GNU/Linux Feburary 2006 Desktops

[mrogers]

Yorak, how about a link to the wallpaper? It looks like a mod of one of KoL's seasons wallpapers.

[Yorak]

It is one of his wallpapers, it was meant for two monitors, came with a left and a right...I think this is the left one. Just seems to fit best.

[phate]

http://havion.game-host.org/~end3r/screens...x1024_scrot.png

new setup =]

wallpaper?

[Prism]

My desktop, featuring a new superkaramba theme which I'm working on:

[mrogers]

My current desktop, sporting a picture of the new Yamaha P-120S digital piano I won today on eBay...very excited! Also watching the Olympics :yes:

Click for large version (591 KB)

Ubuntu 5.10

Window border and system icons from OSX bundle at gnome-look.org

GTK controls are Clearlooks-Clarity

[ViperSnake]

/\ Nice, is that a Canadian speed skater I see there?

p.s. You have updates you know, I also use Ubuntu but my APT is dependency wacko.

[Kreuger]

Here's mine at Deviant Art

[mrogers]

/\ Nice, is that a Canadian speed skater I see there?

p.s. You have updates you know, I also use Ubuntu but my APT is dependency wacko.

Actually if I remember correctly that was a Chinese girl. I think. I don't know, I was tired. :D

That update icon is there because an update for Wine is available but it fails in the middle of the download every time I tell it to update.

[xp1ode]

Here is mine for the month, enjoy.... :p :D

[Prosidius]

Ubuntu Linux

[ViperSnake]

Giving KDE some respect...

Finally got KBFX working properly!

Style: Crystal Clear

Icons: ^word

Window Decoration: SUSE

Colors: ^word

Also not shown: My installation of Metatheme

[K3EnU]

Featuring Xgl !!

Gentoo 2005

Gnome 2.12

icons are vista inspiriat

Edited February 20, 2006 by K3EnU

[ViperSnake]

/\Ye doesn't see anything!

[K3EnU]

my apache server was down :-( ! should work now ;-)

[yhan]

Ubuntu Linux 6.04: The Dapper Drake release

X11R7

Xgl

Gnome 2.14

compiz window manager

[Rob2687]

Yikes, Post in thumbnails if possible please. Not everybody runs at 1900x2100 or whatever they have these days.

[mrogers]

I love XGL, but I can't use it until it gets TwinView/Xinerama support. I have it running successfully on an Ubuntu Dapper Drake install, but it's just too annoying with two monitors.

[K3EnU]

you've gotta see it in action ! it's smooth and really impressive , it beats macosX and windows vista out of the box ....

[Dougeh]

Got a bit crazy playing with KDE, this is on FC4 if anyones interested.

Image Removed.

Edited February 21, 2006 by matt74441

[yhan]

yeh it runs really really smooth on my 6600gt. the only situations i notice some glitches are when heavily multitasking, but cpu's fault (my 2ghz celeron is crap). i think giving a bit higher cpu priority to compiz, xserver and xgl would do it.

about beating mac os x not so fast. gnome's interface is getting more and more coherent over releases and xgl is awesome, but this is still catch-up to os x, they've had hw accelerated desktop for years now and an amazingly designed UI.

i'm quite sure we'll see compositing arriving to other WM's like kde's, metacity, enlightenment, etc.. so it'll get more mainstream over the next releases of the main distros.

but the main point remains: you've gotta see it in action! it's awesome!

[mrogers]

I agree, XGL quite cool. I had a lot of fun playing with it on my secondary installation, but I can't use it every day mainly because a) lack of multi-mon support, and b) still some bugs, like you can't move dialog windows without holding down Alt. However, as it develops I think XGL/Compiz will become quite a force in the modern Linux desktop. I can tell that it has a solid foundation and so far I haven't been able to make it crash. But if you have dual monitors, don't even waste your time at this point.

@yahn -- KDE's window manager (kwin) already has compositing built in. So do a number of others. It's all about stability, resource utilization, and coolness factor. So far, I think XGL has it. If only they would add multi-monitor support!!!

[skwid]

I havn't quite figured out how to get it loaded on ubuntu breezy successfully but I bet it's a blast! I see everyone running it on Dapper.

[kevcart3]

^ You will need x.org 7.0 to get it running, so a standard breezy installation won't work right. The best bet right now is to install a secondary installation of dapper, which has x.org 7 on it, and try to get it working from there.

[Rob2687]

Someone posted a way to install it in Breezy.

Looks like it uses the RPMs from Novell which seems to have an Xglxserver so it doesn't rely on an existing xorg 7.

[kongit]

I am in a green thing.

Debian

Gnome

Clearlooks-Cairo with Hyperion metacity

dunno where I found the desktop