Post a screenshot of your Desktop
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Nice! Is that Mint Cinnamon?
Linux Mint debian Edition with Cinnamon DE
I came by to show off my new (well, new for me, otherwise it's second hand in pretty good condition) laptop which I bought, so that I have something to do while working the graveyard shift. I still have my desktop PC.
Having a laptop doesn't mean I'm gonna abandon the PC - nothing can beat that. But to pass the time at work while keeping an eye on the CCTV - the laptop is perfect. Plus, the work computer has Spyware 11, so having a linux laptop at work is a "must have".
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Having a laptop doesn't mean I'm gonna abandon the PC - nothing can beat that. But to pass the time at work while keeping an eye on the CCTV - the laptop is perfect. Plus, the work computer has Spyware 11, so having a linux laptop at work is a "must have".
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You work as a security guard?
Been there, done that. In my case, the client actually supplied us with a PC that we could use for general purposes... It was an IBM AT. Had a lot of fun with that machine.
Sec Guards are armed, I'm not. I'm more of a... portal guard. If the one of the 4 property owners don't call me to let someone in, I don't let anyone in. I only let people in, if I know them, I mean - if they're from one of the 4 families living here.
And the security company has provided us with a PC for the CCTV but that PC has Spyware 11 on it, which name makes me puke just by hearing it, so I bought myself a laptop, so I can play solitaire without stupud ads. And watch tv shows.
I contract worked security (Pinkerton's, no less), unarmed, at an office building with a couple of thousand employees coming and going every day. We had the typical posts in the lobby, shipping and receiving dock, front and back gates and then we had my favorite - a room dedicated to all things electronic automatic, where we produced the employees' photo ID cards, monitored the building A/C, lighting and fire alarm systems and kept watch over the ID card readers data from the lobby.
The client provided us with a slightly outdated, but workable system that wasn't dedicated to any of those official functions and they encouraged us to learn how to use it. Happily that system wasn't an MS Windows system (Windows sucked back in those days). They did -not- give us access to the Crays in the basement, which is probably just as well.
The client provided us with a slightly outdated, but workable system that wasn't dedicated to any of those official functions and they encouraged us to learn how to use it. Happily that system wasn't an MS Windows system (Windows sucked back in those days). They did -not- give us access to the Crays in the basement, which is probably just as well.
@KGIII :-
Heh.
Oh, I don't have it running because I feel any specific "need" to do so, David. I only use it because it appeals to my "inner geek".....and the child within.
Much of this dates back to the late 60s/very early 70s, when for 3 Christmases straight an aunt & uncle bought me the current "Joe 90" annuals. It was then that I developed a love of "gizmos & gadgets".
I don't think I've ever really lost it since.
Mike.
When I do use Mint, I enjoy that it has a zillion desklets and panel applets.
I don't actually use the desklets, but I enjoy that they're there. I do add a few panel applets.
Yes.
Here is my little dell/ipad replacement screenshot. I am sick of blue because of 30 years of windows.
I just have to figure out how to make the "taskbar" transparent now. ha ha. I am minimalist when it comes to my desktop environment.
I just have to figure out how to make the "taskbar" transparent now. ha ha. I am minimalist when it comes to my desktop environment.
anonymousanna00
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cool
Just as a demo of how versatile the X11 windowing system - with its server/client model - really is, here's a screen-capture of something I was playing around with this morning.
I was shunting a couple of Viewnior windows around, each displaying a previously-created animated GIF.....occasionally triggering/untriggering the window-manager's "blinds" function. This was then captured by a Puppy-native screencap app.
After I created the screencap, I then used another wee Puppy-native utility to turn the .mkv container back into another GIF..! I was going to share this GIF, but it's bigger than the size limits allowed by PostImages or Imgur.....and I still can't figure out how to share vids/GIFs from Google Drive. Google have made it simple to share around their own suite of apps, but for everybody else there's no straightforward solution.....mostly involving HTML 'embed' codes, which many fora can't work with.
So this is the original .mkv video instead.
Regardless of how it was created and/or presented, it demonstrates the server-client model's versatility on the desktop; two files, each running as an animation in their own window, then running on the 'desktop' (actually ROX's 'pinboard', but.....who's arguing?).....and finally, the whole being captured by a fourth application, also using its own chunk of the X11 codebase while doing its thing.
Small wonder X11 has ruled the roost for so long. Is Wayland really going to transform all this beyond recognition? I appreciate that it's a smaller, more stream-lined, unified & easier-to-work-with more modern codebase.....but I don't see X11 going anywhere soon with regard to low-resource systems.
Perhaps I'm blinkered, but the only folks making a big fuss about Wayland in its current state of development appear to be other devs....
(shrug...)
Mike.
I was shunting a couple of Viewnior windows around, each displaying a previously-created animated GIF.....occasionally triggering/untriggering the window-manager's "blinds" function. This was then captured by a Puppy-native screencap app.
After I created the screencap, I then used another wee Puppy-native utility to turn the .mkv container back into another GIF..! I was going to share this GIF, but it's bigger than the size limits allowed by PostImages or Imgur.....and I still can't figure out how to share vids/GIFs from Google Drive. Google have made it simple to share around their own suite of apps, but for everybody else there's no straightforward solution.....mostly involving HTML 'embed' codes, which many fora can't work with.
So this is the original .mkv video instead.
Regardless of how it was created and/or presented, it demonstrates the server-client model's versatility on the desktop; two files, each running as an animation in their own window, then running on the 'desktop' (actually ROX's 'pinboard', but.....who's arguing?).....and finally, the whole being captured by a fourth application, also using its own chunk of the X11 codebase while doing its thing.
Small wonder X11 has ruled the roost for so long. Is Wayland really going to transform all this beyond recognition? I appreciate that it's a smaller, more stream-lined, unified & easier-to-work-with more modern codebase.....but I don't see X11 going anywhere soon with regard to low-resource systems.
Perhaps I'm blinkered, but the only folks making a big fuss about Wayland in its current state of development appear to be other devs....
(shrug...)
Mike.
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theLegionWithin
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Small wonder X11 has ruled the roost for so long. Is Wayland really going to transform all this beyond recognition? I appreciate that it's a smaller, more stream-lined, unified & easier-to-work-with more modern codebase.....but I don't see X11 going anywhere soon with regard to low-resource systems.
Perhaps I'm blinkered, but the only folks making a big fuss about Wayland in its current state of development appear to be other devs....
(shrug...)
Mike.
it's quite likely that X11 will persist for some time as there is still quite a bit of use for it, but as new display methodologies are developed then new protocols will be developed to meet those needs. I dont foresee X11 being "king" forever - a good analogy that comes to mind is tape medium in mass storage - tape was "king" for decades but is now relegated to very specific use-cases... there's still a business need for it, but the world has moved on.
A month or so I bought a laptop - to use it at work bc I work only graveyard shifts. The work computer has Spyware 11 on it and I feel sick just hearing the name, so I decided to buy a laptop. So here is its desktop. The distro name is "Archint Not virgin by RADO".
