desktop thread

give us a desktop thread. no bs just the desktop.(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST (Rule 4) Always elaborate on your opinions, Write a better OP next time, One line OP with a single statement and no additional context? How did you make your desktop look like it does ?)

Let's all love Lain

>>17784 >that pape Either Lain is flying or those utility poles are dangerously close to the ground.

>>17789 ore she is just standing on a roof ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>17784

My Parabola on Librebooted thinkpad X200 running dwm and st with japanese keyboard

>>17793 Kek!

XFCE with the chicago95 theme on GuixSD

feeling pretty good about my setup

Now that I have a ThinkPad I have no shame posting a desktop with a fetch on the screen hahaha

Was playing around with tiling wm's yesterday, and I've got to say, with all it's annoyances, it can be comfy.

w/bs & wo/bs to show the theming

>>18140 Very nice pixels >>18083 Nice, clean, I like it >>17982 Good font, good bar, terminal colors could be improved >>17978 Bonito y básico >>17960 Too much rice for my taste but still good >>17901 Excellent screen real state usage and excellent theme >>17896 Four mb 1080p screenshot! >>17845 Very good contrast between dark and vibrant colors >>17784 Beautiful, make the bottom bar a bit smaller and put it on the top part of the screen and it's perfect

cliche, i understand, but i wanted the comforts of nostalgia tonight

Any ricing tips will be greatly appreciated.

got that dumb flaming seord cursor and set it to inherit retrosmart black cursor, I shall appear in my looking to be mostly bloated having installed hella lot of ports including emulators and old soykaf while also have copied recently two gigs and Freebsd hates to clean RAM overwriting itself til madness

>>18166 Wmaker + FreeBSD is a nice combo. I was running a similar configuration a few years ago. If I remember right, the dockapp with the moon phases was using too much CPU (I was using a soykafty single core), so I had to remove it. Is that audacious with a custom wmaker skin?

>18176 wmmoonclock still uses more CPU than any dockapp and runs single threaded, is sort of insignificant since I am using a 2016 era laptop and yep it is audacious using the OmniAMP 3 skin from x11-themes/audacious-skins, it actually contains a NeXT theme which apparently was used as base for this one, I am regularly switching between them

Here is a picture of my desktop. I may post a picture of my laptop (and my rpi4 when I get it.) in the distant future.

>>18166 Do you have images, backgrounds, and colored text disabled in that browser? It is probably hard to use.

>>18164 What makes the firefox shortcut in the navi tab different than the psyche or tachibana tab?

>>18186 No, I have compiled and enabled everything on it newest version can even use your freetype fonts but I prefer the classic png ones. It is actually easier to use as I can fully control it with the mouse or the keyboard, the only oddity is that I can only access my local (torified) searx instance from another config, having to change my $HOME as using Tor strictly forbids making connections out of it and cookies are handy for keeping my configs as now torified searx cannot use google search which is a default. Sorry for downgrading to gif but I had to remove my username which is my real name out of the pic and I like to use grafx2.

>>18186 Not him or have actually used qubes but I suppose they are different installations on different VMs as qubes is about VMs

Wanna change the DE but I haven't had much time to fuarrrk with my computer to be honest

>>18179 Thanks for the tips, once I have time to mess up with my install I will try wmaker again, and I am going to try that audacious theme. I had almost everything working last time, but I still had issues with Japanese IME input and hot plugging a second monitor. For now I am stuck to Gnome as I need these things working for my daily activities, but I am pretty sure I can solve these problems and upgrade to wmaker once I have the time to look into it.

>>18195 That issues are really simple, setup mozc with ibus for japanese IME and for hotplugging monitors use xRandR or a GUI like ARandR. Works on every window manager. The x11-themes/audacious-skins port is just a collection of .wsz themes so it can be used on any audacious installation on whatever OS and can be accessed from http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/local-distfiles/ehaupt/audacious-skins-0.4.tar.xz

>>18164 I see steam is installed on Copland. How does Qubes run games? I would also assume if you installed/started a game it would be contained within Copland?

>>18183 Are you using LG's 5k2k display?

>>18191 How did you get images to show up in links?

You guys made me go further into and made me go find a solution for the lack of non-ASCII characters on the audacious font and the small frame on the theme so I got these two solutions: To have a font that actually fits into, so I painfully did sorta extend spleen 5x8, and to edit the theme extending the frame (to 11 px height to fit ttyp0 font). >>18204 links -g to run on graphic mode it is'nt like if it was lynx or somethin. You can also get to see images on text mode by associating image extensions to whatever image viewer you have.

>>18202 Games would be troublesome to set up compatibility for since it requires GPU passthrough. I only have Steam installed for chat.

>>18165 can you share the wallpaper pls?

>>18207 It would be a neat experiment. I think I may try this.

>>18205 Nice work. I have no idea how themes work, so, since you are looking into this, do you know if binary fonts are compatible? Do you think it would be possible to use a binary font such as Fixed? I am using that for my terminal for having nice Japanese characters, and those never worked well with audacious.

>>18230 An audacious Skin is just a bunch of .bmp or .png images and some txtfiles on either a dir, a tarball or a zip. You set font on ^P preferences menu, it does work with bitmap fonts, pic with fixed and japanese titles. Shared the theme changing everything to color indexed PNGs and without separated frames and thus a blackened stereo sign. To install b64decode theme.txt then cp the tarball to /usr/local/share/audacious/Skins on FreeBSD or /usr/share/audacious/Skins on linux.

>>18237 The theme looks amazing! Thanks for your time making it, I will keep using it.

>>18247 avant-garde music taste

>>18247 Spoiler for offtopic How are you running Line? I've had problems with it before

>>18253 It is actually just a shortcut to the chromium extension, so that I don't have to open chromium first to go to line. chromium-browser --app=chrome-extension://ophjlpahpchlmihnnnihgmmeilfjmjjc/index.html I use firefox for everything else.

>>18164 Holy soykaf. Secure and 水.

>>18208 It's beautiful, isn't it?

>>18300 Whoa. It truly is. What great colors. Man I need to move back to a snowy metropolis again. I hate living in a place where the seasons are kinda hot and oppressively, ball-sweatingly sweltering. This photo refreshes me, but makes me jealous. I wanna know where this is.

Pretty basic I know, but I prefer it that way.

>>18302 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_Velasca

>>18321 That's actually pretty damn cool, dude. I have something similar without the translucency (not a big fan of translucent terminals) but you seem to have done it really well. Mind linking the dot files if possible? And what's the mpd (I'm assuming) client you're using. Pretty damn minimal. I'm a fan

>>18322 I meant the photo in the post I was referencing, but thanks >>18300

>>18321 classy

>>18203 No, I am using two BenQ (1080p) in the top, two acers (1600x900, left and right bottom), and an HP (1080p) in the center bottom.

>>18369 Is that a paid subscription on some corp laptop, or are you doing the developer program thing? If the latter, what do you use it for? Would you recommend using it for a daily driver? Besides the few things they say on their website ofc.

>>18166 Dumb question: How well does BSD work for gaming?

>>18164 Any tips on ricing qubes?

>>18377 Not really, nothing I did was particularly special. My rice takes advantage of multiple workspaces (with workspace names/non-miniature view reflecting AppVM names), the xfce dark style guide, and a lot of playing around with the xfce desktop customization. The wallpaper uses the Qubes blue from the style guide on the wiki to black vertical gradient, with an included Qubes icon centered as the wallpaper. The "Qubes OS 4.0.1" on the bottom left is just a clock item with custom text. My favorite part of my current setup? The empty space on the bottom of the screen is always available to use the scroll wheel to switch desktops. The worst? The xfce-made popup menus below go topmost respective to the horizontal bar if I click on an icon on one, until I click the horizontal bar again. If you like the setup a lot feel free to try and replicate it.

>>18371 got it from work it's linux, i haven't got much complaints thus far

>>18325 Here's my config files and the scripts I use to adjust blur/transparency and the volume indicator: https://gitlab.com/oneseveneight/dotfiles/tree/master/snoblur The music player is ncspot: https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot

desktop tangential >>18251 very nice font >>17978 integrate your Windows folder anon!

>>18389 >Lum Wallpaper please.

>>18390 here ya go

>>18399 thank you

>>18389 Jealous of those socks, I want a pair

>>18183 RPI4 here. I have a few small things to do, but it's essentially usable. Minor issue with the GPU driver, plus I need to pull over configs from my other computer.

It's a mac, I know...

>>18407 I'd love to run my setup on my RPI3 for fun, I'm a pretty minimalist user myself so I shouldn't have any problems. I see that's dwm you're using. Which layout is that? What patch did you use? Loving it!

>>18412 I setup my RPI3b like this about a year ago and it was just barely not good enough for what I do. But only just. Now it's perfect. If I can get the graphics driver to work properly, I'm going to be fully switched to it! Sadly, the layout is just the floating one. Although, I really want a layout like that. That would be great.

>>18408 Unironic post: Why a mac?

>>18408 if you want to try another package system, macports worked pretty well for me. if i recall correctly you could compile xorg and use that as your main X11 server and then compile xfce4, kde, etc and use that. beware that newer upgrades of macOS can cause problems with these programs (ex waiting for the toolchain to be available or not being able to compile i386 binaries). >>18423 not him but ive started to see macOS as a somewhat 'better' alternative to windows 10 for a just werkz machine since i dont remember there being ads in the home screen or that much privacy problems when being compared to windows 10. also i feel that using macOS can give people a higher chance to be more exposed to using *nix software.

>>18423 Um, while I love linux, actually I used to run manjaro on a desktop and have been thinking about getting nixos or arch on a new one soon, I've always felt kinda weird running it on a laptop. Plus I need my laptop to work, and osx allows me to mess around with all my linux stuff without constantly getting questions about wtf I'm running and why it's not windows. But for everything I'm *nix all the way. >>18429 I'll definitely take a look into macports, but in general I'm pretty happy with homebrew especially since I've recently started messing with compiling software. Any reasons why macports specifically? Haven't heard of the xorg thing but may be something I may attempt in the long run. Personally quartz is pretty good but suffers from a lack of customization. Yeah, the new version of mac kinda fuarrrks things over and gets a little of the Win 10 company monitoring thing going. Albeit it can be turned off if you know what your doing.

>>18444 i started to use macports instead of homebrew since macports had more support for the older mac versions. it also had support for either being installed system-wide or user via the source tarball (./configure --some-option i cannot remember) and i forgot if homebrew could do that. on some ports you could be able to add or remove what things you would want to include (ex qemu -x86 +sparc, etc.) and if you were on a work computer and wanted to use xorg and didnt have administrator to install xquartz you could just install xorg via macports. other than that there isnt much i can remember. but whatever works for you, you should use it. also even though you should be aware of newer macOS versions (ex not being able to obtain the toolchain until a certain time) you should be aware of bugs in older macOS versions. not sure if it was a hoax, but i remember seeing videos of a root bug where it allowed you to do root commands since root was unassigned a password. i mean you could easily fix this by just 'passwd', but there could be other bugs.

What’s a desktop?

>>1845 >What’s a desktop? >Having a wallpaper of a literal desktop

Worked hard on this one. It's about perfect.

>>17783 Oh nice so many comfy desktops, lots of inspiration in this thread. I'm currenty in the process of setting up i3-gaps on this machine, but I don't know very much about it yet. If anybody know cool i3 configs please let me know.

>>18585 The perfect desktop

>>18585 What the fuarrrk.....

>>18585 Nice semeny vibe going on

>>18585 >Raven Perfect.

Attention whoring isn't that bad sometimes.

>>18160 meh heart, everything is perfect

>>18630 mind sharing the wallpaper? very comfy

>>18657 Sure.

>>18659 thanks anone

>>17793 lmao

>>18659 Thank you Lainon, you may have one back.

>>18662 Come on, waifu2x those jpeg artifacts away, autism lacking anon.

Rate.

>>18670 fonts look too smooth, unauthentic

>>18670 Van halen / 10

>>18659 is that tsukumizu or some other artist?

>>18747 It is her.

>>18670 4/10 Sorry

>>18505 Nigga, did I stutter? What the fuarrrk is a desktop?

What the soykaf is even the point in proprietary glitterboy Apple users in posting their desktops? It's literally always the same soykaf but with a different wallpaper. Might as well post the wallpaper alone. fuarrrking normal person cunts. Too stupid to even install Ubuntu or some soykaf

>>18817 Wait y'all are looking at the icons and toolbars and stuff? Weird. As if we haven't seen a buncha random linux distros before

>>18818 in the sense of information theory, there are more takeaways upon pondering a "random linux distro" image than there is from a very (conventional) mac user screenshot. There isn't a lot of variance to it except for maybe wallpaper and binary homebrew/non-homebrew user, hence less information content, hence less extractable information to really process thus making it uninteresting! With random distros and esoterics combining WMs like i3 or dwm with toolbars and boxing these different components together for various aesthetics, there is at least much more detail to think (aka stop and make possible interpretations of why) about. I really don't see the reason for going into a desktop thread other than - what I mentioned above - stealing wallpapers in which case it seems the mac users would do more of a favor just posting their screenshots instead. I don't mean to spill soykaf and though el mad scientist's concern wasn't articulated particularly well, he does have point

>>18806 the flat green section in attached image is what i believe to be a 'desktop'. this took an unbelieveble amount of time to discover and learn as there was very little documentation and the source code was farkkked

I don't have the heart to change it... I love it too much

>>18839 Flynn pl0x

>>18842 >hang yourself, slave Calm down Oracle, maybe you could tell him what's wrong with chrome instead? Spilling soykaf won't make the world better. >>18839 Don't use chrome, because it is spyware. Better try ungoogled chromium or gnuzilla icecat. https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/chrome.html https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/browsers.html http://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.html

>>18842 Sorry that I came off as a little hostile. It's just a poison in the global GNU/libre software community that these tryhards use GNU because they can seem "edgy" to others or some soykaf (see SZ's ebin hacker interface) and don't give soykaf about their own or others' enslavement. This has created a tragic situation in which most GNU distros to this day are filled with proprietary garbage.

lol, I just like tron, and am a bit of a fan. plus I wanted something a bit less system intensive. I mainly use chrome because it's less hassle and prefer linux because I've become comfortable with it and dislike the direction windows is going, and don't want to shell out for apple. plus I like the freedom gnu/linux gives me as far as interfaces, control over hardware, and tinkering goes. for me, this is a lightweight daily driver system that doesn't make me feel like a corporate drone when I'm not at work.

also comes in white~

>>18917 Hey dude. I know you from a while back on fourchong /g/! Your desktop hasn't changed much but I always thought it had a unique and interesting style. I love all the typefaces you're using and the desktop both appears classy and functional. Have a nice day :-)

I am a simple man with very simple tastes.

>>18670 Советую изперви афишыровать изтоки изобразий ибо труд такого изперви дешэвле каждого повтора. Нравитьс минимал? Попробье «OpenBSD» с «Calm Window Manager».

>>18923 Is it Bulgarian? Cause I'm trying to read it in Russian and something isn't right...

>>18925 >ы is not present in Bulgarian alphabet. >ы after ш It's most likely bad Russian as in Russian you never write ы after ш. I highly doubt any automatic translator would produce such mistakes. Maybe that annon is not a native speaker of Russian (it's language popular also in some Turkic countries - that would explain also strange grammar) or it's some Russian dialect. t. guy from Poland.

>>18920 >truetype fonts at that size

>>17784 >>18140 What are the advantages of using Arch over more popular distros? >>17845 I like how is looks trippy but also kind of minimalist and retro. I wouldn't use it but it looks cools >>18166 Do you use that browser regularly? Seems very impractical. Still like the minimalist lightweight look >>18184 Good games. Do you dual boot? >>18247 This looks good for working >>18321 >>18407 Actually pretty cool but i wouldn't be able to use it >>18630 comfy

>>19012 >sublime Learn vi or emacs. >spotify >telegram Gno. >qbittorrent Transmission, synapse or rtorrent are better. >nvidia Gno.

>>19012 >What are the advantages of using Arch over more popular distros? There aren't any. Don't even use Linux, use a BSD. > Windows Please no.

>>19019 >synapse is better ok

>>19021 Well, it may be experimental, but it's not gigantically bloated pile of bugs that is Qbitorrent, or as I have taken to call it, boost + libtorrent + Qt + spaghetti C++/Qbitorrent.

>>19012 >What are the advantages of using Arch over more popular distros? Not an Arch user, but Arch is a rolling release distro, which means you have the newest version of software quickly, whereas on Debian-based distributions, such as Ubuntu or Mint with "stable" release you can wait a few years to use latest versions. Disadvantage of rolling release is your system being less stable, especially if you use a badly designed package manager, such as pacman. On Guix System or NixOS package managers provide transactional updates and rollbacks, making your system bullet proof - you can have both stability and fresh software. Also better don't use Spotify, because it is malware: https://stallman.org/spotify.html Same Telegram - it is a honneypot. https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/telegram.html Better try GNU Jami: https://jami.net/ >>19020 >There aren't any. Don't even use Linux, use a BSD. What? I can see systemd and Arch logo on those screenshots clearly. Did you port systemd and pacman to *BSD? XD Also Linux is just a kernel, GNU/Linux is the system. Please read the FAQ: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html

>>19025 I've read the GNU manifesto many times before and I am a fan of Stallman's but GNU is not the solution. He is living in the past. BSD is the future, it just takes everyone time to understand that. You misread my post I am the guy from >>18920 Why would you ever choose to use systemd or pacman lmfao. Systemd is garbage, and pacman is an inferior ports tree.

>>19034 >AMD EPYC Nice, is this a server you are taking this screenshot from?

>>19026 >I've read the GNU manifesto That's not the GNU Manifesto, but the FAQ section explaining why people should not call the system only Linux, but GNU/Linux. >He is living in the past. BSD is the future, it just takes everyone time to understand that. How is that? GNU is developing faster than ever - we even have our own distribution now https://guix.gnu.org/ and there are some new packages addressing old problems, like Jami https://jami.net/ GNU is not dead, new versions of packages get released at least every week https://www.gnu.org/software/recent-releases.html >Why would you ever choose to use systemd or pacman lmfao. I know, I was joking. I use Guix package manager and the Shepherd.

>>19026 BSD is absolutely not the future. BSD is undoubtedly a well written operating system which is arguably "cleaner" than GNU/Linux has come to be unfortunately (not necessarily better though), however its license is trash and promotes abuse of computer users in the name of freedom.

>>19034 artix has the logo that arch should have.

>>18925 >OpenBSD I tried it. Debian is more convenient.

>>19052 actually, scratch that. after reading up a bit about it, artix is what arch SHOULD be

>>19034 Does Artix include blobs like Arch?

>>17783 I have nothing of particular interest on my desktop, but I like it that way. I don't like tiling WMs, so instead I use the standard XFWM4, but I have no window borders (I move them with Ctrl-Space, resize with Alt-Space). I also have bindings for pseudo tiles so I can move windows around screen halves/quadrants really fast, I use it very often.

>>19057 New XFCE looks so smooth with its hiDPI support

>>19060 I prefer KDE.

>>18389 Is the WM you're using convenient? I'm currently using i3 without any configuration with the default wallpaper on Devuan and I would like to start ricing my desktop, so I wonder how good are other WMs. Cute socks!

>>19035 it's not mine, that is artix's build system and server

let me know what i'm in for thanks

>>17784 Wall please? Thanks

I like this

>>19088 >worst BSD after FreeBSD >VTE bloatware >truetype font >gay PS1 >scrot instead of import

>>19095 Do you just hate BSD and Truetype fonts? How about telling us how to "fix" the truetype font issue? I agree his prompt is gay tho.

>>19095 gib better font anon thank also urxvt is literal dogshit

>>19133 Amazing! Could you share the pape?

>>19135

>>18330 DyDo appears to be a japanese company so somewhere in japan reverse image search brings back nothing

>>19098 >Do you just hate BSD Where did you get that? >Truetype fonts For monospaced fonts? Yes. >>19100 Terminus, SGI Screen or even the good old Misc Fixed.

>>18821 Such beautiful furniture.

So I switched over to bspwm, because I'm trying to set up a unified desktop between all of my machines, and I want to go without a toolbar. The problem is that I also really, want to know the time. What's the best way to be able to always display the time (or toggle the time) on my desktop without getting a bar? I was thinking of some kind of overlay. Also I will never have my desktop visible. Pic related is my bootup setup right now.

>>19133 >GNU I see you're a true believer.

>>18630 I wish I had a buddy to be with me to guide me to installin Gentoo. It's something I want to do just once just to say I did it. Kind of a "bucket list" sort of thing as silly as it may sound. Posting on forums and waiting for replies just kind of feels so alienating, I guess.

>>19265 You can install Gentoo with only the handbook, I did it as a teenager, spended two weekends of trial and error though and sound did never work out, maybe you can wait less because at the time had to wait a whole night building it. What you have to know well is the hardware you have and how partitioning works on a Unix-like system. If you are looking for real challenge try LFS. If you want to talk here is a tox id 14D6F028655D8AAE6D734BD99C15543F606B8670623E76D279F90BFBB8AA0037E8E708E73DE5

>>19265 Just read the handbook and look at the Arch wiki when it's not enough, user. The only advices I can give are to switch from ld->bfd to ld->gold early, use git instead of rsync for portage and use eselect-repository instead of layman Also, read the Gentoo wiki entries for Xorg, Radeon/Intelaviv and Alsa before building your first kernel or you'll have to do it countless times. Some other tricks: * Set LLVM_TARGETS in your make.conf to avoid building useless stuff * Make use of PORTAGE_NICENESS and PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND to build in background * MAKEOPTS="-j16 -l16", FEATURES="parallel-fetch parallel-install" and EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--tree --unordered-display --jobs=16 --load-average=16" to make use of your coarz (replace 16 by your $(nproc), of course) * Install zram-init very fast, you'll need that RAM boost

>>19265 I am happy to schedule Gentoo install fests on Mumble or IRC.

:3

I like to keep my desktop simple. No Shortcuts or any of that stuff.

>>19281 >wallpaper 10/10 >OS 2/10 Be careful Lain, they have put a bomb inside your boiler! Upgrade your Navi now. https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html

>>19280 Care to share your CSS? Looks bretty nice

>>19280 Niceee >>19281 I respect the boldness of people who post windows here, but yeah it's a bad system in more ways than most people imagine. Maybe have a separate boot partition just for gaming or whatever other software you just have to have running natively on windows, but yeah consider using something else for daily driving.

>>19292 They'll eventually learn. It took me a decade to go from using only windows, to trying Ubuntu, to going back to windows due to the gaming addiction, to finally going BSD full time. It may take a day, or a week, or even a decade but the longer he posts here, and wants to gain knowledge, he will eventually find the path.

>>19289 I'm using an extension called Midnight Lizard which modifies the colors in every site (customizable clolors, you can also add some site exceptions), I think it works in pretty much any browser (iirc it worked for me on Firefox, Chromium, IceCat and Brave). It consumes some important resources, though.

>>19295 This would be really nice if I could find a One Dark theme for it. That would mean everything in my ecosystem would be OneDark-ified. Not a huge fan of Material Dark right now.

>>19294 How does one game on BSD?

>>18376 >>19334 I am not >>19294 I did not plan to answer to that if it was not asked twice so next comes my answer and a pic that in that case comes before. You can essentially emulate almost any other platform with the power of higan, MAME and mednafen, as a funny fact FreeBSD has primary support for higan with linux having second. Games that I do not have access to are those of PS2 and those who do not run with wine, so I could waste all my life trying to complete those games remaining and die first, I also spend several time on romhacking.net so that would be a hundred lives more so.