Show your Desktop
 

Couldn't find a thread on this. I'm a member of many hi-fi forums and there's always a thread somewhere where people can post piccies of their setup.

So I thought i'd start an equivalent one here :) :

(my desktop is actually 1280x854, but I had to scale it down slightly to allow imageshack to host it)

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/2...ure13bs.th.png

...would be interesting to see what the rest of you have.

that is a cool pic!

I don't think i should show off my theme desktops. Unless you like kung fu and monkeys and plus, well I run mostly windows/linux but do have a G4 and G5 in my office we use for work stuff. Maybe I'll copy one of my themes over and post it.

Yes please. It would be great to "put a desktop to a name" for everyone ;)

I've got about 81 images on continual rotation, of which 18 are of astronomy. Got loadsa them from Hubble Site amongst others. I'm not an astronomer, but am still always amazed when I see great piccies of other solar-systems/nebulae/planets.

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/1...ktop7el.th.jpg

<3 you, ImageShack.

Nice specs Mikey-San :)

What's that lock symbol in the taskbar? Can't see the option in my sys prefs.
(oh, and how did you get the dock to sit "down" against the bottom if you don't mind me asking?, might be useful for me too)

How did you get that cool design for your Terminal? :cool:

Here's mine:

http://img343.imageshack.us/img343/6378/desktop9tn.jpg

Mikey-San is a zen master of the terminal, that is how he has that :D

That, and you can go to "Window Settings" in Terminal and change it to look however you want.
I like the green text on black background and enough transparency to see what's behind it.

The lock is the Keychain Access menu bar item. You can enable it with Keychain Access.

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/4024/picture11oh.png

The Dock's pinning can be set via /usr/bin/defaults like so:

you$ defaults write com.apple.dock pinning end|middle|start

Pick one of those three, log out and back in, and you're good to go.

I've got Gaffer's galaxy, too. It's one of 399 images from which one is chosen at random at bootup for each of my monitors.

Needless to explain why I'm not posting 399 Desktop screenshots here?

Most are astronomical or fractals or landscape photography. A few custom Photoshop or Painter creations.

http://www.silvernetworks.net/spy/download.php

Show a live view of your screen online!
And no, it's not spyware, you can shut it off whenever you want.

Currently the developer is re-doing his site, so he doesn't have the full description back up.

Good going..399 :eek:.
My fave has to be a high res shot of the horsehead nebula.
Doesn't need to be all 399, just post one of 'em up :D


...er, isn't it easier to just press "shift-command-3" and post that image to imageshack?

Mikey-San thanx for the tips :)

Here's mine…

A question: if I position my dock on the left, it goes in the center of the window. How do you guys manage to place it at the bottom-right of the screen?

okay here is one of my mac desktops on my G4 QS at work, it is not as cool as some of these but here it is.

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/3369/dtop9ml.th.jpg

Didja read the thread?

Edit: See the post above about Dock pinning.

Oh my, I only looked at the pictures... :o

Thanks

Pick one :)

http://home.earthlink.net/~ahunter03...Series%201.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~ahunter03...Series%202.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~ahunter03...Series%203.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~ahunter03...Series%204.jpg

EDIT: Changed to links to reduce the overall POP of too many images on the page. - yellow

Bleedin 'eck :eek:

My first color-capable Mac was a 7100/80 running System 7.5, and some piece of software I bought came with a free copy of Connectix Desktop Utilities, one module of which let you set a desktop picture, like the later Desktop Picture Control Panel.

So I've been collecting these and having a random one chosen at bootup time ever since then.

Wow, lots of neat fractals in there - is there a site that you use, or are those just collected over the years?

I also use a set (nowhere near 400 though) of random fractal, astronomy, anime, and photo images - here is an interesting one:

http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/ne...-z-output.html

Cool article, too. Some guy managed to achieve 2 billion degrees Kelvin, equal to about 3560000000° F!

The fractals: I took screenshots of the ones I liked, using 3 different fractal generating softwares over the years.

The oldest ones were generated under System 7 using a program called Floating Fractals. I switched to another one called PowerXPlorer and used it during MacOS 8-9 years.

Finally, under OS X, I made heavy use of the screensaver Fracture.

Wow, thanx for that link, great Fractals with Fracture (i personally mainly use StratWars though :) )

Here's another of mine:

http://img350.imageshack.us/img350/6...ure17ik.th.jpg

Here's mine.

That's my Aerial Photography platform :)

www.horizonimaging.net


David

I have about 60 randomly changed every 15 minutes, but I think this is my favorite. Odd I know since it's OS X and not Linux, but my PB is a dual-boot with Gentoo, so I consider it valid ;).

For me, I've got Gaffer's galaxy. It's one of 399 images from which one is chosen at random at bootup for each of my monitors. Cool. Love it :)

I just went on a 'deviant art rampage' and got most of the good 3d ones, bringing my tally up to 236 :)

here is mine... pretty new to macs (just got a powerbook a few months ago).
see it
~ Doug

okay here go some more of mine...

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/5524/dtop18px.th.jpg

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/3361/dtop24wk.th.jpg

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/6281/dtop34am.th.jpg

Here are my current desktops.

KDE:
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/859/34183139pt8.png

XFCE:
http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/2804/58073547di5.png

IceWM: ("old-school" look)
http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/787/18022166pm2.png

BlackBox:
http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/3291/87646730yb0.png

I have about 33 pictures changing every 5 seconds.

Nice desktops! I love these threads, gives me ideas of stuff to do with mine. Im coming off of Ubuntu Linux to OS X so I LOVE chaging everything I can, as often as physically posible. Well here's my current desktop


http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...y/Picture1.png

My Desktop
 

Ok, it's a little boring but here it is.

http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/3830/image03yg9.jpg

Nothing to see here...

I use MenuShade, Hazel, Dock Hiding, and Finder Preferences to keep my desktop free of distractions.

http://homepage.mac.com/capitaljlong...te/Desktop.jpg

This isn't the desktop you are looking for!

Nice pics everyone,

Ron, seriously that desktop is messy!!!!! Your theme is very cool though I like it!

It's about as dull as you can get, isn't it?

I made a gradual transition to my current desktop (a fade to black ;)) Among other things, this was briefly my desktop - pre MenuShade:

http://homepage.mac.com/capitaljlong...eadDesktop.jpg

Then I switched to this self portrait - but I felt silly looking at myself:

http://homepage.mac.com/capitaljlong.../SPDesktop.jpg

I had the kids up there for a while, but I'm a full time, stay at home dad. I see them plenty already. :D

Cool! How does that work in combination with semi-transparent inactive windows?http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/6544/85414018ws5.png

Here's mine... It's a fractal I made a couple of years ago.

Yep, I am a busy (messy) person. Thanks for the compliment!:rolleyes:

The theme is pulsar which is a mixture of turquoise, black and grey. I am glad that someone shares my taste for the look of a desktop.

Is there any way to make fractals in Photoshop or Illustrator? Exuse my ignorance.

I don't know about doing it with Photoshop or Illustrator, but you can (and I do) make them with this free app: http://xaos.sf.net/ What's really fun is that you get to zoom in and out in real time, so it feels like you're flying through a fractal landscape.

Here is my Desktop.

It is on a five minute update.

Thanks for the link, ataraxia, I'll check it out!

agnosticgod, does that image change according to the time of day? What's the link for it, or how did you do it? Excuse my ignorance once again, I've been using Macs for my whole life but haven't really gotten into the fiddly bits :)

Priority One, that looks like EarthDesk, one of a few similar applications.

Nice candle, Daniel_C.

Here's my G4 Sawtooth, back in the day:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...0222454&size=o
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...6163340&size=o

I'll have some of my MacBook Pro when it comes back.

It is the freeware OSXPlanet that was on the "few similar" link. I thought about the EarthDesk, but until I run into any problems from OSXPlanet then I will probably stay with what I have.

And yes it does update according to the time. It also shows the current location of the Space Station and Hubble Telescope, along with real cloud cover, volcano, and earthquake information. I have the earthquake and volcano options turned off though.

Charles

here goes one on my MBP, which rotates every 35 minutes I think

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/6...ure1yp5.th.jpg

tlarkin that image looks like a scanned in photo image. Do you really need the other people in the background?:D

I changed it because grey is boring. This one has same theme, different colors. I like colors.

http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/3856/image01ft8.jpg

http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/2659/picture1ei4.jpg
There's mine. I used Stattoo (Unfortunately, not registered), and that desktop came from deviantart.

well when grindhouse first came out, it was like the only wall paper I could find, and it changes every 30 minutes....I can post more.

here go some more desktop action on my MBP

http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/7...ure3cu4.th.jpg

http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/5315/picture1xm5.jpg

Very cool nature look, where do I get a copy of this? No, I don't want to take a screen shot of it!

I get a lot of wall papers from www.interfacelift.com

I don't have any recent pics of my desktop, and I'm not going to take one now, cuz my desktop is really messed up, with loads of downloaded stuff and messed up company files that I need to find them the right folder. Anywayz, heres a pic of my desktop from about a month or two ago.

http://blip.tv/file/get/Felixmc-DesktopSnap499.png

I went to the site that you linked, and that is one genius of an idea! Low level arial photography, from a model helicopter of all things! I wonder, is it less of a distraction? Could you use it at a gathering, like a concert, to take aerial shots without bugging people? I would imagine that little model would at least by less distracting than a full size helicopter eh?

And as a general note, I think it's interesting how much you can tell by looking at someones dock... Though it's kind of funny, I keep trying to role over the docks with my mouse so it will tell me the .apps name...I must be tired. I hate finals.

At home I generally keep my wallpaper for a while until I get bored with it or run across something I like better, but at work I like to switch it up. I have this automator script (http://www.maxieduncan.com/software/ngpodwallpaper.php) in my login items, so whenever I get to work and start up it goes online and gets the National Geographic photo of the day and sets it as my wallpaper. It's pretty cool.

Heres a recent snapshot of my desktop.

http://blip.tv/file/get/Felixmc-desk...eenshot947.png

As tlarkin put it, Here's some more desktop action on my MBP ;)

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5536/picture1cy5.jpg

And another one that I had a while back.

http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs14/f/20...y_itoilet9.jpg

Ok, here's my latest one.
 

Hey, Ron, what are you using to customize your themes like that? It looks slick btw.

Using ShapeShifter
 

What can I say tlarkin, I'm going APE over these themes. This theme is straight from Royal Inspiriat OSX 1.0. I am downloading these straight from shapeshifter preference pane. :)

Wall paper from interfacelift per your recommendation.

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/9569/image02bu2.jpg

I played around with the demo version but never bought it, maybe I should go buy it, or perhaps Leopard will be more customizable?

I wouldn't count on Leopard being more customizable otherwise Steve would have brought it up.

It's a great product, plus my children like the change in theme as well. Besides, I am not upgrading to Leopard anytime soon so this is a good purchase for the family.

well they claim to have over 300 new features, and I bet that with core animation there has to be some things you can customize yourself, or at least third party developers will be able to release something of the like.

That maybe true, but Shapeshifter would already be inline to enjoy these benefits as they have been doing customizations for years now. The only customization Steve mentioned was the transparent menu bar which is cool but failed to say anything else about other elements of the OS. Of course only time will tell but there must be a reason why Apple haven't allow customers to customize their computers and have left this to third party developers like shapeshifter.

agnosticgod, thanks for turning us on to osxplanet. There once had been a satellite view of the earth in almost a mercator view, from koshi university which would show the clouds/weather systems rolling across the pacific. I loved that view, and osxplanet is even better, in color, and updating to the desktop.

Thank you.

Mine:

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3466/picture1bb4.jpg

very green.

Quite soothing actually.

I'll bring my MBP's dark side to the table:
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/1328/desktoptn5.jpg

Also, Ron Cross, thanks for linking to my post in your signature ;)

Starcraft II got old so I called upon another:
http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/5489/picture1ip6.jpg

Moved the Dock, and added GimmeSometune to assist in getting my album artwork.

Anti, scrolling down, I then saw the 'dark side' reference upon seeing the win task bar. Too funny about the security issues balloon.

I'm not sure I deserve it. My links go the desktop and the menulet of which were started by gaffer74 and myself respectively.

I got impatient. I was cursing at the computer, saying something like "Damned thing! Be gone now!" ;) The reason it's there is because I have UAC and Firewall shut off. (My router handles the firewalling, and UAC just plain sucks.)

I only got Vista on my MBP so that if someone tries to throw something at me that my Mac cannot handle, I can just fire up Vista and sneer in their face that my Mac can do Windows.

That, and games.

It was quite amusing to see the windows desktop and that security issues balloon. So apropos...
;)

I got some new ones

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/9...ure1ov2.th.jpg

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/9...ure1ad8.th.jpg

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/8...ure2ud2.th.jpg

Okay, I am a HUGE Fallout Fan and can't wait for Fallout 3 to come out. So, I got some new wallpapers. Check out my new Pip Boy 3000, the iphone ain't got nothing on it.

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/4...ure1yq4.th.jpg

Since tlarkin mentioned games:

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8...ure1qe4.th.jpg

Here is mine: http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/4...ktopkg8.th.jpg

Sometimes I use Wallsaver which lets you use screensavers as the desktop background. Then I use a screensaver called SaveHollywood which lets you play any movie on your computer as the screensaver. This capture is the result. Goes without saying it can be quite a resource hog. :D

Wallsaver:
http://www.nwwnetwork.net/software.php?app=wallsaver

SaveHollywood:
http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/SaveHollywood.html

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/6...desktophe5.jpg

Taking the 'ol G4 for a spin.

Is that wallpaper downloadable from anywhere? If so, do you have a link? Thanks.

I love to see what people name their hard drives though my HD names are boring. However my workgroup is called Valhalla, my server is called Odin, and my Linux box I named Finrir. When my domain was up it was also called Valhalla, and Asgard was the server's name, and Odin was admin user of Asgard.

My hard drives are named Macintosh HD, OS X, OS X Server, Storage. Pretty plain and simple.

Good names all around ;)

I like to look at screenshots and not only see things like ShapeShifter-modded OS X screenshots, but other little things like what programs the person has running, or what addons they have installed.

Also: Here's another one of the G4 after I upgraded it to Tiger.
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/289/g4againii1.png

Here's a double feature for ya:

Normal desktop: http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/7761/desktopql4.jpg
Totally modded: http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/5518/moddedmy4.jpg

k here's mine. it changes bout every 2 days though http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/5...ure1au2.th.png

here's 1 more just to be cheeky http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/4...snaptt3.th.jpg

Elish the dish!

Oh, nice desktop.

Here's mine: Adium would pop out of the left, and the dock would pop out of the bottom. The background is of some laser-guided missile defense system being tested somewhere I forget. It was from Wikipedia.
http://i16.tinypic.com/4lpucut_th

ThreeDee, something misfired with the link to the larger picture.

how sexy is this?
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...4beb043f_o.jpg

topebrown7-

you are insane

Ah, youth.
:)

Well, here's mine:

http://img46.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture1jo1.png

This Spitfire flew over the annual War and Peace Show in Kent last month and I was lucky enough to have a long lens with me at the time.

lol. yes i am just created a new theme (all by myself took me 4 bloody hours of straight work)

Can someone please ive me a good image background for my new desktop searched alot haven't found 1 i need something cgi, abstract and bright but catchy. Here is the desktop for this week
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...Picture1-1.jpg

I have set a number of very large sized networks for different companies... the drive that people connect to is always called 'Mammoth'. Its funny to hear people referring to their yearly fiscal spread sheet being on 'Mammoth'.

topebrown7.. you have to much spare time man! for someone who is relatively new to Macs, you seem to have got 'modding' quite well covered! Although I do notice one very questionable app in your collection!

here's me... regal eh!

lol. The windows vista. I'm a student (uni) skint from all the festivals now i'm just at home sooo.... while i was still on the dark side (win) i started registry editing in a month