Post your desktop (widescreen edition)

[pokerfan]

Picked up a new monitor over the weekend. This screenshot is shrunk about 3x.

[kentauros]

1. This is half-size:

It's Chiron, waving farewell to Jason and the Argonauts, I think :)

[kentauros]

47. changed mine again:

[GirlAfire]

2. Sorry Men!

:P :P :P



EDIT: Oops! This is where it came from http://sammigurl61190.deviantart.com/art/Unequal-15466230">here

[Forkboy]

3. ok

[Call Me Wesley]

5. Heyyyy, Mickey Mouse in flames! Cool!

Love the folders on your desktop. ;)

[Forkboy]

7. I'm a man of few words...and fewer folders.

The "Everything Else" folder is over 40 gigs at present though, so when I say everything else I'm not kidding. :)

[Call Me Wesley]

9. Soo, how much gigs is the 'game' folder?

:P

Did you see this? I did some heresy:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=9050711&mesg_id=9050902

[Forkboy]

10. Small...it's just the shortcut icons to the real goods.

We won't go into detail on the amount of games a terabyte can hold lol.

Did you do that Dalek pic? It's too cool by half.

[Call Me Wesley]

36. If I don't say otherwise,

all the pics I post (especially the 3D ones) are made by me. This was done as a request to use a Dalek, and this just popped up in my head (you wouldn't want to live there.) ;)

[Forkboy]

41. I should have picked up on you saying "I commited a heresy."

I'm a little slow. :)

The pic is awesome, and I bet being in your head is a step up from being in mine. :D

[Call Me Wesley]

44. Our two heads combined,

and ....



The godzilla pic isn't from me, I just added the speech bubbles and text. Oh, and the squirrel! ;)

[Forkboy]

45. LOL

:rofl:

That is sooo accurate! :D

[El Supremo]

4. Been using this dual screen picture for years:

[Call Me Wesley]

6. Here's the one I did for it:

[City of Mills]

8. Windows 7

Haven't tweaked it too much yet...

[Tripper11]

11. Mine, returning from Bremerton to Seattle

<a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v54/Tripper11/?action=view¤t=desktop-2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="" border="0" alt="desktop"></a>

[tXr]

22. Beautiful. I'd love to live in that part of the country.

[kentauros]

46. My ex-wife lives in Bremerton.

That's a nice shot, too :)

[triguy46]

12. I've always wanted to play this game, how do you do it in XP?

[RoyGBiv]

13. Haven't changed mine in awhile ...

I'm slacking ...



No, wait, this is when I was actually Slacking. :)

[tXr]

16. old crap...lol!

A simple and functional desktop - very nice.

What distro of Linux are you using? I have played around with Ubuntu a bit, but haven't had time to do much more than that.

[RoyGBiv]

19. It seemed appropriate ...

The trashcan is where I put old crap and thought about whether I'd delete it later. Stuff I didn't actually want just got deleted. :)

The top one is OpenSuSE, the bottom a bastardized version Slackware. It was Slackware with some kernel patches from Novell I needed to make my mouse work properly. I had this thing a few years back where I wanted a metallic blue mouse. I finally found one, but it was apparently the most exotic mouse ever made. Even Windows has issues with it.

I'm about to change to Mint, which is a derivative of Ubuntu. I really dislike SuSE, but it was bleeding edge on the KDE 4 desktop manager when I installed it, and I wanted to mess with that.

[tXr]

20. I tried Mint, but I couldn't get the video card to work,

so I went back to Ubuntu. The computer is a Dell Dimension 2400 circa 2003 that I got from my grandfather. It was very slow and infested with AOL, among other things. Instead of reformatting with Windows I increased the memory from 256mb to 2gb and gave Ubuntu a try, which has worked quite well. I really wanted to try Mint, but I couldn't get the video card configured properly and I am too much of a Linux noob and too busy with other things to really get into figuring out the problem. Maybe when I have more time I will give it another try. :hi:

[RoyGBiv]

23. Ah, yeah, that's the downside of Mint ...

Mint is built to make things like 3D acceleration, playing mp3s, other media, flash videos, etc. more automatic upon installation. The downside of this is that Mint ends up having the opposite problem of most Linux distros. It has more problems with older hardware, specifically graphics cards.

If you have a newer graphics card, it's actually easier to get it working than on Ubuntu, which is backwards from most distros.

Funny thing is that I've been compiling my own graphics drivers for so long, I've become bored with it, which is why I'm going to Mint. At first, it was a challenge, something interesting to do. Now I just want to get past it.

Making the conversion does take an investment of time, especially if you're accustomed to a Windows world. I moved to Linux almost exclusively (some games I can't abandon that I cannot make work under Linux) about five years ago. It was frustrating at first, but now I find things far easier the Linux way.

If you need any help in the future, feel free to look me up. I hang out in the Computer Help and Support forum, so I can always be found there. Several other Linux users, specifically Ubuntu users, hang out there as well, and they're what I'd call experts.

[triguy46]

14. Here ya' go. Finally figured it out.

[tXr]

17. What is that? Is it an apiary?

:hi:

[triguy46]

48. In an old well established apple orchard...

north of Emporia, Kansas.

[Xicano]

15. ok

[Forkboy]

18. I love that one.

The clutter free desktop impresses me as well. :)

[Xicano]

28. Thanks Forkboy.

:hi:

[Xicano]

34. These are the other ones I use.

I rotate these around with the other one I posted. :)




















Peace,
Xicano

[Forkboy]

42. Cool, I like all of those.

I change desktops about three times a week, and constantly scour art sites for cool pics to use. I have a folder with hundreds to choose from (and that doesn't include the folder of Godzilla pics and art I have saved). I just switched to this one this morning...

[pokerfan]

50. Mine changes every hour

In Linux I use Desktop Drapes and I run EvJO Wallpaper Changer in Windows. I have a folder with about a hundred wallpapers.

[tXr]

21. ok.

[txwhitedove]

24. Phooey, this is as big as the screen shot would copy from Photobucket...

Great pic of my baby with her baby. Another DU'er here who doesn't like icon clutter.

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. I love it! That is beautiful.

[txwhitedove]

27. Thanks. Wish it was full size - the little one has a sweet smile, safe in

mommy's arms even underwater. My desktop backgrounds usually are pics of family and our travels.

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. If I posted my desktop, ya'll would get on me about how much crap

I've got going on and how it's bogging down my computer, and it'll crash, and I really should do something about it. ;)

[av8rdave]

29. OK...

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. I have to show this to my son, the major flyboy, tomorrow AM.

He'll love it.

[av8rdave]

31. Hope he likes it...that's me, many years ago

[ScreamingMeemie]

32. Is that a T-38?

He dreams of being a fighter pilot someday. Unfortunately he is color blind, but he is a veritable encyclopedia of plane facts. :) He got his (ret. USAF) uncle once.

[av8rdave]

38. That is a T-38

Hard to believe those are still flying!

Your son sounds like me when I was young. How old is he? He may well know airplanes better than I do!

Sorry to hear about his color blindness. Sometimes people can take alternative versions of color blindness tests and get better results. You never know.

That particular photo has been restored to (I hope) the original colors. I found it recently, and it was badly faded and discolored. Someday I'll have a photoshop expert take a stab at it.

[ScreamingMeemie]

40. He just turned 11 and is excited because he only has one more

year until he can join Civil Air Patrol. They've got a really good Wing here at the local municipal airport.

I am still hopeful, if only for this dream he's had since he was 4, that things will change.

That really is a great shot, av8rdave.

[av8rdave]

54. CAP is a great thing...I did that at his age as well

It will be a great experience for him!

[Angel]

33. Sure

[qnr]

35. Wheeeee! (reduced, with almost no loss of detail!) n/t

[RoyGBiv]

51. My word!

You've added some stylishness to it. :)

:thumbsup:

[qnr]

53. :) Yes, note the high-falutin' retracted GKrellM on the left heheh n/t

[blogslut]

37. Here you go

Not widescreen just full-size. :)

[guitar man]

39. mine

a pic I took of downtown Tulsa

[Hayabusa]

43. Roan Fel's Bad-***ery knows no bounds!

Cover of the comic Star Wars: Legacy #13

[handmade34]

49. trying to figure this out

[Starbucks Anarchist]

52. Mine, a picture I took myself:

[velvet]

55. is mine

"Le Coquelicot" by Kees van Dongen, 1919. I just love her. I got icons too, but I switched 'em off for the screencap.

OP, your desktop is very relaxing. I like a dark background, it rests the eyes.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

56. Not sure how to post the Desktop but I'll post the background that's on it