Post a screenshot of your Desktop
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Next time I boot into Slackware I'll take another shot, Posted the wallpaper instead by accident.
theLegionWithin
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I keep a laptop at the office to use as a background music platform, but the one I've had there for the last 2 years started hanging on Friday so it's slated to come home tomorrow & go back into the junk pile. resurrected a 9470m from the junk pile this week to replace it. ~13 years old, no battery, no rear cover, duct tape to hold the ssd in, but otherwise it works fine.
Way cool desktop, but I absolutely hate that clock display.
AlphaObeisance
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One of a kind <3.
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theLegionWithin
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@AlphaObeisance where are you getting your backgrounds from? that one is epic
AlphaObeisance
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Le' zelgoog muh friend.
Cyberbleuet
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AlphaObeisance
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Anime 3440x1440 Resolution Wallpapers UltraWide Quad HD 1440P
3440x1440 Anime Wallpapers For UltraWide Quad HD 1440P Devices
Found it bud.
909mjolnir
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mine is just a plain solid black background, no texture.
it saves on battery power sometimes, and my eyes are always distracted by clutter and widgets and tray stuff, so i keep it hidden until i need it.
the only stuff i have on display is the XFCE analog clock, my wifi bars, and my volume icon, two workspace arrows, and one icon for the applications. it's really too much as it is. but I keep it all shoved to the side (not at the bottom).
I might be slightly off, but if i do anything more it distracts my eyes too much.
it saves on battery power sometimes, and my eyes are always distracted by clutter and widgets and tray stuff, so i keep it hidden until i need it.
the only stuff i have on display is the XFCE analog clock, my wifi bars, and my volume icon, two workspace arrows, and one icon for the applications. it's really too much as it is. but I keep it all shoved to the side (not at the bottom).
I might be slightly off, but if i do anything more it distracts my eyes too much.
It's all about "choice" and "preferences". There's nothing "off" about your desktop - and I'll bet it's not all that uncommon. You probably won't see many screenshots posted of desktops like that because it's, deliberately, "not much to look at".
I don't go for quite that level of minimalism, but my desktop is deliberately not flashy nor exciting - if I want to just relax my eyes for a bit, I can got to an unused desktop (I keep ten of them around even though I rarely use more than four) and rest my eyes on my somewhat muted wallpaper.
Hi, gang. Thought y'all might find this worth a watch. Just a bit of a laugh really (for some of you, no doubt, shaking your heads in disbelief & thinking to yourselves "Euurrghh!")
It's a "peek" into the mechanics of my desktop appearance & operation.....mostly home-grown, and self-built/constructed. See what ya think:-
Mike.
It's a "peek" into the mechanics of my desktop appearance & operation.....mostly home-grown, and self-built/constructed. See what ya think:-
Mike.
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CaffeineAddict
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Thank you for sharing Mike, I really enjoyed your video.
I think now I understand why you so much like puppy, your DE is certainly interesting and rich in usability.
Animations are certainly cool too.
btw. if right top corner, is that conky?
Thanks for sharing, will definitely watch it, I watched the first minute but will finish it later. Gotta say I love your English accent! You also have a new subscriber to your channel
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@CaffeineAddict :-
Glad you like it. Yes, Puppy has a "charm" all of her own, though of course, like any other Linux distro.....the sky's the limit (and limited ONLY by your imagination). Graphic design has been a consuming passion of mine for more than 50 years now. Does it show?
The top-right? No; that's gKrellM.....Bill Wilson's long-standing masterpiece, round which an entire community has existed for many years. The name, um.....well; you'd have to be a fan of the 1956 sci-fi film Forbidden Planet (a well-known science-fiction 'classic') to really understand that one, but that's where the inspiration came from, apparently. This is the film that introduced 'Robby the Robot' to an unsuspecting world.....and pioneered the very first use of all electronic music for its score. It stars a very young Leslie Nielsen, in one of his first-ever leading roles for the cinema.
Bill Wilson was a HUGE sci-fi fan.
As for the bottom-right, well; Puppy's native 'pWidgets' IS Conky-based. We have our veteran developer zigbert to thank for that one. It's very popular among the Puppy community.
@f33dm3bits :-
Lolol!! What IS it with you guys and the British accent? I've talked this way for years; mostly Norfolk 'native', but traces of Yorkshire & London 'Cockney' thrown in...
Born in Islington - within the sound of Bow Bells; that's the Cockney for you - I was adopted at the tender age of 9 months, and very soon moved up to Yorkshire with my adoptive parents, where I spent my formative years. At the age of ten, we then moved down to Norfolk where the old man's work sent him.....and I've been here ever since.
Don't expect the rest of the channel to be anywhere near as good. I only started doing vids for Puppy around 7 or 8 years ago; experiments in the early days, and getting better over the years as Puppy's screen-casting software has steadily improved. The early stuff is CRAP!
Thanks for the subscription, though. It's all appreciated.
Mike.
Glad you like it. Yes, Puppy has a "charm" all of her own, though of course, like any other Linux distro.....the sky's the limit (and limited ONLY by your imagination). Graphic design has been a consuming passion of mine for more than 50 years now. Does it show?
The top-right? No; that's gKrellM.....Bill Wilson's long-standing masterpiece, round which an entire community has existed for many years. The name, um.....well; you'd have to be a fan of the 1956 sci-fi film Forbidden Planet (a well-known science-fiction 'classic') to really understand that one, but that's where the inspiration came from, apparently. This is the film that introduced 'Robby the Robot' to an unsuspecting world.....and pioneered the very first use of all electronic music for its score. It stars a very young Leslie Nielsen, in one of his first-ever leading roles for the cinema.
Bill Wilson was a HUGE sci-fi fan.
As for the bottom-right, well; Puppy's native 'pWidgets' IS Conky-based. We have our veteran developer zigbert to thank for that one. It's very popular among the Puppy community.
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@f33dm3bits :-
Lolol!! What IS it with you guys and the British accent? I've talked this way for years; mostly Norfolk 'native', but traces of Yorkshire & London 'Cockney' thrown in...
Born in Islington - within the sound of Bow Bells; that's the Cockney for you - I was adopted at the tender age of 9 months, and very soon moved up to Yorkshire with my adoptive parents, where I spent my formative years. At the age of ten, we then moved down to Norfolk where the old man's work sent him.....and I've been here ever since.
Don't expect the rest of the channel to be anywhere near as good. I only started doing vids for Puppy around 7 or 8 years ago; experiments in the early days, and getting better over the years as Puppy's screen-casting software has steadily improved. The early stuff is CRAP!
Thanks for the subscription, though. It's all appreciated.
Mike.
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@MikeWalsh I watched the full video. Cool setup! Thanks for showing your Puppy setup!Thanks for sharing, will definitely watch it, I watched the first minute but will finish it later. Gotta say I love your English accent! You also have a new subscriber to your channel
Just one thing. You do know you can get apps for stuff like Zoom, Teams , and Jitsi? For example this is what I use for Teams: https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux Yes it's an electron app but I prefer that over using pwa's.
I didn't recognize gkrellm at first. I ALWAYS have that running on one of the monitors here!
And I love Forbidden Planet.
rafales1959
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MX Linux 23.5 Xfce
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@f33dm3bits :-
Oh, yeah. I know ALL about the Electron apps.....but for Teams & Zoom, especially, they're a frickin' PITA to set-up and get working in Puppy. As for Jitsi, well; ever since they introduced that stupid Firebase authentication system, where if you DON'T authenticate you sit there for ever, endlessly waiting for a moderator to make an appearance & okay things, the AppImage no longer works.....because it cannot connect to Firebase. Period.
And they STILL haven't fixed it, Even for the "official" AppImage. Ya gotta use it in the browser in order to get the authentication when you log-in.....
Zoom, as a download, is now well over half-a-gig in size unpacked.....just for a video-chat app. That is ridiculous. Okay, I have a ton of RAM here - by Puppy standards - but ya gotta remember, many of our members run far more resource-challenged hardware than I do (think 2GB DDR1/2 with a P4 or similar, f'rinstance). If I publish anything - be it an app, or a method/way of enabling something - it HAS to work for everyone in the community.
I can't just concentrate on those with powerful hardware, Maarten. Our wee community is renowned for empowering low-resource, elderly - even ancient - hardware. I won't break with tradition, tempting as it may be.
Running these as 'windowed' webapps from Chrome, I can set-up dedicated launch scripts for each 'app', located inside the portable browser's directory.....and a single application (the browser) - will serve double-duty for multiple apps this way.
You think about it. Every Electron-based app is built around a stripped-back Chromium browser. You have a dozen Electron-based apps on your system, you've got a dozen instances of the same, identical browser taking up valuable storage space. Even in a day & age when storage, historically speaking, is relatively cheap, I fail to see the sense in voluntarily and willingly wasting it....
Anyway; our "system" works for us. As one of our members told me some years ago, when I first introduced the webapp concept to the Puppy community, it appears that I'd all unknowingly brought to Puppy what PeppermintOS was at that time offering to ITS users. And I didn't even know it!
Mike.
Oh, yeah. I know ALL about the Electron apps.....but for Teams & Zoom, especially, they're a frickin' PITA to set-up and get working in Puppy. As for Jitsi, well; ever since they introduced that stupid Firebase authentication system, where if you DON'T authenticate you sit there for ever, endlessly waiting for a moderator to make an appearance & okay things, the AppImage no longer works.....because it cannot connect to Firebase. Period.
And they STILL haven't fixed it, Even for the "official" AppImage. Ya gotta use it in the browser in order to get the authentication when you log-in.....
Zoom, as a download, is now well over half-a-gig in size unpacked.....just for a video-chat app. That is ridiculous. Okay, I have a ton of RAM here - by Puppy standards - but ya gotta remember, many of our members run far more resource-challenged hardware than I do (think 2GB DDR1/2 with a P4 or similar, f'rinstance). If I publish anything - be it an app, or a method/way of enabling something - it HAS to work for everyone in the community.
I can't just concentrate on those with powerful hardware, Maarten. Our wee community is renowned for empowering low-resource, elderly - even ancient - hardware. I won't break with tradition, tempting as it may be.
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Running these as 'windowed' webapps from Chrome, I can set-up dedicated launch scripts for each 'app', located inside the portable browser's directory.....and a single application (the browser) - will serve double-duty for multiple apps this way.
You think about it. Every Electron-based app is built around a stripped-back Chromium browser. You have a dozen Electron-based apps on your system, you've got a dozen instances of the same, identical browser taking up valuable storage space. Even in a day & age when storage, historically speaking, is relatively cheap, I fail to see the sense in voluntarily and willingly wasting it....
Anyway; our "system" works for us. As one of our members told me some years ago, when I first introduced the webapp concept to the Puppy community, it appears that I'd all unknowingly brought to Puppy what PeppermintOS was at that time offering to ITS users. And I didn't even know it!
Mike.
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