Desktops...

[LLXerxes]

Padma, what OS are you running in that screen shot? And where was that great photo taken?

it looks ilke Linux to me, but that iss a BEAUTIFUL shot. Where is it?

 

[Padma]

It's Mandrake Linux, the KDE desktop. I tweaked it a bit, using the Exquisite icon set, made the taskbar (mostly) transparent, and a few other things that don't show in that screenshot.

The background is a photo of the Dolomite Mountains, in Italy. I extracted it from a Webshots picture file. (Actually, each of the four seperate desktops I have in my KDE environment have a different background picture. )

 

[phoenix_night]

Courtesy of my old hard drive dying on me, my new nice and clean desktop:

 

[Chairman Meow]

Back to college, new desktop...

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

My exciting desktop

 

[Suppersalmon]

New Desktop

 

[Narz]

Salmon, that pic is awesome! Could you upload/send it to me?

How do I take a screenshot on a laptop?

The "Insert button" has "Prt Sc" below it in a blue box but it doesn't seem to do anything.

Thanks!

- Narz

 

[Mise]

Narz, does your laptop keyboard have a "Fn" or "Function" or "Special" or some other key? On mine you have to hold "Fn" and then hit "Insert".

 

[The Last Conformist]

I suppose it took a HD crash to make me change my desktop.

 

[mrtn]

Ooh, TLC, I'm surprised!

 

[Narz]

Narz, does your laptop keyboard have a "Fn" or "Function" or "Special" or some other key? On mine you have to hold "Fn" and then hit "Insert".

Yeah, I tried Fn and Insert (together) but I didn't get any result. Or maybe I did and don't know. If a screenshot is successful what folder does the resulting pic. go in?

Thanks for you help!

 

[phoenix_night]

I'm sure somebody already told you this...

The Print Screen button does not create an image, it just copies whatever is displayed on your screen.

 

[Hakim]

@Narz: once you've pressed the printscreen button, open Paint and select "paste" in the menu, or ctrl-V.

 

[Narz]

I'm sure somebody already told you this...

The Print Screen button does not create an image, it just copies whatever is displayed on your screen.

Actually no one told me that. Thanks!! So then I just paste it onto Photoshop or something (Note : I'd try it now but I'm at the library).

 

[Mise]

Yeah, I tried Fn and Insert (together) but I didn't get any result. Or maybe I did and don't know. If a screenshot is successful what folder does the resulting pic. go in?

Thanks for you help!

It copies it to the clipboard, so you just open up MS Paint or whatever and paste it in.

(Something I thought was cool when I first found it out: Alt + PrintScreen copies just the window in focus to the clipboard.)

 

[Narz]

@Narz: once you pressed the printscreen button, open Paint and select "paste" in the menu, or ctrl-V.

Ok. Thanks!

 

[phoenix_night]

Actually no one told me that.

Oh, sorry then. Maybe I just meant to tell you that.

 

[Billy Rubin]

My desktop - made it from a photo I took from a rams skull I've painted a few years back (resized to save your bandwidth...).

 

[Tomoyo]

Maybe I should stop change mine every three days...

 

[Bluemofia]

Maybe change it every 3 years...