windows icons so I stuck with that. I dont see how your going to use 128 unless you plan to manually replace all the Icons? :Q
Click to expand...

All of mine are already replaced. 🙂
Click to expand...

:Q How did you do it?!?! I'm gona keep harassing you until I find out! 😛😉
Click to expand...

With a program called Iconworkshop 5.0
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Cool. Thanks! 🙂
 
theres wackoes and im sure your friends woudln't want you putting all there screennames right on the open for ppl to message.
 
Originally posted by: JudistPriest
Originally posted by: aphex
Originally posted by: SSP
Originally posted by: aphex
Originally posted by: SSP
Originally posted by: aphex
Originally posted by: SSP
I have the same desktop with the CPU meter in the background, but i added new icons that I absolutely LOVE! I increased the size to 48x48 and though it looks big, I love the details they have. 🙂

Link
Click to expand...

Im gonna throttle mine up to 128x128 tonight. Get the big boys out 🙂
Click to expand...

Haha, good luck. I tried 64x64 but most of the icons looked sh!tty. 48 was supported by default windows icons so I stuck with that. I dont see how your going to use 128 unless you plan to manually replace all the Icons? :Q
Click to expand...

All of mine are already replaced. 🙂
Click to expand...

:Q How did you do it?!?! I'm gona keep harassing you until I find out! 😛😉
Click to expand...

With a program called Iconworkshop 5.0
Click to expand...

you can make them 128 by jsut going into the registry
search google and it'll show you how
Click to expand...

Yea, i made my own registry edit to change them to different sizes 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Yield
Originally posted by: Bullhonkie
My Desktop - 1600x1200, 471K, not work/family/child-safe

Most of you will probably have seen this by now. I don't really tinker with my desktop appearance much after I get it working the way I like it. The functionality part of it however, I'm always tweaking around some.
Click to expand...

I don't understand how people get it to look like that.
mine is a wallpaper and some color scheme that windows has supplied.
insane.
Click to expand...

Well the look isn't even half of it, there's a lot more than meets the eye. Unfortunately it's near impossible to convey the functionality through a screenshot.

A very versatile module called LSXcommand (I have it implemented along the top bar above my winamp controls) is probably what I use most often. Under normal usage it'll be blank or scroll the current winamp track if I have Winamp open. I can use it as a command prompt (to ping, run traceroutes, etc - anything else you could do from a command prompt). I can type a URL in and it'll pull up the website in IE. I can use it as a search box to run queries through google/dictionary.com/whatever search engine of my choice. I can use it to display date/time, use it as a calculator, run Litestep !bang commands, make aliases to run programs (i.e. I can type PS to launch Photoshop).

And that's just with that one module. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: aves2k
Originally posted by: TheEvil1
Originally posted by: Maleficus
Your not Electrode!!!!!!! OUT OUT EVIL1
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you wanna clue me in on WTF you are talkin about
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Electrode usually starts the Friday Desktop Thread.
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do a search for them. you see that i was dooin them for a good 6 weeks till he stol them from me
 
Mine
Notes:
I can't afford a big monitor :-(. But it is a good excuse to ramp up the AA and AF at 800x600 🙂
I'm a minimalist...I wouldn't have anything but the command line (if Explorer had something as good as lsxcommand, I'd never have switched) if I didn't use the others all the time 🙂 (the downward-facing triangle has several functions attached to it)
Litestep 2.4.6, using skinbox and dynamp for winamp controls
Console from www.lokai.net
The meter thing is rainmeter using perfmon (CPU, RAM, swap), placed oddly to leave space for the minimize, maximize/restore and close buttons.
As you can see, I don't want to keep using my LoD CD.
Edit: I have hopes, so I made the theme resolution-agnostic 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Cerb
Mine
Notes:
I can't afford a big monitor :-(. But it is a good excuse to ramp up the AA and AF at 800x600 🙂
I'm a minimalist...I wouldn't have anything but the command line (if Explorer had something as good as lsxcommand, I'd never have switched) if I didn't use the others all the time 🙂 (the downward-facing triangle has several functions attached to it)
Litestep 2.4.6, using skinbox and dynamp for winamp controls
Console from www.lokai.net
The meter thing is rainmeter using perfmon (CPU, RAM, swap), placed oddly to leave space for the minimize, maximize/restore and close buttons.
As you can see, I don't want to keep using my LoD CD.
Edit: I have hopes, so I made the theme resolution-agnostic 🙂
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Woohoo another LS user! I'm more of an all out functionality-whore myself but I like it, doesn't look TOO minimalistic (at least compared to some of the LS themes out there). 😛
 
Originally posted by: TheEvil1
Originally posted by: aves2k
Originally posted by: TheEvil1
Originally posted by: Maleficus
Your not Electrode!!!!!!! OUT OUT EVIL1
Click to expand...

you wanna clue me in on WTF you are talkin about
Click to expand...

Electrode usually starts the Friday Desktop Thread.
Click to expand...

do a search for them. you see that i was dooin them for a good 6 weeks till he stol them from me
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A. I was just kidding.
B. Electrode has been doing them for a LONG time.
 
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