GNU / Linux November 2007 Desktops

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Fedora 8

Gnome 2.20.1

Theme: Nodoka

Icons: Tango

Font: Sans 8 pt

Nice. I especially like the wallpaper. ^.^

My current desktop:

Desktop_11-9-07-1.png

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Ultra small thumbnail and super short description since people were complaining in the past and I haven't changed my desk much. ^.^

Wallpaper: Black Magic, edited by me in The Gimp.(I like blue better. ;))

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Nice. I especially like the wallpaper. ^.^

That's Fedora's default wallpaper. Interesting effect: It consists of 4 different .png files which are blended into each other according to the time of day, an effect achieved using an XML file:

&lt;background&gt;
  &lt;starttime&gt;
	&lt;year&gt;2007&lt;/year&gt;
	&lt;month&gt;09&lt;/month&gt;
	&lt;day&gt;26&lt;/day&gt;
	&lt;hour&gt;07&lt;/hour&gt;
	&lt;minute&gt;00&lt;/minute&gt;
	&lt;second&gt;00&lt;/second&gt;
  &lt;/starttime&gt;
&lt;!-- This animation will start at 7 AM. --&gt;

&lt;!-- We start with sunrise at 7 AM. It will remain up for 1 hour. --&gt;
&lt;static&gt;
&lt;duration&gt;3600.0&lt;/duration&gt;
&lt;file&gt;/usr/share/backgrounds/infinity/1-infinity-sunrise.png&lt;/file&gt;
&lt;/static&gt;

&lt;!-- Sunrise starts to transition to day at 8 AM. The transition lasts for 5 hours, ending at 1 PM. --&gt;
&lt;transition type="overlay"&gt;
&lt;duration&gt;18000.0&lt;/duration&gt;
&lt;from&gt;/usr/share/backgrounds/infinity/1-infinity-sunrise.png&lt;/from&gt;
&lt;to&gt;/usr/share/backgrounds/infinity/2-infinity-day.png&lt;/to&gt;
&lt;/transition&gt;

&lt;!-- It's 1 PM, we're showing the day image in full force now, for 2 hours ending at 3 PM. --&gt;
&lt;static&gt;
&lt;duration&gt;7200.0&lt;/duration&gt;
&lt;file&gt;/usr/share/backgrounds/infinity/2-infinity-day.png&lt;/file&gt;
&lt;/static&gt;

&lt;!-- It's 3 PM, and we're starting to transition to sunset. Transition completes at 6 PM. --&gt;
&lt;transition type="overlay"&gt;
&lt;duration&gt;10800.0&lt;/duration&gt;
&lt;from&gt;/usr/share/backgrounds/infinity/2-infinity-day.png&lt;/from&gt;
&lt;to&gt;/usr/share/backgrounds/infinity/3-infinity-sunset.png&lt;/to&gt;
&lt;/transition&gt;

&lt;!-- It's 6 PM, and it's sunset, for an hour. Ends at 7. --&gt;
&lt;static&gt;
&lt;duration&gt;3600.0&lt;/duration&gt;
&lt;file&gt;/usr/share/backgrounds/infinity/3-infinity-sunset.png&lt;/file&gt;
&lt;/static&gt;

&lt;!-- It's 7 PM and it's going to start to get darker. This will transition for 5 hours up until midnight. --&gt;
&lt;transition type="overlay"&gt;
&lt;duration&gt;18000.0&lt;/duration&gt;
&lt;from&gt;/usr/share/backgrounds/infinity/3-infinity-sunset.png&lt;/from&gt;
&lt;to&gt;/usr/share/backgrounds/infinity/4-infinity-night.png&lt;/to&gt;
&lt;/transition&gt;

&lt;!-- It's midnight. It'll stay dark for 5 hours up until 5 AM. --&gt;
&lt;static&gt;
&lt;duration&gt;18000.0&lt;/duration&gt;
&lt;file&gt;/usr/share/backgrounds/infinity/4-infinity-night.png&lt;/file&gt;
&lt;/static&gt;

&lt;!-- It's 5 AM. We'll start transitioning to sunrise for 2 hours up until 7 AM. --&gt;
&lt;transition type="overlay"&gt;
&lt;duration&gt;7200.0&lt;/duration&gt;
&lt;from&gt;/usr/share/backgrounds/infinity/4-infinity-night.png&lt;/from&gt;
&lt;to&gt;/usr/share/backgrounds/infinity/1-infinity-sunrise.png&lt;/to&gt;
&lt;/transition&gt;
&lt;/background&gt;

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Sciuto

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Fedora's 8 default wallpaper rocks indeed. I'm in love with it lol. Even more because of the changings =p

Too bad NetworkManager 0.7 is so ****ed up, had alot of troubles with it in the beginning. But after messing around a day long, I finally discovered NM 0.7 isn't going to work with my situation so I decided to go with no NM. And now everything works without any problems. Well the only problem would be the latest Ati drivers not working with the newest kernel XD Won't post a screenshot just yet, since it's all just default. But I might go work on it later on and post a screenshot eventually.

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Here is my newest screen: http://www.voodeedoo.org/misc/2007-11-10-0...x1024_scrot.png

It is Arch Linux using xfce4 with pypanel, urxvt, audacious, and my custom tweaks ;)

You can find my tweaks and wallpapers here :: http://www.voodeedoo.org/misc/

:)

~3nd3r

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