Desktop thread

>>57666 hit bump limit not posting my whole desktop for privacy reasons here's my wallpaper

That's cool. Mine is pony porn, so I can't even post that. I barely see it anyway.

background is from the game GoNNER, probably my favorite game of all time

I rather dislike KDE, but I'm too new to Linux to know exactly what I want. All I know is that it needs to be lightweight and simple. I really want something like a pegboard, where I can pin and resize windows at set intervals and be able to do it on a keyboard.

Just the Mint XP theme. I get a nostalgic kick out of it

>>61627 May i have the wallpaper, please? Is cool.

>>61629 I just discovered a full replica Windows 95 theme, can even have icons based on the show 'Friends'. Nostalgic sickness.

>>61630 Kino, nothing really relevant to trade for it unfortunately but i still wanna thank back with something random i had on my "unstaged" files.

I changed my color background to white from black. Anyway, OP is glitterboy.

Comfy early 2000's look and feel with MATE Nothing special really, but out of all the Linux DE's I've tried so far this is my favourite. Lightweight, relatively simple and seems very robust Had to blur the files on the desktop

Endevaour OS + i3 and dynamic-wallpaper

>>61641 MATE gang Indeed a robust and comfy DE

>>61648 Any chance I can get the wallpaper?

>>61657 https://github.com/adi1090x/dynamic-wallpaper/blob/master/images/market/6.jpg The repo has several interesting dynamic wallpapers.

>>61601 its what im currently using to browse lainchan this moment, but of course i have other systems i use

>>61651 link for wallpaper?

"embedded development," they say

It's pretty funny because i use a FreeBSD that looks like WinXP.

>>61639 Interesting font, what is it?

>>58610 pape on this? reverse search comes up with nothing, looks like tkmiz tho

>>61751 https://images.hdqwalls.com/download/fictional-artwork-building-city-yu-3840x2400.jpg

>>61601 devuan with xfce is so comfy

>>61601 >OP, Desktop thread >Posts no actual desktop

>>61787 It's a long tradition, desktop threads have always been about showing off you desktop background. Let that sink in.

>>61618 Could you share the wallpaper, anon? Please.

stop fuarrrking around with rice

>>61657 It comes from here https://github.com/adi1090x/dynamic-wallpaper

If you want my desktop, search up what the default pape is for KDE. That will be my desktop.

>>61639 pape? plz

Hi i'm the linux ultranoob of >>61472 Thanks to you Lains' awesome advice I was able to get a surprisingly easy to use and efficient setup on my laptop

>>61701 Hermit >>61819 Pic related.

>>61631 >>61631 I love how subtle the style of the picture is, it'd just pass as some random fantasy world if you didn't know what cartoon it was about.

>>61751 don't forget to come and get your mumarnat so that you can get to enter Israel once a year©

>>61832 혹시 한국에 사세요? 바탕화면이 너무 귀여워

>>61877 What do you do on your pc and how do you do it with 9front? e.g. Do you read books? If so how did you get your pdf reader?

>>61877 Cool, can you pass the wallpaper please, anon? Also is Acme really that good?

I didn't realize that, when I made my post here >>61625 that I was really looking for a tiling window manager. What's the best one to start with?

>>61881 I don't use tiling window managers but you can choose dwm for a minimal window manager that you patch features on to (if you're one of those anti bloat people). There's also sowm which follows the same philosophy but as a floating window manager. If you want a fully featured tiling window manager then your options are i3 or XMonad, if you don't know Haskell you probably want to opt for i3 since XMonad is configured in haskell (though it is becoming the more popular option nowadays I believe).

>>61601 I set up an old laptop as a 9front cpu/auth/fs server. I tls boot my daily driver laptop from a usb stick. I have to boot into Linux for some things, but I spend most of my time in 9front.

>>61881 i3(or sway), dwm, awesomewm, qtile etc

>>61881 >tiling WM I wouldn't stat with DWM. I really dislike the overly """suckless"""/minimalist philosophy DWM has. Maintaining patches that are scattered around is stupid and I'm worried about the quality patches. For example, a popular YouTuber called "luke smith" is maintaining a fork of DWM but, IIRC, he even doesn't know much C (as far as I know. he just knows git and how to apply a patch). With a language like C, you really want a programmer/maintainer who knows the language (and X11 is a huge mess). Other WMs are better because of this, since you are only copying someone's config file. I recommend AwesomeWM and Ratpoison (or StumpWM if you are CL fan). If you want Wayland, use Sway (a clone of i3-gaps for Wayland). Bspwm and Xmonad are popular, too. I recommend you try all these WMs. I liked Ratpoison because it's simple but nowadays I prefer a stacking WM with multiple desktops/workspaces.

>>61892 this desktop looks familiar... ...nico?

>>61961 >weston It's the reference implementation but I wouldn't actually use it. >Can I ditch Plasma and portions of X or is there a reason to keep them around? Sure. You only need xf86-video-vesa (or whatever), xf86-input-libinput, xwayland and the wayland compositor of your choice. >Are i3's config files compatible with Sway so if I ever wanted to grab some config I could do so? The documentation seemed to strongly imply this. Almost, but you probably need to adapt the config. Sway has sway --validate option for checking the config. >>61963 >but I just don't know how to properly install software outside a package manager yet. Generally, you should avoid doing that. Instead it's better to find a package or a 3rd-party repo/flatpak. I would even consider switching the distro if there was a package I needed but that wasn't packaged for my distro.

>>62140 Is it possible to get them on Linux? I reading around and people were mentioning stuff about variable-width fonts being impossible to make work on linux. Also do you know the exact name of the font?

>>62123 >Font please? That's VGA, the default font on 9front. You can get a copy here: http://sciops.net/downloads/vga/

>>62247 I'll try to get it for you sir. Winfetch uses a power shell feature that converts a jpg to ASCII so all I do is give a path to an image. I'll provide the image and try to copy and paste the ASCII

>>62251 >>62247 >>62244 https://pastebin.com/hSid7Yrg Here's the paste bin and the actual jpg itself if you wanted the colours or anything

>>62290 Thank you very much dude.

>>62291 no worries man :)

pls comment my kde thinkpad desktop uwu >>62233 is it comfy? does suck? it's functional I'm dying soon.

>>62397 >Reverse image search says is from The Owl House. Indeed.

>>61666 I love HaikuOS, sadly couldn't get network drivers up on my toaster PC I was using alongside my laptop at the time.

>>62455 >1921x1080 Where'd you get that extra pixel guvna?

>>62496 I think it's easier to find configs and docs for fvwm2 but fvwm3 is the future. But keep in mind that fvwm3 is beta quality software. I recommend fvwm2.

How do you decide on which WM to use? I constantly switch between IceWM,Fvwm,E16 and E25 which is obviously stopping me from getting work done.

>>62556 >How do you decide on which WM to use? Pick the one that does thing you need and works the way you want. Make sure that the WM you use is easy to customize. And make sure it's getting updates (check the git repo). I like IceWM because it's so simple to use.

>>62562 >>62562 I'm assuming that you currently use Awesome. Why did you switch from Enlightenment to Awesome?

let's just kill the thread and start a new one already, this one will never get content with OP not even posting a desktop screenshot

>>62608 Dwm is configured by writing and compiling code yourself. Doesn't get much more programmable than that. I also hear good things about xmonad, but haven't looked into it all that much.

>>62833 Doed your terminal have a transparent bg and white borders? I think that'd look pretty cool

>>61666 I have an old laptop that run on Void Linux but I plan to try Haiku on it. Looks comfy. Comparing with Void (with XFCE) which one would be more resource intensive for my old bad boy ?

>>62925 Both GNU/Linux and Haiku are lightweight enough to use on old computers. Haiku has much worse HW support and there is less software available. I'm pretty sure that Haiku GUI might use less RAM but Xfce4 is also pretty light.

>>62927 Thanks. Will try it hust for the sake of trying something new then. This laptop is mostly used to test soykafs so I have nothing to lose giving it a try.

when you get so sick of phosh being slow and plasma-mobile being broken that you roll your own DE to escape

>>62937 I don't use smartphone but out of curiosity, have you a git or something to learn a bit more please ?

>>62995 It's terrible, so much wasted space specially if you try to use it in smaller resolutions like 1366x768.

>>62119 updated. i changed the icons and overall look of my panel. my desktop background changes constantly but it's usually a tiled background from https://github.com/wallace-aph/tiles-and-such/ . >>62993 this is cute, can you share the wallpaper? where is that drawing from?

>>63056 not lain, but the drawing is of moriya suwako of touhou project

>>61618 >>61790 Bump, couldn't reverse search it.

>>63116 Cropped a tile, and reverse searched that. https://wallpapercave.com/gonner-wallpapers That's 2 for 2.

>>63118 Thanks, lainon! >>63136 That cover is cool

>>61879 On 9front I use page(1) to read pdfs (and other documents), but usually I prefer physical books. My computer is mostly used to administer my personal servers, listen to music, and write. Troff and zuke work well for the latter two. >>61880 Without getting too far into religious issues, I use sam as my text editor over acme. It's simple. I run commands in a shell window like a normal person. Sam is a text editor, whereas acme is an alternative user interface and mail client that some people use as their text editor, where every program requires some sort of special hand-holding. However, on a UNIX system, it's really useful, since there's no other way to get a good text-based user interface. >>62123 >>62149 is right. There are other fonts on the system, but VGA is my favourite. >>62140 Right now I have a laptop in my basement set up as a cpu/auth/fs server (cirno) that I TLS boot from on my laptop (logos). That's why I have the two fetches. Eventually I'd like to get another machine to separate my auth services from my files. Sorry to everybody clambering for the wallpaper, I've been away.

>>61651 I want this wallpaper. Anyone?

>>63294 This one was just a reverse image search.

>>63377 I liked the wallpaper. I see many lain-posters using dwm is it that good?

>>61651 I really like retro tiling wallpapers. >>61681 >>63294 Here is also a bunch of wallpapers like that: https://github.com/wallace-aph/tiles-and-such

>>63441 i will never use anything but dwm in my life i dont even have any patches

>>63441 >>63444 I consider SpectrWM to be a good alternative too. It's a DWM clone written by some OpenBSD guys but the default bindings are better AND you can configure most of it without recompiling.

>>63321 I like this. >>63441 I'm using DWM because it is such simple and light.

I recently switched to neovim and I like it quite a bit. I think I'm gonna make the switch to i3 now.

>>63444 >>63461 >>63467 Honestly this morning I tried dwm and xmonad. I can say they really is like kicking dead whales down the beach. Especially their config. i3 is just simple and it werks wm. Luke $hilled dwm so hard I gived chance but now I realized. What are some easy configurable "just werks" wm such as i3?

>>63483 Awesome WM handles config at compile, but using lua I believe. So a lot more user friendly.

>>63509 icewm, openbox, or i3. All 3 have simple easy to understand configuration files and good documentation. i3 especially.

my magnum opus i had really loved void fun for ricng

New to linux >>62562 Those desktop icons are annoying as fuarrrrrrk

>>63918 >unless I'm able to exclusively install Gentoo, it's either Gentoo or nothing, Why don't you install Gentoo? You could practice installing Gentoo using VirtualBox. If you need help while installing Gentoo, you can even access #gentoo @ Libera IRC channel (using irssi) while you are installing Gentoo using the LiveCD (aka installation iso). More info on IRC: >>63625 If you want to dual-boot Linux and Windoze, you should first use Windows disk management tools to shrink a partition (reserve at least ~20-30GB for Linux). >what's like to use non-Gentoo linux?, is it cool? Yes. Gentoo is the best and most flexible Linux distro but using some other distro is much better than using Windoze. Just try Gentoo or Debian/Devuan or Arch/Artix. >>63919 >I thought about installing gentoo but I couldn't find a 32bit version of it(or maybe i was just being stupid). Go to https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/ and scroll down to "Advanced choices and other architectures" and select X86 tab. Download the minimal installation iso and then follow the Handbook: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86 When you download stage3 (it's explained in the Gentoo Handbook), you need to download the i686 OpenRC version of Stage3 tarball (optionally, you can also use the hardened version). But if you have low-end laptop, I recommend you install Arch Linux or Artix Linux instead as building packages takes a long time on a low-end laptop (but you can try it and see if the build times aren't too long in your opinion).

>>61601 I got a new computer. Unfortunately I bought into the thinkpad meme.

>>63473 Looks great and good music taste. >>61639 <3

I like things simple and basic, keeps me focused on my work - and yes, I know I have to clean that desktop... (also have TBs of music and movies left to sort and back up but I'm waiting for another lockdown I guess)

>>63972 I would have a flat grey colour, maybe darker, and would organize my archives differently, but I like your minimalistic style

>>63972 What's the pi for? Pihole, micro-NAS? I want an excuse to buy one they're cool

this is going sound really dumb, but how do you make your desktop so custom i have been using the default xfce mint and would really like to change it up

>>63993 literally just search "xfce mint how to customize" on-line

>>63993 The basics: >Get a wallpaper from https://konachan.com/ (use the Xfce4 settings or feh/nitrogen/swaybg to set it) >Use your package manager to find a GTK theme and an icon theme. I like https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 (but if you are new, it's best to pick a theme that's packaged in your distro's official repos!) >Use lxappearance (or Xfce4 settings => Appearance) to change the GTK theme and Icon theme. Perhaps change the fonts, too... (again use the package manger to find new fonts. I like Hack (monospace) and Noto fonts.) >Optionally use conky >Open terminal, use neofetch or pfetch and take a screen shot using scrot (or something). Clear the meta-data using Exiftool. You can also install another WM (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Window_manager) if you want. I recommend you install i3/Sway, IceWM or OpenBox. If you want a bar for OpenBox, I recommend Tint2. And use other people's dotfiles as inspiration or starting point: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dotfiles

>>63428 i3ubuntu >>63744 when i was making this, i felt so happy, everything worked perfect

>>64015 how did you get it looking so flat?

>>62534 sauce on the qt? onegai

>>64030 nvm I found her, ella gross there is no fuarrrking way she is 13 what the fuarrrk

>>64023 Flat? Not sure what you mean. I removed the dock and window bar from appearing (unless I hover over it with the mouse). Then I increased the contrast in the accessibility settings to make it pop a little more. Other than that there's not much else. Customization is pretty limited.

>>64031 >just discovered neoteny lol

>>62532 You ever listen to DEHUMANIZING ITATRAIN WORSHIP? lol Though truth be told if you ever make it past slam there's a ton of top tier soykaf. How's using a tiling wm on a laptop? I like bspwm on my desktop, but am a little hard pressed to leave multi-touch on my laptop

>>63253 I redid your IBM wallpaper (almost) entirely from source removing the reflections; there's already a version like that on the web, but with fuarrrking JPEG artifacts. Guess you could want it.

Making some progress on my GUI lib. I said in the previous thread that it should be done by summer, but I slacked off and I am only still overall 70% done and 90% with the core, that will manage my windows, layouts and cells (=widgets). I need to finish my input controls to have an UI fully controllable either by pointer or keyboard.

>>62927 I finally put Haiku on the machine and it's way more fast than void. I just need to familiarise myself with the window manager. But I like it, I can finally use my old laptop without any troubles.

>>64008 Basically me. For a not so techy guy just wanting to use my desktop for simple things without having so many time to rice and learn, Mint + Xfce is just the perfect tool. However I plan to try some simple tilling WM one day.

>>64161 Send Lain wallpaper from second and third pic?

What are the best patches for dwm? What do you think lain?

https://satanslibrary.org/666BlackSun/Real_Holocaust.html >>64403 attachaside is nice.

>>64403 Last time I used dwm I forewent any patches, since I really only ever use fullscreen applications on their own workspaces. It was surprisingly usable.

>>64404 Why the transparent, brown task bar? Doesn't really fit the color scheme and OS9 icons. Also, that pdf reader's use of screen real estate is terrible. I'm guessing it's KDE with its gargantuan qt themes.

Full botnet desktop. fuarrrk fuarrrk fuarrrkfuck body too short aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

>>64522 >“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.” ...i was more correct and literal than i realized. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHFN3e3yhdA

https://ancient-forums.com/viewtopic.php?p=393372#p393372 >>65075 Correct, me.

aaqi returning to show that I can use linux (barely) >>63136 pape pls? >>63377 Thank you for the kind words about my windows desktop, I also think ur desktop is cleann >>63473 Love this

>>63699 I like this. Is this gud for a first attempt at Windows??

>>65339 Waybar? That looks pretty nice. Muted colors and padding in the bar are relaxing to loook at. Are you using a display manager or just starting from TTY?

>>65343 Yeah, waybar with pretty basic config. To start sway i just use something like this in my shell config (i use fish btw) if status is-interactive if [ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ]; then exec sway end end

>>64089 Holy soykaf, that looks so dope, I hope you can finish your project

Ricers rejoice, my lemonbar framework is finally in a good state: https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/lemonbar-tcl

https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=GilB5_uyRB0

these are my two virtual workspaces, with a bunch of different types of windows open. i cycle through them with the scroll wheel or ctrl+alt+h . notice how the panel resizes as more windows are added? icons are from haikuOS, 9front cursor.

hey what's up hey what's up hey what's up

>>65330 Looks solid! If I wasn't looking too hard at the icon and the settings window wasn't there, could have fooled me.

Tiling window managers are soulless and so is any attempt at making your system look like some defunct old OS that is no longer developed. After any amount of ricing Linux becomes a Frankenstein monster and only building off the default environment of a popular desktop distribution is usable in the long term. It's so bad that I'm on the verge of going full Terry Davis and making my own OS.

>>66081 Please, share that cute Lain gentleman Nice RAM load

>>64149 Can you please send the wallpaper?

Just getting started with dwm if you have any tips it will be welcome

>>66390 Nice cpu, and nice neofetch ascii art, how did you made it?

Hope I'm not too terrible at this, any good guide?

I got lazy as fuarrrk, how do I get back the fun to tinker and learn something new? what motivates you?

>>61919 Wallpaper up for grabs?

let this thread finally die this post was sent by human

Kinda basic but I like having monochrome rice(?), the wallpaper made by MidJourney I just add a filter to make it pixelated and black and white, I had done it with a camera filter program but do not remember to be honest.

>>66390 If you also use st, make sure to use the "any geometry" patch to ensure you have no ugly gaps at the bottom

>>67250 >What DE is this? Either MATE or Xfce4.

>>61694 Irks me that it isn't perfect

>>61900 Dang I'm going to have to try Sway that's exactly what I'd want for trying tiling

>>61751 https://github.com/behdad/bicon/ look into this Arab lainon

Not very cyberpunk or oldschool, but I like this.

>>67345 is that xfce? looks great

>>67354 What's the font and WM? this is comfy

>>67361 Thanks. And no, it's Hyprland with Waybar

>>66687 >Are you referring to ricing or just life in general? I was referring to both. I have now got me to make somewhat. I made an XFCE and AwesomeWM "rice" and setup a invidious instance. But I used to do much more tinkering :( I have Cinnamon XFCE4 and AwesomeWM on the same machine and user, they surprisingly don't interfer with each other

Nothing fancy. Just need an indicator for the volume level.

>>67509 whats the icon pack?

>>67525 thx :D >>61694 i love the wallpaper on this

>>61601 >>61631 >>61630 >>61919 >>64562 based

>>72543 post your bg image i will make it 1920x1080 so that you won't get the ugly black bars

>>61618 father.2006 is amaziing, I always understood his music more than msot >>61751 other Arab lainon?

>>72544 Sir, those aren't just any black bars. Those are glorious, load-bearing, nubian columns. You can't just tear those down, they're priceless AND the whole desktop would collapse without them.

>>72545 wallpaper please?

>>61601 >starts desktop thread >doesn't post desktop

>>72577 lrn2edit comrade it's a useful skill

new desktop, its the first time im daily driving linux as i wanted 6 years ago.

>>73548 forgot to add ss lol. wayland seems more stable these days

>>72544 i already used it. may every jew be dismembered, and every united states agent shot. try it.

>>73656 >may every jew be dismembered Does that include Stallman?

>>73660 >Does that include Stallman? As he mentioned in one of his interviews "an atheist of Jewish ancestry". Sauce: https://archive.org/download/The_Basement_Interviews/Richard_Stallman_Interview.pdf

>>73545 Was about to post the same XD >>73656 How the fuarrrk is it relevant to the thread or the post ?

>>66698 po polsku kosz a po angielsku godzina

>>73660 i was raped of my own mind. you see kundalini and think, nah its cool. you. dont. seem. to. understand.

>>73672 >oh i wanna be wizard! so cool, oh soykaf spells and all sweep my floor for fifteen years.

>>73671 w win/linux date ci daje w jezyku danego kraju ktory tam wybrales, anon pewnie mieszka w uk albo irlandii

>>61601 My current WIP on hyprland. I know it says sway, but that's a workaround for some issues I was having.

>>66081 What font is that? he he he he

>>61601 Psych ward Lain tuning in!

>>74079 How did they allow him/her to have tools like wire cutters and cables? I remember my few trips to the psych ward and they would never have wanted me to have this in my room. Having a laptop was enough to make them uncomfortable.

>>74079 Why are you in a psych ward?

>>74081 Suppose lain has turned oneself in, and is trusted by the nurses.

>>74081 Lain, when are you gonna stage your great escape? >>74082 For saying stuff like "everyone's connected" and schizo rambling like Lain in the SEL

>>74084 I guess it may depend on the reason why your in a psych ward. If you're suicidal or potentially violent I doubt they'll grant you those kind of tools...

here's the win10 desktop I'm using right now

These threads are always amazing and original. Making your desktop pictures anime girls is what linux was designed for. long live linux!

>>61627 >XP is nostalgic LOL how old are you? Twelve?

>>74281 Not him but as an almost 40 yo, yes XP hits the nostalgy spot in me.

>>66575 phone user this post was sent by a human

>>74282 why is something from your twenties nostalgic?

>>74286 I guess that's something to do with growing up. When you can look back twenty years ago I think it's something that make you think in a certain way.

>>74081 Maybe Lain works in the psych ward.. and has a bed there for some reason

>>61601 Lots of Void users. Which is nice to see. I moved from Void to Gentoo, Gentoo is nice.

>>61601 moved to openSUSE recently, so far quite a comfy distro, though rolling releases do terrify me a little

>None of you niggas are using gmacs ngmi

Really liking this wallpaper lately. The image is from RAMS digital Library.

>>83601 there should be resources on awesome's webpage for you to get started. my college's internet is fuarrrked and i can't access awesome's webpage for some reason, so no links rn. :(

>>67523 nta but that's clearly the default gtk icons and theme

>>72459 could i have your awesome theme :D thanks