I'm also a fan of the neat and simple desktop. I also love the fact that we can choose to install themes from the Welcome menu on a fresh installation of Mate 18.04 
Here's my current desktop with a customised Greybird theme & Docky:
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There’s a trick if you want to have a dynamic moon; if you use the lunar cycle widget from gscreenlets, you could smack it in the middle and it’ll change over time.
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Actually, now I think about it he is using conky. Is there a Conky lunar cycle script he could use?
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img924/5324/TXNCdQ.png
[https://imageshack.com/a/img924/9973/ULlV3C.png](https://imageshack.com/a/img924/9973/ULlV3C.png)
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[http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img921/7818/8RbXWx.png](http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img921/7818/8RbXWx.png)
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My comment on this one wouldn’t be welcome here, on a so decent forum.
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Sorry, haven't realised that there are replies to my post.
Most of the time, my desktop looks like this because I do actually work with my computer. Here, I had installed Debian in Virtualbox and took some screenshots. Once edited, I will delete them.
To answer the second question below, no, I'm not using Conky but My-Weather-indicator and the clock "allinone" which can be found in the Preferences.
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Dope. I take it you are using skippy for picking windows?
Well It’s just resized windows, I either use Alt+Tab or the plank to switch apps. Alt+Tab is generally faster for me
Hi, how can you separate the speaker icon and the network icon from the others icons set up in the standard version of the indicator applets.
Thanks a lot.
Patrick
Nice Wallpaper! 
May you let me know where I can download it?
Mickey 
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I don’t remember where I got it from; I have it on my machine, so let me know how I can send it to you if you’re interested!
my desktop, i'm working on some ideas for new window buttons for the next update of my theme but it's hard to make cool colorful buttons without them looking like traffic lights
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Actually, not really if you wanted to use symbolic shapes to represent their function.
Close is “X” of course, but you could also make it an eight-pointed star to represent a “Pop” noise, as if the window is “Bursted” away.
Minimize could be an underscore, but alternatively it could be a triangle pointing down and to the left to representing minimizing to bar (on the bottom), but alternatively up and to the left would be nice for people who prefer to minimize to a window list on top.
Maximize is often a box, but it could be two triangles with a separation to represent an expanding of the window, pinching and grabbing it larger, while at the same time the line would represent a distance from one corner to another which would give it double meaning.
Maybe I can work on this in Emerald later on.
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