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Desktop, March 2010

Nepherte — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:52:11 +0000

It is time again to keep you in the loop on my desktop’s appearance. This month I’ve switched back to XMonad after using Gnome the last couple of months. Time and time again I’m surprised by the paradigm of tiling window managers and how functional you can make it. All in all I put together a quite useful configuration file, among other things fixing the urgency hook that warns me of windows that need my attention and automatically jumping to the workspace where new windows appear. I also discovered the spacing layout modifier which adds some space between each window to distinguish one window from the other.

Since my last XMonad desktop, I’ve changed my wallpaper to something brighter to lighten things up (I usually don’t like dark colors or wallpapers) and adapted the text colors to match with everything else:

System Info:

Operating System: Arch Linux
Window Manager: XMonad
GTK: Customized Ubuntu Human (not visible)
Icons: Human Icon Set (not visible)
Wallpaper: Napke
Various: mpd & ncmpcpp, dzen2, conky, emesene, vim, urxvt

If there is anything else you would like to know, feel free to ask.

Desktop, September 2009

Nepherte — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:33:57 +0000

Just finished my last exam, a new academic year lies ahead. Yup, it’s time to change my desktop again. It probably is my last series of desktop screenshot in gnome for a very long time. I’m thinking of moving to either xmonad or dwm permanently, perhaps occasionally making an exception when a new gnome will be released.

Few things have really changed since my latest gnome setup because I’m already pretty satisfied with what I’ve got so far. The major change is the wallpaper and some icons here and there:

What’s you’re seeing:

Operating System: Arch Linux
Desktop Environment: Gnome
Window Managers: Metacity
GTK: Customized Ubuntu Human
Icons: Ubuntu Icon Set
Wallpaper: Tarantula Tree
Various: ncmpc++ playing music, mencoder dumping a video and uzbl displaying this website

Desktop, June 2009

Nepherte — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:58:16 +0000

I didn’t have much time lately to post anything here. Exams are coming up so most of time goes to studying, as it should be. It will be like that till the end of june so don’t expect much activity in the next few weeks. But as a sign of me not neglecting my own blog, I’ll post my new desktop.

I’ve completely moved to the tiling window manager XMonad now to fully profit from my new 24″ monitor. It took me a while to get used to a tiling window manager but now that I got the hang of it, it’s not likely I’ll ever go back a regular floating desktop.

What you are seeing:

Operating System: Arch Linux
Window Manager: XMonad
GTK: Customized Ubunt Human
Icons: Human Icon set
Wallpaper: Spy vs. Spy (deviantart)
Various: Trayer for docking icons, Conky for displaying statistics, mpd song info and date/time, Irssi, MPlayer, ncmpc++

Desktop March 2009

Nepherte — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:47:05 +0000

It’s been a while again since my latest desktop screenshot. I usually don’t change much and the changes I make are mostly minor ones. My new desktop is a completely new one though.

Operating System: Arch Linux
GTK: Customized Ubuntu Human
Window Manager: XMonad
Icons: Ubuntu Human Icon Set
Wallpaper: Rey Del Mundo

For starters, I fell in love with this wallpaper. I got rid of metacity and finally switched to something moreproductive: XMonad. Give me a hallelluja for tiling window managers. The only thing I’m still not happy with, are the font colors. I still have to find a matching color palette. Suggestions are always welcome. For those interested in my XMonad configuration file, feel free to ask. I’ll probably post it in upcoming article on XMonad as well.

Desktop October 2008

Nepherte — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:44:20 +0000

My first screenshot of my Arch Linux desktop. Here are the theme & configuration details of my desktop setup:

Operating System: Arch Linux
GTK: Customized Ubuntu Human
Window Manager: Metacity Theme Chocolate
Icons: Ubuntu Human Icon Set
Wallpaper: Flying Penguins

I’ve fnally removed Compiz. The shiny effects a lot of linux users show off with are far from productive and get boring after a while. For the record, the music player is Banshee.

Desktop May 2008

Nepherte — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:57:42 +0000

Every month UbuntuForums opens up a new topic in the Community Cafe to let members post their desktop of the month. This leads to topics with over 800 posts each month, only proving the UbuntuForums community being very active and large. The results are often astonishing; linux users having a beautiful desktop setup. It gave me the idea the post my own for the first time. Here are the theme & configuration details of my desktop setup:

Operating System: Ubuntu Linux
GTK: Default Ubuntu Human Theme
Window Manager: Emerald Theme Ubuntu Golden
Wallpaper: Yoritsuki Night
Compiz Fusion & Conky