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What does your desktop look like? (share.jackgreenearth.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Here's mine. No inspiration at all taken from a certain California based company's OS ;p

I use:

  • Manjaro OS
  • GNOME desktop
  • WhiteSur icon theme (with a few icons changed in the desktop file)
  • WhiteSur GTK and shell theme
  • Bing wallpaper
  • net speed simplified
  • Logo Menu
  • Show Desktop
  • Top Bar Organiser (to move the time to the right)
  • Overview background

I apologise if I missed anything.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Just did a fresh install of EndeavourOS with KDE 6...still using the same theme I've been using on 5.27 for months. I call it 'Windows 7 but better'

And yes I deleted my last comment while figuring out how embedding images actually works >.>

image

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Pretty utilitarian on the ol thinkpad

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Looks nice!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Well, here's my little piece of ugly:

Edit: And as for Termux:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool train! Thats in Slovakia right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yep.
Just to clarify (just in case), I am only the person behind camera.

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

This is my my phone running Debian with XFCE:

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (13 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's an odd aspect ratio for a phone. And I can't say I love the look of that DE.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It's a foldable, unfolded. And that's XFCE with a Windows 95 theme - there's plenty of fans of the classic 90's look, in fact, people have made an entire operating system around that aesthetic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'd love that theme in my industrial equipment. Such a clear and concise visual language.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, that makes sense with it being a foldable. As for the theme, each to their own, I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just a completely blank screen atm, I updated to plasma 6 and it has not been going well lol

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Is that GNOME overview with a custom dock? The dock looks like KDE, to be honest

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Day Theme Night Theme

Gnome + Dash to Dock + Arc Menu. Nothing too crazy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You use both light and dark mode? And what's arc menu?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, so Gnome has an extension called Night Theme Switcher which automatically changes your background, icons, theme, cursor etc. based on a user-defined day/night schedule. It works great.

Arc Menu is another extension which gives Gnome a standard start menu (since it doesn't come with one by default) in the top lefthand corner. It also comes with a KRunner-like app launcher that pops up in the middle of the screen instead of using the default Gnome Overview UI.

Both these extensions make Gnome feel a little more natural for desktop use, IMO.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

One of the great things I like about GNOME is how much you can customise it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the customization might not be as extensive as Plasma, but you can certainly add a ton of extra functionality with extensions.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's running on a phone?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes! SXMO Arch with waybar. It's a great little device (if you're ready and able to jump thru some hoops).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That's really cool

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, you can embed images so I don't have to got to another site to see them like this

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

ah thank you. fixed!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Endeavour OS KDE. Sorry ;-)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Default GNOME I'm a simple girl

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

GNOME looks nice by default, but I couldn't imagine using a device without a net speed tracker anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At this point you might go for a hackintosh.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Nah, I'm just inspired my macOS's design, there are still many things I prefer about Linux.

For one thing, the UI on macOS feels very unresponsive, and that's not just because I've mainly used it in a VM, I've used it on a real device too and it had the same issues. It's a fundamental issue on putting transitions that are way too long on simple functions that don't need to be a transition at all. I can't even move the cursor normally, it's smoothed in such a way that it takes much longer to get it into a precise position.

Secondly, they refuse to use the same keyboard shortcuts as Windows and Linux, and I didn't see an easy way to change them back.

Thirdly, you need to sign into an Apple account to use many apps or features of the OS. They also block a bunch of things that are simple to do in Linux.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

screenshot of my desktop. Pictured are two floating windows, both kitty, the left one is small, with pfetch just executed, the right one is bigger, with Neovim, open on src/Compositor.cpp from the Hyprland repo. At the top is a mostly default waybar. The wallpaper is a cute promotional wallpaper for Slime Rancher.

Stuff here is:

  • Hyprland: Window Manager
  • Waybar: Status bar
  • Kitty: Terminal
  • Neovim: Editor
  • swww: Wallpaper daemon (Image (archive.org link, scroll down) is a promotional wallpaper for Slime Rancher)

Workspace 3, which I actually use:

the same desktop, but two other, tiled, windows are open. The left one takes up more space. Again both Kitty, the left one with ncmpcpp open, and the right one with newsboat open.

Additional stuff here:

  • ncmpcpp: front-end for mpd (Music Player Daemon)
  • Newsboat: rss reader

The pretty wallpaper and Catppuccin Mocha theme terminal carry the looks quite a bit tbh.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That part: yes.

The part that I look at the most: eh

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, Bing image of the day

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Well, mine looks like Windows XP, but not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I like the widgets

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I’m not sure that clock is big enough

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Like default KDE fedora. I’ve done zero tweaks

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