What kind of wallpaper are you using?
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What kind of wallpaper are you using?
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Last edited by mathias on Fri Oct 14, 2005 10:12 am, edited 4 times in total.
My desktop wallpapers are most anime related. The majority were made by others; some I made myself largely from artbook scans; a handful I made myself with my own artwork.
On my main workstation, the wallpaper randomly rotates every 7 minutes. On my other PCs with less computing power, the wallpaper randomly rotates about every hour.
I have a huge collection of wallpaper backgrounds, organized into many different categories. Depending on mood, I'll alter what categories are in the rotation.
I have an XMas category which gets used around XMas-time. I've also started a relatively small Halloween category, but it's not as big (mostly fan art based, since Halloween is barely known of in Japan).
Oh--naturally my humongous collection of wallpapers are ALL in the standard 4:3 aspect ratio. This includes many 1280x1024 abominations which have been manually chopped down to kosher 1280x960 dimensions. (Yes, I'm still looking for the cretin responsible for 1280x1024 so I can give him his well deserved kick in the crotch.)
On my main workstation, the wallpaper randomly rotates every 7 minutes. On my other PCs with less computing power, the wallpaper randomly rotates about every hour.
I have a huge collection of wallpaper backgrounds, organized into many different categories. Depending on mood, I'll alter what categories are in the rotation.
I have an XMas category which gets used around XMas-time. I've also started a relatively small Halloween category, but it's not as big (mostly fan art based, since Halloween is barely known of in Japan).
Oh--naturally my humongous collection of wallpapers are ALL in the standard 4:3 aspect ratio. This includes many 1280x1024 abominations which have been manually chopped down to kosher 1280x960 dimensions. (Yes, I'm still looking for the cretin responsible for 1280x1024 so I can give him his well deserved kick in the crotch.)
I usually change my background every few days to something from NASA (e.g., http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html) that will look reasonable on portrait mode. However, coincidentally to slipknottin and mathias, today I flipped my screen and used the Blue Marble shot of winter 2004.
Not sure which category my wallpaper falls into.
(we had a similar thread to this about a year ago, and yes, I'm still using the same wallpaper)
(we had a similar thread to this about a year ago, and yes, I'm still using the same wallpaper)
Erm, sickeningly cute? I'd have to prevent my daughter from seeing it, or she'd insist on using itRusty075 wrote:Not sure which category my wallpaper falls into.
BTW, what's Sensor 3 measuring? HDD?
Not 1, or 9. Hopefully not 2, 4, 5, 7 or 10. So 3, 6 or 8.Rusty075 wrote:Not sure which category my wallpaper falls into.
I saw a test once where running an all-black background boosted performance a percent or two....but this was on hardware that is ancient by modern standards. With a 2Ghz CPU I can't imagine it makes a measurable difference. Might make your monitor use less power though, so that can't hurt anything.lenny wrote:Has anyone done benchmarking on how or if desktop wallpaper affects Windows GUI performance?
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Erm, sickeningly cute? I'd have to prevent my daughter from seeing it, or she'd insist on using it
BTW, what's Sensor 3 measuring? HDD?
(that's not really my wallpaper btw, just in case anyone failed to get my humor. Well, it was, but only long enough to snap a screenshot)
Yes, Sensor 3 was HDD. That was when my system was in a Centurion V case, sitting on the floor, during a Michigan winter.
My desktop varies wildly... right now I am looking at the BMW Concept Z4 Coupé from various angles at a resolution of 5696x1536 (3 displays side by side) but I use the UltraMon gradient colored backgrounds a lot when I want visual peace & quiet.
Many images I use come from Caedes.net or from Serious Wheels... SW has very nice (car) images up to 1920x1440 which can be hard to come by.
Many images I use come from Caedes.net or from Serious Wheels... SW has very nice (car) images up to 1920x1440 which can be hard to come by.
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A photo of an otter I took a few years ago. Nothing really interesting
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Yes, we know it clashes with your cigar smoking hobbyRusty075 wrote:(that's not really my wallpaper btw, just in case anyone failed to get my humor. Well, it was, but only long enough to snap a screenshot)
By the way, for those with really nothing better to do, try a desktop like one of these.
Way ahead of you: Russ' "transparent" 2005FPWlenny wrote:By the way, for those with really nothing better to do, try a desktop like one of these.
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my wallpaper is a photo of aria giovanni. don't think i'll post it incase the mods decide it's inappropriate (how come nobody here had babe wallpapers..are we all prudes?)
to the two guys that use wallpaper rotators/randomisers, what utility is that? i was looking for one a while ago but couldn't find any that worked to my satisfaction. i only had a few simple requirements,
btw here was my copy of Russ' transparent screen
to the two guys that use wallpaper rotators/randomisers, what utility is that? i was looking for one a while ago but couldn't find any that worked to my satisfaction. i only had a few simple requirements,
- i. that the shuffle works ok. better than winamp's, at least
ii. that the resize filter is decent (since i use 1600x1200 and most 4:3 walls out there need stretch to fill screen)
iii. freeware (or "other", ahem) which doesn't add logos or nags to the image
btw here was my copy of Russ' transparent screen
I found mine on DeviantART a few months ago... It's pretty nice on my VP191b LCD!
(Click on the picture to see the 1280x1024 version)
(Click on the picture to see the 1280x1024 version)
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I've been going through an artsy-fartsy phase lately, and have been using this pre-made Impressionistic style of wallpaper. Typically I almost always use my own photographs though.
I use the KDE desktop environment in Linux. The shuffle works ok, I think. The resize filter looks bilinear to me, which is really nice, and it's all no-nonsense freeware.wim wrote:to the two guys that use wallpaper rotators/randomisers, what utility is that?
Back when I was still using windows, the poor resizing capabilities prompted me to organize wallpaper images by resolution and I used to manually resize to different resolutions in Paintshop Pro.
Since I use only Linux now, I only bother to make sure the images are 4:3 ratio. I don't even restrict myself to the "standard" sizes anymore. For example, when cropping a scanned image I may end up with something sized 444x333.