Yeah too many just look so... samey. Not mine, but one I wish to recreate
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In terms of window decorations, looks like twm with default settings. Standard window manager to ship with what is now Xorg.
EDIT: For emacs, those are also default colors, I think, for at least some point. X11 color names HarvestWheat and ForestGreen, if memory serves aright.
EDIT2: No, that's probably not a graphical emacs instance, because the title is "sh". They're probably running sh and then running console emacs (or vim or something else, I guess, can configure either to look like that) and don't have their shell set up to pass the escape sequences to tell the virtual terminal program to update the window title.
EDIT3: Also, the color's the default twm color, but that's not the default twm decorations. That's...damn, I can't remember the name of that widget set.
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Motif. And apparently mwm used Motif widgets.
I'm in this photo, and I don't like it
I'm still just trying to get my terminal to look like the Portal (1) Aperture Science screensaver, but for some reason last time I tried I couldn't get it just right. Now that I have KDE (and thus color picker and Konsole), I should try again..
The hardest part is the glow effect on the text I think.
Idk how exactly you'd apply the effect to your terminal, but you could get that text effect by applying a scanline and bloom filter
If there was reshade for terminal it'd be 2 check boxes lol
This is more like Fallout than Portal but maybe it can work for you.
I've never been more excited about ruining my eyes π€©
I used the thing here a while back to take a screenshot of running gopher on some of the remaining gopher servers in gopherspace (note that the sdf.org guys shown here also run an lemmy server, nicely linking the past and today). Its default settings in amber were a not-wildly-unreasonable match for some of the VT terminals connected to a VAX/VMS system that I used in the 1990s. More noise added by default, but it's the closest thing I've seen to a replica to that era that one's likely to see short of getting an actual CRT VT terminal and plonking it on your serial port (well, these days, probably a USB-to-serial adapter).
EDIT: Apparently this guy set up docker images on Debian to emulate old computing environments and then rigged that to a VT420 and ran gopher on that:
Hahaha, been there. :)
It can do bloom with its shaders, the way @[email protected] wants. I don't know if any of the presets have quite that much bloom, though.
It can do CRT-style scanlines, as he's looking for, and it doesn't have doesn't have to have the faux-CRT curvature; see the "Futuristic" preset for a preset that doesn't have that curvature.
EDIT: There's a settings dialog that lets one ramp up or down each of the given visual effects.
Portal (1) Aperture Science screensaver,
https://old.reddit.com/r/Portal/comments/1bdltht/aperture_science_pc_wallpaper/
Though this seems to have multiple of those "falling" bright areas, and cool-retro-term only has one. I'm not sure what that's supposed to be, for either the screensaver or cool-retro-term. You can get a vaguely-similar effect if you have a video camera taking footage of a CRT; I guess the proper term for this is the stroboscopic effect. Might be what they're trying to depict.
Thank you! I had no idea what "bloom" was (clearly, because I called it glow lmao).
This is at least close enough, if not perfect, especially if I can (and I expect so) change the background to the aperture logo (which can easily be found in the correct orange/brownish color online).
if I can (and I expect so) change the background to the aperture logo
You cannot in the current mainline branch, but it looks like someone has a pull request open for the past couple months to add a background image.
Ayy alright! Here's hoping, thanks!
If I remember right, they were adjustable in its settings. But it's been a long time since I've used this.
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Since compiz fusion is long deprecated, I stick to Xmonad with almost no visual changes from the stock install, other than tweaks to make some colors lower contrast.
Oh man I forgot about this! How long has it been dead? Why does no one want this?
I had this running on Ubuntu on my laptop back in the day
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I like the transparent windows, but I'd use RosΓ© Pine Moon or Nord for the colours. A nice landscape for the background (currently a pic of Dark Souls 3 Boreal Valley) and a little bit of gaps, very minal borders, and a transparent waybar up top with desktop workspace indicator, time, and a few other things.
Girl? Do you even Linux?
It's only Linux when it comes from the tiling region of Finland. Otherwise it's just sparkling GNU.
One thing I don't get with making you desktop or setup anime girl themed. Doesn't anyone visit you? Relatives? Landlord? Or anyone really. And what's the point, to get an erection while doing a PowerPoint presentation?
Doesn't anyone visit you?
Deep down you know the answer
And what's the point
Simping, setting unrealistic transitioning goals, often both
That's what I'm asking myself with pretty much any "sexy" decoration.
Why put a poster of a nude girl in your locker, break room, bedroom, whatever? The only explanation I can find is performative display of (hetero) masculinity.
As someone with sexy art in the wallpaper rotation of all my devices...
It's just nice to look at?
Sexual beauty can be appreciated in the same way as any other kind of beaty. And doing so doesn't actually require being turned on, at least not in my case.
Even when it happens, enjoying art and looking at porn are different things. With porn, arousal is the only point. With something artistic, arousal is just one sliver of the full spectrum of human experience a piece might provoke.
People make custom PC builds to look cool for no other reason than that it looks cool. People hike to mountaintops just because the view is incredible. Architechts endeavor to make buildings both pleasant to look at, and be in.
The sexy art isn't pornographic to me. All I do, really, is enjoy looking at it for a moment as I go about using my devices. There is nothing perfomative about it. I could not care less what someone else thinks looking over my shoulder at my screen.
Thanks for the explanation π
What if, mind boggling concept, they do it for themselves not for others to see?
What if, that might overwhelm you, this doesn't answer the question at all?
You're simply pushing the question half a millimeter to the side. Nothing more.
There's some classy non-sexualized "anime girl" backgrounds that are pretty slick.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2618988115
I really enjoy this one for Wallpaper Engine.
Fits the sexy android aesthetic without showing any of the body, instead focusing on the android aspect.
My desktop background has been the same shade of dark blue for the past roughly quarter century.
At first, it was because I didn't want anything making visual recognition of stuff slower, when I was using a stacking windowing environment. Now I use a tiling windowing system and rarely see the desktop.
On my Android phone, for some inane reason, there's no option to just use a fixed color background, so I've never bothered changing it from whatever the vendor shipped, don't care enough to make a custom one-color image. I'd probably use black on the Android devices I have with OLED screens on general principle, but again, it doesn't spend much time being visible.
All that being said, if you're looking at screenshots of people ricing out their desktop on a community devoted to that, the whole point is to give them an interesting thematic look. They're gonna have a background.
If you took a screenshot of my desktop, it'd be one blue rectangle. No persistently-visible taskbar. The vast majority of time, if there's a window up, I have only a single, fullscreen window. That's not really interesting to look at, and I doubt that anyone doing that is going to put it on a "rice your desktop" community, in the same sort of way that nobody is going to go to a "rice your car" community and post images of a vanilla Camry.
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Also! Thick padding/space around tiled windows just taking up valuable screen space.
"I use a tiling window manager to utilise screen space!"
Meanwhile the 10km gap between windows
Replace anime girl with a furry character and you got it.
The consensus middle ground was an anime catgirl.
That was implied with "sexy".
I bet your self hosted services actually work too.
Because we're fucking weebs..
I'm very clearly not fucking anyone.
The likelihood that the poster I'm replying to has built a Gundam model kit in the last 6 months has risen by 58%.
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- Music player
- Status bar at the top of the screen (Middle element shows the name of the music currently being played)
- Lots of blur
- Tiling window manager
- Theme selector
Neofetch is no longer in active development. Use Hyfetch or Archey instead.
Or fastfetch
I use fastfetch.
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