/me is so proud of his successful migration from Windows 7 to Arch Linux, he wants to share his desktop to celebrate.
I managed to find suitable replacements for all the Windows-only software that I'm used to (or could get it to work through Wine) and got LAN printer/scanner and Wacom tablet working nicely as well.
Haven't set up a development environment yet but already installed Bluefish, Emacs, Geany and LiteIDE for testing.
In summary: I do not need Windows for anything essential anymore now and have not booted into it for several days but I will keep it around for games which don't work in Wine (yet).
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]]>I didn't want to waste bandwidth by posting a whole lot of blue, but I was trying an A5 program in windows earlier today and the lack of functionality I take for granted in linux was painful (e.g. multiple desktops, drag to select and copy, binutils).
]]>Here's my "mobile" (lenovo X220) laptop (its what I'm using while I'm traveling)
I really don't see the desktop a lot so I haven't even bothered to configure it in any way.
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My laptop's desktop (showing the Dragon capsule being held by ISS's robotic arm), and my Odroid XU's "desktop" (just an ssh session using tmux )
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I decided it was time that I got back into Linux so I just formatted over my entire dual-boot system with a single Debian install + LXDE. I've never used LXDE so I'm just figuring out if it's enough. In the spirit of being minimalist it seems to lack a few features that I like (among them, reordering the "task bar" dynamically). It seems that XFCE might make up for some of LXDE's weaknesses so perhaps I'd be more comfortable there. I actually love Xmonad now, but ultimately I'm trying to get Steam and Counter-Strike: Source running and the last time I did that they wouldn't work properly if launched from outside of one of the system desktop environments (for yet unknown reasons).
I am still getting used to this system. My girlfriend has pretty much taken over my desk so I haven't been spending much time on my PC at home lately. I installed this wallpaper just now after installing the AMD video drivers and rebooting. Seems pretty well set up though now. Except for Steam... Which is non-trivial. So yeah.
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Yes, I'm a total fan of the universe.
Seriously, do you guys even see the wallpaper after 5 hours?
]]>Yep.
Especially the one on login screen.
My desktop is boring (Windows 8.1 with blue background) so I won't post it. I use the desktop like a quick folder. Win-D brings it up and I put stuff there temporarily sometimes, but most of the time I don't see it.
]]>My temporary location for downloaded junk is currently ~/Downloads, but at home it's /mnt/mrbig/data/downloads which is an nfs share to my nas. I also have a temp ~/build folder for things I build that I dont want/need to back up, especially big things.
I'd tell my desktop to show that, but those folders get big, and would just clutter things up. also, I almost never see the desktop, so it'd be a waste. I suppose I could point it at ~/projects that could actually be useful and a reason to remember the key binding to show the plasma desktop. heh.
In fact, here's a small modification:
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]]>I almost never see my desktop either and I would not have expected the word Desktop to be taken so literally. Real thread title should be more like "Post Your (Desktop) Environment (represented by a screenshot featuring menues, panels, trays and whatnot)" and tell a bit about any customizations you made. Why? Because I find this to be an interesting way of discovering what software others use(and how to do it) and also because the NSA needs to update their database from time to time.
I take for granted in linux was painful (e.g. multiple desktops, drag to select and copy, binutils)
To be fair, there are extra tools to allow for multiple desktops in Windows. Dragging to select and copy is possible by holding the CTRL key before starting to drag(a little + sign will appear at the cursor to indicate copy instead of move). Binutils... ok, probably only with MSYS2.
In the spirit of being minimalist it seems to lack a few features that I like (among them, reordering the "task bar" dynamically).
I use LXDE and find it to be highly customizable. Not sure what you mean by "reordering the taskbar dynamically" otherwise I could probably tell you where you can find the settings to make it do what you want (unless of course it lacks that particular feature).
I also like the way one can customize their own keyboard shortcuts: I have a script for taking a screenshot upon PrintScreen, saving it to a unique filename in a special screenshots folder and then opening the newly generated file in XNviewMP for quick editing/review. Also made a couple of shortcuts for maximizing a window to {left,right,top,bottom}+{half,quarter} of the screen (similar to what WinKey+Arrows does in Win7 but a bit more useful).
I have yet to find that fancy customizable system stats tool I saw elsewhere, which would print all kinds of info directly on the desktop, like diskspace, running processes, network interface status, ram usage and probably lots more.
Also looking for a retro theme for icons and widgets, something which looks like GEOS but haven't found any yet so I will probably have to learn how to make it myself.
]]>My desktop is far too busy displaying a.cc pages to ever see the light of day.
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]]>I don't often see the desktop on my main monitor, but it's sometimes visible on a secondary monitor. I just have one of the Win 7 built-in themes though, so I'm not going to bother posting it.
]]>On my laptop I usually see it when it's docked and connected to external monitor. On my PC I usually see it in Windows after login, in Linux after switching to desktop #4 just before I start some application I want to use (#1 reserved for Firefox, #2 reserved for Thunderbird, #3 runs fullscreen terminal - same for the laptop). Oh yeah, plus the lock screen wallpaper, I set that one different on my laptop.
Anyway, laptop:
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Except for Steam... Which is non-trivial. So yeah.
The only non-trivial thing to do for me was manual installation of nVidia drivers when I decided I want more recent ones than the ones offered in Debian Wheezy repositories. Other than that installing Steam on Linux was painless experience in my case.
]]>My desktop is just the wallpaper. It's faster than anything I've ever used, in terms not only of resources but also of workflow.
]]>I use LXDE and find it to be highly customizable. Not sure what you mean by "reordering the taskbar dynamically" otherwise I could probably tell you where you can find the settings to make it do what you want (unless of course it lacks that particular feature).
It means if I start Iceweasel, then gVim, and then UXTerm, I can reorder them so that on the far left is UXTerm, then Iceweasel, and then gVim. In practice I usually end up mostly running several terminal emulators along with a Web browser (typically Firefox/Iceweasel, but the latest Firefox is as stupid as Google Chrome; fortunately it seems Debian hasn't updated to that yet). I am obsessive about the order of my running programs in the UI. And also when most of your windows are terminal emulators it helps to order them in a particular way so you implicitly know which one is which.
I attempted to install Xfce to test it out and found that in the particular respect I wanted (multi-user login) it was no better than LXDE. At least the base system. Maybe I'm missing packages or something. I find it really silly that my girlfriend can't login to the desktop simultaneously while I have a session running.
I'm not sure what I did because now it seems that OpenBox has taken over my desktop. The context menu appears to be OpenBox's, and there's no more option for a desktop wallpaper. My desktop has reverted to being all black or something. It is probably going to take me a while to get comfortable with it again... Hopefully I can figure out how to run Xmonad by default, and then switch to LXDE or something for Steam.
I also like the way one can customize their own keyboard shortcuts: I have a script for taking a screenshot upon PrintScreen, saving it to a unique filename in a special screenshots folder and then opening the newly generated file in XNviewMP for quick editing/review. Also made a couple of shortcuts for maximizing a window to {left,right,top,bottom}+{half,quarter} of the screen (similar to what WinKey+Arrows does in Win7 but a bit more useful).
Those might be useful. Mind sharing?
The only non-trivial thing to do for me was manual installation of nVidia drivers when I decided I want more recent ones than the ones offered in Debian Wheezy repositories. Other than that installing Steam on Linux was painless experience in my case.
Do you recall how you installed it? The official instructions don't really apply to Wheezy (stable) yet. You have to be running Jessie (testing), which is far from stable. I wasn't even able to get a fully functional system running so I gave up on that because this aims to be my only OS on my main [gaming] PC. I need something stable that will work for regular programming and net needs too.
I am considering going the schroot route, but it sounds like for that to work you need to have matching video drivers in both systems, and that may be over my head to maintain properly. Maybe if I install them direct from ATI?
I can't remember the other option. Maybe it was pulling in a couple of testing packages, but in practice I think this would create a shit storm. I'm not sure if Valve is releasing a binary distribution that will "just work". My Google fu always leads to me "you can't do that yet".
Probably a year ago I was running Steam and Counter-Strike: Source in Linux. I think I was using jessie at the time though, or else a wheezy system infested with jessie packages. It worked OK for a short while, but I tried to update packages and everything broke and I gave up.
]]>I'm not sure what I did because now it seems that OpenBox has taken over my desktop. The context menu appears to be OpenBox's, and there's no more option for a desktop wallpaper.
That can be remedied from settings found in the "Desktop Preferences" (pcmanfm --desktop-pref) in the "Advanced" tab.
It means if I start Iceweasel, then gVim, and then UXTerm, I can reorder them so that on the far left is UXTerm, then Iceweasel, and then gVim.
I do not recall having to do anything special to allow for this but in my lxde/openbox environment I can simply rearrange running applications by dragging and dropping their icons around in the taskbar.
Those might be useful. Mind sharing?
In the lxde-rc.xml (e.g. ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml) add the following within the appropriate section:
The keys are arranged in a way which makes the most sense to me, as the CTRL key is to the left of the W key and the ALT key is to the right of the W key on my keyboard.
So W+{Up,Down,Left,Right} maximizes the window to the {top,bottom,left,right} half of the screen.
C+W+{Up,Down} maximizes to left{top,bottom} quarters of the screen and W+A+{Up,Down} to the right quarters accordingly.
Print key launches the screenshot script.
And the contents of screenshot.sh:
Meanwhile, I found that fancy stats-on-desktop tool I was looking for (it is called conky) and configured it for a couple of hours:
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Still on Windows 7, waiting to see how 10 will turn out.
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Windows 7 with Xubuntu in a VM. Stuck with 8 (literally worse than Hitler. Literally) at work.
My desktop looks like this:
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Only thing really notable is that I still use Winamp, and I'm proud of it. 16 MB of RAM is all a damn mp3 player should use, and that's all it does.
]]>16 MB of RAM is all a damn mp3 player should use
Even that is overkill. I used to run DOSamp on a 4Mb machine.
]]>Even that is overkill. I used to run DOSamp on a 4Mb machine.
Seriously! I ran Winamp in mono / low quality on a 486DX100 (BARELY). Why the hell should any player decoding an MP3, take more than 0-1% CPU usage? I'm looking at you every player other than Winamp in existence.
]]>Why the hell should any player decoding an MP3, take more than 0-1% CPU usage? I'm looking at you every player other than Winamp in existence.
They were using fancy high level languages and constructs? After all, their time is worth much more than a couple million users who might want to do other things while the music plays, or even save battery power on a laptop.
I remember three computers ago, a 381Mhz AMD K6 which took 30% cpu to play an mp3. Ogg being even worse.
]]>How did this happen?
]]>
Crazy Photon asked for a name change?
]]>That question comes up at least once a year.
Short answer: Magic!
Long answer:
I first joined in April 2001 as #1090. Back then, I only had irregular access to internet (maybe once a month or so or even less frequently). Later when I got internet access at home, I had forgotten about my first account, so I joined again. Eventually I found out I already had an account and they got merged (member number was taken from first account, join date from the second one).
I just realized I absolutely love your picture (your original color one in your profile is easier to understand).
They were using fancy high level languages and constructs? After all, their time is worth much more than a couple million users who might want to do other things while the music plays, or even save battery power on a laptop.
I remember three computers ago, a 381Mhz AMD K6 which took 30% cpu to play an mp3. Ogg being even worse.
I have to admit, I'm confused by what you're trying to say.
Also, I've wondered why Winamp takes so little RAM and CPU, and say, a Winamp clone like QMMP uses so much more. Now clearly, it's on a different system, a different OS API, on newer systems that don't need as optimized, and more. But it was more of an open-ended question wondering if, and how much, had nothing to do with "the code" of QMMP and instead, had to do with layers upon layers of APIs. "API bloat."
I wonder if I can run a profiler or debugger stack trace of sorts to see the depth of calls and the general time wasted on jumps, even if I don't have debug symbols for Winamp, and compare that to say QMMP's open source juiceyness. My debug-fu is weak, but it's still interesting to me.
]]>There is something to be said for efficient coding. Really lazy/naive coding can leave a lot of memory being used for little to no reason.
]]>You can usually still debug, but you'll only see public symbols. The Visual Studio or Very Sleepy debuggers can be used. Or GDB if you're a weirdo
]]>You can usually still debug, but you'll only see public symbols. The Visual Studio or Very Sleepy debuggers can be used. Or GDB if you're a weirdo
If symbols are stripped (and they probably are) you'll see no symbols, and fairly useless stack traces.
]]>@Trent: Ha, I hadn't noticed that!
Anyways, another happy Winamp user here, still use it whenever I use Windows. Haven't found anything worth for OS X (I mostly use Grooveshark and di.fm for music though, so no need to).
]]>I typically use cmus (AKA C* Music Player). For MP3s it uses libmad. I glanced at it yesterday after loading it full of arbitrary content I had on my disk and it seemed to be using about 20 MB in Debian Linux (according to whatever Task Manager is in LXDE)... Here in Cygwin at j0rb it appears to be currently using about 7 MB (~3.5 MB of which is DLLs that could theoretically be shared, but won't be), but it seems to have allocated up to 18 MB at some point so that is still naturally available to it.
CMUS is my preferred music player. Amarok is my preferred GUI music player, but it's heavy-weight, and I don't like GUIs. CMUS does everything you want right from the command line! Well, I need to get a lyrics downloader/reader setup (or written) for it, but once I have that I'll be set.
]]>GDB if you're a weirdo
https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/8_gdb_tricks_you_should
]]>And here goes my PC. Same wallpaper on Windows and Linux but on Windows there's more icons to be seen
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I had the same desktop background prior to my current one!
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I tried to replicate an old Vista-like XP theme I had with KDE... not quite successful, but certainly something different for me.
]]>I alternate between various Simon Stålenhag pieces. Currently, it's this one:
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OICW: in today's politically correct environment, I'm not sure I would dare have a Bikini shot as my desktop background.
gnolam: That guy totally kicks ass. I wonder whether or not he was involved in creating concept art for Half-Life 2 because lot of his work seems reminiscent.
SiegeLord: you mean Operation Crossroads test baker? I've used that one for my PC because compared to other hardware I had until then it was a real nuclear bomb
]]>I typically use cmus (AKA C* Music Player).
Me, too. Gotta love cmus-remote. Also, RAM usage means very little.
]]>But per-process ram can add up and steal all that cached file data.
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]]>I don't use my desktop too much these days, so here's a screenshot of my laptop. Haven't seen this operating system represented by screenshots yet either.
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]]>In the Online Users, it lists BAF's OS as a minus sign!
]]>I'm not even doing anything to try and hide it! Bonus internets for the first one to guess (not that it should be particularly difficult).
]]>Chrome OS?
]]>Well that was 50% quicker than expected.
]]>All the Google icons kind of gave it away
]]>Eh, I haven't changed much from the defaults.
]]>Yeah, it was either that or some kind of laptop version of Android (which I think I've read about).
]]>For music playback I use foobar2000(even in Arch Linux despite it being Windows software) in combination with projectM for visualization. Have not checked the RAM usage of it but I like the interface customization options: the main window functions like a tiling window manager into which you can place components like equalizer, playlists, directory tree, search window and other stuff.
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]]>That system monitor looks pretty tight. Is it a conky config?
]]>I'm attempting to get conky running too, but at present it seems to hide the conky window if I focus the desktop. Dennis, could you share your conky configuration too? Perhaps I need to enable double buffering in X first.
]]>Yes it's conky.
Share the whole file? And deprive you of the hours of fun which come with configuring and fine-tuning it until it does what you want? Are you sure you want that?
The "Arch Way" would be to point you to "man conky".
But well... I disagree with the idea/necessity for everyone to waste the same amount of time on an already solved problem, so here goes my .conkyrc (you need to adjust it a bit more for your system of course):
edit: seems like the code tag eats the unicode symbols for the divider bars, so you'll have to adjust those as well after copying (template7 and 8)
]]>I just saw FS-UAE in there. Wouldn't expect any less form Dennis
]]>Yes, I need that to run Personal Paint for those moments where I want to look on old (crap) art I did on my Amiga500 in the early 1990ees. And of course, also for Amiga games. I like to keep the possibility ready to fire up and play old games on any system I ever owned.
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