• Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
    33·
    1 year ago

    I’m always curious how long people spend staying at their desktops. My laptop has six virtual desktops and I can’t see the background on any of them.

    One for each uni course and one for general use, and they all have 2-3 windows open. It’s super handy for school since I can just swipe and pick up where I left off on every course.

    Edit: That’s not to take away from a gorgeous desktop. It looks really nice.

    • ccdfa@lemm.ee
      6·
      1 year ago

      This is why I like window transparency for certain apps. That way I can set the desktop background to something fairly neutral, then set window transparent and blur it so I can always sort of see what’s behind. Idk, it makes everything feel a bit lighter

    • Gunpachi@lemmings.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      I usually have 10 workspaces on all my setups. 2 of them will be unoccupied, so whenever I leave my desk I switch to that empty workspace (when nobody is around). When I come back my comfortable desktop welcomes me with a wallpaper that is easy on the eyes. Thats pretty much the only time I actually look at the desktop , apart from a brief moment after login of course.

      • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 year ago

        I can appreciate that. I wonder if I can set a rule that it displays a certain workspace after unlocking…

  • WFH@lemm.eeEnglish
    301·
    1 year ago

    From “too many damn Linux memes” to “look at my heavily modified desktop” in 72h, I’m proud of you my friend :D

    Edit: removed racist term unknowingly used.

  • adONis@lemmy.world
    25·
    1 year ago

    Nice, but 99% of time you won’t even enjoy this beauty of hard work, since it will be covered by your apps.

    • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
      81·
      1 year ago

      Exactly. If I’m looking at an empty desktop it means I’m not really using my computer for anything. I might just as well go for a walk and check the weather myself.

  • siipale@sopuli.xyz
    171·
    1 year ago

    PRESSURE 30.4 inHG

    Do Americans really use inches of mercury to measure air pressure? Even millimeters of mercury would feel weird for me in weather context. I’ve seen mmHg used mostly in medical and chemistry stuff. I guess it really is anything but metric for you guys.

  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
    141·
    1 year ago

    You made your KDE desktop to look like Gnome with widgets?! WTF?! I thought it was gnome at the first glance.

    • /home/jeze3d@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      Just fussing around with options and seeing what I liked. Loading up widgets and breaking them. Oh oh there was the whole top panel transparency saga that took me forever to figure out. Couldn’t decide on a panel layout for a while flopping things around.

      • BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Right on! Sometimes the smallest things in Linux can be so time consuming, but with it as long as you’re having fun and learning 🤘

  • astraeus@programming.dev
    8·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been thinking about setting up a dashboard that I can just let run in the background on my TV or something, the weather over a nice outdoor screensaver or something, maybe important notifications.

    This is a really nice setup!

    • /home/jeze3d@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      There’s a panel transparency widget. Took me forever to figure this out. You add the widget to the panel you want to adjust and it looks like a toggle switch. The confusing part? You can only interact with the widget when it’s unlocked. When you lock your widgets it disappears. This is actually a smart design, but confusing at first as I thought it just didn’t work.