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What wallpaper are you using right now?

Posted in Uncategorized by mairin on January 21, 2009

Show me your desktop. What wallpaper are you using right now?

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  1. mairin said, on January 21, 2009 at 8:29 pm

    To answer my own question, I’m using the default Fedora 10 wallpaper, but have been known to also sport the pink Django pony wallpaper on occasion… :)

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    • Anonymous said, on January 26, 2009 at 3:01 pm

      I use this wallpaper http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184567/wallpaper.jpg tiled.
      I love it, it is very classy, and with a dark GTK theme, it looks very professional.

      More pattern backgrounds for GNOME !!!

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  2. zaitcev said, on January 21, 2009 at 8:54 pm

    I use a solid blue. However, it’s 100% covered most of the time. I never minimize windows, only shuffle them around. I don’t use multiply workspaces either.

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  3. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 8:55 pm

    re: What wallpaper are you using right now?

    the best grass wallpaper I could find

    http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/163405/January.png

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    • malwkgad said, on January 22, 2009 at 9:02 am

      Re: What wallpaper are you using right now?

      What is the dock down there, seems pretty and simple and elegant, nothing like the fancy stuff on all other screen shots with dock I have seen. Thanks

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      • Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 10:52 am

        Re: What wallpaper are you using right now?

        Seems to be Gnome Do with the Docky extension :)

        http://do.davebsd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Docky

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      • Anonymous said, on January 23, 2009 at 3:39 am

        Re: What wallpaper are you using right now?

        That would be the docky plugin for gnome-do

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      • Anonymous said, on January 23, 2009 at 3:52 am

        Re: What wallpaper are you using right now?

        It’s gnome-do’s docky theme. You can get gnome-do here http://do.davebsd.com/

        It’s not mainly a dock, it just a fancier interface for gnome-do. check it out :)

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  4. ivazquez said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:03 pm

    I’m using the default Fedora 10 wallpaper… under Fedora 9 :P

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  5. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:04 pm

    Solid grey.

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  6. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:05 pm

    Solid color

    #4A525A

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  7. jkkm said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:06 pm

    The default vertical gradient. :/

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    • Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:13 pm

      A NASA space shuttle on the launch pad.

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  8. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:11 pm

    Jo Chen’s Willow

    From the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8″ graphic novels:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/anna_thetical/356567218/

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    • mairin said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:18 pm

      Re: Jo Chen’s Willow

      ooooh that’s pretty!

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      • Anonymous said, on January 24, 2009 at 7:23 am

        Re: Jo Chen’s Willow

        Missed this earlier. I actually know Jo through her hubby. Name drop FTW!

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  9. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:14 pm

    Solar at 1600×1200

    and I totally dig it.

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  10. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:17 pm

    We had this thread a while ago on the french forum, there are 49 pages of Desktop screenshots:

    http://forums.fedora-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=5532

    Enjoy ;)

    ~pingou

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    • mairin said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:19 pm

      great link!! thanks so much! :)

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  11. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:19 pm

    2 wallpapers

    first: http://www.flickr.com/photos/afsilva/3216447366/sizes/m/
    second: http://www.flickr.com/photos/afsilva/3145415965/sizes/m/

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    • Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:28 pm

      Re: 2 wallpapers

      forgot one more… desktop at work:

      http://www.flickr.com/photos/afsilva/2757682800/sizes/l/

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  12. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:22 pm

    Rotate my wallpaper every 30 minutes

    I download various images from Astronomy Picture of the Day and use them as backgrounds with various other things that I snarf. I used to have a different desktop per window but the window managers don’t seem to support that as nicely as they used to. I have wallpaper-tray rotate through them so I get something different whenever a desktop is free. Otherwise it rotates various images I have snarfed (the other big one is ICF ones that were done a while back.)

    Does that help?

    I am adding the pink ponies to my rotation so that I can send it to people who ask me for the impossible.

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    • mairin said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:40 pm

      Re: Rotate my wallpaper every 30 minutes

      Can you tell me which one you have displaying right now, or a recent one that you really like?

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  13. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    It depends on webilder :) http://www.webilder.org

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    • mairin said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:31 pm

      Hehe i like how in the example the person picks the tags “girl, swimsuit, beach”

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      • surkum said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:44 pm

        I like this example too :) It’s an interesting app, it lets me review flicr photographs in my own desktop.

        right now:

        http://www.flickr.com/photos/kavclix/2400876664/

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    • mairin said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:40 pm

      Can you tell me which one is displaying right now? Or which has displayed recently that you like?

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      • surkum said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:50 pm

        actually there are

        $ ll .webilder/Collection/*/* |wc -l
        3582

        I like :)

        I keep the ones I like most.

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  14. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    Wallpaporz

    I’m using this on my Eee PC: http://molaora.com/index.php/photos/album/4/photo/68.html

    And this on my primary desktop computer: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/InvinXble#Wallpaper:

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  15. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:47 pm

    escher paranoia

    http://www.mcescher.net/target37.html, tiled :) .

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  16. wakko said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:54 pm

    I’m using the default Fedora 10 wallpaper.

    My screen tends to be filled with apps, so I don’t usually see it often enough to care about changing it.

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  17. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:56 pm

    I’m using my own photo with small GNOME logo on it: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Sunflower?content=78290

    But what probably is much more interesting for you is located here: http://informationisart.com/desktop/

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  18. mcepl said, on January 21, 2009 at 9:57 pm

    My 4-year-old daughter ordered me to use
    file:///usr/share/backgrounds/images/flowers_and_leaves.jpg :) But default F10 Solar theme sneaks in sometimes

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  19. superlib said, on January 21, 2009 at 10:00 pm

    At work, I’m using a picture I’m making that’s currently in progress:
    http://libbydance.com/files/random/Robots.gif
    this is in the hopes that it will inspire me to actually finish it someday ;)

    At home, I have this picture as my background:
    http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff28/beatonna/patriot.jpg
    because it amuses me so!

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  20. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 10:19 pm

    Hilltop View by someone named phil2001.

    It was posted on InterfaceLIFT a few days ago.

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  21. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 10:24 pm

    I normally use wallpapers from one of my three favorite wallpaper sources: InterfaceLIFT, KDE-Look.org or the Fedora Art Team…there’s lots of really cool wallpapers IMHO :) and there’s always something new if I need something different :)

    Right now:
    #1: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Magic+Garden?content=85632
    #2: http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/1415/leeds_castle_grounds.html
    #3: F10 default theme :)

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  22. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 10:27 pm

    What wallpaper?

    Nice question! I also use wallpaper-tray to randomise my desktop wallpaper at each login – right now I’m looking at a panorama I stitched together using Hugin.

    The picture is of the openplan workspace were I used to work. It has a nice feel for the space, and most people happened to be sitting still while I took the snaps, but there is one pair of disembodied feet walking towards the camera, and my manager is aiming a Nerf gun at me *8)

    ps. found this on your Gnome feed…

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  23. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 10:33 pm

    My current desktop

    Here below is my current desktop, enjoy ;)

    http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/9PuMReLvGreBL9fpQzxWcQ?feat=directlink

    -Steph-

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    • mairin said, on January 21, 2009 at 10:47 pm

      Re: My current desktop

      I love it!!!! Thanks for sharing :) It’s spectacular!

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      • Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 9:15 pm

        Re: My current desktop

        I’m glad you like it :)
        The original and a few others can be found on the author’s page at :
        http://joker84.deviantart.com/

        -Stéph-

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  24. ww_macgyver_do said, on January 21, 2009 at 10:44 pm

    The default KDE 4.2 wallpaper, which I think is so pretty I put it on my Windows install as well.

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  25. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 10:50 pm

    My desktop:
    http://img513.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktopug5.png

    Wallpaper (from interfacelift.com):
    http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/downloads/01707_spectrumofthesky_1440×900.jpg

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  26. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 10:58 pm

    Wallpaper

    I’ve used the default Ubuntu Ibex wallpaper for some time, but lately I’ve changed it to this beautiful photo:

    http://www.vistaultimate.com/vista-wallpapers/Windows-Vista-Mountain-Wallpaper.jpg

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  27. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 11:40 pm

    Simple

    http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2009/01/09/how-my-desktop-looks — very simple Ubuntu brown wallpaper I made (the background colour of which I plan to bleed onto the bezel surrounding the screen of my laptop).

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  28. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/968/screenshot100296ix6.png

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  29. Anonymous said, on January 21, 2009 at 11:52 pm

    Garrets photos – this one ATM

    http://flickr.com/photos/garrett/3008245591/

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  30. Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 12:04 am

    desktop: http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1518/c4e4f20fb7d8a2ff711aad4jq2.jpg
    laptop: http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/624/backgroundan3.jpg

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    • mairin said, on January 23, 2009 at 8:37 pm

      your desktop one is so cute! are those characters from a book or show?

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  31. Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 12:09 am

    http://orion.extremeboredom.net/~eric/DropBox/screenshot-2008012101.png

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  32. Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 12:48 am

    http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/1324/new_york_city_by_paulo_barcellos_jr..html

    I use this on all my PC’s. Absolutely love it.

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    • mairin said, on January 23, 2009 at 8:33 pm

      Very cool. It definitely gives a nice feeling of depth, but it’s dark and muted so I can see how it wouldn’t be too distracting, either.

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  33. adamwill said, on January 22, 2009 at 12:52 am

    I’m with Zaitcev

    I’m with Zaitcev – solid blue, because I never see it.

    There’s a Mandriva forum ’show off your desktop’ thread here:

    http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=67796

    I’d expect the Ubuntu forums would have one too, if you look.

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  34. Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 12:59 am

    http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/01674/azoresleaf.html

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  35. moose_kazan said, on January 22, 2009 at 1:20 am

    Hi, sorry for depressive pictures, but i like this:)

    My wallpaper: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3498/3216070333_e5acc60d58_o.jpg
    My desktop: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3428/3216917544_1d75b425a9_o.png

    Picture from northern ural. It’s russian railway:)

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  36. fusa42 said, on January 22, 2009 at 1:32 am

    Custom desktop using a fractal I created a while ago: http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/7929/deskoh5.jpg

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  37. Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 3:25 am

    Wallpaper

    I’ve got a neat picture I took from near where I grew up. This is an old “short line” railroad track that runs as far as the eye can see.

    http://picasaweb.google.com/KF4OTN/CarolinaCoastalRailroad#5147757671360502962

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  38. Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 3:52 am

    It’s my latest deviantart submission

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  39. Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 4:50 am

    I’m currently using this wallpaper called LHBlissful.bmp. No idea where it originally came from; I received it via email after seeing it in a screenshot on DeviantArt and asking the poster where he got it from.

    Here is a link to my reupload, conveniently converted to high quality JPEG.
    http://jamesgecko.googlepages.com/LHBlissful.jpg

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  40. Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 5:42 am

    I use this:
    http://rinatan.deviantart.com/art/The-World-of-MOTHER2-93441124

    I had previously a tasteful-but-scantily-clad pic of Velma from Scooby-Doo. You can email me if you want that one, I’ll spare your readers.

    –CJD

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  41. marnanel said, on January 22, 2009 at 6:36 am

    “The Death of the Grave-Digger.”

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  42. nicubunulj said, on January 22, 2009 at 7:31 am

    For F8 and F9 I stayed with the default wallpaper, but I can’t stand Solar due to a technical glitch (the sun does not look 3D, but like a circle with beveled edges, not sure if that was so since the beginning or was added in the clean-up process with the replacement of the moon photo).

    So right now I use some self-made photos (close-up of dead roses on the desktop and fireworks on the laptop). But most of the time the wallpaper is covered by windows, so it does not really matter.

    BTW, I saw this asked a few times and don’t know the answer myself: how can one change the GDM wallpaper so it fit the desktop wallpaper? you know, for a really smooth translation from GDM to desktop.

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    • Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 9:16 am

      Infinity FTW

      I’ve always used Fedora default backgrounds.

      But since F8, I kinda got stuck to Infinity. :)

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    • mairin said, on January 23, 2009 at 6:46 pm

      I’ll have to ask Ray since I’m not sure myself… one sec

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    • mairin said, on January 23, 2009 at 6:51 pm

      Nicu, Ray says that you have to run gnome-appearance-properties, choose the background that you want, then pick ’set as default’ – whatever background is ’set as default’ will be GDM’s background.

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      • nicubunulj said, on January 26, 2009 at 6:59 am

        thanks, it was so intuitive that I feel bad now for not noticing the button before… well, not *that* bad since I am not the only who didn’t notice the button, Andreas Nilsson was asking the same thing in #fedora-art and nobody had an answer :p

        but from an usability POV, that button looks like the best choice.

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  43. dnivie said, on January 22, 2009 at 9:24 am

    wallpaper

    xsetroot -solid black

    I never see my desktop anyway.

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  44. Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 9:36 am

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/zmiygorinich/3217747954/sizes/m/

    This is my

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  45. Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 10:16 am

    My desktop

    http://static.fi/~zeenix/tmp/zeenix-desktop.png

    Zeeshan Ali (Khattak).

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  46. Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 11:03 am

    Despite the small size/resolution for a 1440×900 screen, I’m still using a seven-year-old background

    http://web.archive.org/web/20031114192127/www.imperialcenter.com/3d/cloudcity.jpg

    I’ve attempted to contact the creator a couple times over the years since then asking for the source files or a significantly higher-resolution version (ideally with a much larger aspect ratio), but no dice. Even with the necessary stretching for my screen’s resolution and aspect ratio, however, I have always loved this background, especially for how little it distracts from the contents of the desktop. I was on a big Star Wars theming kick at the time I selected this, trying at least a dozen different backgrounds, even some truly garish ones derived from posters. Those backgrounds might have worked as posters, but they were too visually busy to work as a desktop background that shouldn’t distract from the icons on it. After much experimentation this was the only background I found that was Star Wars-functional yet not eye-catching, and I’ve stuck with it every since. I did try to use an Apple background in OS X once, but even with the better quality and fit for my screen, I had to go back to this one.

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    • Anonymous said, on January 25, 2009 at 5:35 am

      Re: Despite the small size/resolution for a 1440×900 screen, I’m still using a seven-year-old backgr

      (By the way, that was Jeff Walden who posted the parent comment of this; I simply forgot to identify myself, as is my usual custom on blog posts whose comments don’t easily allow for structured self-identification.)

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  47. Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    Ask and ye shall receive!

    http://dgoodwin.dangerouslyinc.com/files/Screenshot.png

    Only using the wallpaper cuz it matched icons I wanted to use. :)

    -dgoodwin

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    • mairin said, on January 23, 2009 at 8:32 pm

      Re: Ask and ye shall receive!

      very nice :) what icon set is that?

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  48. Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    My wallpaper

    I use http://flickr.com/photos/kurtraschke/1029573617/in/set-72157601253091490/

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  49. Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 1:50 pm

    My Wallpaper

    From, Dave Richards from City of Largo.

    http://imagebin.ca/view/1fu9D6.html

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    • mairin said, on January 23, 2009 at 8:31 pm

      Re: My Wallpaper

      haha nice! Iron-Man!!

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  50. Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    I’m using this right now
    http://standalonecompex.deviantart.com/art/Samurai-X-27365032

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  51. Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 4:33 pm

    I made a big collage of various pictures of my two sons that spans my 1920×1200+1600×1200 dual monitor setup. I usually use pictures of them or other photos I’ve taken for wall papers on all my systems.

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  52. Anonymous said, on January 22, 2009 at 5:11 pm

    background

    http://domsch.com/linux/fedora/fedora-at-mit.jpg

    This is my daughter, wearing my Fedora cap (she steals it from me every time she sees it), and the MIT “Smart Cookie” t-shirt I picked up last summer at FUDConF10 Boston.

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    • mairin said, on January 23, 2009 at 8:26 pm

      Re: background

      very cute! :) thank you!

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  53. Anonymous said, on January 23, 2009 at 1:55 am

    My wallpaper

    This is my new wallpaper just found it a couple days ago!
    http://www.xfce-look.org/CONTENT/content-files/35476-mgla_wiosenna.jpg

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    • mairin said, on January 23, 2009 at 8:29 pm

      Re: My wallpaper

      that’s gorgeous! it reminds me of a photographic version of AA Milne’s winnie the pooh artwork…

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  54. Anonymous said, on January 23, 2009 at 3:17 am

    Background image

    I am using the following 3360×1050 background:

    http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/1723/roadside_attraction.html

    Desktops need some more dual wide-screen monitor love :)

    —

    Oh, and mihmo, keep up the great graphics work.

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    • mairin said, on January 23, 2009 at 8:24 pm

      Re: Background image

      wow, that’s quite nice, it’s got a lot of depth to it too!

      thanks for the nice comments about my work :)

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  55. Anonymous said, on January 23, 2009 at 2:00 pm

    What wallpaper are you using right now?

    This photo of Fay Wray

    http://www.doctormacro1.info/Images/Wray,%20Fay/Annex/Annex%20-%20Wray,%20Fay_03.jpg

    Michael

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  56. Anonymous said, on January 23, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    most ppl don’t like my background

    http://www.harrysmitharchives.com/2_artwork/art6.html

    …besides i’m not sure of the redistribution terms.

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  57. Anonymous said, on January 23, 2009 at 4:34 pm

    my background

    I’ve been using this for a year or something. I think Lennart Pottering took it.
    http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/Blinds.jpg
    - Andreas Nilsson

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  58. thestalwart said, on January 23, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/1787/200901231916442704×1050ep8.png – i like dark, non distracting wallpapers. It’s here just because on solid color my terminals slip and crash =P

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  59. mairin said, on January 23, 2009 at 8:23 pm

    notes from Danial:

    In response to your email (from the art team mailing list) and survey,
    whereas I really do enjoy most of the default artwork created for
    fedora, I usually change the theme and wallpapers almost immediately. Normally I either use photos or graphics I have created myself.

    My current wallpaper selection(s) on F10 are derived from these shots:

    http://www.zyloo-enterprises.com/graphics/October-moon-600.jpg
    http://www.zyloo-enterprises.com/graphics/autumn-mix.jpg
    http://www.zyloo-enterprises.com/graphics/backlit-leaves-600.jpg
    http://www.zyloo-enterprises.com/graphics/floor-reds-600.jpg
    http://www.zyloo-enterprises.com/graphics/big-thumbnail.jpg

    These, however, are subject to change depending on whether or not I good
    any decent shots from the latest weekend jaunt. ;)

    http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204180
    http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=209560
    http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=209561
    http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=209562
    http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=207159
    http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=209007
    http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=209494
    http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=210399

    On a more serious note, my work machine, is a simple vertical gradient
    due to the number of icons I keep on the workspace.

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  60. pchoppin said, on January 23, 2009 at 10:19 pm

    Former Windows User

    Former windows user here.. I’ve been using the default wallpaper on every Fedora release. Funny, I cannot stand the default Windows wallpaper, and I’ve not found a better Fedora wallpaper. I think the artwork group does a phenomenal job.

    I have never liked busy, detracting wallpaper.

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  61. Anonymous said, on January 30, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    I also use the Solar wallpaper. It looks awesome. I have never seen such a nice artwork anywhere.

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  62. rahmanangel said, on January 30, 2009 at 6:16 pm

    I also use Solar wallpaper. It looks awesome. I have never seen such a nice art work ever.

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