So for April I have decided it is time that I show off my true penguin colours:
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Any suggestions for any other great Tux wallpapers? ;)

i dont remember if i posted my dualscreen setup here allready...lazy to check pages back also:D

Still MATE Desktop Environment.
chat apps are constantly on the second monitor(marked as allways on visible workspace) so i can chat when playing fullscreen games or what not.
between other apps that are maximized i switch with workspaces :)

How exactly do you have your dual heads configured may I ask?

Quoting: "Hamish, post: 3976, member: 6"How exactly do you have your dual heads configured may I ask?

Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024 +1920+0, DFP: 1920x1080 +0+0; CRT: NULL, DFP: 1920x1080 +0+0"
in xorg.conf

and added keybinds for switching between metamodes. alt+ + is xrandr -s 0 command and alt+ - is for xrandr -s 1
so basically first metamode is when both screens enabled and second is with smaller screen disabled.

thats needed for some games which get confused with the huge resolution and go over 2 screens
so when i start up game with metamodes, it switches off the smaller monitor and then i can turn it back on with alt+ +

Yeah, well, that is the primary reason I have Zaphod Mode. You just set it up and you have no real problems when it comes to bad interactions between the two screens.

The only real issue I ever have is that some applications (*cough* LibreOffice *cough*) if open on one screen will insist on opening all new windows of that application on that one screen even if you load it up on the other. This is the only reason I have AbiWord installed, as that way I can have two documents open on both screens and compare.

But for gaming in my humble opinion, there is nothing better. You could even have two games open on both screens and, besides the input locks, never have an issue.

thats some opensource driver thingy if i got the information correctly.
im using proprietary nvidia drivers and nvidia has the metamode thingy, which works perfectly for me. no problems at all with gaming and no problems with libreoffice also:)

No, it is an Xorg thingy, though driver support does indeed vary. Catalyst is fine with Zaphod as are most of the FOSS drivers.

But if your happy with what you have, that is good. As I said though, Zaphod works beautifully for me.

There is just something about LibreOffice... probably something to do with some of the StarOffice heritage parts I am guessing.

i might test someday..thx for heads up.
im currently satisfied with my solution, but if my needs go in different direction or some apps that i start to use start to cause some problems..then i will give a shot for this method :)

For my desktop in May I decided on a warmer set of wallpapers since it is (finnally) spring here, so I just grabbed some of the Gnome ones:


Perhaps the most notable change is that I have finally found a suitable replacement to the Gnome audio mixer in the form of the independent pnmixer, which has allowed me to stop using the Gnome Fallback indicators in favour of pnmixer and the superior Xfce power manager.

thats gnome3 fallbackmode?

have you tryed MATE desktop yet?

its been damn stable for me last 4 months since the version 1.1 (1.2 currently)

[http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download](http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download)

dev team is quite active as well. worth to take a look if u care about oldschool gnome2 experience.
xfce is nice also..but i dislike file manger in xfce and its missing some of my favorite applets that i can use with mate/gnome2

No, I was only using the indicators from Gnome Fallback - and I dislike Mate, it just seems like a dead end to me. Plus I would have to go out of repo, which is not something I really want to be doing. But opinions can differ.

I do agree with some of the complaints against Thunar, and some of the applet complaints with regards to Xfce. But for the most part I am happy with it - it has more solid fundamentals than Gnome 2 did in many ways. It just needs more development time. I will see how 4.10 is at some point.

EDIT: On the subject of Fallback though, I am impressed to see how Ubuntu has polished it in 12.04:
[http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/gnome-classic-in-ubuntu-12-04-its-like-nothing-ever-changed/](http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/gnome-classic-in-ubuntu-12-04-its-like-nothing-ever-changed/)

I was also playing around with my LXDE session last weekend:
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Takes a bit of work, but you can actually get it to clean up fairly well. :)

Everyone's lesson for the week: Penumbra graphics actually make pretty good wallpapers!

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But damn do I wish I could turn off the desktop icons on my second screen in Xfce. :(

EDIT: On the plus side, they have fixed the weather applet! :D

Gnome fallback + Conky + Docky (running Audacious)!

Nice, what distro are you using?

Ubuntu 12.04 :) I just don't like Unity nor Gnome Shell... I think for me this is the best combination!

P.S. For those who know my blog, as you can see from my desktop icons, i'm preparing a new Let's Play (this one for Metro 2033)!!!

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screenshot from my games :) + some are in desura/steam only

I would show the desktop I am using right now, but it would dissapoint a lot of you...Windows 7 until my new laptop arrives!

GUARDS, KILL HIM!!!! :mad:

;)