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Desktop Screenshots!

AprecheApreche
edited March 2006 in Everything Else
Let's have a fun old time and post screenshots of our desktops. Wee!

Desktop at work

Desktop at home

I have two monitors at home and work, but windows sucks and wont take a screenshot of both monitors. it doesn't matter because the other monitor at work is just more of the same plain blue crap.
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  • frostbitten_pandafrostbitten_panda
    Mine. Ph33r.

    2 monitors also.
  • PilitusPilitus
    edited March 2006
    Here's mine: http://www.rit.edu/~drs9031/desktop.png

    Okay, now it's time for a show of hands. How many others here have 2 monitors?
    Post edited by Pilitus on
  • frostbitten_pandafrostbitten_panda
    Everyone here, its teh l33t. Do you have 3 monitors Pilitus?
  • RailithRailith
    edited March 2006
    My monitor.
    It's my meager little 1 monitor and the programs that live inside it.
    Post edited by Railith on
  • frostbitten_pandafrostbitten_panda
    Battlefield 2, awesome. What rank? =)
  • RailithRailith
    I haven't played BF2 in awhile so I'm still around rank 3ish.

    Also, BBCode gives me problems >_<
  • frostbitten_pandafrostbitten_panda
    edited March 2006
    html it My monitor.
    Post edited by Apreche on
  • RailithRailith
    You sir are my hero of the day.
  • Johannes Uglyfred IIJohannes Uglyfred II
    edited March 2006
    Desktop!
    Post edited by Johannes Uglyfred II on
  • thaneofcawdorthaneofcawdor
    edited March 2006
    And mine
    Post edited by thaneofcawdor on
  • PilitusPilitus
    No, that's 2 monitors. One's a 20 inch wide screen on its side.
  • AprecheApreche
    Wow, some of you people have desktops from the late 90's. What's with all the millions of programs installed? And what's with using all the separate IM programs full of ads? Gotta get some gaim up in there! Of course it also seems lots of you are playing a ton of PC games, so I can't give you a Linux push. All I gotta say is that if I had your desktop the clutter and inefficiency would drive me mad.
  • PilitusPilitus
    Wow, I agree with Scott, something is strange here. But I think there's a reason for the desktop clutter.

    A dislike of the start menu. You're wasting time when you dig through there looking for a program nestled in a subfolder, so you put icons on the desktop or the quick-launch bar. So you need the icons, I suppose. Does windows have anything like Quicksilver? I assume linux does, it is one of those apps that seems like it would fit on Linux.
  • AprecheApreche
    I have a windows laptop for work, as you can see. You know what I do? Organize the start bar. If you just let programs make their own folders the star menu becomes this huge unweildy thing. I have about 8 folders total in the start bar, and I manually organize all the shortcuts into those folders. The start bar quickly becomes as ogranized as the applications menu in Gnome.
  • AmettoAmetto
    edited March 2006
    work
    Post edited by Ametto on
  • frostbitten_pandafrostbitten_panda
    To unclutter your windows desktop, for those who care, I've found that you can move the start menu to the side, create toolbars for sets of programs and keeping it unlocked. I seperated my programs/others into a few categories: My Computer, Games, Shortcuts, and Multimedia. The multimedia is anything related to media files and shortcuts is anything thats not a game or media file. It doesn't matter how much room is on your start menu with the toolbars unlocked because if you want to acess a toolbar, you double click the slider and its expands so all of the contents are showing. This technique works best with 2 monitors but theres nothing bad about doing it with one. It also only really works well with a vertical start menu; just a note.
  • RymRym
    If you have trouble with icons and files accumulating on your desktop, I recommend the following:

    Make a "garbage" folder there, and once a month dump EVERYTHING you don't use or need on a regular basis into it. Before doing so, delete EVERYTHING you've got in there from the previous month.

    If you didn't need it for a month, and you didn't feel the need to properly archive/sort it for another month, then you probably can do without it.
  • RymRym
    edited March 2006
    Or, you know, properly organize your files from the start ^_~ I suggest having a common point where all of your new or incoming files go to be sorted in batches.
    Post edited by Rym on
  • frostbitten_pandafrostbitten_panda
    God, I have an external hard drive JUST for misc. downloads/files. It would take me weeks to sort it. I just use the classic "Sort by Type" option.
  • EsonLinjiEsonLinji
    my desktop
  • thaneofcawdorthaneofcawdor
    My strategy is to have a folder on my desktop for downloads, one for games shortcuts and one for files I want to transfer to my laptop. It seems to work well. Other than that, only icons that are used frequently.
  • AlexAlex
    EsonLinji, I thoroughly approve of your practice of naming drives after mythological figures. My own (mainly back in the days I used Windows) were Osiris, Amenti, and Anubis; my iPod is Thoth.

    Home desktop

    Yes, there's not much to see. All my taskbars fold away into the narrow bands at the top and bottom when not being hovered over. I've also cleared away the normal assortment of Emacs, Firefox, glurp, and xterm windows that typically clutters it up.
  • AtheriShadowAtheriShadow
    edited March 2006
    So my desktop is a nightmare, but that's just becuase it's shared by two students and we USE the desktop. There's all that space, it's FOR putting stuff on.

    http://www.rit.edu/~kls0155/desktop.jpg

    The background used to be a penguin launching like a rocket, but I have to change it now.
    Post edited by AtheriShadow on
  • frostbitten_pandafrostbitten_panda
    edited March 2006
    "There's all that space, it's FOR putting stuff on."
    No, it's like a floor. You have a few desk/drawers (folders) and TVs/games (icons) But its mostly a work desk for you to move windows around in, like people walking and doing work in a room. You don't (or at least shouldn't) leave your papers/shit around do you? We all must clean our rooms, and the desktop is just another floor in need of service.
    Post edited by frostbitten_panda on
  • AtheriShadowAtheriShadow
    You can move your windows with the stuff there. The icons don't block them or anything, unlike things on a physical floor.
  • frostbitten_pandafrostbitten_panda
    But it clusters and makes it hard to find things, especially when you have many windows open.
  • KamiccoloKamiccolo
    edited April 2006
    This one's got to be just about the most awesome one on here, or so I hope.

















    You have to check it out!

    http://www.geocities.com/dragonaro16/kami-yoki.jpg
    Post edited by Kamiccolo on
  • Renshi KakitaRenshi Kakita
    edited April 2006
    Screenshot
    Post edited by Renshi Kakita on
  • thaneofcawdorthaneofcawdor
    Renshi,

    www.mozilla.com

    Regards,
    Thaneofcawdor
  • Renshi KakitaRenshi Kakita
    edited April 2006
    *Smacks his head with his hand*

    DOH!

    Thanks,
    Renshi
    Post edited by Renshi Kakita on
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