What's your desktop look like?
 

I thought this might be a cool thread. What does your desktop look like,what running programs do you? What's in your menu? whatever. I'll go first:

desktop picture courtesy off www.fugitif.net
running apps: dragthing,dateline,wuff desktop
background apps: sidnote,tapdex,winthing,butler,main menu and super get info(used dockless to...well make it dockless)

here is me!

Desktop? Who ever sees the desktop? I have slivers of it peeking from the sides of the dock, but all other parts of the screen are covered by apps. I use the built-in nature photos set to random.

Middle screen, main screen on the G5:
http://www.cbr1100xx.org/temp/oct/middle.jpg

Right screen, extended desktop on the G5:
http://www.cbr1100xx.org/temp/oct/right.jpg

Left screen, PowerBook 12" used via Synergy:
http://www.cbr1100xx.org/temp/oct/left.jpg

You don't want to see the fourth screen, it runs on the Windows server... :D

First off, I'm not posting the screen of my little PB 12" after that flagrant display of screenyness... I think I have screen envy. But for those who want a good description...well, it usually looks the coolest when I have all my freaking programs open, Eclipse, Safari, Mail, iCal, iTunes, Colloquy, Terminal (unix is still a bear), and other random apps I might need. The other time my screen looks cool is when I have one of my ten games open (oh yeah, my dock looks cool too...)

CAlarez-

What exactly is synergy? Not, like, the group oriented 'lets all get along' kind. But the app.

Synergy lets you use multiple computers as if they were one. You slide the mouse across the screens the same as having an extended desktop. I've got the G5, PB, and a Windows 2003 machine running it and can go across all of them. Whatever machine/screen the mouse is on, the keyboard goes to that machine. You can even cut/paste across machines with it, which is important to me. It's open source, free.

It gets a little schizophrenic having multiple machines, running multiple OSs, and each of them further containing terminal sessions to various other machines, but that's what I do all day. Synergy really helps so I don't have more piles of windows over windows. Right now I'm looking at and working across OS X, Fedora 3, Redhat Enterprise, Windows 2003, and Windows XP. Oh, and Windows 2000 in VPC.

I'm a heavy multi-tasker, you could say.

Oh yeah, and I forgot I also have a remote session to my Pocket PC running over there on the right screen inside one of the TS sessions.

CAlvarez, you are my new hero. What on earth do you do for a living? I want to have 4 or 5 screens going at any given time!

I'm a geek/consultant. Design and manage business systems, IS, IT stuff, all inter-related. I get to also play with some video systems that are Mac based, and I do some sideline work in photography sometimes. And lately I've been working with some VoIP systems and call center software.

Left 17" LCD Studio Display attached my heavily upgraded 2002 Quicksilver.

How did you do that with your dock so that its on the bottom and left? And how did you get the date time thing at the bottom?

Mine has a DT Picture of Kanye West, i have my 2 HD mounted at the right, and my dock at the bottom. In my dock are the following apps, the ones in caps are the ones currently open.

FINDER
PTHiTUNES NOTIFIER 2.4.2
iTUNES 6.0
iPhoto 2.0
Address Book 3.1
iCAL 1.5.5
FIREFOX 0.10.1
Safari
iChat 2.0
aim 4.7b1333
MSN MESSENGER 4.0.1
yahoo messenger 2.5
mail 1.3.9
Microsoft Word,Excel,Entrourage, and Powerpoint
MacJanitor 1.2.1
Calculator 3.1
Software Update
System Prefs 2.2
HotSync Manager
Seti@home OSX
Warcraft II Battle.net Edition
Warcraft II BNE Map Editor
Preview 2.1.0
The Sims
and last but not least the Trash Can

awesome awesome awesome bedouin evryones desktop should have aqua teen hunger force on it.

oh yeah.... good lord CAlvarez you aint kidding about not seein the desktop.

ps: i also have screen envy

My desktop picture changes fairly often; it's my Dock with all the custom Icons which I most enjoy!

screengem0531 i assume you were asking me that question. On the bottom is my regular dock changed with transparent dock and the right is dragthing. i just made them look similar. it looks pretty cool i think. look on versiontracker.com for transparent dock and dragthing. oh yeah the date is a program called dateline also found on versiontracker. and the time is on my desktop with a program called wuffdesktop

I need help. I always have major trouble trying to post pics off my desktop or anything on this site. When I take the screenshot, it always tells me the file is two big. How do I make the size of the file smaller?

Thanks

Jim

i had the same problem too it says it was to big so i resized the photo with a program called resize. im sure there is an easier way but this was pretty easy to me. http://kstudio.net/dlpages/rex.html this is the link for it. just make a new folder put the photo in it and resize it to 640x480. also an easy way to make the jpg smaller is take it into preview hit "save as" and turn down the quality of the jpg.

Thanks guys. Heres my desktop.

Open programs:
Finder
Safari
Mail
Dashboard
iChat
System Preferences
Mactracker
Resize!
Preview

iTunes is also open, playing Mozart's Requiem KV.626 (Lacrimosa Dies Illa)

Please forgive the Windows Vista Bliss desktop.

I just thinks its so darn cool!


:D

Where did you get your icon skins?

i got them from www.resexcellence.com in the "icons" section they have tons of great stuff. check out their mac inspired desktops they're pretty sweet too. oh and i used candybar
(www.panic.com) to keep them that way until i decide to change them.

Here's me. G5 with 20" display.

Whilst I was borrowing my dads 15" this was the desktop and a list of stuff.

Now I'm back on my 12" *cries* and my 'new' 15" is actually a battered 15" that is waiting to go back to the ebay seller (stupid rip off people.)

My current desktop is the same think different pic as on the 15". In fact its all the same (gotta love apple migration assistant!)

iNemo, where did you get that desktop?

Can't remember if I picked the photo up from somewhere, or if I found the whole desktop pic somewhere.

Probably found the whole thing somewhere.

Tis at http://applemacfreak.com/images/springwater.png if you want it...

A sense of home...
 

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I really like this NASA photo -- it gives me a sense of "home". You can see the curvature and almost feel the thickness ’n layers of the atmosphere.

Open apps (hidden): Word, Entourage, PowerPoint, Safari, iTunes, MacJanitor, iPhoto, iPhoto Library Manager, Photoshop, Preview, Acrobat Reader.

I have two screens, and what it looks like totally depends on what I'm doing. If I'm doing some software development then my big screen is totally owned by NetBeans or Eclipse (it's all Java stuff). And my second screen has the terminal open, Safari for my JavaDocs and usually Adium open so I can chat with my friends about how we're going to do the program.

When I'm feeling up to it I'll dink with the Torque Game Engine. I'm not all that great with it, but I'm slowly learning. Usually I'll let the main editor window own my big screen again. Then I'll have tutorials opened in Safari, JEdit opened so I can work on TorqueScript, Adium so I can chat with anyone who happens to show up and, occasionally, textEdit for quick notes.

The only other major activity I do with my computer is recording stuff in GarageBand. I usually take my laptop away from the big screen for that. Thus GarageBand owns my little 12" screen.

I'd post my backgrounds, but I don't want to take the time to shrink them down. If you want to see the backgrounds I use go to http://www.digitalblasphemy.com. Right now I'm using the one called "something blue".

And my dock is as follows:

Finder
Mail
Safari
Solitaire Forever
Star Wars Battlefront
Baldur's Gate
HomeWorld
Nuku
JEDict
iCal
iSync
Adium
iTunes
GarageBand
Activity Monitor
Terminal
iPhoto
Dictionary
Word
TextEdit
Excel
Calculator
HandBrake
Torque OSX
Blender
The Gimp 2.2
Zippist
Fugu
NetBeans
JEdit
Eclipse
System Preferences
PCGen
Trash