Lord Nightwalker's Screenshots
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This is the conventional looking desktop in kde. It contains licq (the linux ICQ clone) and a chat-session in licq with my cousin, from which the two top lines in each pane were removed since they were part of a private conversation; it's not supposed to be empty space. ;) Above the chat-session you can see RipperX ripping a CD, and Yamaha's VQF-encoder (a windows application) crunching some numbers in a wine-desktop. Wine is an application that lets linux users run their windows apps in linux, without having to reboot to windows. This desktop doesn't look really exciting, it has the standard icons, launch-bar etc, but no special stuff like the enlightenment or gnome desktops. Oh, and the background is some artwork from Luis Royo, you can download it at desktopgirls in the artwork section. |
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This is my desktop with Enlightenment, a true eye-candy window manager. The bottom bar is the gnome-panel, with a swallowed mini-commander. There's also a licq and below that you can see my four desktop pagers. The bottom box is enlightenments' icon box. Minimized windows go in there. The chat-session is a BitchX-chat running in an Eterm, with cyan 20% shaded transparency applied, which means you can see the desktop trough the terminal-window. The top-left little app and the picture are two parts of the same program: the Gimp, the de-facto standard for unix photo-editing. The "babe" on the pic is Joyce De Troch, in one of her scarce good looking moments. ;-) Oh yeah... As you can see, I'm somewhat of a huge "Space: Above & Beyond" fan, hence the backgrounds. |
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Just felt like taking another screenshot, so I did. As you can see, I'm clearly a Nightwish fan. Nightwish is a finnish band that makes symphonic metal. If you're into that kind of stuff, it's actually pretty good. You can check out some tunes and more info on the Nightwish website. |
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A screenshot to demonstrate the difference in quality between the mpeg-1 (common .mpg file) and the hacked mpeg-4, aka "DivX;-)" (new .avi file) compression schemes. I wont tell you which is which, guess for yourself (it should be obvious enough anyway). I had to stretch up the .mpg to match the size of the DivX. Anyway, the difference really shows, huh? The DivX;-) codec is really well suited for making backups of your DVD-movies, and slapping them on a CD-R. After all, you only need one CD per movie, compared to 2 CD's per movie with regular mpeg-1. I just hope this format will be used for legal purposes as well; all the DivX files I found untill now were either trailers found on the DivX;-) page or illegal copies of movies. This really gives the codec a bad name, just like "mp3" for most people is synonym to "illegal music on the web". |
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This one demonstrates the niceness of Opera, a little webbrowser available for windows, linux and mac. The ultracoolness of the whole thing lies in the MDI capabillities. Just like mIRC doesn't open up a new button on your task bar (win95 users know what I mean) for every channel you join, Opera doesn't open up a new botton for every site you visit, unlike Netscape and IE. Needless to say that I used this little app a lot to fool the sysops at the university computer rooms; while I was watching some not-so-decent sites (hey, we were all young once!) I made sure to open up a harmless one as well. When the op came in, I just pressed CTRL-TAB, and the other site would appear. The operator never knew that there were 10 more windows hiding behind that one. *evil grin* |
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Windows in linux. Is this wine? Heheh, no it ain't; this is an exported Cytrix Metaframe shot I took while helping out my cousin with his MS Excell schoolwork. Cytrix Metaframe is a nice application that runs on Windows NT, and allows the NT box to export a display to other windows boxes, linux boxes, etc... Just like a regular X export under linux (althoug you'll need other software to access these screens). Well, not that I'm so fond of NT, never worked with it, really, but it's a Microsoft OS, so it can't be good. ;-) But then again... They do make nice office apps, and untill those are ported to linux, or a decent _free_ equivalent finds its way to the linux desktop, an exported MS Office app, running on the university server will do just fine. Oh yeah, in the lower left chat window, you can see my pal TumCerHum posing for the pic. :-) |
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Just downloaded the codeweavers wine preview release2 (version 20010112) to check out how it performed. Well, as you can see IE works on my desktop now, but there are still lots of artifacts like the lack of menus, erroneous GIF-handling with transparant gifs, some missing fonts and erroneous button-drawing. But it recognises my scrollwheel perfectly, so I'm happy. If now the darn thing would just do some correct handling of forms and HTTP session variables, I could use it to debug the sites I make for I-Merge. Oh, well... Maybe in a next release, or with another version of IE... |
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Finally, DVD-support under linux that compiles and plays on my system. Boy, I could tell you a story or two about all the crappy broken linux DVD players I tried so far... Uptill now no linux DVD player has compiled and/or worked for me yet, but now LiVid finally works for me. Just grabbed the rpms and installed them; works out of the box. |
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Just showing off the new desktop; I got tired with the old one, plus there was something wrong with the theme anyway. Some Gtk elements wouldn't get updated and left some uglyness in some windows. As you can see, the Unreal logo needs some cleaning up; it aparently wasn't ment to be used on dark backgrounds, but what the heck... |
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Well, time for yet another screenshot. I decided to go with the lighter colors this time. Got tired of this all-dark desktop I had for years. I'll probably switch back to it, but for now this one suits me fine. On this screenshot you can see some of the code of my (hopefully) soon to be released webdev suite for PHP, and a mail I sent to one of my colleagues who'll probably join me in the effort of making this stuff work. |
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Yup, back in black. The little thing you see in the window is a GDM login on my machine using xnest; the rest is my desktop the way it looks right now. The whole stuff is kind of Trigun-inspired, but I'm still looking for a matching theme for the windowmanager and gnome. Until then, this will have to do. The GDM theme can be downloaded here. And yes, I do realise there's a gap in the gnome panel. The command line applet was broken in Debian at the time the screenshot was taken. :p |
