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Theme/Shell Theme: Adapta-Nokto-Eta
Icons: Paper
Extensions: Dash to Dock, Dynamic Panel Transparency, Places Status Indicator
Edit: Wallpaper
Well there is this page for minimal wallpapers, however I think I got this particular one off of some other site. This isn't the original though, it's edited by me to my liking. Here is the original., if you like that one better :)
- Original Wallpaper: Spaghetti Hero
- Theme: OSX-Arc-Shadow
- Conky: Conky-info
- Icons: Papirus Dark
- Dock: Cairo Dock
I, too, am a fan of Freakazoid. I know it's not exactly what you were looking for (and I would love to see what blo0p can do with Freakazoid), but maybe this can tide you over:
http://simpledesktops.com/browse/desktops/2011/mar/08/freakazoid/
I also have a solarized variant that I use on my other machine.
OS: macOS Mojave WM: chunkwm Bar: Pecan Terminal: Terminal.app Shell: zsh Background: tree Dotfiles: not up yet, maybe someday I'll get my life together
I agree, but there are some exceptions. Look for some more simple backgrounds that are less busy and more geometric.
You can get some really cool looking designs from Simple Desktops.
I like Simple Desktops. There's quite a variety of designs.
Unless you're talking about physical desktops… In that case, I recommend using an old wooden door with a piece of glass on top. You can get legs for it from IKEA.
Try simpledesktops!
I know it's not specifically what you're looking for, but I do know they have quite a few character wallpapers similar to what you're looking for!
This is my desktop - http://simpledesktops.com/browse/desktops/2012/jan/30/eclipse/
And this is my phone - http://simpledesktops.com/browse/desktops/2012/oct/14/space/
Here's how it looks actually on the phone http://imgur.com/On5qTFC
I like simple desktops stuff, especially the space related ones. Nice and clean.
I was in a tipi where they were playing noise music in the style of static noise. All I could think about was diamonds falling down in endless caves, scratching against the stone walls on the way, making these sounds... When everybody was trying to get some sleep, I took my iPod and put on The Dark Side of the Moon. It was amazing. When I closed my eyes I saw these beautiful white background, and these lines appeared, looking like running tracks almost, but with different colors (kinda like this but more like running tracks), and they would turn when the music changed. And whenever a new tone played, a new track would appear, and then disappear as the note stopped. After a while there were a lot of these tracks going in different directions. It was beautiful.
I present you with my bright, custom(pr) Openbox inspired by Papercolor theme.
On the screenshot, you can see, left-to-right, top-to-bottom:
- Empty desktop
- Telegram with custom colorscheme
- Some apps that I use - Cantata, Ranger in ST and ST itself
- Me, writing the aforementioned patch in nvim
Panel - polybar
Openbox theme - ArkDarker Solid
Distro - Arch
Laptop - Thinkpad T25
Polybar contents, left-to-right:
- Workspace number
- MPD, current song, controls
- CPU
- RAM
- Temperature
- Time Capsule status - mounted/unmounted, greys out when unmounted
- Dropbox status
- Keyboard layout
- Both laptop batteries
- WiFi
- Date and time
Wallpaper, yes it is loss
Running arch with i3-gaps. Wallaper can be found Here.
Music player is ncmpcpp. I'll try and upload dotfiles in the near future, if anyone is interested.
Just a tip for when you post links, use [ text ] ( link ),without spaces, so that it looks better and your comment is easier to read.
Example:
"Stock elementary with this wallpaper and transparent plank."
I have my suspicions that @claimall didn't create that, but I haven't found a better source yet.
Edit: http://simpledesktops.com/browse/desktops/2015/may/10/escape-velocity/ was uploaded months earlier.
- wm+bar: 3gaps + polybar
- font: source code pro
- theme: tomorrow night
- editor: emacs, mode bar: powerline
- wallpaper: simpledesktops
Oh wow!! That's a blast from the past! I'm the same artist. I submitted that to Simple Desktops ages ago and had forgotten about it until you just reminded me! I only recently added the fish to my design because I felt like the design needed a little something more to look good on a shirt.
Here's the link by the way: http://simpledesktops.com/browse/desktops/2010/sep/02/razor-sharp/
Tweak list:
Theme: Pebbli Volume HUD: Sonus CClean ColorBanners SleekCode Springtomize 3 Anchor LockHTML 4 LS widget: LS EW159_(N) Messages: Quartz Wallpaper: Subtle Ocean
Wallpaper: Tetons at Night
GTK: Paper
Icons: Paper
Shell: Paper
Wallpaper: http://simpledesktops.com/browse/desktops/2015/may/10/escape-velocity/
GTK Theme: Numix
.conkyrc, I took some Conky config from internet that I don't remember and just deleted stuff I didn't need.
Really have been digging my experience with the wm-utils project.
In the scrot is
this wall
tmux
some color script
cmus for music
modifed again env-info script
In addition, I leveraged my battery driven bash prompt script, slightly modifed, for bbdr. That will give a static border color for the various state/levels. I also modified rainbow which normally gives pulsing borders based on an array of colors, to use my current xcolors, with static border colors when battery state/level at [n], then pulse with red when critical.
Its been good partnering up with /u/ChefIronBelly for this excursion. Thanks Chef!
Find me on github or the linuxbqq forums
This site might be just up your alley OP! I have found a lot of lovely minimal/flat wallpapers here
This green one for example
Dotfiles are here
- Wallpaper: Coffee Pixels
- Colors: Base 16 Ocean
O hai! It's been a while since my last screenshot.
WM: i3
Statusbar: i3bar with conky
Font: Terminus 8
Colors: started out as Euphrasia
Terminal: termite
Apps: weechat, mpd+ncmpcpp, vim, pipes.sh
Wall: http://simpledesktops.com/browse/desktops/2011/jan/15/day-of-the-dead/
Configs: https://github.com/kexolino/Dotfiles (beware, i3 config is VERY messy)
I am pretty obsessed Simple Desktops, with a preference for darker backgrounds. This has been my background for months.
I like to have a simple desktop. Here's the wallpaper in case you want it. Other info should be visible in the screenshot itself.
Background is from Simple Desktops, the clock widget is Onca, icons are Pop UI, used GravityBox to get the status bar icons looking the way I want and Aus Weather for the persistent weather icon.
GTK Theme and window decorations: Siva-Flat http://nale12.deviantart.com/art/Siva-Flat-1-3-0-353499016 Wallpaper source: http://simpledesktops.com/browse/desktops/2012/oct/14/space/ (Great site for cool minimal wallpapers by the way)
Yeah, I couldn't stand transparent terminals for that reason, then I found http://simpledesktops.com. Nice big swaths of color on most of them, you can pick and choose the darker ones (or invert some of the light ones). Readability and personality.
I was inspired by the wallpapers at http://simpledesktops.com/ and thought I'd try making something like that as a practice for learning Illustrator. I'd just choose some random stuffs and think how I could emulate the style prevalent on those wallpapers. Scribble the ideas roughly on my phone or a notebook. Then I'd try to make them on Illustrator and maybe even do a few more iterations. Unfortunately, I didn't do it for more than a few days, so I've made only a few of these.
- Wallpaper: I have no idea by someone
- GTK: Equilux-compact
- Icons: Numix-Circle
- Panel: Xfce4-panel
- Player: Deadbeef
- Distro: Linux Mint 18.3
- GTK: Mint-Y Dark
- Icons: Papirus Dark
- Dock: Docky
- Wallpaper: Sun Rising by simpledesktops.com
- Browser: Chromium
No specific suggestions, but I like SimpleDesktops when I'm in a more minimalist mood. http://simpledesktops.com/browse/
I tend to prefer things that almost invite fingerprints on the screen, though.
A jersey that is minimalist (kind of like some of the fractal designs/ simple color combinations here: http://simpledesktops.com/) without any obvious logos or brand plastered across the front....
Also, nicely designed "state" jerseys. I'd love a nice "Live free or die" jersey for NH.
Credit goes to Catilin Wang from Simple Desktops
it's i3 on openbsd. the browser is midori. the GTK theme is oomox with a custom colour scheme. my thing is now to browse simple desktops and design themes around random wallpapers.
Simple i3 setup that goes well with the flattr icon theme.
Background: recolored simpledesktops.com
Feel free to ask if interested.
I've gone with solarized pretty much everywhere. Still a work in progress, will link dotfiles after I do a little bit of a cleanup.
Please note the images I have linked my be deemed NSFW, they're literally a pair of feminine legs in a vector art style. But your boss may be a dinosaur and I don't want you getting a warning.
I last used Linux about 15 years ago. When Mandrake was one of the more popular Distros and buying ISO's from the web and waiting for the post was quicker than downloading them.
I have recently got back into Linux and started customising my desktop. I started with Ubuntu, but it would not play nice with my GPU (Nvidia GTX 750) Debian was being a pain regarding my network card, so I went with Arch. Which was far less of a pain in the backside than I expected it to be.
The wallpaper is from http://simpledesktops.com/browse/desktops/2012/jun/28/signora/
The config files I have made can be found at https://github.com/0-8/Conky I have never used Github before so I hope I have done that right.
The icon theme in Plank is Numix Circle Icon Theme.
The task bar at the top is Tint2.
I am pretty much running on an Xfce base. The window borders are Numix Themes Arch Blue (On the AUR)
I do hope this is permitted here, I read through the rules, and was a little confused. If it isn't up to standard, I am sorry.
I change the bg color on one of the wallpapers in the website. Better for dual monitors. Not super bright.
For anyone interested.
Original:
http://simpledesktops.com/browse/desktops/2014/sep/06/cyan-magenta/
I came over from the 4S a couple weeks ago.
Nova Launcher Prime, Zooper Widget Pro, any icon pack you fancy, Tasker is neat to play with but not entirely necessary IMO, set up the built in remote app with your TV.
I like PushBullet for texting from my computer, Morning Routine for alarm clock, Textra for SMS, Pocket Casts for podcasts (can sync across devices and platforms), Fotor for photo editing, Zedge for ringtones, and I just discovered http://simpledesktops.com for sweet minimalist wallpapers.
Sorry no links, I'm on my G3 and I'm lazy.
Thanks! The colorscheme is solarized dark; the squares are indeed just a background image which you can find here (similar backgrounds on this website).
Details!
Theme: http://nale12.deviantart.com/art/Flatts-09022014-432924057
Icons: http://tiheum.deviantart.com/art/Faenza-Icons-173323228
Wallpaper: http://simpledesktops.com/browse/desktops/2011/mar/31/dot-equalizer/
Its installed in a virtual-box VM (still too much of a gamer to fully commit to Linux). My next project is to get this functional dual booting with windows. Just seeing all the beautiful posts here made me want to try and do my own.
http://i.imgur.com/IZ0P5JM.png
Honestly, I can't think of anything to even put in the middle of this page. Everything important can already be accessed via App Dialer (using the "custom" button in the navigation bar or GravityBox's Pie) or exists in the notification shade (weather, recent calendar events and Gtasks).
Launcher: Nova Launcher
Icon Pack: Pop UI
Wallpaper: Rainbow Tiles
Widgets: Zooper, onca
This site has loads of simple colour designs: http://simpledesktops.com/browse/
There are quite a few similar to your example but you might have to scroll through quite a lot of them to find the ones you like :(
Hope I helped :)
Sorry that everything is in German!
- Wallpaper: Spectrum
- GTK: Numix Frost
- Icons: Numix Circle
- Dock: Plank (transparent)
- Other: Xfce with Compton
I highly recommend http://simpledesktops.com/ for some good mousepad images.
EDIT: I decided to be witty and used http://simpledesktops.com/browse/desktops/2012/sep/11/readwrite-blk/.
Get it? It's a floppy disk. Dohoho.
I am too easily distracted to use most of the wallpapers I'm seeing here.
I usually just cycle through a lot of the wallpapers on http://simpledesktops.com/. Currently using this one.
Ack, the album shots were compressed to hell, please click "View full resolution" :3
GTK theme is CrazyMuthaFucker.
XFWM theme is Prelude Dark.
Wallpaper is a slightly colour corrected version of this.
I don't like the way firefox looks with dark themes... The bright-to-dark gradients everywhere make it look very bad... If anyone suggests a nice fix to this I'll reward as many upvotes as I can give to one post!
I guess I just like really minimal wallpapers with lots of negative space, which are quite hard to find.
A site for you:
Really loved the owl. It's now my desktop!
If you like minimalist wallpapers, there's simpledesktops.
EDIT: Since it's a bit annoying to download everything from there, here's a rar of them.
The Site has a load of sweet minimal desktops. They're made for Pc/Mac but work really well on phones.
It's a feature of Windows 7. Google "windows 7 rss wallpaper", there are plenty of how-to guides.
Then find yourself a suitable RSS feed. Flickr is a good source for photography. Personally I like more abstract vector art for desktops, here's what I use:
The RSS feed is here:
feed://feeds.feedburner.com/simpledesktops
- Wallpaper: Rainbow Tiles by simpledesktops.com
- Terminal: [Alacritty]
- Dock: [Qtile Bar ]
- Other: File manager — Ranger; run-menu — rofi
Details:
- Wallpaper: Rainbow Tiles by Simon Stalenhag
- Theme: Breeze Dark
- Icons: La Capitaine
+ **WM**: [I3](https://i3wm.org/)
+ **Terminal**: Alacritty
+ **Editor**: Neovim
+ **Window switcher**: Rofi
+ **Dots**: dapc11-rice
A little hobby project of mine, created a ricer that takes a json definition of base16 colors that will render all my apps with the same colors. Also managing my dotfiles through this tool.
GTK theme: Lavender dark
Terminal applications: pfetch, cava and micro
GUI application: DeaDBeeF
Terminal: Alacritty
Wallpaper: Minimalistic rubik cube from simpledesktops.com
GTK theme: Kripton
Icons (Not visible): Papirus dark
Dock: i3bar
Terminal applications: cacafire, cmatrix and micro
Gui application: Firefox
- Wallpaper: Rainbow Tiles by simpledesktops.com
- WM: BSPWM
- Terminal: Alacritty
- Dock: polybar
- Other: Brave Browser with dracula theme
- Wallpaper: Game of Life
- Terminal Emulator: XFCE4 Terminal Emulator
- Dock: Built-in awesomewm status bar.
- Dock theme: Customized color scheme + layout indicators to better fit the wallpaper theme.
- Font: Hack Nerf Font
- Emacs theme: Custom light theme with added black accents to certain elements.
- File manager: Thunar
- GTK icon theme: Sardi Ghost Flexible
- Wallpaper: Game of Life
- Terminal Emulator: XFCE4 Terminal Emulator
- Terminal Theme: Dark Pastels
- Dock: Built-in awesomewm status bar..
- Font: Hack Nerf Font
- Emacs theme: Wombat
- File manager: Thunar
- GTK theme: Materia Dark Compact
- GTK icon theme: Sardi Ghost Flexible
- Mouse cursor: Bibata Classic
GTK: Dracula or something
Icons: Numix Circle
Picom Tyrone
Dock: Polybar
Programs: Tuir, cava, pfetch, castero, ncspot, ytop, calcurse.
Using that Miramare theme, scraped the colors off of the vim theme and applied it to everything the moment I saw it. It's basically just better gruvbox.
I can't wait to receive my GMK Dracula keycaps
- Wallpaper: I don't remember where I got it, but here it is in full 4096 × 1756
- GTK: Dracula
- QT: Dracula
- Icons: Papirus
OS: Gentoo (mix of stable and ~)
WM: Sway
Color theme: gruvbox-dark-pale (used everywhere it was straightforward to do so)
Shell: bash
Wallpaper: here
Widget Theme: Adapta-Nokto-Eta
Icons: Paper
Terminal Font: Hack
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Applications (left to right): alacritty running tmux, neofetch, spotify-tui, firefox 78.0 (with tree-tabs), Thunar, more alacritty running updates and vim, weechat
First time trying tiling wm :D
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- Wallpaper: Rainbow Tiles by simpledesktops.com
- GTK: Arc
- Icons: Papirus
- Discord modification: EnhancedDiscord
- Terminal: Termite with nord-termite
- For minimalistic wallpapers, take a look at Simple Desktops
- For i3 p0rn, perhaps, you should take a look at Github, specifically, looking for i3 + themes
- For minimalistic wallpapers, take a look at Simple Desktops
- For i3 p0rn, perhaps, you should take a look at Github, specifically, looking for i3 + themes
I have an IFTTT that downloads new ones to a folder in Dropbox. Every once in a while I peek in there and move ones I like to a symlinked folder. A cron job changes my desktop every 30 minutes.
This my first rice btw. Hope you like it! + Wallpaper: Tavern by the road by Vladimir Manyukhin + GTK: Breeze - I just changed the color schemes + Icons: Buuf Plasma + Dock: [Latte] + Color Schemes: kde-gruvbox
+ **Cointop**: [Github](http://simpledesktops.com/browse/desktops/2014/jun/20/rainbow-tiles/)
+ **Tmux**
+ **iTerm2 (round edges and borderless)**: [Github](https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2)
Info:
- Terminal: Kitty
- Colorscheme: base16 grayscale light
- Font: IBM Plex Mono
- wallpaper simpledesktops
- Icons: Newaita
- GTK: Arc
- WM: xfwm4
- WM Theme: dots black
- GTK Theme: Matcha-dark-azul ~ Adwaita
- Icons: Papirus-Maia
- Terminal: XFCE terminal
- Wallpaper: By: Andreeinprogress
- Distro: Ubuntu 18.04
- Wallpaper: Yosemite Color Block
- Top Bar: i3blocks (with Font Awesome icons)
- Shell: ZSH with oh-my-zsh agnoster theme
- Compositor: Compton
- Visualizer: cli-visualizer
- <strong>Dotfiles</strong>
Launcher: Nova Launcher Prime (5x8 grid)
Icons: Homescreen icons OC
Widgets: OC via KWGT
Wallpaper: Pulsar Map - Colors by Sam W <u>via simpledesktops.com</u>
Widget 1 - Time area does nothing - Weather area opens Carrot, the loveable foul-mouthed weather app, icons and temperature change ofc - Alarm area opens the stock clock app, if no alarm is set, it’ll say “nope”, and icon changes as well
Widget 2 - Battery does nothing, just indicate if device is charging - Wifi area will toggle Wifi on/off and say either “nope” or “yeah”, and icon toggles as well - Signal area will display what type of connection is active (3G/4G/None) and icon somewhat reflects signal strength (it’s wonky af)
Widget 3 - If music is playing, it will show currently playing info in app of choice - If music is playing, tapping will open the app currently playing - If no music is playing, it’ll tell me to “play some funky music, white boy!” - If no music is playing, tapping will open the app last used
Wallpaper: Unspllash Image https://unsplash.com/photos/-pCHz5XiMb0
GTK: Arc-Dark [GTK2]
Icons: Zafiro
Panel: XFCE Panels
Distro Antergos xfce Panel Polybar Icons Paper Wallpaper Simpledesktop Dock Plank Default
- OS: Fedora Workstation 27
- DE: Xfce 4.12
- WM: i3-gaps + Compton
- Bar: i3bar/i3status
- Terminal: Xfce Terminal
- Wallpaper: Polymagnet by simpledesktops.com
- Icons: Papirus
- Theme: Adwaita (I want uniform look for GTK and Qt apps)
- Launcher: Rofi
- Wallpaper: Simple Desktops City Roads
- Conky: Somewhat modified defaults
- Colors: base16 grayscale, vim true-monochrome
- Wallpaper: Simple Desktops City Roads
- Conky: Somewhat modified defaults
- Colors: base16 grayscale, vim true-monochrome
- Wallpaper: Sun Rising by simpledesktops.com
- GTK: Modified Numix
- Icons: Papirus
- Gnome Extensions: Dash to dock, No title bar, Activities Configurator
- Other: browser is Firefox, made black with this (contrast set to off) and userChrome.css modifications
I couldn't figure out how to change the color of the title bar, some programs still have it gray.
- WM: i3
- Terminal: xfce4-terminal
- Shell: oksh +Programs: ufetch, pacman, cmatrix, vim
- Wallpaper: Rainbow Tiles by simpledesktops.com
- Config: config
All the art used in the designs came from simple desktops and the names of each design corresponds with the name of the original wallpaper/art (e.g. Zoo3 is from the wallpaper "zoo")
I'm running Arch Liniux with a LXDE desktop enviroment. My Icon Theme is Flat Remix and my lxde theme is Numix.
Wallpaper: One of the default wallpapers for El Capitan
GTK: Arc with modified window buttons
Icons: Slightly modified Paper theme
Gnome: default theme modified with activities configurator and dash to dock.
Similar, but I get dark images from Simple Desktops so the background has some personality, but is never distracting.
Currently it's a dark grey lotus
I fancied a cleaner desktop but still required some monitoring on my second screen for use when gaming. I modified the existing Google Now widgets created by SantiagoLP98 on Deviantart removing some redundant information. I also created my own widgets for the GPU and network monitoring .
GPU monitor is using the MSI Afterburner plugin, it has some faults such as the memory figure is hard coded because the plugin doesn't retrieve this information correctlty however the skin "should" change colour depending on the graphics card e.g. Red = AMD, Green = Nvidia and Blue = Intel.
Network monitor shows the current download/upload speeds as well as a ping to google.com which allows me to see how congested my tiny 1.5mb connection is.
Links below:
- Google Now for Rainmeter - http://santiagolp98.deviantart.com/art/Google-Now-for-Rainmeter-v0-8-1-569932902
- Wallpaper - http://simpledesktops.com/browse/desktops/2015/mar/02/mountains-on-mars/
If anyone wants my GPU/Network widgets let me know and ill will upload them to my dropbox.
Theme: Vivacious Colors Dark Red
Icons: Vivacious Dark Red
Terminal: Xfce 4 terminal
Shell: zsh + yadr
Editor: Mix of nano and vim, depending on how lazy I am
IRC Client: Weechat 1.5 with buffers and autosort extensions
File Manager: Thunar, or the command line, again depending on how lazy I am (More command line these days, but Thunar is nice for managing devices)
Browser: Google Chrome (Yes, I know, it's proprietary...)
Distribution: Debian Sid
Wallpaper: Wallpaper
Here you go:
Simple Desktops is the best :P Also, here's what it looks like with a different icon theme:
DETAILS
I've been trying for days to get GNUstep to work, but apparently the apps don't exist. Also, I'm using Ubuntu and WindowMaker. I forget what theme I'm using under WindowMaker.
Wallpaper is Siracha from Simpledesktops.com
Firefox uses LittleFox and Classic Theme Restorer.