Post a pic of your non-Windows desktop

[S Freud]

How do you get that cube desktop thing?

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: S Freud
How do you get that cube desktop thing?

http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Main_Page

Edit: Linux only, btw.

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
My triple screen OSX desktop is just the default backgroud. Nothing very interesting to see.
There could potentially interesting things to see, but my attorney would castrate me if I didn't make you sign an NDA before showing it to you.

Attention whore alert!

 

[Leros]

doublepost

 

[batmang]

http://www.jmbat.com/pics/main.php?g2_itemId=1102

 

[randomlinh]

one of the os x defaults. I can't get myself to actually use a background. I think it has to do with how OSX heavily uses the desktop (i never really used it in windows)

 

[Random Variable]

Originally posted by: Mellman

Originally posted by: Random Variable
my snowy desktop

wow that snow would get annoying in -2 seconds.

It actually doesn't, but a static image might give that impression.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
Could someone please explain to me wtf the whole cube thing is about? That seems like a waste of resources and doesn't seem very functional.

X, the predominant underlying window manager for linux, uses a system of virtual workspaces. It's quick useful as you can have virtually an infinite number of workspaces that you can switch between. It's basically like having different desktops with different things on them.

What beryl does is it animates the transition and even allows you to rotate a cube of four workplaces so that you can find what you are looking for. Honestly, the rotation is rather useless except for the odd chance where you forgot where you put a window, but the effects are nice. The default ones are easy on the eyes.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: purbeast0
Could someone please explain to me wtf the whole cube thing is about? That seems like a waste of resources and doesn't seem very functional.

X, the predominant underlying window manager for linux, uses a system of virtual workspaces. It's quick useful as you can have virtually an infinite number of workspaces that you can switch between. It's basically like having different desktops with different things on them.

What beryl does is it animates the transition and even allows you to rotate a cube of four workplaces so that you can find what you are looking for. Honestly, the rotation is rather useless except for the odd chance where you forgot where you put a window, but the effects are nice. The default ones are easy on the eyes.

There is an xp powertoy that has 4 desktops if any windows users want to try out the virtual desktop aspect.

The main thing I like about the new cube is the the transparency. I can see which desktop an application is on when rotating due to the transparency.

 

[ntdz]

My OSX Background

I love my mac mini to death, great little computer. I'd still never replace my main pc (which happens to be a dell e1705 at the moment) with mac osx, but I do enjoy using it.

 

[eakers]

i just have the default ubuntu background with pink bars and geyes and wanda the fish. Nothing cool at all.

 

[xcript]

Here's mine.

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: eakers
i just have the default ubuntu background with pink bars and geyes and wanda the fish. Nothing cool at all.

Interesting. I thought female linux users were a myth.

 

[TheVrolok]

Insert Linux KDE desktop with XGL/Beryl, transparent cube, and snow. Add random widgets as well.

 

[eakers]

Originally posted by: xcript

Originally posted by: eakers
i just have the default ubuntu background with pink bars and geyes and wanda the fish. Nothing cool at all.

Interesting. I thought female linux users were a myth.

Well, I am cheating.. its only on a virtual machine. I am currently taking a Linux Administration and Programming course.

 

[secretanchitman]

mine

 

[Demo24]

Originally posted by: eakers
i just have the default ubuntu background with pink bars and geyes and wanda the fish. Nothing cool at all.

They do have that one with the tree that is pretty neat

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: eakers
Well, I am cheating.. its only on a virtual machine. I am currently taking a Linux Administration and Programming course.

You're a great big phony. You know that? [/family guy]

J/K. Running it in a VM for learning is pretty sensible these days with all the computing power we've got.

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: secretanchitman
mine

Nice non-Windows desktop.

 

[imthebadguy]

Textme

 

[QurazyQuisp]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/15071283@N00/334786863/

That's from a bout a month ago... It's almost the same now... I have one more folder on my desktop, and a few more icons on the dock. (Fetch, Terminal, Aquamacs, Cha-Ching, OpenTTD)

 

[Fineghal]

Lava+Flux

 

[Aimster]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
Windows FTW

How did you get the media player in the taskbar?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Aimster

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
Windows FTW

How did you get the media player in the taskbar?

It's been like that since media player 9 iirc. It was in that dialog box you closed to quickly
Just right click on the task bar and go to the menus and select media player

 

[xSauronx]

using Xubuntu