Yeah too many just look so… samey. Not mine, but one I wish to recreate
In terms of window decorations, looks like twm with default settings. Standard window manager to ship with what is now Xorg.
EDIT: For emacs, those are also default colors, I think, for at least some point. X11 color names HarvestWheat and ForestGreen, if memory serves aright.
EDIT2: No, that’s probably not a graphical emacs instance, because the title is “sh”. They’re probably running sh and then running console emacs (or vim or something else, I guess, can configure either to look like that) and don’t have their shell set up to pass the escape sequences to tell the virtual terminal program to update the window title.
EDIT3: Also, the color’s the default twm color, but that’s not the default twm decorations. That’s…damn, I can’t remember the name of that widget set.
goes poking around
Motif. And apparently mwm used Motif widgets.
Since compiz fusion is long deprecated, I stick to Xmonad with almost no visual changes from the stock install, other than tweaks to make some colors lower contrast.
Oh man I forgot about this! How long has it been dead? Why does no one want this?
I had this running on Ubuntu on my laptop back in the day
KDE still has some of the most popular effects built-in, including wobbly windows, desktop cube, magic lamp when minimizing/maximizing, blurring semitransparent windows, “exploding” windows when you close them. They’re built in with no extra software required - just go to the “Desktop Effects” settings.
Shit, I remember when my machine couldn’t handle compiz fusion and this demo made me jealous. We’ve come a long way.
I remember the cube, might not have been this, might have just been the animation to change desktops.
I’m still just trying to get my terminal to look like the Portal (1) Aperture Science screensaver, but for some reason last time I tried I couldn’t get it just right. Now that I have KDE (and thus color picker and Konsole), I should try again…
The hardest part is the glow effect on the text I think.
Idk how exactly you’d apply the effect to your terminal, but you could get that text effect by applying a scanline and bloom filter
If there was reshade for terminal it’d be 2 check boxes lol
This is more like Fallout than Portal but maybe it can work for you.
I’ve never been more excited about ruining my eyes 🤩
I used the thing here a while back to take a screenshot of running gopher on some of the remaining gopher servers in gopherspace (note that the sdf.org guys shown here also run an lemmy server, nicely linking the past and today). Its default settings in amber were a not-wildly-unreasonable match for some of the VT terminals connected to a VAX/VMS system that I used in the 1990s. More noise added by default, but it’s the closest thing I’ve seen to a replica to that era that one’s likely to see short of getting an actual CRT VT terminal and plonking it on your serial port (well, these days, probably a USB-to-serial adapter).
EDIT: Apparently this guy set up docker images on Debian to emulate old computing environments and then rigged that to a VT420 and ran gopher on that:
Hahaha, been there. :)
It can do bloom with its shaders, the way @ArcadeSlime@lemmy.dbzero0.com wants. I don’t know if any of the presets have quite that much bloom, though.
It can do CRT-style scanlines, as he’s looking for, and it doesn’t have doesn’t have to have the faux-CRT curvature; see the “Futuristic” preset for a preset that doesn’t have that curvature.
EDIT: There’s a settings dialog that lets one ramp up or down each of the given visual effects.
Portal (1) Aperture Science screensaver,
https://old.reddit.com/r/Portal/comments/1bdltht/aperture_science_pc_wallpaper/
Though this seems to have multiple of those “falling” bright areas, and cool-retro-term only has one. I’m not sure what that’s supposed to be, for either the screensaver or cool-retro-term. You can get a vaguely-similar effect if you have a video camera taking footage of a CRT; I guess the proper term for this is the stroboscopic effect. Might be what they’re trying to depict.
Thank you! I had no idea what “bloom” was (clearly, because I called it glow lmao).
This is at least close enough, if not perfect, especially if I can (and I expect so) change the background to the aperture logo (which can easily be found in the correct orange/brownish color online).
if I can (and I expect so) change the background to the aperture logo
You cannot in the current mainline branch, but it looks like someone has a pull request open for the past couple months to add a background image.
Ayy alright! Here’s hoping, thanks!
If I remember right, they were adjustable in its settings. But it’s been a long time since I’ve used this.
You’re right…just checked, updated my comment, and then saw yours. :-)
Huh, cool! Apparently the dev who made this thought about everything. :)
One eye-candy thing it can’t do is animated cursor movement. Not sure how to describe this, but basically, when the cursor moves, you draw a trail behind it.
According to that, KiTTY got support for it six months ago.
EDIT: That being said, that’s not really “retro”, so might be out-of-scope for the project.
I’m in this photo, and I don’t like it
One thing I don’t get with making you desktop or setup anime girl themed. Doesn’t anyone visit you? Relatives? Landlord? Or anyone really. And what’s the point, to get an erection while doing a PowerPoint presentation?
I mean, I’d personally rather see an anime girl themed desktop than those weird statues rich people sometimes have in places like on their coffee table that are stuff like a woman in the boob + butt out pose with no limbs or head. That shit is just creepy looking. I know it’s supposed to be reminiscent of broken Greek and Roman statues, but why do they always have to be posed and objectified like porn stars? At least with the anime girl, I know that I’m talking to an otaku rather than Hannibal Lecter.
Doesn’t anyone visit you?
Deep down you know the answer
And what’s the point
Simping, setting unrealistic transitioning goals, often both
That’s what I’m asking myself with pretty much any “sexy” decoration.
Why put a poster of a nude girl in your locker, break room, bedroom, whatever? The only explanation I can find is performative display of (hetero) masculinity.
As someone with sexy art in the wallpaper rotation of all my devices…
It’s just nice to look at?
Sexual beauty can be appreciated in the same way as any other kind of beaty. And doing so doesn’t actually require being turned on, at least not in my case.
Even when it happens, enjoying art and looking at porn are different things. With porn, arousal is the only point. With something artistic, arousal is just one sliver of the full spectrum of human experience a piece might provoke.
People make custom PC builds to look cool for no other reason than that it looks cool. People hike to mountaintops just because the view is incredible. Architechts endeavor to make buildings both pleasant to look at, and be in.
The sexy art isn’t pornographic to me. All I do, really, is enjoy looking at it for a moment as I go about using my devices. There is nothing perfomative about it. I could not care less what someone else thinks looking over my shoulder at my screen.
@cepelinas@sopuli.xyz
Thanks for the explanation 👍
What if, mind boggling concept, they do it for themselves not for others to see?
What if, that might overwhelm you, this doesn’t answer the question at all?
You’re simply pushing the question half a millimeter to the side. Nothing more.
There’s some classy non-sexualized “anime girl” backgrounds that are pretty slick.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2618988115
I really enjoy this one for Wallpaper Engine.
Fits the sexy android aesthetic without showing any of the body, instead focusing on the android aspect.
My desktop background has been the same shade of dark blue for the past roughly quarter century.
At first, it was because I didn’t want anything making visual recognition of stuff slower, when I was using a stacking windowing environment. Now I use a tiling windowing system and rarely see the desktop.
On my Android phone, for some inane reason, there’s no option to just use a fixed color background, so I’ve never bothered changing it from whatever the vendor shipped, don’t care enough to make a custom one-color image. I’d probably use black on the Android devices I have with OLED screens on general principle, but again, it doesn’t spend much time being visible.
All that being said, if you’re looking at screenshots of people ricing out their desktop on a community devoted to that, the whole point is to give them an interesting thematic look. They’re gonna have a background.
If you took a screenshot of my desktop, it’d be one blue rectangle. No persistently-visible taskbar. The vast majority of time, if there’s a window up, I have only a single, fullscreen window. That’s not really interesting to look at, and I doubt that anyone doing that is going to put it on a “rice your desktop” community, in the same sort of way that nobody is going to go to a “rice your car” community and post images of a vanilla Camry.
Same, solid black on my PC, rocking the default wallpaper on my phone. Interestingly, when I switched to using graphineOS, the default background is solid black, so I have that on my phone now as well, too. I prefer it for the less visual distraction, and the fact that on pled screens it saves battery
same, but mine is black. If it’s not for the tiny led on the monitor, you wouldn’t even know the monitor is on
On my Android phone, for some inane reason, there’s no option to just use a fixed color background
Uhhh…
Literally just use the same one that’s on your pc? Just KDEconnect that file over (or find any online pic of a solid color wallpaper, whatever you choose of course), and click:
settings>wallpaper and style>change wallpaper>my photos>nav to your file>set wallpaper
(This is why all linux help is CLI, damn GUI nav trees lmao.) But yeah why not that? Works on my machine.
Literally just use the same one that’s on your pc? Just KDEconnect that file over
If someone is just using a solid color as as a PC wallpaper, there is likely not a “file” to transfer. When using a solid color in the wallpaper settings, desktop environments provide a color picker instead of a file picker.
Ok then,
Prntscrn your home, crop out taskbars.
Or open gimp and make a one color image in any color you can imagine.
Then send that file. There’s ways.
If I were going to do that, I’d create an image scaled to my Android phone, as I don’t know whether the Android system caches a resized image or not.
I mean, I can do it, but just not worth the bother, because I’m not looking at it much. I remember going to the settings, rolling my eyes, and then ignoring it.
Good question, I’m not sure. From using a desktop wallpaper on my android before however I can tell you that in practice, whatever happens with your cache, it just crops the image to fit your screen. It can be a problem if you want the full design, but with a one color image, you’d never be able to tell.
But hell yeah I can understand being way too lazy to care, though still then I wouldn’t be saying “there’s no option…” because there is, you just have to supply the image, which is really very easy if you did care to do it.
Gives new meaning to hard mode.
These people already see me regularly. They deserve seeing something not quite as hot as me on my screen for a change. :V
Girl? Do you even Linux?
It’s only Linux when it comes from the tiling region of Finland. Otherwise it’s just sparkling GNU.
I like the transparent windows, but I’d use Rosé Pine Moon or Nord for the colours. A nice landscape for the background (currently a pic of Dark Souls 3 Boreal Valley) and a little bit of gaps, very minal borders, and a transparent waybar up top with desktop workspace indicator, time, and a few other things.
Also! Thick padding/space around tiled windows just taking up valuable screen space.
“I use a tiling window manager to utilise screen space!”
Meanwhile the 10km gap between windows
Replace anime girl with a furry character and you got it.
That was implied with “sexy”.
The consensus middle ground was an anime catgirl.
I bet your self hosted services actually work too.
- Music player
- Status bar at the top of the screen (Middle element shows the name of the music currently being played)
- Lots of blur
- Tiling window manager
- Theme selector
I like having the butt mogged some zoomers girl as my background.
Because we’re fucking weebs…
I’m very clearly not fucking anyone.
The likelihood that the poster I’m replying to has built a Gundam model kit in the last 6 months has risen by 58%.
Meanwhile, I’m married and can’t be bothered to change anything in my Kubuntu UI from the defaults. I wonder if there’s a correlation, LOL
Just out of curiosity, because every time I see your username, I wonder…does your username derive from Zork or from the Parahumans series?
Mood
Neofetch is no longer in active development. Use Hyfetch or Archey instead.
Or fastfetch
I use fastfetch.
What about fastfetch? I’ve been a happy user for a while.
What is it that will need additional development?
All those bits of hardware and software detection, logos, distros, interfacing with the different system information, it’s all an ongoing effort. It’s essentially shooting at a constantly moving target.
looks at a screenshot of neofetch
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/fetches_all.jpg
It could support Unicode distro logos. Or sixel. Or Kitty Graphics Protocol. It could try rendering text using 24-bit color, rather than just the 16 ANSI colors.
EDIT: Looking at the
fastfetch (1)man page, it looks like it supports Sixel, Kitty Graphics Protocol, and 24-bit color, though given that it doesn’t use them onfoot, I assume that it doesn’t try to detect terminals that support them and use them by default.Doesn’t ship with Unicode distro logos either, but it apparently supports user-specified logo files, so I imagine that one could obtain a Unicode logo from somewhere and use that.
EDIT2: Yeah, doesn’t detect and auto-use them on
kittyeither.EDIT3: Oh, wait.
neofetchhas to support some kind of graphics protocol too, even if it doesn’t use it for the distro logos, since you can see it using it for the sexy anime girl on the example image on the GitHub project page:Any security patches or kernel implementation.
TIL what it means to “rice” a desktop
Derives from ricing cars. Ricing cars derives from “rice burner”, where it was common to take an inexpensive, Asian-made car for modding. The pejorative nature kind of got lost somewhere along the way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner
Rice burner is a pejorative term originally applied to Japanese motorcycles and which later expanded to include Japanese cars or any East Asian-made vehicles.[2][3][4][5] Variations include rice rocket, referring most often to Japanese superbikes, rice machine, rice grinder or simply ricer.[3][6][7]
T-Mobile’s 1985 Corolla Sport GT-S coupé “Poser Mobile” advertisements exploited ethnic stereotypes and stereotypes of customized East Asian cars as failed imitations of “authentic” car culture
Riced out is an adjective denigrating a badly customized sports car, “usually with oversized or ill-matched exterior appointments”.[8] Rice boy is a US derogatory term for the driver or builder of an import-car hot rod.[4] The terms may disparage cars or car enthusiasts as imposters or wanna-bes, using cheap modifications to imitate the appearance of high performance.
“The pejorative nature kind of got lost somewhere along the way.”
Not according to some, who I’m surprised havent descended into this comment section yet.
It genuinely amazes me that some people learn of a racist origin and immediately crusade against it, on behalf of people who dont give a fuck.
Words change. When the majority of people are using a phrase in a benign manner, then dragging the racist origins back into the light is a really dumb way to fight against bigotry.
Guilt tripping people into adapting new phrasing isn’t just arrogant and patronizing; it’s counterproductive - it makes the actual fight against racism seem petty and performative.
We really need more people like you. That’s exactly what annoyed me so very much, but I could not articulate this thought. Thank you for doing so :)
on behalf of people who dont give a fuck.
Maybe. Or maybe they’re afraid to speak up because of how they’ll be punished by the system. Only time really tells, and sometimes that means complaining about stupid shit no one cares about.
I’d rather look stupid a few times, but make sure that I’m giving voice to those who don’t have it, than keep quiet and never be wrong.
You’re erring on the side of caution, and I get the impulse. But there’s a fine line between giving voice to the unheard and drowning out the current conversation by crusading on their behalf without actually checking whether they wanted a champion in the first place.
Language isn’t static, and if people who would’ve been the target of a slur no longer feel targeted by a modern, benign use of the word, maybe it’s worth listening to them instead of getting stuck in etymological guilt.
This is essentially justification for tone policing, language gate keeping, or inventing offenses that marginalized groups themselves aren’t actually calling out.
Campaigning on their behalf looks less like allyship and more like self-importance wrapped in a savior complex.
Yeah, I think we’re just talking from both sides of the grey area. But you’re right, it’s simply someplace in the middle.
it’s a bit of a racist term, this meme would be better without
But have you never thought you should get to say slurs because you’ve decided the the target group of that slur no longer cares?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Dutch
“Going Dutch” (sometimes written with lower-case dutch) is a term that indicates that each person participating in a paid activity covers their own expenses, rather than any one person in the group defraying the cost for the entire group. The term stems from restaurant dining etiquette in the Western world, where each person pays for their meal. It is also called Dutch date, Dutch treat (the oldest form, a pejorative),[1] and doing Dutch.
The Oxford English Dictionary connects “go Dutch” / “Dutch treat” to other phrases which have “an opprobrious or derisive application, largely due to the rivalry and enmity between the English and Dutch in the 17th century”, the period of the Anglo-Dutch Wars. Another example is “Dutch courage”.[1] A term bearing some similarities is Dutch oven.
We’ve got some other terms in the same vein.
thanks for pointing that out, we should all consider avoiding those terms too
Not really. I lived in the Netherlands for a decade. I can promise you the Dutch don’t mind.
Actually, I think the expression “doing Dutch” fits them pretty well to this day.
That is quite the monstrosity there…
Early 20s me feels attacked.
