Show off your desktop

[sawer]

Great work to both of you.

[Ramchu]

Here"s another one using Gimp

[Dadster]

 Another nice desktop Ramchu.

[inuit-joe]

Not really a desktop but still a wallpaper :p
This is kinda a remake of the first ever wallpaper i made :] Ah the nostalgia.

[Ramchu]

My personal wallpaper 

[Dadster]

   Nice work Joe.

   I'm not much for the color gold but that desktop could change my mind. Great Ramchu.

[Ncmprhnsbl]

1 ubuntu gnome  ,  image desaturated with gimp, aerial photo from um can't remember

2 plcos kde,       photo i took of a rusted, crushed 5 gallon can

3 puppy 5.25, openbox,  wbar and conky.

[MeeMaw]

This is yesterday's....   I got a new icon theme and changed my theme to something a little shinier.....

(I'm running PCLinuxOS with XFCE desktop.)

 

[PGTips91]

I don't go in for creating my own desktop designs, and my use of the desktop is more pragmatic than artistic. But I do like to have an interesting background to look at in between changes of window, etc.

Here's my current desktop, clutter and all, with some wonderful Banded Godwits coming in to land.


Photo from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar-tailed_Godwit

One thing that I have not yet been able to figure out and that is how to have a different background for each desktop, of which I normally use six, to organise my work into easily switched groups. Any one know the trick for doing that?

Paul

[sawer]

Paul: If are using KDE it is easy, go to system settings > window behavior > virtual desktops > different widgets for each desktop.
I don't think there is a way to do it in Gnome. I haven't used any other manager enough  to know how to do it.

[gemlog]

Yes, the only caveat there is that for each workspace, you will now have to redo all your settings for previews and so on. They are well and truly separate!

[sawer]

The only thing I had to change was the wallpaper. Everything else works fine as I had set in my #1 desktop. Yes it's true if you have different users you will have to reset everything.

[gemlog]

That works only if you don't change the default.

Me, I like to see thumbnail representations for all my files, not just the defaults. I also install the extra addon for thumbnails for openoffice/libreoffice files.

As you can see, nearly nothing is turned on by default.

If you bother to go through and turn all those things on and THEN switch to different desktops, you lose all those settings. Trust me.

Also, Dolphin has the exact same thing and you need to go through checking off each thing one by one and those settings are different from the desktop.

[PGTips91]

Paul: If are using KDE it is easy, go to system settings > window behavior > virtual desktops > different widgets for each desktop.
I don't think there is a way to do it in Gnome. I haven't used any other manager enough  to know how to do it.

As I thought, ArtistX which is my main OS is based on Gnome.

Code:

paul-ax09@paul-ax09-desktop:~$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
gnome
paul-ax09@paul-ax09-desktop:~$

Disappointing! I've always wanted to have different backgrounds. I think it would be helpful in keeping different desktops for different uses and distinguishing them easily one from another. Never mind, the panel where I switch from one desktop to another has an icon that reflects what is open on that desktop, so I can easily see where my browser is, where my torrents are, where my konsole windows are, etc.

Window selections in bottom panel.

1-Firefox, 2-Chrome, 3-Picasa, 4-Transmission, 5-Nautilus, 6-Konsole
One-click switching between tasks.

Paul

[PGTips91]

That works only if you don't change the default.

Me, I like to see thumbnail representations for all my files, not just the defaults. I also install the extra addon for thumbnails for openoffice/libreoffice files.

As you can see, nearly nothing is turned on by default.

If you bother to go through and turn all those things on and THEN switch to different desktops, you lose all those settings. Trust me.

Also, Dolphin has the exact same thing and you need to go through checking off each thing one by one and those settings are different from the desktop.

Could you set the default to what you want so that you get what you want by default?

Paul