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November Desktop Calendar
Here’s the calendar for November – I hope it doesn’t keep you drooling all month! Click on the image to load it into your desktop. Then right-click and you should be able to set it as the desktop background. Alternatively, save it and then manually set it as your desktop.
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August 2010 Desktop Background
It’s August – the last month to get to the beach, so I went with this image from Coney Island. Click on the image below and, when it loads, right-click to set it as your desktop background.
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July 2010 Desktop Background
Here’s the background for July. Sorry for going back to Flowers (for those who have complained), but I think this one is really nice.
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May 2010 Desktop Calendar
By request, here’s a baseball themed calendar for May now that baseball is in full swing. for square monitors: for widescreen monitors:
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Current Desktop Screenshots
Here are screenshots of the desktops I am currently running on each of my computers: Desktop – SuperMario Fedora 36 – KDE Plasma 5 2023: Raspberry Pi IOT Device – Scarlett Music Raspberry Pi OS (Buster) – LXDE 2020 Laptop – Daisy Fedora 31 KDE Plasma 5 2020 Laptop (netbook) – Kuribo Debian 10 –…
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The Ego-less Desktop vs The Commercial Desktop
In the most recent LugRadio episode was a feature about how the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) states that applications should be named in the applications menu not as the program name, but as what the program does. This is something I’d like to explore a little more in another post. But during the discussions,…
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Suzanne the Monkey, for your desktop
I don’t know if you liked my Indigo Render of Suanne as much as I did, but I wanted to make it into my desktop background. Thus I left Indigo running for 42 hours at the size of my destktop and came up with this beauty. And I figured that I may as well share…
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Evolution of the Computer Desktop
As Neal Stephenson tells us, “In the beginning was the command line…” But then came the Graphical User Interface, or GUI. These point and click environments, as they came to be called, originated in Xerox’s PARC research center. However, the Macintosh was the first computer to bring it to the masses. For someone my age,…
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Customising your Linux Desktop
Here’s a really great article that I found about customizing one’s desktop. This is the most important thing a geek can do with his or her computer. When you first get your computer it looks just like everyone else’s computer. By customizing it and taking a little bit from what you see on this person’s…
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My Fluxbox desktop on Fedora Core 3 Part 3
Here I have decided to run the “top” command in the top transparent Eterm window. This is a great command to have running on the desktop. Basically it’s equivalent to hitting control-alt-delete in Windows and then clicking on “processes”. It tells you what you are running on your system, how much RAM/CPU cycles it’s taking…
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My Fluxbox desktop on Fedora Core 3 Part 2
Finally I have figured out something else I have wanted to do for MONTHS! If you look on the top-right corner you will see what looks like an embedded terminal in my desktop. The biggest reason why I’ve wanted to do this is simply because it looks really neat to have a terminal “built into”…
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My Fluxbox desktop on Fedora Core 3
I wanted to share my Fluxbox desktop on my main Linux computer both for the geeky motive of showing off my desktop like jocks show off their cars and also to help others achieve the same configurations that I have. Fluxbox, like Blackbox and other *box window managers, are very, very customizable. Here is the…
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Happy 20th Anniversary Fedora Linux and Happy Fedora 39 Release Day!
I can’t believe I’ve been using Linux for 20 years already! I started off with Fedora Core 1 (Yarrow) 20 years ago. It was in this book: Boy has the technology come a long way in those 20 years! One of my earliest desktop screenshots from back then: Now one of my more recent desktops:…
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Excited about KDE Plasma 6
If you’ve been following my blog long enough, you know that the KDE 3 -> KDE 4 transition was a mess, but somewhere around Oct 2010 (2-3 years after the 4.0 release), it really started to get stable and become my daily runner. By Feb 2011, I was loving the fact that KDE Plasma 4…
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Technology Update
As you know, I’ve been using Vivaldi as my default browser for a while now. I like how they continue to innovate in the browser space while Firefox and Chrome as just standing still. (Which, to be fair to the other two, makes sense given their general purpose audiences) The latest Vivaldi update has some…