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Put them up!

Here's mine for now-
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YES!!! I LOVE Portal! It's a shame I haven't gotten it on this computer lol
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This is from a new install I just did on my new computer. My desktop is always changing anyway though.

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It barely changes.

- Apps are openbox, tint2-svn (AUR), xfce4's terminal, xterm for the alsamixer, and xcompmgr-git (AUR) for transparency.
- GTK+ theme is a tweaked gtk-theme-lucidity (AUR) so the text is black instead of gray/faded.
- Icon theme is humanity-icon-theme (AUR).
- Font for terminal is \"Fixed 8\".
- Font for most windows is \"Tahoma 8\".
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My new Desktops

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Posting three individual screen shots just won't give the same impression :wink:
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deathbeam wrote:This is from a new install I just did on my new computer. My desktop is always changing anyway though.

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Assembly Language... I like it!

:)

This is the desktop image on one of my work PC's... It's my 16 year old daughter... she'll be 17 in mid-march 2011:

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Hmmm... Link bad... trying again:

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SirWinner wrote: Assembly Language... I like it!

:)

This is the desktop image on one of my work PC's... It's my 16 year old daughter... she'll be 17 in mid-march 2011:
Thanks, I actually made it myself in GIMP.
FireFox wrote:My new Desktops

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Posting three individual screen shots just won't give the same impression :wink:
And I though my desktop was cool... That's just AWESOME!
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FireFox wrote:My new Desktops

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Posting three individual screen shots just won't give the same impression :wink:
Why.. do you have so many desktops?
SirWinner wrote:Hmmm... Link bad... trying again:

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I think that is a private link.
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FireFox wrote:My new Desktops

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Posting three individual screen shots just won't give the same impression :wink:
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Why...
I tend to multitask a lot between my 3 PC's at once and like to keep an eye on everything all at once. Not a fan of minimized windows or windows behind windows bogging down a system, with this system I divide system resource and maximize my efficiency.

As for the lack of the Enterprise-D from TNG, I could not find a similar wire frame image of it to fit into my theme :roll:
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Ive switched to new desktops lately.

Switched to this one on my desktop: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/deskto ... 40x900.jpg

And this one on my laptop: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/deskto ... 40x900.jpg
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I am using one of my fav wallpapers Bubbalou made for The DXX-Rebirth project, which is the best Descent Project I beta tested for and still do that, as I kinda helped Zico with beta testing the new UDP code the past year that has added to the package :)

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My work system
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Awesome Wallpaper, courtesy of Teslacoil (the MekTek.net artstaff member)
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This is not the desktop you were looking for. Move along...


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here's mine. nothing too fancy. simplified with object dock for quick access. i like it clean.


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Well, I'm embarrassed. i use the computer heaps, so you can barely see the background for all the clutter. I will post it when I've cleaned it up.

(minimizes browser and starts cleaning his desktop...)
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Dirty:
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I do professional photography and one of my passions is landscapes. Sometimes I turn my photography into desktop backrounds. Lucky you. :P You can download them all here: My Deviant Art Gallery

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Us'n MetalBeast's latest creation, I DL'ed the 2560 x 1600 one and resized it to 1920 x 1200 and et voila!
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mine's prettier.

edit:

I also changed my menu to be closer to windows, where it's all off a "start button".

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It all runs really smooth and fast. I use a little bit of compiz to smooth the menu actions out. It's sweet.
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Isaac wrote:mine's prettier.... It all runs really smooth and fast. I use a little bit of compiz to smooth the menu actions out. It's sweet.
Funny, I try to make my system as different from windows/mac/etc. mainstream desktops as possible.

I'm playing with the idea of trying out awesome instead of openbox. I don't know that I want to give up my openbox pipe menus, though.
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snoopy wrote:Funny, I try to make my system as different from windows/mac/etc. mainstream desktops as possible.
It's mostly astetics. I don't think I've changed much else. But since you hit it on the head, and to show how much of a windows noob I am, here are my new destkop icons :P :
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I decided to make my laptop wallpapers change automatically, here are some samples:

first (Entire Team is Kirby!)-
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Second (Sap this, Spy!)-
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Third (an awesome Transformers: War For Cybertron wallpaper)-
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Fourth (an old wallpaper that I used for years)-
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Fifth (Lilformers)-
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and finally, this one with the Timberwolf (or Madcat to you InnerSphere Surats!)-
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(the first and second Wallpapers (that I found) can be found here-
http://wall.alphacoders.com/index.php?s ... rtress%202)

I used this nifty freeware utility called "Any Wallpaper", to randomize my wallpaper automatically
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Djcjr wrote:DeviantART is a great website.
The site is okay because it has bugs that annoys me.
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Bee- note that Djc's link leads to the original of that image.

My desktop changes regularly.... not on a schedule, but I have a script to randomly pick from database.

Deviantart- that's a whole ton of crap on it, and a few good images here and there. If you pick through it, you can find some gems.
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snoopy wrote:Deviantart- that's a whole ton of crap on it, and a few good images here and there.
Agree...

Too many stupid Sonic art kids drew (styles look repetitive)... Kids created too many same groups... There a lot of trolls in the drama site... Message Inbox has an issue.

But I still use the site for my works.
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Sapphire Wolf wrote:I decided to make my laptop wallpapers change automatically, here are some samples:

first (Entire Team is Kirby!)-
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I love this. It actually reminds me of a game called Teeworld. It's a 2d shooter.
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