Here you will find screenshots of the various desktop environments I use. There are many operating systems represented here. Most of the recent ones will be Ubuntu, with many of the older ones being either Gentoo or LFS. I'll also post some of Microsoft Windows, when it makes sense, mostly to show how my multi-desktop setup at work looks.
Screenshots, at Home and at Work
Instead of separating shots into desktop environments, I'm just going to start posting my current desktops in chronological order, similar to how I did the last few Gnome shots. Since I tend to use a mixed batch of technologies, this makes more sense, as you can now find the newest shots just by looking at the top of the list.
- Work desktops, March 20th 2009
- This is a big picture. It has my Windows workstation (1280x1024), plus my Ubuntu workstation (2 monitors at 1280x1024 each). I use the Synergy system so that I can use a single keyboard and mouse across all three monitors. The Ubuntu desktop is a bit different this time, as I'm giving KDE 4.2 a test drive. I have it set up to work with Firefox and my favorite Gnome applications. Basically you could say I'm running a hybrid desktop. Part KDE, Part Gnome, all Free Software! These days thanks to the work of people like freedesktop.org, most desktop environments can use each other's applications seamlessly. Except for Microsoft Windows of course, it sometimes has trouble working with the applications written for it, let alone other ones. Standalone screenshots of the Windows and Linux desktops exist as well, but the full version gives you a better idea of what my "workspace" is like.
Older screenshots
Everything below here is a kind of mish mash, categorized by desktop environment, and date.
Gnome
Recent shots.
March 2005: Gnome 2.10 with Clearlooks GTK and Metacity themes and Etiquette icon theme. Finally a desktop that just "works". I like it. :-)
December 2004: Gnome 2.8, with the Plastic-G Metacity and GTK+ themes, and Lila-Blue icon set.
In April 2004, I've swithced to Gnome 2.6 totally, even switching to using Nautilus as my desktop now and Metacity as my window manager. Here's a picture of my desktop with the Lila theme for Gnome and GTK, and the Plastic-G theme for Metacity. Here's another picture from a few days later, in which I've changed the panel color, and am showing off the Removable Media control panel, a part of Project Utopia. I'll get a link to details about Project Utopia on here shortly.
Here are some old Gnome screenshots from older versions. So here we have my computer at work, running Gnome 2.4 with Evolution and Epiphany, Gnome 2.4. Here is an older shot of Gnome 2.2.1 with Gaim 0.60-rc3. The (formerly) bleeding edge, brought to you by Gentoo. Shot #1. I have some heavier screenshots around somewhere, but that's okay, one is enough for now. Oh, I mention KDE, and I'll probably get around to having a section for it as well as a few others, but for now you can see the lovely shot of KDE running inside a nested X session from Gnome. It's right here: KDE-In-Gnome. Oh, there's also my Gnome-Lite screenshot, it's not really related to Gnome whatsoever, but it is a collection of utilities using GTK which make a desktop, and one of them happens to be the official Gnome window manager (Metacity), along with fspanel (it's a f**king small panel), and well , ROX once again. Gee, I find lots of stuff to do with ROX. GLite.
ORG: OpenROX-Gnome
Okay, you want my October, 2003 desktop environment of choice? Well here it is. ORG, my own custom creation. It takes the Gnome Desktop and ROX Desktop (lots of screenshots of them in other situations below) merges them, and uses Openbox3 as it's window manager. Boy, this thing is a whole new ball-game. An exciting, easy to use desktop that combines the best features of Gnome and ROX, plus has a nice Boxy feel to it as well. Updated for March 2004, with some new icons and a slight case of screen corruption (see below in the KDE section for more info on that) here's what it looks like now: Corrupted GnomeROX.
*box
Note: the following screenshots are from prior to October 2003, so they are probably quite out of date.
I really like the *box window managers. Fluxbox is my favorite, and Openbox the second choice. Of course I like trying different combinations of stuff, so here is an Openbox screenshot using idesk to manage the desktop, ROX-Filer to add a file manager panel at the bottom, and GKrellM embedded into the slit on the right. FullBox. If that one isn't enough, you can check out another one that I made on my old LFS system, where ROX-Filer was managing the entire desktop for Fluxbox. FluxROX. And if you want yet another, here is Fluxbox with ROX on the bottom, and a docker for Gnome applications such as Gaim. InFlux. Then there was a super-simplified Fluxbox with ROX I was planning for the H2O system when I was still going to make it: FluxROX 2.0 Oh and of course, there's always the full ROX experience, still using Fluxbox of course, FluxROX (3) Cubed. Or a prettier version which is my September 2003 desktop, called FluxROX 4D.
KDE
Yes, I do have a screenshot of my KDE desktop, unfortunately it's one I was using to report my onboard video's corruption problem. Oh well, you can still look at it. KDE-Corrupt.
GNUstep
Ever heard of NeXTSTEP? Well it's the operating system that MacOSX was based off of. Well not only did Apple decide to make this great environment the basis for their new MacOS, but they also have supported the open standards that were defined for the system, known as OPENSTEP. Well the GNU Project decided to make their own implentation, and GNUstep is the result. There are already quite a few really neat programs written for it, although the two that are most visible to the user are WindowMaker (the window manager, Dock and Clip), and GWorkspace, which is the File Manager and Workspace Manager, oh and provides The Fiend. Don't ask. Anyway, so by now you're wondering what the hell I'm talking about, so just take a look and it'll all make sense. GNUstep.
