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12 May 2011

What's on your computer desktop? Mine looks like this.

post by: Hugh Janus at: 10:02 | 21 comments

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posted by Splunge 12 May | 10:14

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posted by BoringPostcards 12 May | 10:18

No way would I reveal the untidy mess of my virtual, or actual desktop. Huge, your desktop is impressively empty. IO am inspired by all of y'all to get new wallpaper.

posted by theora55 12 May | 10:21

*I* am inspired. There should be some kind of preview button.

posted by theora55 12 May | 10:22

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My work desktop.

posted by sperose 12 May | 10:24

My Desktop Is This Pic I Took

posted by rollick 12 May | 10:26

Huge, your desktop is impressively empty.

I switched "Show desktop icons" to "off" for the screenshot. I have a program that rotates my desktop background every fifteen minutes or so through a set of my photos. Currently it looks like this:

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Soon it will look like this:

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posted by Hugh Janus 12 May | 10:31

I don't know how to do the screenshot thingie, but if you go to this page and then expand the picture of the koi fish, that's currently my desktop.

posted by Miko 12 May | 11:02

Here is mine.

posted by JanetLand 12 May | 11:18

laptop
desktop

posted by Obscure Reference 12 May | 11:19

Right now it looks like this. However, it typically looks like this or this.

My desktop pic changes once a day. I have a whole folder full of nice (and sometimes goofy) artwork. A lot of them are the art from the Flight comics. Today, it just happened to be Stack Cats.

posted by gc 12 May | 11:35

This is on my desktop. It's a MetaChat member, but I can't remember his bunny name. It reminds me of my road trip last summer.

posted by deborah 12 May | 14:05

I can't post work screen shots for company security reasons but mines just a standard Xfce desktop with no wallpaper, just a dark blue background with no icons.

posted by octothorpe 12 May | 15:05

That's me, deborah! Thank you! Right now I've got this one on the desktop.

posted by Kronos_to_Earth 12 May | 16:04

Home desktop.

posted by sperose 12 May | 18:35

Small derail: it's funny that I live in such a beautiful area - lots of trees, mountains, water, etc. Yet seeing the prairies was so refreshing.

posted by deborah 12 May | 19:15

Here's mine, a picture from a hike a few months ago. Thanks for the tip about the "show desktop icons" Hugh - my desktop is usually very cluttered.

posted by nelvana 12 May | 23:05

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My desktop autocycles through a set of mostly sealife and xrays.

posted by jamaro 13 May | 01:32

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Exciting, huh? It's an odd shape because I have a laptop with an LCD screen beside it that is rotated to portrait mode.

posted by dg 13 May | 01:43

Mine rotates as well. Right now I'm using the Aero Lightning theme pack. I also have a Fireworks pack that's cool.

posted by Splunge 13 May | 08:22

I've been a bit obsessed with Portal 2 recently, so I made this for my monitors:

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posted by chrismear 13 May | 11:48

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