GNU / Linux August 2007 Desktops

By Barney T.
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August 2007 Desktops - Posting Guidelines

* If you plan to img-embed your desktop, please try to keep it under 100k (It's recommended that you link it, externally).

* Stay within the board rules, no matter how yummy you may believe it to be.

* If you are going to quote, there isn't a need to quote an img-embeded picture - Just don't do it. Please just reference the post by page number/page link/etc.

* Off Topic Posts will be edited or removed.

* The desktops thread is not to be used as a means to post images of a pornographic or otherwise provocative nature. We do not support a babes forum and neither will we in an unofficial capacity. Please help to keep the thread relevant and safe to browse for everyone.

* The moderators of this forum reserve the right to edit or remove your posts as necessary so they may comply with our Community Rules.

* In the interests of keeping the thread on topic it is strongly urged that you format your posts in the following order:

Themes: Name/where you got it (with link would be nice).

Wallpaper: Name/where you got it (with link would be nice).

Icons: Name/where you got it (with link would be nice).

Programs: Name/where you got it (with link would be nice).

* Please use reduced-size thumbnails, where possible, out of respect for people running on lower bandwidth or screen resolutions.

Important Note: Any image posted that is over 800 x 600 will be removed! Use a thumbnail or use a text link to your image. If your image is removed, this is why.

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can we embed flash videos from sites like youtube etc? if not, wonder if that can happen in near future.
You mean like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Fbk52Mk1w.swf

Just cut and paste this code:

[flash=250,188]http://www.youtube.com/v/XXXxxxxXxXX.swf[/flash]

Just replace the "XXXxxxxXxXX" with the actual youtube code.

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Switched to Ubuntu (following the masses ^^)

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GTK: Rezlooks-Tempura Blue Mod

Icons: TangoGnomeTangerine-Mix

Emerald Theme: A modded Murrina Theme

Apps: Sonata

WP: from interfacelift

Oooo, do you have a link to the modded tempura theme or is it a personal mod?

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Mine has already changed :oops:

Ubuntu 7.04 feisty fawn

Gtk theme: Dr. Aquavista

Emerald Theme: Scaled Black MacTru

Wallpaper: a shot of the Florida gators from this year's BCS national championship

Skydome: The Swamp, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium (made myself from an image i found on wikipedia)

very proud of how my skydome turned out, like i have a 360 of the inside of the stadium

post-62173-1186096027_thumb.jpg

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deskaug07th.jpg

Solaris Express snv_65

Compiz Fusion snapshot from who cares when

MWM window borders

Murrina Eternal Blue

Human icons

Can I ask what fonts your using in for web pages in Firefox, ive spent quite a bit of time now getting my desktop to look nice with decent fonts & smoothing etc, but no matter how much I try, web pages in Firefox fonts alway look a little of, best way to describe it is like there missing little bits of the pixels used to draw the fonts.

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It's Helvetica. Came with the system, not sure if it's the same font as Apple's Helvetica.

The UI font is Segoe UI, from Vista/Office2007.Using latest freetype2 (2.3.5, with the TrueType bytecode interpreter compiled in) and pango (1.17.5), font settings are slight hinting and grey scale antialiasing. No fonts.config settings in regards to Helvetica. Pango is important for kerning and all that, so if you want good font rendering, make sure you're using the newest version of that.

I'm using the Stylish extension for Firefox to override fonts in various webpages, if they default to something else. Youtube in the screenshot has no CSS overrides via Stylish, uses Helvetica by default. Should be mentioned that I purposefully don't have Verdana or Tahoma installed. Can't see these two anymore, I prefer Helvetica over them. A lot.

--edit: Checked, I have Firefox also use the FT2 autohinter, which overrides the slight hinting setting. It's in about:config, font.FreeType2.autohinted = true.

nice :) whats the hardware u are using ?

AMD X2 4200, Asus A8N-E, 2GB RAM, couple of 160gig disks, NVidia 7800GT, Intel PRO1000 PCI-e, Audigy2

Apart from the NIC rather common hardware.

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my macbuntu! :D

desktop environment: gnome

desktop manager: xfdesktop (yeah, rite!:D )

gtk theme: self modded aqua-i

icon set: self modded OsX_Mod

system tray icons: lotsa hard work!!! :D

top panel: gnome-panel

bottom panel: xfce-panel

file manager: thunar

apps running: terminal, opera 9.22, pidgin 2.1.0, thunar, cairo clock

composite manager: beryl

beryl theme manager: emerald

emerald theme: leopard

wallpaper: i don't remember!

clock: cairo clock

fonts used: lucida grande, aquabase

clean:

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dirty:

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