Duncan's Screenshots

Created on: Wednesday, 15 July, 2009

This is two sizes of the same image, displaying my Gentoo Linux desktop, running KDE 3.5.10 with some 4.2.4 components as well, on a dual (stacked) 1920x1200 LCD monitor setup.

Full screen size, reduced to 256 color, png (1.5 MB, 1920x2400 px)

Half-size for easier viewing on smaller screens (960x1200 px, 412 KB)

Some folks have asked me what sort of stuff I do on the computer, what my desktop looks like, and the apps I use. Take a look!

The background is a low quality but beautiful 600x800 jpg of a waterfall I found in a huge 17 gig archive of myspace images, here "maxpect-sized" to screen size. I have no other information on it other than the original name as on myspace, l_1fcdd596d311a25f057cfe0be9a737a0.jpg.

Running applications include the kde 3.5 kicker panels, top, and bottom. In the top monitor I'm running, a blank kde 3.5 kview prepared to process the snapshot after I take it and the QMPDClient qt-4 based MPD (music player daemon) control client

In the bottom monitor, I'm running the kde 4.2 based konsole terminal client, ready to do a system upgrade, the kde 3.5 konqueror web browser, open to an article on the slashdot "News for Nerds" tech site, and kde 3.5 based kaffeine media player, playing a video off of youtube. (It's a music video, Groove Coverage, 21st century digital girl (final version) by finalspirit14, the particular image shown is I believe from the Final Fantasy X-2 game, Sony Playstation. Finalspirit14 used scenes from it, Final Fantasy IX, and Kindom Hearts 2, as visuals. It's a great video. Check it out!)

In the top kicker panels at the top left is the clock, with kworldclock just below it, displaying the daylit and dark parts of the earth, dynamically updated with the time. To the right of the clocks are the system tray (vertically oriented) and kweather. The right 1500x300 px (original size) is the ksysguard applet displaying CPU and memory status, internet activity, and system temps.

The buttons to left in the bottom kicker panel are the main "kmenu" system menu, a local disk directory shortcut menu, kde settings menu, bookmarks menu, and a show-desktop action icon. In the center there's the knewsticker, which scrolls news feeds from various sites. To the right is the klipper button. klipper is KDE's clipboard. enhancer.

What's not visible here is that I have two other graphical virtual desktops running, each with its own graphical apps running on them, and several text mode virtual consoles running as well, again each with its own apps.

The hardware is a dual dual-core AMD64 Opteron 290 (2.8 GHz), with 8 gigs of memory. Unfortunately I'm still running an aging Radeon 9200 video card, but on kde3, it does the job. Kde4 requires a bit more graphics umpph that that card can give me ATM, thus the main desktop remains kde3 either until I upgrade graphics cards or until kde4 gets better optimized. For storage I run four 300-gig SATA drives in Linux kernel RAID. The main system is RAID-6, with the swap, local Gentoo Linux distribution package cache, etc, on RAID-0 for speed and space, since I don't need RAID redundancy for that.