In honor of my new iBook, post a SCREEN SHOT.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

Here's my screenshot:


And in honor of those who met up after the April 29th march, check out what's playing on iTunes right now...


So what does your desktop look like?

Edited because I realized my Adium buddy list was more readable than I expected it to be.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

1. Kick because I'm bored.

:kick:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear haruka3_2000!

Well.....I would post my desktop...

But there are problems, the main one being that I don't know how!

And mine is boring anyhow!

Yours, on the other hand, is gorgeous!

Hope someone else comes along with a beautiful desktop!

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

5. Hit the print screen (prt scr) key on your keyboard.

Open up Photoshop or whichever graphics editing software you prefer. Create a new document, and hit Ctrl+V. Save as a jpeg and upload it to your host of choice.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. OK.......that doesn't sound too hard.....

But while I'm doing this, I assume that my actual desktop has to be visible?

I'd think so, but I'd like to know!

Thanks!



:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

13. Haha, yes it does.

It basically captures exactly what you're looking at when you hit the print screen key.

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. I thank you, my dear primate1!

[ghostsofgiants]

24. More than welcome, Peggy.

:)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. Thank you.

I only know how to do it with a mac. You open up the grab program and click on the capture menu, then screen.

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Just to make you feel less lonely...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. I used to have a desktop picture very similar to that one. nt

[ghostsofgiants]

7. Cool...

I made this one myself.

[bridgit]

4. i'm too bored to take a 'screen shot', but here's the pic...

there's only two (2) icons on my screen anyway http://www.seasite.niu.edu/indonesian/budaya_bangsa/Gamelan/Main_Page/main_page.htm

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

9. I keep my desktop very clean too.

And I pick my desktop picture so I can blend my widgets into it.

[bridgit]

15. that makes sense to me...

:thumbsup:

[Deja Q]

38. Let me guess... that is the world's first

glory hole.


:hide:

[bridgit]

46. in a rather distinct, allegorical sense yes...

:hide:

[Mutley]

11. I can't manage to make it any bigger than this.

:(



Photobucket is being a poopy head. :P

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

12. Cool Desktop Picture though.

For a PC...

:evilgrin:

[Mutley]

14. Thanks.

Maybe Photobucket is punishing me for giving it a PC picture. :D

[ghostsofgiants]

23. Change your photobucket acount settings to allow larger picture files.

Once they're over a certain size, photobucket has a tendency to excessively resize them.

[Mutley]

28. Aha! Thanks! Now it's a bit bigger.

[Xeric]

16. screenshot

Made the background myself with GIMP.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

18. So that's what Linux looks like?

Never used it myself, aside from OSX being UNIX-based.

[Deja Q]

37. FreeBSD-based, technically...

[billyskank]

40. Actually Linux doesn't look like anything

What we saw in that screenshot was KDE, the K Desktop Environment. Like mine (below) although mine is configured for a different appearance.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

41. I know nothing about it.

I've never used a computer running it. I've just used Apples and Windows. I like Apples. I tend to want to defenestrate Windows machines.

[billyskank]

42. Unix systems are modular

So is OSX, being based on BSD as HypnoToad said, but Apple have wrapped it all up in a stylish package so that you don't need to know about it.

[Maestro]

19. Here is my current one.

I took this shot about 2 minutes ago.

Here are some others from the past.





and finally

[swag]

20. Can't see the graphic of what's playing on iTunes (red x), but

here's a screenshot:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

21. Weird.

It's on the same host as the screenshot. Anyway, I posted it because the song was "Nancy Whiskey."

[swag]

25. bettyellen chose a nice bar.

Have you been back there?

That place was the best and the waitstaff and management were the greatest.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

29. Nope, actually haven't been in the city since.

Lame since I live so close.

Going in tommorow for the Pride parade. I'll be meeting up with LionessPriyanka and ThomCat. I doubt we'll end up there there, since it's pride weekend. Priyanka is obviously partying somewhere already. I was exhausted before, so I didn't go in tonight. Of course, now I'm wide awake.

Oh and in terms of places in Hoboken, Trinity is a cool place, and I'm not just saying that because my friend bartends there until 7pm on weekdays.

[swag]

32. I missed the dyke march here too,

but had a great time at the Pride parade.

Hope you have good weather and a fabulous time.

[ghostsofgiants]

22. Are you browsing with Lynx?

[swag]

26. Yeah. That were a long time ago,

but I'm still Mr. Shell on a daily basis.

[ghostsofgiants]

27. Haha...

NEEEERRRRRRDDDD!!!!

[swag]

30. I'm old. I've got an excuse.

What's your excuse, old man?

[ghostsofgiants]

31. Old soul?

[swag]

34. That line is guaranteed to get you laid in Santa Fe, Santa Cruz,

and most Santas in between.

But I'm sure you came upon that schtick empirically, so I'm telling you nothing you don't already know.

[ghostsofgiants]

35. Wow, no, that was just a shot in the dark.

I need to find my ass a Santa-based city, post-haste.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

33. I'm glad someone called him on it...

[Deja Q]

36. Very much like yours...

[billyskank]

39. Hokay

[qnr]

43. Same old thing:

Nothing on the desktop except root-tail displaying log activity in the root window.

[billyskank]

44. How do you get a shell on your desktop background?

I'd love to know.

[qnr]

45. Various ways. I use this:

terry@timestorm: /home/terry/work/p6
09:41:03 $ gaze what root-tail
root-tail:
root-tail is a program that allows printing of text directly to the X11 root
window wherever you choose, much like running rxvt with a pixmap background but
without the hassle and with more features.  
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/terry

You can get it at: http://root-tail.plan9.de/

I then call it with: sudo ./rtail

rtail is just a file with:

root-tail -g 900x900+10+10 -f -noinitial -shade /var/log/everything/current,yellow /var/log/httpd/access_log,green,'WEB' /var/log/critical/current,red,'CRITICAL' /var/log/pwdfail/current,red,'Failed password attempt', /var/log/sshd/current,white

[billyskank]

47. Thanks

So it's not actually a shell, but rather just log files being continuously tailed?

An actual shell on the root window would be so useful, though.

[qnr]

49. YW, actually, you just hide the widgets, scrollbars and make it trans-

parent and sticky, and you have one. I'm sure there are easier ways, but I tend to use VCs for most of my work.

[qnr]

52. Here is an example of getting rid of things with aterm.

I've done 2 up, one without transparency ($ aterm -bl +sb), and just to the right, one with transparency ($ aterm -tr -bl +sb)

Click on the thumbnail for the full-sized image.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

48. Let's see...

Bill Evans again!

:)

On Edit: Photobucket apparently shrunk it, but whatever.

[Tripper11]

50. Here's mine...clean desktop....

[Touchdown]

51. I'm installing new and old crap on my new iMac.

I got a 20" yesterday. My 3 1/2 year old Powerbook G4 was causing too much trouble anymore. Aperture is installing now. (20% complete. Another 4 minutes).:D

[Nicole]

53. Here's mine

I like a clean desktop so it's almost empty but the dock is full.



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