Your Fscking Desktop part 4

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Bringing togther the various desktop picture threads...

I needed a new desktop wallpaper on my work computer that could keep me awake. Thusly...

http://static.flickr.com/37/123885251_1657214c91.jpg

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

when i win the lotto, i want the bathroom of my mansion to look like that, with tiles of varying shapes and colors.

― the man from mars won't eat up bars where the tv's on (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

whoa nice! did you do that yourself?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Hey so past desktop threads have inspired me to play around with non-Windows shells (on XP), but they all seem to be (let's say) "not for me" -- I can handle the super-twiddly minimalism of a lot of them, but I can't take aesthetics that are looking to make the computer look like something out of a particularly good sci-fi film (or the geekoid possibly anime-related looks of some of them). I'd actually be interested to use a shell that's like aesthetically nice, maybe even kind of print-looking. Are there any shell + style combos that have actually had design people involved in them? If not, what are the chances that a non-techy person with no significant design experience could rig one together?

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

I should say "non-Explorer shells," I guess.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

Nabisco -- I've found one litestep theme that's very simple, with not a lot of twiddly bits. Minimal and elegant. I'll link you to it as soon as I get home and find out what it's called.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://scoopsnoodle.com/medesktop.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

whoa nice! did you do that yourself?

I used the "Box Fitting" applet on Complexification.

Console log and weather map were via GeekTool.

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Here it is:
http://www.litestep.net/index.php?section=2&page=4&action=list&listing=thumb&order=title&direction=desc&limit=24&distro=all&type=all

It's the top right theme, and you can make the boxes curvy, too, if you like. Been using it forever.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha, litestep

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

what? i like it.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://memory-alpha.org/en/images/3/3b/Wesleycrusher2379.JPG
You would.

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

Litestep is the most developed, looks like. The themes take some digging through, though, lest you end up with some godawful chrome-y "bad-ass" looking thing.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

I think I like FLUXBOX in Linux the best.

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/47/117528333_fa09cbe3ff.jpg http://static.flickr.com/42/117528332_7894cc8241.jpg

Left and right.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, lovely pictures. Whereabouts is that?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 6 April 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

Taken near the Byron Bay Lighthouse, just near the east-most point of Australia.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

Mine's a tasteless shot of me making out with my replacement Sydney g/f. You guys don't really need to see it tho.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 6 April 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, we do.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 6 April 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

i use fluxbox at home, simple orange to red gradiated background on the one distro, a slightly modified version of 'cleancolor' on the other (looks like dark blue graphpaper). two rxvt terminals, a big one and a small one, green and orange courier on black. gkrellm system monitor thing on the right, xawtv or xmms or mplayer top left for my entertainment needs. no icons, everything done via right click menu. some of the fluxbox mods that people have done look stunning (http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php) and i can't start to imagine how they were done but can't help but think all that transparency just makes it harder to see what you're doing.

i hope the boxes on that first screenshot move. 8)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 6 April 2006 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

(i realise now that i should've written that in the style of an ink polaroid.)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 6 April 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahah yes!

God, it's years since I've read (or tried to write) one of those.

This ink polaroid is my current desktop. As you can see, I really need to tidy up my icons because it's impossible to find any of them quickly. Behind them is a Ffestiniog Railway works train - a single mess van hauled by a First World War diesel - in heavy snow. The driver is walking up the line, because he's worried that the points a quarter-mile ahead will be frozen. Moving the train any closer would make them operate, so he's walking on ahead to check them first.

Next to my monitor, you can see some of the crap that's on my desk - a box of blank CDs, and a tin of travel sweets, which I only bought because I was hoping to bump into a pharmacist I know. If you look really closely, you can just about see the biscuit tin that hides behind the monitor.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 6 April 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/42/124140306_bc7842779a_b.jpg

― Jena (JenaP), Thursday, 6 April 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

A new month demanded a new desktop...

http://static.flickr.com/47/138429239_d8d6f27180.jpg

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Monday, 1 May 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

one for the apprentice (UK) fans. why? oh, i dunno. i just like it.

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/060505desktop.jpg

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

(one day i'll get round to un-FLACing and listening to that PiL concert on the desktop. which has been there since december 11, 2004.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

There's a pretty good FLAC front end for OSX....

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 4 May 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Simon, your battery's about to die.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 4 May 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

i kn

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 4 May 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

home never looked this beautiful. it did, however, frequently look this sinister.

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/060515desktop.jpg

(it's from the chromasia photoblog, since you ask.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/49/146056352_d9bee885f3.jpg

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

I was late to this, but a new month, etc...

http://static.flickr.com/86/274736955_e3dc1441ea.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://img15.imgspot.com/u/06/292/20/TindersticksWaitingForTheM1161391516.jpg

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Friday, 20 October 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

nice one noodle.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 20 October 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/g.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 20 October 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

Lotsa Macs.

― M. V. (M.V.), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/109/274975239_4d1b6bc769.jpg

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

Every ILXOR is on a mac!

― Jena (JenaP), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

Elvis T - i want to hear about your desktop pic.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

"Every ILXOR is on a mac!"

that's kinda equivalent to when someone comes on the WDYLL threads saying "all the ilxors are so good looking!"

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/91/274979639_df72c18456.jpg

― Jena (JenaP), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

not a mac : (

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/gradygillan/desk.jpg

its my old apartment in chicago.

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

i'd swap my mac for that apartment.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4261/desktopek9.jpg

Railroad bridge, Minneapolis. Taken shortly before its most recent fire. Graffiti found by friend. "Stella" is the name of my recently departed dog.

― Kudos, spaz-boy (Pareene), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

awwwwwwwwwwww

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

jed, I might've taken you up on that at one point. it was a shithole. an enormous, cavernous, sprawling, perfect-for-500pax-parties shithole.

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

My boring new desktop, I don't like images in the background.

http://modsvsrockers.net/desktop.jpg

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

i guess i don't like you :(

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://quimby.gnus.org/4ad-pics/ThisMortalCoil.1983-1991.cd.jpg

i'm too lazy to actually take a screenshot. but, that's the background i use and i'm on os x, with the appearance set to graphite, a hidden dock, and nothing on the desktop but a folder named "boekje" from a user on soulseek (i'm downloading 'the glass bead game' by breathless from them) in the top right corner.
oh, and i have an entire 4ad theme going on with my ibook, too. i own sixty albums on 4ad and i use all of the covers for my screensaver.

welcome to my sad, dark little life.

― suicide hotline orgasm (blood bitch), Saturday, 21 October 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't realise that would be so big. sorry. i'm o.k. with a mod deleting that if they'd like.

― suicide hotline orgasm (blood bitch), Saturday, 21 October 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

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Looks like an expansion joint to me. Probably a steel or concrete framed building, so it's not a load-bearing wall.

― nate woolls, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 11:25 (sixteen years ago)

yes, it does look like huge prefabbed sections, built elsewhere and just assembled on site

― koogs, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 11:27 (sixteen years ago)

What are the nunbers for?

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 12:37 (sixteen years ago)

Numbers that is!

above the windows

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 12:37 (sixteen years ago)

Guys what about my cool boat

http://i41.tinypic.com/140iys8.jpg

― ZS1983 (Z S), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 14:42 (sixteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

been messing around with geektool. can't get the temp in celsius of the pm/am in caps : /
http://img.skitch.com/20100406-c9gqgkiw1p5ue2ykg2txyj8p27.jpg

― etrian odysseus (cozen), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 11:36 (fifteen years ago)

or*

― etrian odysseus (cozen), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 11:36 (fifteen years ago)

what command are you using for that?

― koogs, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 12:18 (fifteen years ago)

because if it's just a bash command, like the geektool doc seems to suggest, then just pipe the output through tr "A-Z" "a-z" to convert it all to lowercase

― koogs, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 12:20 (fifteen years ago)

for the weather:
curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=UKXX0061&u=f"; | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|F<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/[b]//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's///' -e 's/<\/description>//'

for the time:
date '+%I:%M%p'

― etrian odysseus (cozen), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 12:20 (fifteen years ago)

date '+%I:%M%p' | tr "apm" "APM"

will convert am to AM (i'd prefer 24 hr clock tbh - "+%H:%M")

― koogs, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 12:27 (fifteen years ago)

and you need u=c on the end of weather instead of u=f to get centigrade (but i haven't tested that the rest of it parses correctly)

― koogs, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 12:29 (fifteen years ago)

yes, that capital F in the Current Conditions needs to be a C.

the ; after the url gives me a syntax error running directly in bash

― koogs, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 12:31 (fifteen years ago)

thx, I think I'll go w/24 hour. and just put up with fahrenheit temp, u=c doesn't seem to work

― etrian odysseus (cozen), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 12:32 (fifteen years ago)

ah, nice thanks, that worked

no degree sign but I can just put that in as text I guess

― etrian odysseus (cozen), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 12:33 (fifteen years ago)

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a332/ephender2/desktop_background.jpg

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:06 (fifteen years ago)

currently this at work (seven samurai screen grab):
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2700/4399556044_5d904096e3.jpg

and a picture of an oil rig at home, from a friend's flickr stream.

― koogs, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:16 (fifteen years ago)

Lily Allen with a cigarette. (I need to clean up my desktop, though... too much junk out there.)

http://i40.tinypic.com/t5hvy9.jpg

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:40 (fifteen years ago)

got it sorted; using bowtie to output current itunes track to the desktop too
http://img.skitch.com/20100406-nputxgihm5prffiddhh52ibxq9.jpg

― etrian odysseus (cozen), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:36 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

Total eclipse + shadow cone = instant desktop picture. <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100804.html"; rel="nofollow">Astronomy Picture Of The Day</a>, you win this round.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4123/4919257170_5b80444574.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 23 August 2010 06:13 (fifteen years ago)

thats a great desktop background!

― markers, Monday, 23 August 2010 06:24 (fifteen years ago)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/akadaver/Screenshot2010-08-24at10402AM.png

― Millsner, Monday, 23 August 2010 16:07 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

as inspired by bbc2 arts program, Bosch's Garden Of Earthly Delights. there's an enooormous version available from wikipedia and i reckon i can use a different 1280x1024 section of it everyday for a solid month.

um, would be nice to automate this. could do it with imagemagick and bash easily enough.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_by_Bosch_High_Resolution.jpg

― koogs, Friday, 29 October 2010 17:28 (fifteen years ago)

http://sentense.me/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/If_a_man_insisted_always_on_being_serious_and_never_allowed_himself_a_bit_of_fun_and_relaxation_he_would_go_mad_or_become_unstable_without_knowing_it-Herodotus-480x360-20100104.png

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:33 (fifteen years ago)

this is my desktop at work where I work on alot of videogame related stuff..

http://www.offworld.com/assets_c/2009/06/edgepixelposter-thumb-620x437-21909.jpg

― mayor jingleberries, Friday, 29 October 2010 18:01 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

found some tools to make my windows pc look like a mac....love it
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4127/5198558174_2f9f41b5c7.jpg

― Mark Chmuras Hot Tub Crime Machine (chrisv2010), Monday, 22 November 2010 14:36 (fifteen years ago)

guess i shoulda put this here

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7646/desktoprs.png

current work desktop: no icons, just launchy. love it. v soothing.

― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 22 November 2010 17:29 (fifteen years ago)

five months pass...

Current work desktop:

http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu216/le_bateau_ivre/Afbeelding1.png

― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 12:22 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://i54.tinypic.com/2nlvacg.png

idk i thought it was a rad quote

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 04:22 (fourteen years ago)

no icons, rocketdock autohidden, made w/ http://wallpapers.x3studios.com/

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 04:23 (fourteen years ago)

at the moment my desktop is the generic nature photo that came preloaded on my computer. i had to reinstall my operating system last week and i haven't come up with a better pic yet.

― cee-lo v. city of new london (get bent), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 04:59 (fourteen years ago)

I'm going to post my new desktop on the "part 5" version of this thread, which I started and so have a certain vested interest in, but also it's been around for almost two years. Sp I mean no offense to anyone.

― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 05:52 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/vOarm.gif

― (eval ' (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 06:17 (fourteen years ago)

thats a great desktop background!

― markers, Monday, August 23, 2010 1:24 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark

― I have access to a gift card (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 06:22 (fourteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/dtop.jpg

― banter panchali (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 07:30 (fourteen years ago)

what operating system are you running diamonddave? i like it

― shalmaneser (tpp), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 08:00 (fourteen years ago)

looks like an old Solaris desktop environment. was it CDE?

― koogs, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 08:37 (fourteen years ago)

(yes! http://www.google.com/search?q=CDE+desktop&tbm=isch )

― koogs, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 08:39 (fourteen years ago)

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/desktop-1.png

― orchestral pygnoeuvres in zee park (contenderizer), Friday, 3 June 2011 11:29 (fourteen years ago)

^ basically hate this, but it was time for a change. now i'm looking for a new change...

― orchestral pygnoeuvres in zee park (contenderizer), Friday, 3 June 2011 11:30 (fourteen years ago)

can you make an animated GIF as a desktop ? that would be RAD

― Latham Green, Friday, 3 June 2011 12:19 (fourteen years ago)

on linux you can run any of, say, the xscreensaver programs with -root to use them as animated wallpapers, the one showing the atlas with daylight and nighttime was always a favourite.

probably scuppered by compiz these days though (yes, doesn't work on natty / unity)

― koogs, Friday, 3 June 2011 13:33 (fourteen years ago)

I am using Heroin Honeybadger so I guess it won't work

― Latham Green, Friday, 3 June 2011 13:51 (fourteen years ago)

on linux you can run any of, say, the xscreensaver programs with -root to use them as animated wallpapers, the one showing the atlas with daylight and nighttime was always a favourite.

webcollage would be amazing w this

― (eval ' (diamonddave85), Friday, 3 June 2011 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

wound up with this:

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/Joost-Swarte-model062.gif

it cheers me

― orchestral pygnoeuvres in zee park (contenderizer), Friday, 3 June 2011 22:12 (fourteen years ago)

[frame implied]

― orchestral pygnoeuvres in zee park (contenderizer), Friday, 3 June 2011 22:13 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://i.imgur.com/9xWK8Ft.jpg

i'm a nerd

― hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 05:19 (twelve years ago)

are you running linux?

― markers, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 06:17 (twelve years ago)

no, just rainmeter w/xp (!)

― hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 06:55 (twelve years ago)

awesome

― markers, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 07:16 (twelve years ago)

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