Posting my desktop

[Night Wing]

Where I live in southeast Texas, it looks like we are not going to have a normal Spring temperature wise. The trees are already starting to put on new leaves, the grass is growing green in color and the azaleas bushes are starting to bloom. This upcoming Thursday, we are going to hit 87 degrees F. Next week, we may hit 90 degrees F. It looks like an early Summer is going to arrive way sooner than it should temperature wise and it looks to be a long hot Summer. We shall see if the prognosticators are correct.

With that said, if the prognosticators are right and it is a long hot Summer ahead, I've chosen the following picture of Spider Rock in Arizona as my new Desktop picture. At this time this Desktop picture is running in 64 bit Linux Mint 22.1 (Xia) Xfce.

BTW, this "rock" was featured in an old 1969 western movie named "MacKenna's Gold" with Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif as the main and opposing characters.

[Gemmaugr]

Since I've never posted in this thread before I'll post my last Desktop Wallpaper and my new current one (which I was sort of forced to change to because of the new resolution of my new, main, monitor):

Why, yes, I do like Space and Sci-Fi. How did you know?

[Night Wing]

I had to change my Desktop picture because my wife saw it and she said, That is a nice photo, but it isn't "you". She reiterated I am not a high plains desert type of person. She told me I have been a "saltwater person" since I was the age of 8 years old. One can see that when they read my profile.

I told my wife, instead of me choosing a photo, you choose a photo from my picture library. So she chose the one below. The "Bay Of Islands".

[yereverluvinuncleber]

Just created a new background image for my desktop:

[yereverluvinuncleber]

- and here it is being used on my Win 10 desktop.

[Night Wing]

My loyal and very affectionate pet companion is my orange colored tiger striped tabby cat, Tucker, who just had his 12th birthday. Thought I would honor him and make him my new Desktop photo. Since he is a totally indoor house cat, he likes to "lounge" on the window sill and look outside surveying his "domain". He also has long legs as you can see with his two front legs extended out in front of him.

[JesusOfSuburbia]

I figured I may as well add something to this thread after not having posted on the forum for quite a while
(See the attachments for a full-sized screenshot)

In a nutshell, it's CTWM running on Arch Linux. For GTK I use the Greybird theme, and the old GNOME icon theme.
I tried to adapt CTWM's color scheme to somewhat match Greybird's, although making a carbon copy is nigh impossible (since CTWM uses bare XLib, not GTK, to draw its objects). I enabled CTWM's 3D-look to make it resemble MWM.
I use it with the FocusFollowsMouse focus model; the focused window gets a blue window frame (not visible here since the menu is in focus).

I also -- at last -- found a way to get the classic X11 bitmap fonts to display everywhere. In the AUR, there are three relevant PKGBUILDS:

• xorg-fonts-75dpi-otb
• xorg-fonts-100dpi-otb
• xorg-fonts-misc-otb

These contain the same fonts as the relevant packages without the -otb suffix, but converted to the OTB format so that modern Pango can use them (since the GNOME developers decided to drop classic X bitmap fonts a while ago).

[Night Wing]

Time for a new (old) Desktop photo/picture of my favorite photo/picture since I've posted it before in this topic thread.

Today is May 1st and the forecasted temperature is going to be 90 degrees F at my home. Which means temperature wise, it is now "Summer". Time for me to make my weekly trip down to Quintana Beach on the upper Texas coast for a some longboard surfing.

The beach water temperature is now at 78 degrees F at Quintana Beach. Great for me since I never wear a wetsuit while longboard surfing.

[Night Wing]

With my recently purchased a used HP 14" ProBook laptop and it is now running 64 bit linux Debian 12.11 (Bookworm) Xfce which I am typing this post with, below is the desktop picture/photo I chose for the Desktop. A surfer girl getting a nice long gliding ride on the type of longboard which I like and use, a longboard.

[MasterSlenderTR]

Here's mine.

[andyprough]

Plain, un-riced DWM, my window manager of choice for the past 5 years:

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Don't everyone congratulate me on its beauty and complexity all at once.

[somdcomputerguy]

The mouth of the Patuxent River, Southern Maryland, USA.

[suzyne]

My current Pale Moon look. I am experimenting with the URL at the bottom, and as mentioned elsewhere, I prefer to hide the icons and find only text easier on the eye and simpler for my brain.

For some reason, Scrapbook X doesn't respect the Show text option in the Customize dialogue, so it still appears on the Status line? Annoying!

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[Night Wing]

Back in 2017 I got into standup paddleboarding (SUP). At the time I was doing lots of research on volume, width, thickness of sups, pintails, squared off tail ends. When I finally made my choice, I had settled on a California Board Company sup. I was particularly interested in a nice sup board they had and I was looking at it intently.

But when I was set to "pull the trigger" and order one, I got a bad surprise. CBC was no longer in business. Bummer! But I found a sup that was an almost copy of it. The only real difference was the CBC board had a squared off tail end. The sup I bought from Blue Planet Surf Shop, model named the Duke, has a pintail. The Duke sup has a 5 fin box under the tail end and can surf waves down at Quintana Beach where four times a month during the Summer months of June, July, August, September.

But the CBC board, pictured below, was the board that got me very interested in standup paddling and the rest is now history.

[leothetechguy]

Managed to get an unsold packaged m2 macbook air for cheap and installed asahi linux on it. The GNOME Desktop Enviroment on Linux has gotten so much better.
Wallpaper: https://meow.social/users/rinidisc/stat ... 4427826048

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