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Pop!_OS 22.04, slightly modded Gnome 42
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Nice couple of birds
 
Similarly to TV soap "The bold & the beautiful", I named this screenshot "The angry & the beautiful".
And I've also blurred the Opera icon because I changed it to contain something anyone can easily recognize, even kids and they're not supposed to see such things here. :D

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Little setup I threw together in a few after getting KDE 6 set up and running on my Gentoo Linux gaming rig.

Fresh out of the oven after 16+ hours of setup, configuring, downloading and compile times, and ready to resume my studies and learning Linux in earnest again.

Plasma Theme is Ant Dracula, Icons are Tela Purple, Window Decorations, Konsole (Colors) and Colors are Scratchy, Cursor is SpaceK, and Wallpaper is Quick, make an entry! by Neotheta.

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My desktop background has not changed. To bad I can not post the .gif avatars I make on this forum. I use IrfanView, PhoXo (through wine) and Gimp to make the .gif.
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Wildman
 
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My desktop background has not changed. To bad I can not post the .gif avatars I make on this forum. I use IrfanView, PhoXo (through wine) and Gimp to make the .gif.
Always,
Wildman

Um.....o-kayyy. You say you can't post them here? (No, actually; you're right. The forum's built-in tools won't permit it.)

I say that because I know I've posted short GIF sequences from my desktops before now.....but, of course, I'm using an image-hosting service, so what I do is to post a link, NOT the actual image itself. The forum software doesn't mind that, since it's using MY bandwidth, not its own.

I believe there's a tutorial here somewhere that explains how to set-up and use a free a/c with Imgur. I used them for a time, but when they forced a site re-design on everybody some years ago, I switched to PostImages instead...


Here we are:-

Imgur tutorial:-


Link to PostImages:-


(This one will also work for short GIFs, videos.....anything like that. They do, however, have a size limit per item; currently around 14-15 MB, I believe, so whatever you upload can't be too large.)

Maybe some of that'll help..?


Mike. ;)
 
Harking back to my last posted desktop screenie, here:-


.....I have an update. Just a small one, but it may be of interest to some of you.

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I got my first ever dedicated GPU back in 2020, shortly after the old Compaq desktop rig died and I treated myself to my first new machine in I can't remember how long.....the current HP Pavilion mid-tower desktop rig.

This only came with 4 GB RAM as supplied, and of course, the on-die Intel graphics steal some of that as pseudo-VRAM. I'd upped that to 8 GB, but at the time I didn't see me installing much more.....although that's since been covered here elsewhere. To offset this, I wanted just a basic GPU with its own dedicated VRAM - I'm not a gamer, and apart from a bit of video-rendering, don't use it for much else - so a 'cooking' Asus GeForce GT 710 passive-cooler fitted the bill. For me - and 'our Pup' - this was fine.

I also had to be careful with power consumption; the Pavilion uses a weird, slimline PSU of just 180W due to size restrictions, and it's all but impossible to upgrade. The GT 710 draws just 19W, through the slot itself. It all works very nicely, especially with the official drivers compiled/installed via our native GetNvidia utility and the official .run file.

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About a year or so back, I looked into a tray-based method for ascertaining the GPU temperature at the click of an icon, and codged together NvidiaTrayTemp:-

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A GTK-dialog banner at the top of the screen displays the GPU's core temperature at a click, displayed for 8-10 seconds. It works with the official driver AND 'nouveau', so works for everybody with an Nvidia card, regardless of how it's running.

I did the above because I hate digging through menus to find the Nvidia info GUI. This way it's there in the tray in front of you, ready to go at a single click....

Fast-forward to early autumn this year...

Our chief steward, Mick Amadio, who took over the reins when Barry stepped-down as head honcho in 2013, wrote a small utility many years ago called pmcputemp (poor man's CPU temperature readout), which places a simple 'live', auto-updating icon in the notification area that gives a continuous CPU temp readout using a bunch of SVG images. I got looking at Micko's script, and realised that the detection script I'd written for the tray utility could be easily modified to work with this. However, I didn't know how to translate the output to work with the tray icon, so I enlisted the help of one of our members who's a wiz with this kind of thing.....an Aussie who goes by the handle of ozsouth.

Between us, we did some experimenting, and Oz hacked & re-compiled the source code Micko had put up on Github when he wrote pmcputemp all those years ago.....along with a couple of wee scripts to tie everything together. Result? I now have a continuous GPU temp readout in the tray as well as the CPU temp readout. We've called it poorergputemp.

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As with pmcputemp, the icon changes colour throughout the temp range, getting 'redder' & 'hotter' as the temps rise and everything turns more toasty! Oz also re-worked the original SVG numeric images to make everything just that little bit larger & clearer.

Frankly, Dave outdid himself with this one. Me, I think it's great for what I wanted. Neat, huh? :p


Mike. ;)
 
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Little setup I threw together in a few after getting KDE 6 set up and running on my Gentoo Linux gaming rig.

Fresh out of the oven after 16+ hours of setup, configuring, downloading and compile times, and ready to resume my studies and learning Linux in earnest again.

Plasma Theme is Ant Dracula, Icons are Tela Purple, Window Decorations, Konsole (Colors) and Colors are Scratchy, Cursor is SpaceK, and Wallpaper is Quick, make an entry! by Neotheta.

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I love your colour scheme. I can never get that Purple/Magenta incorporation thing right. I love those colour schemes, but my eyes don't and after a while, I feel overwhelmed and it's back to cold blues and greys... Heh, dat wallpaper, noice!
 
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