September 2008 Desktop Screenshot Thread

[ayoli]

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Take a moment and tell everyone the details of your desktop, such as the theme name, the wallpaper name, the icons and any programs you're using in the image.

Enjoy!

[ayoli]

Trying to make a murinna version of glow (ice). other details in the screenshot.

http://ayozone.org/wp-content/gallery/screenshots-september-2008/thumbs/thumbs_31082008.png (http://ayozone.org/gallery/screenshots-september-2008)

[Prefix100]

Heres mine, although still 7 minutes 'till the first for me =D

[phrostbyte]

Here is me running WinXP and Ubuntu at the same time, with WinXP on one side of the Compiz cube:

I am not sure where the wallpaper is, but I got it from gnome-look.org
The theme is the standard emerald theme.

[Prefix100]

Here is me running WinXP and Ubuntu at the same time, with WinXP on one side of the Compiz cube:

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/3230/desktopmo4.th.png (http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktopmo4.png)

Virtual box right?

If virtual boxes could do games, it'd be the best thing ever.

[EnGorDiaz]

my desktop as is in the screenshot

[What is in a name?]

A question I didn't arrive on time to answer, from the last month's screenshots thread:


im wondering if you can release a version that doesnt have " black menu " or black bar where file,edit,view etc. are just the same grayish color all around , i want to use this gtk badly. If you dont have time or for whatever reason is there any way i can do this myself ?

Basically, all you'd have to do is find the section saying:


style "clearlooks-menubar"
{
bg[SELECTED] = @selected_bg_color
bg[NORMAL] = "#3C3C3C"
bg[PRELIGHT] = @selected_bg_color
bg[ACTIVE] = "#333333"
bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#3C3C3C"
fg[NORMAL] = "#D4D4D4"
fg[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color
fg[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color
fg[ACTIVE] = @selected_fg_color
fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#666666"
text[NORMAL] = @text_color
text[PRELIGHT] = lighter (@selected_bg_color)
text[SELECTED] = lighter (@selected_bg_color)
text[ACTIVE] = lighter (@selected_bg_color)
text[INSENSITIVE] = "#666666"

engine "clearlooks"
{
hint = "menubar"
radius = 2.0
}
}

And replace it by:


style "clearlooks-menubar"
{
engine "clearlooks"
{
hint = "menubar"
radius = 2.0
}
}

Then it SHOULD work. I didn't test that yet, though. I might publish a version of ClearGlow with normal menubars after I test it and if I find it works, aesthetically speaking. Let me know if my suggestion worked, too.

[EnGorDiaz]

Heres mine, although still 7 minutes 'till the first for me =D

wtf lol :P the wallpaper

[Prefix100]

wtf lol :P the wallpaper

You act like you've never seen a floating 'phant before =D.

[OutOfReach]

New month, new look. :)
GTK Theme: Shiki-Colors, Shiki-Brave
Icons: GNOME-Brave (part of Gnome-Colors)
Emerald Theme: Shiki-Brave (Came included with Shiki-Colors)
Wallpaper: The infamous wallpaper used by willwill in that mockup

[KneeTie]

A question I didn't arrive on time to answer, from the last month's screenshots thread:



Basically, all you'd have to do is find the section saying:


style "clearlooks-menubar"
{
bg[SELECTED] = @selected_bg_color
bg[NORMAL] = "#3C3C3C"
bg[PRELIGHT] = @selected_bg_color
bg[ACTIVE] = "#333333"
bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#3C3C3C"
fg[NORMAL] = "#D4D4D4"
fg[PRELIGHT] = @selected_fg_color
fg[SELECTED] = @selected_fg_color
fg[ACTIVE] = @selected_fg_color
fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#666666"
text[NORMAL] = @text_color
text[PRELIGHT] = lighter (@selected_bg_color)
text[SELECTED] = lighter (@selected_bg_color)
text[ACTIVE] = lighter (@selected_bg_color)
text[INSENSITIVE] = "#666666"

engine "clearlooks"
{
hint = "menubar"
radius = 2.0
}
}

And replace it by:


style "clearlooks-menubar"
{
engine "clearlooks"
{
hint = "menubar"
radius = 2.0
}
}

Then it SHOULD work. I didn't test that yet, though. I might publish a version of ClearGlow with normal menubars after I test it and if I find it works, aesthetically speaking. Let me know if my suggestion worked, too.


i tried that with clearglow green and the gtk theme looks like windows 95 after i tried it.

[Muppeteer]

My Arch system :)

[PilotJLR]

I like the clean look... other than too many documents on the desktop.

[What is in a name?]

I've been porting ClearGlow to the SVN version of the Murrine engine. In fact, considering that I want to keep the current, fully standard-compatible ClearGlow, perhaps I could call this new idea MurrineGlow, dunno. Two of the available colors. I'm using the pink one now:

http://xs230.xs.to/xs230/08350/ecra556.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs230&d=08350&f=ecra556.png) http://xs130.xs.to/xs130/08350/ecra2339.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs130&d=08350&f=ecra2339.png)

The new Murrine is probably the best engine that GTK+ ever had. I love those textures and the way colors ended up looking like, and, and, and... :p

[What is in a name?]

i tried that with clearglow green and the gtk theme looks like windows 95 after i tried it.

OK. As I said, I didn't test that myself, for the reasons implied in the post I just published before this one. I will take a look on that. Sorry.

[raul_]

Just a repost from last month. I like to show off

[Koori23]

Elegant Dark Gray GTK theme

Opera 9.52

HandleGotD font

[perfectska04@hotmail.com]

The new Murrine is probably the best engine that GTK+ ever had. I love those textures and the way colors ended up looking like, and, and, and... :p

Murrine SVN is great, but there's still at least two bugs that are real show-stoppers. One would be that a ton of options haven't been ported to its clearlooks/nodoka styles and the other thing is that it still doesn't have the nice outlines (that clearlooks and nodoka have) instead of ugly dotted lines. I'm sure once these get fixed there will be no more reason to use anything else, but the developer hasn't released a snapshot in months so I've no idea where development is headed.

[What is in a name?]

Murrine SVN is great, but there's still at least two bugs that are real show-stoppers. One would be that a ton of options haven't been ported to its clearlooks/nodoka styles and the other thing is that it still doesn't have the nice outlines (that clearlooks and nodoka have) instead of ugly dotted lines. I'm sure once these get fixed there will be no more reason to use anything else, but the developer hasn't released a snapshot in months so I've no idea where development is headed.

Yeah, those dotted lines, you're right! I never liked them. I hope Cimitan gets rid of them soon. The Murrine style with the right gradients does a good impersonation of Clearlooks, though, I think, the Nodoka style doesn't seem to do much more besides a certain liquid look in some selected areas. And that's something the highlight_ratio parameter always allowed to do anyway. Let's hope...

[KneeTie]

OK. As I said, I didn't test that myself, for the reasons implied in the post I just published before this one. I will take a look on that. Sorry.
No prob. just letting you know , anyways great theme , and could you tell me the name of your icon theme ?

[voteforpedro36]

http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq330/voteforpedro36/th_8-31-08-bare.png (http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq330/voteforpedro36/8-31-08-bare.png)

http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq330/voteforpedro36/th_8-31-08-media.png (http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq330/voteforpedro36/8-31-08-media.png)

From just a minute ago in the August one.

[What is in a name?]

No prob. just letting you know , anyways great theme , and could you tell me the name of your icon theme ?

It's Eikon, a personal collection of many icons from several sets that I found across the Web since June last year, when i started using Linux.

[SomeGuyDude]

GTK: ClearGlow Brave
Icons: Gnome-Look Brave
Pointer - Grounation
MPD + Sonata
AWN - Liquid Black Glass
Font - UnDotum
Conky - Two of 'em
Wallpaper - Something off of DA, the link was in the August thread.

[herbster]

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/7037/desktop083108combinedthib2.png (http://herbster.deviantart.com/art/Desktop-09-01-08-96655748)

[Giant Speck]

I've been porting ClearGlow to the SVN version of the Murrine engine. In fact, considering that I want to keep the current, fully standard-compatible ClearGlow, perhaps I could call this new idea MurrineGlow, dunno. Two of the available colors. I'm using the pink one now:

http://xs230.xs.to/xs230/08350/ecra556.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs230&d=08350&f=ecra556.png) http://xs130.xs.to/xs130/08350/ecra2339.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs130&d=08350&f=ecra2339.png)

The new Murrine is probably the best engine that GTK+ ever had. I love those textures and the way colors ended up looking like, and, and, and... :p

I don't even like pink, but I have to say the pink one looks fantastic!

[Yes]

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/7037/desktop083108combinedthib2.png (http://herbster.deviantart.com/art/Desktop-09-01-08-96655748)

Very nice. How do you get Google to look like that?

[XVII]

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/7037/desktop083108combinedthib2.png (http://herbster.deviantart.com/art/Desktop-09-01-08-96655748)

Could you tell me the name of the terminal program that you are using to monitor your internet connection?

[Patricrawley]

September theme. More vibrant than usual.

Wallpaper: Sunburn 2
Emerald: Burnt (Made myself)
GTK: Customized clearlooks
Icons: Foxtrot

[Bachstelze]

Bow before your queen, /c/!

Oops, I got them mixed up... or did I?

[perfectska04@hotmail.com]

Bow before your queen, /c/!

Oops, I got them mixed up... or did I?

You can never go wrong with a Yotsuba desktop. (Edit: Even if it's vistaids.)

[etnlIcarus]

Win:

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/4871/desklae7.th.jpg (http://img98.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desklae7.jpg)

*nix:

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/5292/screennixcl8.th.jpg (http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screennixcl8.jpg)

[Truedream]

Theme: Clearlooks
Icons: Eikon
Wall: Marionette

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7985/screenshotpf7.th.png (http://img84.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotpf7.png) http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/5228/screenshot2fl7.th.png (http://img502.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot2fl7.png)

[Hund]

http://tn3-2.deviantart.com/fs37/300W/f/2008/243/7/0/704571296662c40b6e497982de8d9e42.png (http://ebupof.deviantart.com/art/My-Desktop-080830-96467346)

Info in the screenshot.

[eightmillion]

I've been working on my steampunkish theme. The pocket watch actually tells the time and clicking on the compass brings up the kmenu.

[Sand Lee]

Death Note
A desktop based off the anime...
Theme: ClearGlow (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ClearGlow?content=88122)

Update:
I've had a change of heart. Current desktop:
Icons: Somatic
Theme: Shiki-Brave
Wall : Fall by David Lanham

[Trail]

I am still using this:

(Stock KDE4 with a few more plasmoids from repos)

[Barrucadu]

http://blog.yarrt.com/wp-content/screenshots/september-2008-thumb.png (http://blog.yarrt.com/wp-content/screenshots/september-2008.png)

GTK Theme: LiteGNOME (modified)
Icon Theme: Minimal Perception Glossy
Emerald Theme: DarkLegacyMod
Fonts: Anorexia (emerald), Nimbus Sans L (applications & documents), Liberation Sans (desktop), Anorexia (fixed width)

[billgoldberg]

I've been working on my steampunkish theme. The pocket watch actually tells the time and clicking on the compass brings up the kmenu.

I wouldn't use it, but it looks nice and original.

[Hells_Dark]

http://pix.nofrag.com/6/8/c/537b53a9edefb672b23aa17ff998a.png (http://pix.nofrag.com/a/3/a/0426080de6254ebb68d5b4cf8ae3c.jpg)

[What is in a name?]

I've been working on my steampunkish theme. The pocket watch actually tells the time and clicking on the compass brings up the kmenu.

The kind of concept you're applying in your desktop could be used in so many ways that it really excites me. And I'm glad KDE 4 is ready to allow that kind of original, unique look. I worry about the apparent lack of room in the screen with all those widgets, being the notification tray plasmoid the most critical example to me (I like to have it always visible somewhere, to easily click on any of the tray icons in case they start flashing with an update alert or something) and also the lack of a tasklist, but then again, considering your screen has the same resolution as mine, I guess it's not too much of a problem. I really love that "age of Discoveries" look. So I might try that one day. There are so many visual metaphors made possible by KDE4.

KDE4 really is qualifying itself to gradually become the "professional-looking" desktop environment in the open source world.

Where did you get the pictures of the compass and the pocket clock from, by the way?

[el mariachi]

WhatIIAN: have you released your murrine theme or is it still a wip? ;D if you need beta testing you know where to look hehe

[What is in a name?]

WhatIIAN: have you released your murrine theme or is it still a wip? ;D if you need beta testing you know where to look hehe

Well, I'm thinking of releasing it today, or as soon as possible anyway. I'm still "intensively" using it in order to find out if it can be safely released without major disappointments.

I'm glad it pleased you, by the way, hehe.

[el mariachi]

it did :D
dunno if it'll make me switch from aurora-based glow (I made my own version, with other colors), I love the fading effect of buttons and check boxes

[ayoli]

it did :D
dunno if it'll make me switch from aurora-based glow (I made my own version, with other colors), I love the fading effect of buttons and check boxes

I made my own version of glow with murrine svn engine (see first post in this thread).
Actually I love it, it is fast and doesn't have the issue you can have with aurora in some apps, but I prefer the aurora entry boxes.

[urukrama]

Awesome 2.3. Details in the second screenshot. The wallpaper and the Gtk theme (which is not visible) are homemade.

[Prefix100]

Win:

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/4871/desklae7.th.jpg (http://img98.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desklae7.jpg)

how.
how..
how did you get windows to look like that?

[MrSweet]

how.
how..
how did you get windows to look like that?

I was wondering the same thing. I have never seen a Win Desktop that looked like that. Just having the multiple workspaces would be a plus. That is something I always miss whenever I have to drop back into Windows. Linux is spoiling me. :)

Mr. Sweet

[rpainter]

Here's mine.

Background is from Gnome-Look
Icons are UltimateGnome
Running AWN
Window XP running in VirtualBox on the right side of cube.

Hope you like it.

[tehforum]

my desktop as is in the screenshot

Wow, where did you get the theme from?


I like the clean look... other than too many documents on the desktop.

What wallpaper is that?

[billgoldberg]

I was wondering the same thing. I have never seen a Win Desktop that looked like that. Just having the multiple workspaces would be a plus. That is something I always miss whenever I have to drop back into Windows. Linux is spoiling me. :)

Mr. Sweet

I think it's just one of those skins applied by cpu hogging third party apps.

I doubt he has real multiple wordspaces.

[Nevon]

I think it's just one of those skins applied by cpu hogging third party apps.

I doubt he has real multiple wordspaces.

I think he's probably changed window manager from Explorer to openbox or some other *box. My ex-girlfriend did that on her laptop.

[etnlIcarus]

My current gnome desktop with compiz fusion.

I also added a screenshot from Boxee while listening to my favorite hardcore track of all time on last.fm, just because I can.

I don't know about you, but I find it more pleasing to look at the face of Charlize Theron than some blue stripes or wood....could you hook me up with wallpaper #2? <.<


how.
how..
how did you get windows to look like that?


I was wondering the same thing. I have never seen a Win Desktop that looked like that. Just having the multiple workspaces would be a plus. That is something I always miss whenever I have to drop back into Windows. Linux is spoiling me. :)

Mr. Sweet


I think it's just one of those skins applied by cpu hogging third party apps.

I doubt he has real multiple wordspaces.

Real multiple workspaces and no, it doesn't technically hog my cpus. The bblean code base does have some minor memory management issues but all the bb4win variants replace the explorer shell, rather than running over it like Window Blinds.

http://www.lostinthebox.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2907
http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/plugins.html

File manager is A43 (A34?) if anyone's wondering.

[Prefix100]

Real multiple workspaces and no, it doesn't technically hog my cpus. The bblean code base does have some minor memory management issues but all the bb4win variants replace the explorer shell, rather than running over it like Window Blinds.

http://www.lostinthebox.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2907
http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/plugins.html

File manager is A43 (A34?) if anyone's wondering.

Cya guys!

[Shippou]

Here is my desktop at the moment.

[billgoldberg]

...could you hook me up with wallpaper #2? <.<







Real multiple workspaces and no, it doesn't technically hog my cpus. The bblean code base does have some minor memory management issues but all the bb4win variants replace the explorer shell, rather than running over it like Window Blinds.

http://www.lostinthebox.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2907
http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/plugins.html

File manager is A43 (A34?) if anyone's wondering.

Oh I thought it was WindowsBlinds.

I've done the shell thing before, it's still windows :p

--

The wallpaper came from skins.be, but I've uploaded it because I can't be bother to search for it on their site.

Link (http://linuxowns.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/2.jpg).

[Dark Hornet]

I am running Ubuntu 8.04 x64 on a dual monitor set up (24", and 22") using Twinview...my desktop is as follows..

--Compiz Fusion with the additional plugins enabled (sphere, etc)
--Slickness Black as a Theme--I got this from www.gnome-look.org
--Random icon set from gnome-look (I can't remember the exact name at the moment.)
--Desktop is a lightning pic that I found from a post on Tombunutu's Blog I think...great shot..or (Photoshop job...:))

At anyrate, I like it for now, but I am sure I will change it in a week or two, as I am prone to do...

Darkhornet

[etnlIcarus]

Oh, I didn't knew that could be done in Windows.

--

The wallpaper came from skins.be, but I've uploaded it because I can't be bother to search for it on their site.


Link (http://linuxowns.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/2.jpg).
For the whole workspaces on windows thing, interestingly enough, MS released the Virtual Desktop Manager as a powertoy. However, it's rather limited in functionality (can't move windows between workspeaces, etc).

And cheers for the wall.

[tehforum]

Here is my desktop.

[adityakavoor]

Heres mine, although still 7 minutes 'till the first for me =D

PLease share the wallapaper

[BLTicklemonster]

Three shots of Ubuntu Gnome, awn, compiz with different background on one of them.

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/8241/screenshotex8.th.png (http://img174.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotex8.png)

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/9035/screenshot1zz7.th.png (http://img174.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot1zz7.png)

http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/2865/screenshotym4.th.png (http://img384.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotym4.png)

Forgive me on the last one. I used an OzOs wallpaper with my own twist to it. "earthrise from the moon"

[Prefix100]

PLease share the wallapaper

Here you are.

I got it off digg (http://digg.com/arts_culture/What_an_Elephant_Can_Do_at_18_000_KM_from_Earth_PI C) the other day.

Enjoy!

[skitzware]

http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/5137/sshotud1.th.png (http://img383.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sshotud1.png)

Openbox, Pypanel, Conky

Openbox theme by me
GTK theme Royalty by thrynk at dev-art

[chucky chuckaluck]

openbox, pypanel, nova-gold gtk and ob themes, firefox. the wallpaper is a tiling of a franz xaver messerschmidt bust. he was a 18th century german sculptor whose most famous works, busts of himself with a variety of grimaces, were thought to be unfortunately inspired by the paranoid delusions and hallucinations he began to suffer around the age of thirty. in my view, there is an underpinning of sarcasm in his work and i suspect he might have been playing his audience a bit. either way, it's a singular output that i've enjoyed for a long time.

http://b.imagehost.org/t/0970/franzscr2.jpg (http://b.imagehost.org/view/0970/franzscr2.jpg)

[BOBSONATOR]

I've been porting ClearGlow to the SVN version of the Murrine engine. In fact, considering that I want to keep the current, fully standard-compatible ClearGlow, perhaps I could call this new idea MurrineGlow, dunno. Two of the available colors. I'm using the pink one now:

http://xs230.xs.to/xs230/08350/ecra556.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs230&d=08350&f=ecra556.png) http://xs130.xs.to/xs130/08350/ecra2339.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs130&d=08350&f=ecra2339.png)

The new Murrine is probably the best engine that GTK+ ever had. I love those textures and the way colors ended up looking like, and, and, and... :p

Might I Ask,

Where do you find murrine svn?

[etnlIcarus]

Heavily inspired by one of the last screenshots posted in last month's thread. Can't remember which user posted it and I can't find the August thread so if your name is Daniel and that's your screenshot visible in my screenshot; thankyou for the inspiration and sorry for the lack of credit.


http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/2402/newscreensmallsh4.jpg
http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/5640/newscreenlt6.jpg (http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/5640/newscreenlt6.jpg)

[herbster]

Very nice. How do you get Google to look like that?

It's using the Stylish extension, one of the Google userstyles.


Could you tell me the name of the terminal program that you are using to monitor your internet connection?

nload.

[What is in a name?]

Might I Ask,

Where do you find murrine svn?

You either use Subversion for yourself to get the engine, typing this command on the terminal...


svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/murrine/trunk/ murrine

... and then compiling the engine...


cd murrine
./autogen.sh --enable-animation [NOTE: add --prefix=/usr too, if you wish]
make
sudo make install


... or if you are using Ubuntu, you can find a repos with some .deb packages and download and install the one that suits your PC's architecture. I, for instance, am using a package I downloaded from the following PPA: http://ppa.launchpad.net/kwwii/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gtk2-engines-murrine/

[supersonicdarky]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/supersonicdarky/september_08_thumb.png (http://supersonicdarky.deviantart.com/art/September-2008-96711189)
wall: no idea
gtk: vorta
icons: micro
openbox: bright side (modded)

pcmanfm, transmission (I'm working on that ratio...), pidgin, gmplayer, conky, pypanel

[dhysk]

I posted my laptops last month so i figured I'd post my desktops this month.

Unfortunately my video card sucks to bad to use compiz with dual screens so I'm using metacity.

My first monitor is 19 in but my second monitor is only 15 in. So the screen shot with windows xp is actually taking up the whole screen. In the second shot you can tell how long the screen is by the bar at the top and the bottom of the screen is right under the date.

[BOBSONATOR]

well, here is my shot at the glow frenzy :)

thanks What is in a name?

[earthpigg]

just threw this one together in kolorpaint for myself.

nothing really groundbreaking, but i thought i'd share :)

intended for those with 2 monitors: 1050x3360

if anyone has a blue or icy ubuntu logo to match her eyes, that would be awesome.

thumb:
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n59/earthpiglite/ubuntudarkthumb.jpg

full size 1050x3360, about 500k:
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n59/earthpiglite/ubuntudark-1.jpg

[Raffles10]

My Linux Mint desk, no fancy effects, I like to keep things simple.

[KneeTie]

September desktop : Some influences from What is in a name ? great themer.

[fedex1993]

just threw this one together in kolorpaint for myself.

nothing really groundbreaking, but i thought i'd share :)

intended for those with 2 monitors: 1050x3360

if anyone has a blue or icy ubuntu logo to match her eyes, that would be awesome.

thumb:
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n59/earthpiglite/ubuntudarkthumb.jpg

full size 1050x3360, about 500k:
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n59/earthpiglite/ubuntudark-1.jpg
backgrounds i want :) where did you get them from ?

[eightmillion]

The kind of concept you're applying in your desktop could be used in so many ways that it really excites me. And I'm glad KDE 4 is ready to allow that kind of original, unique look. I worry about the apparent lack of room in the screen with all those widgets, being the notification tray plasmoid the most critical example to me (I like to have it always visible somewhere, to easily click on any of the tray icons in case they start flashing with an update alert or something) and also the lack of a tasklist, but then again, considering your screen has the same resolution as mine, I guess it's not too much of a problem. I really love that "age of Discoveries" look. So I might try that one day. There are so many visual metaphors made possible by KDE4.

KDE4 really is qualifying itself to gradually become the "professional-looking" desktop environment in the open source world.

Where did you get the pictures of the compass and the pocket clock from, by the way?

Thanks. When people talk of space on the desktop, I'm always wondering, space for what? For me the desktop is the jumping off point, the launching area. I recently installed Ubuntu netbook remix in a virtual machine and I was really impressed how well it works even on a full size computer. With it, there is no desktop at all, just a launch area and your applications. It's quite interesting.

As for your concerns about the system tray, the popups actually pop up over all the desktop windows, and I can hit a button at any time to minimize all windows. It's not much different than running a panel that autohides. I just wish they'd fix the drawing issues with it so it doesn't look so ugly. Also, I actually do have a tasklist. I'm using cairo dock set to auto hide. I originally started using it because I didn't like that I couldn't hide the kde4 panel, but now I don't see myself going back even when they do add that functionality. Between cairo dock, yakuake and krunner, I rarely even use the kmenu.

I'm really impressed with KDE 4. You can put anything anywhere. It's all modular. If you don't like how an application's laid out, you can move it all around on the fly just by picking up a part of an application and dropping it somewhere else. I may have to make a video of this, because I've never seen it demoed anywhere.

I found the compass and pocket watch on Google image search. I cut them out and added drop shadow so that they'd look realistic on the desktop. I can upload the cutouts with or without shadow if you'd like.

[Caseyjp]

My September Look:

Hardy 8.04
Theme:
GTK 2+
Orange -LiNstaBlackPlastic
Icons - black-white 2 Neon
Pointer - DMZ-Black
Compiz .7.6 + Emerald window manager
Theme: Overglossed
wallpaper - from Interfacelift.com
AWN - latest trunk
Screenlets - .1.2

[kamitsukai]

Here's my September desktop :)

[dbbolton]

Heavily inspired by one of the last screenshots posted in last month's thread. Can't remember which user posted it and I can't find the August thread so if your name is Daniel and that's your screenshot visible in my screenshot; thankyou for the inspiration and sorry for the lack of credit.


http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/2402/newscreensmallsh4.jpg
http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/5640/newscreenlt6.jpg (http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/5640/newscreenlt6.jpg)
I'm Daniel. Our screenshots go well together :D

[earthpigg]

backgrounds i want :) where did you get them from ?

4chan, of all places. ;)

[el mariachi]

lol biggest site on the web xD

[eightmillion]

just threw this one together in kolorpaint for myself.

nothing really groundbreaking, but i thought i'd share :)

intended for those with 2 monitors: 1050x3360

if anyone has a blue or icy ubuntu logo to match her eyes, that would be awesome.

thumb:
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n59/earthpiglite/ubuntudarkthumb.jpg

full size 1050x3360, about 500k:
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n59/earthpiglite/ubuntudark-1.jpg

How is this for an icy blue ubuntu logo?

[Drone4four]

Check out Ubuntu developer Sayak Banerjee's panel in this (http://i30.tinypic.com/2ni8gnr.jpg) screenshot of his desktop. I spotted this screenshot on a blog entry dated 7 July (http://sayakb.blogspot.com/2008/07/blank.html). How do I make my panel look like Sayak Banerjee's?

[earthpigg]

How is this for an icy blue ubuntu logo?

that'll work! ty

[elmer_42]

Finally got around to working on a new desktop. I'm saying it's minimalistic, but that's just a fancy way of saying half-baked :lol:

If anybody wants any more information about this, feel free to PM me, I'd love to answer any questions you have.

Ubuntu 8.04.1

Openbox: BlackWhite
Apps: Openbox, PyPanel, Conky, xcompmgr
Firefox, Qalculate, AbiWord
Gtk: BlackWhite
Icons: ALLBLACK
Wall: Self made
Fonts: AquaBase, Lucida, Bitstream
http://arch.kimag.es/resized/51341480.png (http://arch.kimag.es/share/51341480.png)

http://arch.kimag.es/resized/85268275.png (http://arch.kimag.es/share/85268275.png)

[Neurotripsick]

here's mine.

xfce
gtk & emerald: shiki-human
wallpaper comes from mandolux.com
icons: gnome-colors human

[cardinals_fan]

@elmer_42: Nice one!

[Dark Hornet]

I posted my laptops last month so i figured I'd post my desktops this month.

Unfortunately my video card sucks to bad to use compiz with dual screens so I'm using metacity.

My first monitor is 19 in but my second monitor is only 15 in. So the screen shot with windows xp is actually taking up the whole screen. In the second shot you can tell how long the screen is by the bar at the top and the bottom of the screen is right under the date.

Can you link to your background...I like it!

Darkhornet

[elmer_42]

@elmer_42: Nice one!
Thanks, I'm glad you like it. I was looking around for a more artsy wallpaper, but I couldn't find one that quite matched the rest of the desktop. I've dabbled around making wallpapers before, and when I found out that you could get the font Ubuntu used for it's logo I decided to do this. I'm considering adding some color, maybe a little glow, but I kind of like how simple it is.

[JillSwift]

After my last dark theme I decided that I like milk. Yes. Milk! With a little blue for color.

[chucky chuckaluck]

openbox, pypanel (deadbinkies font). don't remember where i got the wallpaper or even what it originally looked like.

http://b.imagehost.org/t/0869/handscr.jpg (http://b.imagehost.org/view/0869/handscr.jpg)

[RiceMonster]

After my last dark theme I decided that I like milk. Yes. Milk! With a little blue for color.

Very nice.

[JillSwift]

Very nice.=^_^= Thanks!

[BlackLLama]

not on my machine currently, but i do have this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frpHI0hb1kI

[perfectska04@hotmail.com]

This is my desktop for September. Not much out of the ordinary, just the latest versions of my Shiki-Colors GTK and GNOME-Colors icons with some screenlets to the sides. I am, however, trying out my new GDM and an incredible companion cube wallpaper.

[What is in a name?]

This is my desktop for September. Not much out of the ordinary, just the latest versions of my Shiki-Colors GTK and GNOME-Colors icons with some screenlets to the sides. I am, however, trying out my new GDM and an incredible companion cube wallpaper.

Sufjan Stevens :KS
Awesome.

[OZFive]

Nothing too creative but I do so think that THIS theme should be 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

Here is my WillWill100 Intrepid Ibex Desktop...

Emerald: 86854-Intrepid Will-mod
GTK2: Willibex-Dark
Icons: Gnome-Human
Font: Lucida Sans
Background: Ibex Wallpaper - WillWill100
Cairo Dock

[chucky chuckaluck]

switched from firefox to opera, so i had to match the theming a little more. i changed the orange color in elegant brit to blue. the icons are vista. openbox and pypanel. don't know where i got the pic for the wallpaper.

http://b.imagehost.org/t/0231/peasscr.jpg (http://b.imagehost.org/view/0231/peasscr.jpg) http://b.imagehost.org/t/0431/peasscr2.jpg (http://b.imagehost.org/view/0431/peasscr2.jpg)

[Chibone]

Inspired by OutOfReach for the most part...just different wallpaper

GTK: Shiki-Colors, Shiki-Brave
Icons: GNOME-Brave (part of Gnome-Colors)
Emerald Theme: Shiki-Brave (Came included with Shiki-Colors)
Wallpaper: OS X Server Aurora

83728

[PurposeOfReason]

Minor changes to conky and added a tray. It looks out of place but is useful for pidgin and sonata. Any ideas to make it fit? Or ways to manage those apps?

Had to slightly resize the image and it went blurry. Sorry.

[TheSlipstream]

Ubuntu, with XP as a guest Virtual Box. I just need that sweet, sweet creative suite. Mmm... unholy desktop...

GTK/Metacity: Nodoka Brave Compact
Icons: Elementary

Gotta remember to theme XP, such an eyesore. Unfortunately, it doesn't work right with Compiz, goodbye sweet Emerald. We shall meet again.

[armageddon08]

These are mine for the month:
1. KDE-Desktop: Glassified theme
2. GNOME-Desktop: Futurelooks2 theme
3. GNOME with Compiz-Fusion
4. XFCE-Desktop: Dr. Aqua-Vista theme

Quite simplistic this time!:)

[lode]

I've got a quick and probably easy question (which, I thought, I might as well ask here). How do you disable the opacity of window decorations (of inactive windows)? The answer can't be too difficult, I still can't seem to find it, however...

[Prefix100]

Minor changes to conky and added a tray. It looks out of place but is useful for pidgin and sonata. Any ideas to make it fit? Or ways to manage those apps?

Had to slightly resize the image and it went blurry. Sorry.

I want a desktop like that.

[What is in a name?]

I've got a quick and probably easy question (which, I thought, I might as well ask here). How do you disable the opacity of window decorations (of inactive windows)? The answer can't be too difficult, I still can't seem to find it, however...

You're using Metacity's compositor, is it?

If so, please open GConf, look at the left pane with the treeview, open the Apps folder and then scroll down to open another folder called gwd. Click on it and look at the options' section. There you'll find an option saying "metacity_theme_opacity". Change its value to 1. It should do the trick.

[urukrama]

Here is my latest Openbox theme and desktop. I'm trying something darker.

Details are in the second screenshot. I forget where the wallpaper is from.

Feedback is welcome :)

[el mariachi]

real dark hehe

[What is in a name?]

MurrineGlow's premiere: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=88406

[dhysk]

Can you link to your background...I like it!

Darkhornet

http://www.compiz-themes.org/content/show.php/Starry+Death+Valley?content=58369

Its actually a skydome but is perfect for dual screen setup.

[lode]

You're using Metacity's compositor, is it?

If so, please open GConf, look at the left pane with the treeview, open the Apps folder and then scroll down to open another folder called gwd. Click on it and look at the options' section. There you'll find an option saying "metacity_theme_opacity". Change its value to 1. It should do the trick.

Thanks!

For this post -- and the beautiful theme ;)

(MurrineGlow, Anivers typeface)

[BOBSONATOR]

MurrineGlow's premiere: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=88406

Thanks, now i built a desktop around your models. :)

http://xs331.xs.to/xs331/08362/murrineglow596.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs331&d=08362&f=murrineglow596.png)

[PurposeOfReason]

I want a desktop like that.
Thank you.

It's not hard. Use XFCE or Gnome with no panels and throw in conky.

[What is in a name?]

Thanks, now i built a desktop around your models. :)

http://xs331.xs.to/xs331/08362/murrineglow596.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs331&d=08362&f=murrineglow596.png)

Hey, thanks! What's that wallpaper, btw?

[el mariachi]

is that metacity available for xfwm4?

[perfectska04@hotmail.com]

MurrineGlow's premiere: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=88406

Looks great. Perhaps one suggestion; try changing the metacity buttons and the panel fonts to a "#D4D4D4" color, since the rest of the fonts in dark areas are that color instead of white. Alternately, you can do it the other way around (turning the D4 colors into white). It's really minor, but it would give off a more consistent look.

[What is in a name?]

is that metacity available for xfwm4?

As far as I know, no, not yet. I definitely want to try to port it. In case someone wants to help on that regard, I'll certainly appreciate.

Really, it disheartens me that there is no Xfwm4 version yet, since I used to dwell around Xfwm4 most of the time until very recently (and I might come back to it again). Most themers seem to ignore the existence of Xfce, and I don't want to make the same mistake.

EDIT: When I started doing themes, for instance, I went to the other extreme: I always took some time to make a Metacity version for them. Perhaps because I never really got around the code.

[What is in a name?]

Looks great. Perhaps one suggestion; try changing the metacity buttons and the panel fonts to a "#D4D4D4" color, since the rest of the fonts in dark areas are that color instead of white. Alternately, you can do it the other way around (turning the D4 colors into white). It's really minor, but it would give off a more consistent look.

Thanks a lot! Yes, good point, and well thought. I will take care of it soon.

When I changed the buttons of the Metacity theme, I originally thought that the original ones were actually white with some transparency level, which was what I tried to reproduce. My mistake, then.

[BOBSONATOR]

Hey, thanks! What's that wallpaper, btw?

http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/833/pink_flowers.html
:popcorn:

[perfectska04@hotmail.com]

Thanks a lot! Yes, good point, and well thought. I will take care of it soon.

When I changed the buttons of the Metacity theme, I originally thought that the original ones were actually white with some transparency level, which was what I tried to reproduce. My mistake, then.

No problem. Also, implementing through-border for the new murrine scrollbars is a genius idea. I had the new scrollbars already in Shiki, but it didn't look quite right until I added that tweak.

[urukrama]

real dark hehe

I liked it so dark for about two hours.

I'm back to my Children of the Earth theme, which I absolutely love :)

[el mariachi]

what's the bar below? panel?

[urukrama]

what's the bar below? panel?

It is a combination of bbdock (hacked so its default icon size is 24x24 instead of 64x64), lal, bbpager, and docker, all loaded into Openbox' dock which autohides.

All the icons of bbdock raise (and bring to the current workspace) a running instance of the app and only launch a new one if there is none.

[el mariachi]

cool :D
btw do you know where the desktop launchers are stored? I think they are *.desktop files which are used by xfce4-menu and gnome-menu to display the installed apps.

[ayoli]

cool :D
btw do you know where the desktop launchers are stored? I think they are *.desktop files which are used by xfce4-menu and gnome-menu to display the installed apps.

all .desktop files are stored in /usr/share/applications I believe.

[el mariachi]

that's it thanks!

[Prefix100]

Thank you.

It's not hard. Use XFCE or Gnome with no panels and throw in conky.

No panels?

That's crazy talk.

[PurposeOfReason]

No panels?

That's crazy talk.
Give me one good thing that a panel is needed for? I have workspaces, conky, and alt-tab.

[Prefix100]

Give me one good thing that a panel is needed for? I have workspaces, conky, and alt-tab.

Notification area, and to launch programs?

[SomeGuyDude]

Give me one good thing that a panel is needed for? I have workspaces, conky, and alt-tab.

I'll say this: I haven't found a good replacement for the notification area. AWN lets you use it, but the thing looks goofy as yet.

[Prefix100]

How do I delete my last panel?

I'm in Gnome.

[PurposeOfReason]

How do I delete my last panel?

I'm in Gnome.
gnome-session-remove gnome-panel

[PurposeOfReason]

I'll say this: I haven't found a good replacement for the notification area. AWN lets you use it, but the thing looks goofy as yet.
stalonetray
trayer
docker
pypanel

[RiceMonster]

No panels?

That's crazy talk.

No, not really.


Notification area, and to launch programs?
Notification area is the only one I need, and I use stalonetray in openbox to solve that problem. Just a tray, no panels. Oh, and to launch programs, I use keyboard shortcuts and the root menu (right click on the desktop)

[Prefix100]

Cheers,

I have to say I am liking this so far.

But what do you use instead of notification area?

EDIT: Is there something similar to stalonetray for gnome?

[PurposeOfReason]

Cheers,

I have to say I am liking this so far.

But what do you use instead of notification area?
See above. :)

[Prefix100]

Ok, I'm using Stalonetray now, it's pretty sweet.


stalonetray -t --window-layer bottom

Heres my Desktop now.

[Hells_Dark]

MurrineGlow's premiere: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=88406

My new theme ;)
I told you i love it.

[eightmillion]

I've been working on an icon theme to go with my theme and a slight modification of my window decorations. By the way, What is in a name? do you ever do emerald themes to match your metacity themes?

[What is in a name?]

By the way, What is in a name? do you ever do emerald themes to match your metacity themes?

Well, I'd like to release an Emerald theme for my recent themes, and also a Xfwm4 theme... And an Openbox theme... And a Fluxbox theme... And... You get the idea.

There's so much stuff to do. I'm trying to find time to at least do the first two, while still outlining some ideas for any eventual future GTK themes.

[chronographer]

Got new machine: Q9300, 4gb ddr1066, gtx9800+, 700 gb + 400gb. runs like quicksilver! But needs the intrepid kernel for hard drive controller.

Wanted to chow of virtualbox 'seamless' mode with google chrome, runs faster than firefox 3 (I am being converted rapidly, love firefox, can't wait for Google Chrome native Linux!)

avant, sonata, background fractal from http://www.deviantart.com/#order=9&q=fractal

[perfectska04@hotmail.com]

Well, I'd like to release an Emerald theme for my recent themes, and also a Xfwm4 theme... And an Openbox theme... And a Fluxbox theme... And... You get the idea.

There's so much stuff to do. I'm trying to find time to at least do the first two, while still outlining some ideas for any eventual future GTK themes.

You can use my Shiki emerald themes as a base, they should match your metacity well if you replace my buttons for yours. Do tell me if you ever complete an xfwm, since that's the one thing I'm missing and I've no knowledge at all for working with that.

[JillSwift]

I've been working on an icon theme to go with my theme and a slight modification of my window decorations. By the way, What is in a name? do you ever do emerald themes to match your metacity themes?Those icons are gorgeous!

[ArtF10]

After my last dark theme I decided that I like milk. Yes. Milk! With a little blue for color.

Do you have a link to the Milk theme? Is it usable with XFCE?

[Giant Speck]

Got new machine: Q9300, 4gb ddr1066, gtx9800+, 700 gb + 400gb. runs like quicksilver! But needs the intrepid kernel for hard drive controller.

Wanted to chow of virtualbox 'seamless' mode with google chrome, runs faster than firefox 3 (I am being converted rapidly, love firefox, can't wait for Google Chrome native Linux!)

avant, sonata, background fractal from http://www.deviantart.com/#order=9&q=fractal

That Virtualbox seamless mode screenshot looks totally awesome!

[JillSwift]

Do you have a link to the Milk theme? Is it usable with XFCE?

Window Decoration (KWin): kwin-style-blended (In the repositories)
***XFWM4 version here (http://www.xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Blended+Theme+for+XFWM4?content=32838).
Widget Style: Domino (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=42804)
***GTK version here (http://www.xfce-look.org/content/show.php/G-DOMINO+1.0?content=83372).
Icons: DarkGlass Reworked (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=67902)
(Couldn't find one for XFCE)

Hope that helps! =^_^=

[Giant Speck]

I've decided that instead of radically changing my theme and colors every couple of weeks, I will work to make my current theme look as perfect as possible.

Emerald: Ish Aqua (modified)
Icons: Crystal Project
KDE Widget Style: Serenity
Wallpaper: New York 2011
Font: Calibri Bold 10

[chucky chuckaluck]

pekwm, SONA-red theme, a blue version of elegant-brit gtk, firefox, quodlibet and pypanel.

http://b.imagehost.org/t/0262/pekscr1.jpg (http://b.imagehost.org/view/0262/pekscr1.jpg) http://b.imagehost.org/t/0653/pekscr2.jpg (http://b.imagehost.org/view/0653/pekscr2.jpg)

[unca.paka]

Here it is for September. Didnt think Id like a pink theme, but Ill be damned it works.
Heres to What is in a Name for the gorgeous Murrine theme. Keep up the good work man.

http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/7781/200809022229441680x1050mn0.th.png (http://img93.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200809022229441680x1050mn0.png)

[rjmdomingo2003]

Here is my latest Openbox theme and desktop. I'm trying something darker.

Details are in the second screenshot. I forget where the wallpaper is from.

Feedback is welcome :)
This would definitely fit my wallpaper-less desktop. Fantastic!:KS

[blackvd]

Anyone here know how to change the notebook border color on Tilda? Want to get it from grey to white but not sure how. I checked the config file but it doesnt have a color option.

[BOBSONATOR]

Murrina Glow Pink With rgba enabled, looks nice by me :)

http://xs131.xs.to/xs131/08363/rgba928.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs131&d=08363&f=rgba928.png)

[rangalo]

Here is my latest Openbox theme and desktop. I'm trying something darker.

Details are in the second screenshot. I forget where the wallpaper is from.

Feedback is welcome :)

How do you get that tabbed terminal on the right screenshot with [New][*1][2] .. etc caption ? Is it a separate terminal-emulator program ?

regards,
Hardik

[myusername]

Arch Lxde with wbar

[Hire]

http://www.okiwii.net/images/i0pdl68g0molmczn3bf_thumb.jpg (http://www.okiwii.net/viewer.php?file=i0pdl68g0molmczn3bf.jpg)

[etnlIcarus]

all .desktop files are stored in /usr/share/applications I believe.

It's best not to overwrite them unless absolutely necessary, though.

~/.local/share/applications/ is a better way to add extra launchers. Copy launchers from /usr/share/applications/ to ~/.local/share/applications/ and set NoDisplay=true to hide them.

[Muppeteer]

Need some inspiration.

[urukrama]

How do you get that tabbed terminal on the right screenshot with [New][*1][2] .. etc caption ? Is it a separate terminal-emulator program ?

That is a tabbed urxvt (rxvt-unicode in the repositories). I've since changed the colour settings, but here is the relevant section from my ~/.Xdefaults file that governs urxvt:


###############
### urxvt ###
###############
URxvt*font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:size=7:VL Gothic:size=7:antialias=true:hinting=true
URxvt*boldFont: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:size=7:VL Gothic:size=7:antialias=true:bold:hinting=true
URxvt*background: #FCFCFC
URxvt*foreground: #39331B
URxvt*color0: #39331B
URxvt*color1: #39331B
URxvt*color2: #B5AA74
URxvt*color3: #FCFCFC
URxvt*fading: 10
URxvt*tintColor: #FCFCFC
URxvt*shading: 100
URxvt*inheritPixmap: False
URxvt*cursorBlink: False
URxvt*cutchars: `'",;@&*=|?()<>[]{}

URxvt*scrollstyle: plain
URxvt*mouseWheelScrollPage: False
URxvt*jumpScroll: False
URxvt*skipScroll: False
URxvt*scrollBar: False
URxvt*scrollTtyOutput: False
URxvt*secondaryScroll: False

URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed
URxvt.tabbed.tabbar-fg: 1
URxvt.tabbed.tabbar-bg: 3
URxvt.tabbed.tab-fg: 2
URxvt.tabbed.tab-bg: 1

URxvt*urlLauncher: opera
URxvt*saveLines:: 32767

[rangalo]

Hi urukrama,


That is a tabbed urxvt (rxvt-unicode in the repositories). I've since changed the colour settings, but here is the relevant section from my ~/.Xdefaults file that governs urxvt:

Thanks for the quick answer. I have already installed rxvt-uniocode , but it is not tabbed. I also find mrxvt in the repos, it also has tabs, but looks completely different. Which package are you talking about? I am on Gutsy.



regards,
Hardik

[Giant Speck]

Arch Lxde with wbar

The theme is nice in all, but how in the heck are you able to see what's in your taskbar when the text color matches the panel color?

[urukrama]

Thanks for the quick answer. I have already installed rxvt-uniocode , but it is not tabbed. I also find mrxvt in the repos, it also has tabs, but looks completely different. Which package are you talking about? I am on Gutsy.

Urxvt needs to be compiled with perl support (which I believe is default in the Ubuntu repositories version; it is in any case in Hardy).

Try launching urxvt with the command urxvt -pe tabbed or add the following lines to your .Xdefaults file (as above in my example):


URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed

This page (http://linux.die.net/man/7/urxvt) has been really helpful in understanding the potentials of urxvt.

See also man urxvtperl for more perl-based options.

[rangalo]

Thanks a lot, this helped.

[olieviya]

Controls: Human-Murrine

Window Border: X-Colors

Icons: Tango

Wallpaper: Desktopography Brisa

Desktop Icons: Home=Somatic, Project=dimpoart.deviantart

[twntyonejay]

My settings for September

[chucky chuckaluck]

My settings for September

what kind of car is that?

[vishzilla]

GTK: Murrine Clean
OB: Breathe
Icons: Kamel

http://b.imagehost.org/t/0278/2008-09-04-002256_1024x768_scrot.jpg (http://b.imagehost.org/view/0278/2008-09-04-002256_1024x768_scrot.png) http://b.imagehost.org/t/0294/2008-09-04-002417_1024x768_scrot.jpg (http://b.imagehost.org/view/0294/2008-09-04-002417_1024x768_scrot.png)

[perfectska04@hotmail.com]

Just trying out some new settings, and giving AWN dock another chance. It really cleans things up, since I don't need tray icons/ launchers any more.

[mthei]

Debian Lenny. It's nice to be back to the Debian-based world. Fedora is great, but there were too many unneeded processes running that couldn't be stopped, even when stripped down.

Icons: Crashbit.
Wallpaper: Modified version of Under the Weather (http://zilla774.deviantart.com/art/under-the-weather-14796956) by Zilla774 from DeviantArt.

[John.Michael.Kane]

what kind of car is that?

Looks like a modified Toyota Corolla Dx E70 series.

[SomeGuyDude]

Minor set of changes, but it's new, so hey.

GTK: MurrineGlow
Icons: OxygenRefit2
Sonata+MPD
Conky
AWN: Liquid Glass Black
Wallpaper: Off of DA
Firefox: Hide Menubar extension and combine stop/reload/throbber UserStyle

[myusername]

The theme is nice in all, but how in the heck are you able to see what's in your taskbar when the text color matches the panel color?

thats just when the apps are minimized

[washeddang]

Here's mine:
GTK & Metacity: Shiki-Colors Brave
AWN: Default
Icons: Recolored Mac4Lin
Wallpaper: My own

[twntyonejay]

what kind of car is that?

1982 Toyota Corolla, that pic was taken on Aug 31. at a car show

[Patricrawley]

What is the best way to create your own openbox themes?

[dbbolton]

What is the best way to create your own openbox themes?
Tweak the hell out of an existing one :D

You can find out just about everything you need to know here: http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Help:Themes

[RiceMonster]

What is the best way to create your own openbox themes?

Look at the themerc of other Openbox themes, and also check out the link dbbolton posted. Openbox themes are really easy to make :).

[Pandemic187]

These are mine for the month:
1. KDE-Desktop: Glassified theme
2. GNOME-Desktop: Futurelooks2 theme
3. GNOME with Compiz-Fusion
4. XFCE-Desktop: Dr. Aqua-Vista theme

Quite simplistic this time!:)
I'm a KDE n00b. How did you get your window to look like that in the first screenshot?

[[S]Duke]

Not too much different from August.

New background/Icons.

I'm really loving Shiki, so I doubt I'll change it anytime soon.

[Pandemic187]

I've noticed a lot of you are using Openbox with Pypanel, but these are new to me. What is so great about them?

[RiceMonster]

I've noticed a lot of you are using Openbox with Pypanel, but these are new to me. What is so great about them?

Try and find out. Openbox is very lightweight, minimal, and configurable.

[Truedream]

Need some inspiration.

http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/3584/screenshotyv5.th.jpg (http://img382.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotyv5.jpg)

is that the now playing screenlet on bottom left hand side?

[lzfy]

I'm a KDE n00b. How did you get your window to look like that in the first screenshot?

That's KDE4 with the folder view plasmoid. You need KDE 4.1 for that.

[BLTicklemonster]

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/999/screenshotut2.th.png (http://img411.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotut2.png)

wall paper unabashedly stolen from this site because it's a cool picture...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article1630897.ece

... might as well use the picture if we're all gonna die anyway, huh?

[Pandemic187]

That's KDE4 with the folder view plasmoid. You need KDE 4.1 for that.
Thanks. Yeah, I've used KDE 4 before, so I recognized it as such. Plasmoids, on the other hand...those are something I'm gonna have to look into.

[chucky chuckaluck]

I've noticed a lot of you are using Openbox with Pypanel, but these are new to me. What is so great about them?

well, openbox gives you access to your apps and pypanel tells you what time it is.

[bfc]

My desktop for September.....

http://i37.tinypic.com/ilhr4h.png (http://i37.tinypic.com/2vljhua.png)

[wenuswilson]

found the wallpaper on deviant art... one of my favorite ones of all time.

[easybake]

Going with a dark theme for the first time.
http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/5646/screenshotbp5.th.png (http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/5646/screenshotbp5.png)http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/5985/screenshot2du7.th.png (http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/5985/screenshot2du7.png)

[dlm4849]

Heres mine for now.

[Hells_Dark]

http://pix.nofrag.com/f/1/9/44ebbbcf1c5b1ecf1a76aef43f12b.png (http://hellsdark.deviantart.com/art/03-09-08-Simply-Linux-96894789)

[vishzilla]

http://pix.nofrag.com/f/1/9/44ebbbcf1c5b1ecf1a76aef43f12b.png (http://hellsdark.deviantart.com/art/03-09-08-Simply-Linux-96894789)

I always wanted to ask. What add-on do you use for the firefox bookmark buttons?

[Prefix100]

Seeing as my thread is a ghost town, I'll post here.

Some of you are using the NowPlaying screenlet, but I've never been able to get this to work with the latest banshee, have you guys?

[Nevon]

http://pix.nofrag.com/f/1/9/44ebbbcf1c5b1ecf1a76aef43f12b.png (http://hellsdark.deviantart.com/art/03-09-08-Simply-Linux-96894789)

Could you give me a link to that emerald theme?

[Hells_Dark]

Could you give me a link to that emerald theme?
here (http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Gommoso-Colors?content=78091)

I always wanted to ask. What add-on do you use for the firefox bookmark buttons?
No add on. Just simple bookmarks, and i removed the text in order to have just the icons.

[vishzilla]

No add on. Just simple bookmarks, and i removed the text in order to have just the icons.
Thanks I didn't know we could do that, or never tried it before

[god0fgod]

OS X theme and a some sort of Safari skin for Opera. Background is a picture of Positano in the south of Italy. I visited there went I went a few weeks back.

[Lux_Deluxe]

My Sep. Desktop

http://img3.imagebanana.com/img/xmqatc66/thumb/Bildschirmfoto.png (http://luxdeluxe.deviantart.com/art/Screen-Sep-97016282)

[maxclimber1w]

Just a repost from last month. I like to show off

What font are you using? It looks great!

[urukrama]

Awesome 2.3, nice and dark. :twisted:

Details in the first screenshot. The wallpaper is hsetroot -solid "#08090A".

(Such a consistently dark desktop is very pleasant on the eyes, I must say!)

[el mariachi]

if you use w3m to view google.com haha :p

[elmer_42]

I got an oldish junker box, and I'm revitalizing it with Xubuntu. Currently it looks like this:
http://arch.kimag.es/resized/37826910.png (http://arch.kimag.es/share/37826910.png)

I'm going to be installing and configuring Openbox tomorrow. Wish me luck!

[BLTicklemonster]

Going with a dark theme for the first time.
http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/5646/screenshotbp5.th.png (http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/5646/screenshotbp5.png)http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/5985/screenshot2du7.th.png (http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/5985/screenshot2du7.png)

Cool UT logo!

[Savel]

Debian Lenny :tongue:

8410484105

[easybake]

Cool UT logo!

Thanks. Got it from Here (http://fireesper.deviantart.com/art/Unreal-Wallpaper-77505183)

[Chokkan]

Elegant Brit (who doesn't love it?) Gion Icons and Mist wallpaper (http://phpscriptcoder.deviantart.com/art/Mist-88466510).
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3148/2829453655_2dbf309d72_m.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/shashinpapa/2829453655/sizes/l/)

I've a little script to easily change wallpaper and conky at the same time so my desktop changes a lot.

[TheSlipstream]

I love Openbox. I want to shout it in the streets, but it's late and I'm tired, so I'll just post it. Thank you so much, Urukrama, you deserve a medal! :D

Gtk: Nova Gold
Openbox: Nova Gold
Conky
Visibility

Does anyone know how I can capture my menu in a screenshot? It doesn't seem to stay on PrtSc.

[urukrama]

if you use w3m to view google.com haha :p

Or you can use userstyles (http://userstyles.org/)


Mist wallpaper (http://phpscriptcoder.deviantart.com/art/Mist-88466510).

Thank you for linking to this wallpaper; I was looking for something like that. I now use it on my Openbox desktop. :-)

For those who are interested (yes, all two of you ;-)), I've uploaded the Mythos Openbox (http://box-look.org/content/show.php/Mythos?content=88560) and Gtk themes (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/show.php?content=88562).

[Chokkan]

No problem, and very nice it looks on your desktop too. :)

[Darkade]

I'm at the laptop now so that's the pic

I'm using arch, openbox, fbpanel, and conky let's keep it simple :D:D

[Hells_Dark]

Does anyone know how I can capture my menu in a screenshot? It doesn't seem to stay on PrtSc.

sudo apt-get install scrot
scrot -cd3
And open your menu.

[michaelramm]

I got an oldish junker box, and I'm revitalizing it with Xubuntu. Currently it looks like this:
http://arch.kimag.es/resized/37826910.png (http://arch.kimag.es/share/37826910.png)

I'm going to be installing and configuring Openbox tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Check out Crunchbang Linux (http://crunchbang.org/projects/linux). It is Openbox built on top of Ubuntu 8.04. Very slick and nice.

Michael

[weboide]

Hi, here's my desktop screenshot on my laptop, just set up yesterday using :

Ubuntu 8.04.1
Openbox 3.4.7.2 (compiled from source)
pypanel
xfce4-terminal
swiftfox

theme: airborne
wallpaper: paris from interfacelift

[l0co]

After some work for my wife:

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/4964/l0cosm5.th.png (http://img111.imageshack.us/my.php?image=l0cosm5.png)

[chucky chuckaluck]

openbox, pypanel, feh, xterm, opera, thunar. dyne ob theme, a gray version of elegant brit gtk, 2dark is the opera skin. no idea where i got the wallpaper (shown in feh). it took a little work, but i think i managed to intergrate opera into an essentially gtk set of looks.

http://b.imagehost.org/t/0321/greyscr.jpg (http://b.imagehost.org/view/0321/greyscr.jpg)

[dhazin]

Here is mine:

http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/9764/screenshotrx1.th.png (http://img380.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotrx1.png)


Ubuntu 8.04
AWN
Screenlets
Dropline Neu icons
Wallpaper taken somewhere from devianart :)

[ayoli]

openbox, pypanel, feh, xterm, opera, thunar. dyne ob theme, a gray version of elegant brit gtk, 2dark is the opera skin. no idea where i got the wallpaper (shown in feh). it took a little work, but i think i managed to intergrate opera into an essentially gtk set of looks.

http://b.imagehost.org/t/0321/greyscr.jpg (http://b.imagehost.org/view/0321/greyscr.jpg)

If I remind well, this wallpaper is called block 23 from customize.org.

[Tuning_In]

openbox, pypanel (deadbinkies font). don't remember where i got the wallpaper or even what it originally looked like.

http://b.imagehost.org/t/0869/handscr.jpg (http://b.imagehost.org/view/0869/handscr.jpg)

A really nice wall you got there. Can you upload it?

[conundrumx]

http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/8896/screenshotqy2.th.png (http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/8896/screenshotqy2.png)

No, it's not really a secret!

Thanks for the wallpaper, Perfect Ska. When are you going to make a Usplash out of it? ;)

[perfectska04@hotmail.com]

Thanks for the wallpaper, Perfect Ska. When are you going to make a Usplash out of it? ;)

Soon. But this time I won't make colored usplashes, I'll use a dark grey background and use a layout similar to the GDM's.

[conundrumx]

Good deal! I've been using the GNOME Colors ones since release, though I modified the progress bars so they stand out from the background. :)

[mthei]

Returned to Fedora, as I usually do. Frankly, if I do go back to the Debian world, I'd rather be using Ubuntu, as only Ubuntu and Fedora run better on my machine than others.

[indecisive]

I'm on green right now. Much thanks for What is in a name?'s themes.

[ahaslam]

Modified Murrina-Tangoesque ob3.
Minor mods to MurrinaFancyEarth GTK.
Selection of Tango(ish) icons.

Running the usual suspects of pypanel & conky.

[Muppeteer]

http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/3584/screenshotyv5.th.jpg (http://img382.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotyv5.jpg)

is that the now playing screenlet on bottom left hand side?

Yeah it is. I'm using the Nowplaying theme called 'Vinyl' :)

[collinp]

My desktop, updated for fall coming in this month :). It has the usual, Gnome (Yeah, big surprise lol) and Compiz. Didnt feel like enabling anything more because I am trying to cut down on the clutter on my desktop. Background is a path of trees with a verse from the Book of Isaiah from the Bible.

[voteforpedro36]

Modified Murrina-Tangoesque ob3.
Minor mods to MurrinaFancyEarth GTK.
Selection of Tango(ish) icons.

Running the usual suspects of pypanel & conky.

I love The Racounters, if you look closely in some of my screens they're playing . I'll also reserve this space for a screen shot.

Awesome:

http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq330/voteforpedro36/th_9-5-08-bare.png (http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq330/voteforpedro36/9-5-08-bare.png)
http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq330/voteforpedro36/th_9-5-08-media.png (http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq330/voteforpedro36/9-5-08-media.png)

[skitzware]

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/6121/sshotuh9.th.png (http://img113.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sshotuh9.png)

Fluxbox Royalty theme
Thunar
Bash
Sonata

[NWAdawg]

Its basic. I'm trying for the Brushed Aluminum look.
Theme:Brushedchrome3/Crux with gmetalik icons.
Background: Brushed Aluminum with tag Photoshopped in.

[G@B0]

Here's mine:



Just a simple setup with Linux Mint Xfce almost all by default except the icon theme.
Conky is missing here, maybe latter I'll include it.

[hemajang]

Hello,

I'm thinking of switching to Openbox, from compiz-emerald, I've been hearing alot of Openbox and would like to give it a go.

Do I need to uninstall compiz and emerald in order to use Openbox, if so is there a thorough guide on this?

Any other input advice on making the switch will be greatly appreciated.

Thx

[vishzilla]

Hello,

I'm thinking of switching to Openbox, from compiz-emerald, I've been hearing alot of Openbox and would like to give it a go.

Do I need to uninstall compiz and emerald in order to use Openbox, if so is there a thorough guide on this?

Any other input advice on making the switch will be greatly appreciated.

Thx

no need to uninstall. follow this guide by Urukrama [link (http://urukrama.wordpress.com/openbox-guide/)]

[PurposeOfReason]

Found a way to make the system tray fit. Nothing really changed as this theme may be a keeper.

[ad_267]

Here's mine. It's quite similar to a few others at the moment. Using Clear-Glow Pink and metacity with compositing, Eikon icon set, background is off Customize.org somewhere. Screenshot shows the international space station in Celestia.

[aschwerin.moses]

My Desktop

[awakatanka]

KDE 4.1.1 on kubuntu
Glassified theme for plasma

[ellalan]

Here is mine.

[lucazade]

September asks for a new desktop, here is it! :)

[el mariachi]

http://wooko.deviantart.com/art/GAAW-97035227 is anyone familiar with this wallpaper? I saw it a long time ago but now can't find it

[funkameleon]

my september 2008 desktop screenshot ...

[lzfy]

http://wooko.deviantart.com/art/GAAW-97035227 is anyone familiar with this wallpaper? I saw it a long time ago but now can't find it

I know it's from sxc.hu but maybe this one is a little bit tweaked.

[John.Michael.Kane]

http://wooko.deviantart.com/art/GAAW-97035227 is anyone familiar with this wallpaper? I saw it a long time ago but now can't find it

Morning dew (http://00wolf00.deviantart.com/art/Morning-dew-84832417)

[hellion0]

I decided to go back to the green.

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/6057/200809060552201280x1024xt4.th.jpg (http://img337.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200809060552201280x1024xt4.jpg)

GTK: Foregreener (http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Foregreen?content=85199)
XFCE: Symphony, as always...
Icons: Oxygen-Refit 2 Orange Version (http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen-Refit+2+-+Orange+Version?content=83003)
XMMS: Almond-Aluminum Green (De-branded) (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/AA+Skin+Pack+(De-branded)?content=88480)
Wallpaper: Double Rainbow (http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/1635/double_rainbow.html)
Window font: Segoe UI
Terminal font: Fixed
Conky font: Roadgeek Series D, Roadgeek Series EM

[billgoldberg]

Laptop:

http://xs131.xs.to/xs131/08363/screenkl499.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs131&d=08363&f=screenkl499.png)

Wallpaper

http://www.skins.be/brittany-murphy/wallpapers/page/3/

[AlexR1]

http://wooko.deviantart.com/art/GAAW-97035227 is anyone familiar with this wallpaper? I saw it a long time ago but now can't find it

Here is the link for the paper clicky http://customize.org/wallpapers/58138
lately customize.org opening slow, if you have trouble downloading wallpaper send me an e-mail and I will send wall to you.

[billgoldberg]

Here is the link for the paper clicky http://customize.org/wallpapers/58138
lately customize.org opening slow, if you have trouble downloading wallpaper send me an e-mail and I will send wall to you.

Lately? Customize.org has been slow as long as I can remember.

[plb]

Lately? Customize.org has been slow as long as I can remember.

Agreed. I usually just browse deviantart but occasionally like to venture over to customize.org and for as many years as I've gone there it's always been slow. I've also always hated the layout.

[el mariachi]

+1 : /

[el mariachi]

found out that my DSC-P10 has more to it than "point-and-click" :D

[chucky chuckaluck]

If I remind well, this wallpaper is called block 23 from customize.org.

i think that's right. i changed the name when i put the elk in, so i can't say for sure.



A really nice wall you got there. Can you upload it?

thanks.

http://b.imagehost.org/t/0253/mirror2.jpg (http://b.imagehost.org/view/0253/mirror2.png)

[Tuning_In]

i think that's right. i changed the name when i put the elk in, so i can't say for sure.




thanks.

http://b.imagehost.org/t/0253/mirror2.jpg (http://b.imagehost.org/view/0253/mirror2.png)

Thank you:)

[meborc]

My Desktop

nice work... what is that font in your terminal?

[chucky chuckaluck]

openbox, xterm (cplay, scrot), thunar, elegant brit (blued version) ob+gtk themes and a bust of franz xaver messerschmidt (i distorted the shape to fit the tiling in. it's not like someone making that face is going to care. besides, he's long gone).

http://b.imagehost.org/t/0431/xaverscr.jpg (http://b.imagehost.org/view/0431/xaverscr.jpg)


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my pleasure, tuning_in.