First "What's On Your Desktop?" thread of 2006! (56K warning)

[Archae]

Here's mine:

[Miss Marmelstein]

1. How do you do that?

I can't figure out how to show desktop photo. :(

[Archae]

2. Hold down "alt" and hit "print screen"

Then paste it into your Windows Paint program.

[Miss Marmelstein]

7. Thanks. I always wondered how that worked.

Here is mine...

[Scooter24]

8. That's awesome dahling...

LOL :) love it

[Miss Marmelstein]

10. Dupe....double post

[Miss Marmelstein]

11. Cheers sweetie...

thanks a lot.:toast:

[CatholicEdHead]

43. My eyes, the goggles do nothing ;)

[ghostsofgiants]

12. Actually...

Holding Alt only takes a screenshot of the active window. Print screen on its own will take a shot of everything.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

15. Doesn't work for me darn it.

Guess I need a bigger hammer.

[B Calm]

51. WHAT!!! No shortcut to DU! Shame on YOU!!!

[RoyGBiv]

3. For the moment ...

I changed desktop styles and configurations the way some people change socks.

[SKKY]

18. What distro are you running?

[RoyGBiv]

20. SUSE 10.0 ...

KDE desktop with a lot of modifications.

You can't see it in the screenshot, but my favorite mod is a drop-down, full-width terminal called YaKuake. I love this thing.

[SKKY]

34. That's what I'm running, but mine looks way different...

...mostly because I'm using Gnome with almost no mods (just a picture of a park in Sevilla Spain I took) as my background.

[RoyGBiv]

39. I actually prefer gnome ...

For lack of a better way to describe it, it seems to run cleaner, and some of the KDE eye-candy can really bog down a system. In fact, some of the mods I have actually turn off some parts of the default KDE install.

Also, a lot of the apps I run most frequently are native gnome apps, so I have all the libraries, just not the desktop.

Anyway, the main reason I commented is to mention that the background itself is a big part of what creates the look of my desktop right now. I just made everything semi-transparent and let the wallpaper blend into everything. You can't reall tell from the screen shot just how engrossing this wallpaper is. The person who made it did a wonderful job on it.

[Omphaloskepsis]

4. OS 9 makes me sloppy!

And, yes, this is really my desktop for the computer that is running OS 9.

[RoyGBiv]

9. Holy crap ...

I suppose this is one of those situations wherein if you cleaned it up, you'd not be able to find anything. :-)

My own desktop masks a chaotic directory structure with files scattered here and there and everywhere. I sorta look at it as the dressed up front porch that hides the disaster that is my living room.

[Omphaloskepsis]

24. If I need it..

It is on top.. I can rock OS 9.. I think they call it "muscle memory."

[ghostsofgiants]

13. That really makes me want to cry.

[Scooter24]

5. Mine :)

[ghostsofgiants]

14. Super Mario Bros. 3 = awesome

[jpgray]

25. Yeah--not many games make you yell out "I've got the fucking shoe!"

Of course I was about 8 or something at the time, so I probably said something like "rad" instead.

[electricmonk]

6. This weeks

The lovely Scarlett Johansson. It changes fairly often but at the moment this is it.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

23. holy shit.

fantastic. just. . . god. . . i love scarlett.

[Clintmax]

16. Here's Mine!

[JuneInJax]

17. and mine

[ps1074]

19. How do you get the calendar and the weather forecast on the desktop?

I want to do it too :shrug:

[JuneInJax]

27. Webshots for the calendar

on mine. I use the Webshots desktop from www.webshots.com, it lets you use your own photos in addition to ones downloaded from there. I don't know about the weather thingy others have, though. That would be neat to have, too!
Moni (gadget nut)

[Beware the Beast Man]

28. try these:

http://www.widgetgallery.com/

:hi:

[RoyGBiv]

30. Not sure about Windows ...

Not sure who exactly you were replying to since the OP doesn't have either. My desktop has both, but it's a Linux system.

I use the KDE desktop with SuperKaramba and the aero_aio plugin. The liquidweather theme provides the weather. The calander is actually a configurable system monitor with several functions. I use the calander (or clock) for public screenshots because it doesn't disclosed my IP or main e-mail address. If you run Linux, you can get all that at KDE-Look.org.

I know similar things exist for Windows, but I'm not sure what they are.

[pinniped]

21. .

[Mutley]

22. Here it is.

[Beware the Beast Man]

26. Here's mine- working on a recording:

[SoCalDem]

29. Mine.. Satan in the smoke

[WritingIsMyReligion]

36. That's great.

:D :D

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. Here:

[CarpeDiebold]

32. I'm having background envy right now

mine is so uninspired compared to all of yours. oh well, here's mine.

[Maestro]

33. Pretty boring but I like the message.

;)

[lakemonster11]

35. Mine

[eyepaddle]

37. Let's try again

[RoyGBiv]

38. LOL ...

I love the fact you actually created a folder called Stuff I don't really need ... Classic.

[eyepaddle]

48. Heh, that's why I decided to include a shot of my desktop!

:)

I have a bunch of curiosities which have nothing whatsoever to do with any aspect of my life. For example I have the press kit for the upcoming mission to Pluto in that file. Clearly I could do without THAT--but I don't want to!

Or should I have left that to everybody's imagination?

[Roland99]

40. A shot I took in Nov. 2001

[Tripper11]

41. Here's mine .....

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

42. A coffee cup, a coaster, some pens, 2 pairs of sunglasses, 2 workplace

I.D.'s, my cell phone.

[bridgit]

44. mine...

B-)

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

46. Here You go

[bridgit]

50. i do prefer windows classic however...

B-)

[Pale Blue Dot]

45. ARRRGGGHHH! Attack of the SarahBelles!!!

I could also put this in the "things you find beautiful thread." :loveya:

[u4ic]

47. Here's the pic that's on mine:

[Deja Q]

49. Updated and ready for 2006