All Desktop Screenshots of 2021

[ThP]

Cinnamon with plank dock and an old photo for background

[aandmsantos0910]

Trying out the Latest Ubuntu, like the gnome DE on this one.

Wallpaper: http://wallpaperswide.com/light_purple-wallpapers.html
Plank Theme: https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1463576
Icon Theme: https://www.pling.com/p/1340791
GTK Theme/Shell Theme: https://www.pling.com/p/1441725
Cursor Theme: https://www.pling.com/p/1518883

Conky:

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conky.config ={
  console_bar_fill   = '»',
  console_bar_unfill = ' ',

  alignment = 'top_left',
  background = false,
  border_width = 2,
  cpu_avg_samples = 2,
  -- define Manjaro colours:
  default_color = '#5f227e',  -- Ubuntu Orange
  color1 = '#709080',         -- Kakhi
  color2 = '#b4b4b4',         -- Light Grey
  color3 = '#72d5a3',         -- Light Green
  color4 = '#ffffff',         -- White
  color5 = '#000000',         -- Black
  color6 = '#7d95c5',         -- Light aubergine
  font = 'Ubuntu:size=11',
  default_outline_color = '#1abc9c',  -- Same HTML as current terminal
  default_shade_color = '#1abc9c',  -- Same HTML as current terminal
  double_buffer = true,
  draw_borders = false,
  draw_graph_borders = true,
  draw_outline = false,
  draw_shades = false,
  extra_newline = false,
  format_human_readable=true,
  gap_x = 10,
  gap_y = 40,
  minimum_height = 200,
  minimum_width = 200,
  net_avg_samples = 2,
  no_buffers = true,
  out_to_console = false,
  out_to_ncurses = false,
  out_to_stderr = false,
  out_to_x = true,
  own_window = true,
  own_window_class = 'conky',
  own_window_type = 'desktop',
  own_window_transparent = true,
  -- set transparency:
  own_window_argb_visual = true,
  own_window_argb_value = 175,
  show_graph_range = false,
  show_graph_scale = false,
  stippled_borders = 0,
  update_interval = 1.0,
  uppercase = false,
  use_spacer = 'none',
  use_xft = true,
};


conky.text = [[
${image /home/marc/Pictures/img/logo-ubuntu.png -p 145,0 -s 40x40}${alignc}


${color4}${font :size=12}${alignc} Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri
${color6}${hr}$font
${color5}DISTRO:${color}${alignr}$distribution
${color5}ARCH:${color}${alignr}$machine
${color5}UPTIME:${color}${alignr}$uptime_short
${color5}KERNEL:${color}${alignr}$kernel
${color6}${font :size=12}CPU & CORES ${hr}$font
${color5}CPU:${color}${alignr}AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
${color2} 01 - 04:${color4}${goto 100}${cpu cpu1}% ${goto 150}${cpu cpu2 }% ${goto 200}${cpu cpu3 }% ${goto 250}${cpu cpu4 }%
${color2} 05 - 08:${color4}${goto 100}${cpu cpu5}% ${goto 150}${cpu cpu6 }% ${goto 200}${cpu cpu7 }% ${goto 250}${cpu cpu8 }%
${color2} 09 - 12:${color4}${goto 100}${cpu cpu9}% ${goto 150}${cpu cpu10}% ${goto 200}${cpu cpu11}% ${goto 250}${cpu cpu12}%
${color2} 13 - 16:${color4}${goto 100}${cpu cpu13}% ${goto 150}${cpu cpu14}% ${goto 200}${cpu cpu15}% ${goto 250}${cpu cpu16}%
${color5}CPU Load: ${color4}$cpu% ${color1}$cpubar
${voffset -5}${color1}${cpugraph cpu0 -l -t}${voffset -5}
${color5}CPU Freq: ${color4}$freq_g GHz ${alignr}${color5}CPU Temp: ${color4}${acpitemp}°C
${color6}${font :size=12}MEMORY ${hr}$font
${color5}RAM: ${color4}$mem ${color}/ $memmax ${color4}($memperc%) ${color1}$membar
${color5}SWAP: ${color4}$swap ${color}/ $swapmax ${color4}($swapperc%) ${color1}$swapbar
${color6}${font :size=12}GPU ${hr}$font
${color5}GPU:${color}${alignr}MSI NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
${color5}GPU Temp: ${color4}$alignr ${nvidia temp} °C
${color5}GPU Speed: $alignr${color4}${nvidia gpufreq} Mhz
${color5}MEM Speed: $alignr${color4}${nvidia memfreq} Mhz
${color6}${font :size=12}NETWORK ${hr}$font
${color5}IP ADDRESS:${color}${alignr}${addr wlp5s0}
${voffset -5}${if_match "${addr wlp5s0}"!="No Address"}${color1}${downspeedgraph wlp5s0 24,159 7d95c5 a9e7f2 -l -t} ${color2}${upspeedgraph wlp5s0 24,159 7d95c5 a9e7f2 -l -t}
${voffset -5}${color5}Download: ${color4}${downspeedf wlp5s0}k/s ${alignr}${color5}Upload: ${color4}${upspeedf wlp5s0}k/s ${font}${endif}
${color6}${font :size=12}FILE SYSTEMS ${hr}$font
${color5}Mountpoints${goto 100}Free / Total${alignr}I/O
${color5}Mount: / ${goto 100}${color4}${fs_free /} ${color}/ ${fs_size /} ${alignr}${color4}${diskio}
${color6}${font :size=12}PROCESSES ${hr}$font
${color5}TOTAL${color4}${alignr}${processes}
${color5}Name ${goto 149}PID${goto 215}MEM${goto 280}CPU
${color2}${top name 1}${color4}${font}${goto 130}${top pid 1}${goto 200}${top mem 1}%${goto 265}${top cpu 1}%
${color2}${top name 2}${color4}${font}${goto 130}${top pid 2}${font}${goto 200}${top mem 2}%${goto 265}${top cpu 2}%
${color2}${top name 3}${color4}${font}${goto 130}${top pid 3}${font}${goto 200}${top mem 3}%${goto 265}${top cpu 3}%
${color2}${top name 4}${color4}${font}${goto 130}${top pid 4}${font}${goto 200}${top mem 4}%${goto 265}${top cpu 4}%
${color2}${top name 5}${color4}${font}${goto 130}${top pid 5}${font}${goto 200}${top mem 5}%${goto 265}${top cpu 5}%
${color2}${top name 6}${color4}${font}${goto 130}${top pid 6}${font}${goto 200}${top mem 6}%${goto 265}${top cpu 6}%
${color2}${top name 7}${color4}${font}${goto 130}${top pid 7}${font}${goto 200}${top mem 7}%${goto 265}${top cpu 7}%
${color2}${top name 8}${color4}${font}${goto 130}${top pid 8}${font}${goto 200}${top mem 8}%${goto 265}${top cpu 8}%
${color2}${top name 9}${color4}${font}${goto 130}${top pid 9}${font}${goto 200}${top mem 9}%${goto 265}${top cpu 9}%
${color2}${top name 10}${color4}${font}${goto 130}${top pid 10}${font}${goto 200}${top mem 10}%${goto 265}${top cpu 10}%${voffset -20}
]];

[DisturbedDragon]

I've moved back to Fedora for a couple laptops and servers. The experience is very smooth and stable. This is from my Lenovo 14w laptop with Fedora 35 Workstation Mate Edition.

[majpooper]

I've moved back to Fedora for a couple laptops and servers. The experience is very smooth and stable. This is from my Lenovo 14w laptop with Fedora 35 Workstation Mate Edition.

It is all what you are used to - someone I know who worked for Red Hat for a few years and for Cisco is a Fedora fan and really never liked Ubuntu - I think Unity turned him off. I tried Fedora but just could not get comfortable with it. I am pretty much a Debian/Cinnamon fan.
This is my Debian 12/Cinnamon 5.0 (I know dark is what is cool these days but dark is hard on my eyes)

[AndyMH]

This is my Debian 12/Cinnamon 5.0

I normally find posts of screenshots boring, just look at the linux minit reddit, but I do like that. Also not a fan of dark themes.

[Michael_Hathaway]

Dark screens keep the bugs away. I thought you had Debian 11 with Cinnamon 5 on it?

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Dark screens keep the bugs away. I thought you had Debian 11 with Cinnamon 5 on it?

Dark screens are also easier on the eyes. They also make colors pop more.

[majpooper]

Dark screens keep the bugs away. I thought you had Debian 11 with Cinnamon 5 on it?

I did but then I then I changed

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sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

from bullseye to testing and upgraded to 12

[majpooper]

Dark screens are also easier on the eyes. They also make colors pop more.

So they say but I find myself squinting with the dark themes - I always change my terminal to solarized light - it just seems easy for me to read.
Here's one I did on a friend's laptop that I installed LM 19 Cinnamon for.

[ThP]

Plasma with latte dock and another old photo for background

[jungle_boy]

[plshelp847383]

Zorin-ified Mint

[Cyberbleuet]

Mint 20.3



[Capture-d-cran-du-2021-12-17-11-23-42.png](https://postimg.cc/gn4cRH5p)

[MurphCID]

Very nice!

[majpooper]

Absolutely a beautiful desktop ! What theme are those icons? Where did you get them? Also where did the LM icon come from?

[rossdv8]

Finally working out why people like playing 'Conky'.
It took a few hours to learn how to modify the scripts to get fonts, dial positions, colours and stuff the way I want so my ageing eyes can see stuff on all sorts of backgrounds, and it needs more tweaking.
Working out how the lua scripts work and how to change font sizes and weights and finicky positioning with x and y numbers that seem to be the reverse of stuff I use in graphics was interesting.

Obviously I didn't write the thing - just changed it heaps to suit myself. But it was a 'first go', so I have a lot to learn about these Conky thingies.

[AndyMH]

I suspect that's how most of us started with conky - find someone else's conky that looks like what you want and then modify it. I did have a look at lua, bought a book on it and decided it wasn't for me. All my font selection, sizes, etc. are done as a 'standard' conky. I now have three, an ordinary one, one that shows the weather forecast sucking info from the UK met office (a python script) and another showing my diary for the next week (pascal pulling info from my mail server). You can waste hours on conky .

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I never could make sense of how to use Conky, even using someone else's scripts, and gave up on it.

[rossdv8]

You can waste hours on conky

I wondered where today went. And I'm still fiddling with the thing.
Heaven help me if I decide to try writing one from scratch. Mind you, I just did a heap of variations on the one I posted, and made sure they all have the same alignment. Plus, I fixed some things that were badly positioned. After a couple of hours break, it all started to 'click', and I'm getting the hang of what lives where and what can be changed 'how'.

Putting comments in the scripts, just as one does when writing code for something, helps a lot with the learning process. After that it's not much harder than writing, say a HTML page and making it mobile friendly.

I don;t plan to write a conky from scratch. But I didn;t plan to write the programs for dye sublimating T-shirts and Mugs using Linux either

EDIT:
Looking at my typing after having fingers broken and both wrists dislocated in the hit and run - the number of time I hit ; instead of ' means these days I HATE code !!!

[AndyMH]

There is a conky showoff thread:
viewtopic.php?f=212&t=30209
many pages long.

If you are starting from scratch, they did change the syntax. Conky will translate scripts in the old format. I have scripts in both old and new.

Fortunately don't have your finger problems and a touch typist. My problem is a disconnect between brain and fingers. Type away and look - why have I typed "this" instead of "that" or "any" instead of "and", fingers on automatic. Coding, I get into trouble switching languages, mainly use pascal, so if I switch to C I'm forever making syntax mistakes, somevar:= 10 instead of somevar = 10, if x=y instead of if x==y, <> instead of != and so on. Switch back, same problems in reverse.