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These are all ugly and useless. My desktop is better:

http://disk.jrock.us/bingo/public/random/desktop-20080518.pn...

Notice how all the space is being used for actual work instead of pretty pictures. Computers are for doing things, not looking at.

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Nice. I like flat desktops; I will never understand the appeal of faux-3D interface elements.

I must, however, confess to a weakness for transparent terminals.

http://scratch.flyoverblues.com/screen.png

What are you using to serve your fonts?

I don't really know enough about Linux fonts to answer that. The window manager, Ion, does not support Xft because its author hates anti-aliasing, so I'm not sure what is rendering the title bars -- just X, I think. The terminal font is Inconsolata as rendered by rxvt-unicode with Xft support. (Emacs is being run -nw, so it's just using the same terminal fonts.)

Which window manager are you using? And what chat program is that (running on an emacs shell?)

It's probably ion (could be wmii or any other tiling wm), and the irc client is irssi.

Actually, it's xmonad and erc.

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