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Okay so kind of a necro thread, but I thought I would post my desktop. I am always changing it but I am really happy with this one.
- Redmond
- Conky - Custom, based on Gotham
- Stock Wallpaper
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wow that's a massive monitor!
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very beautiful. Congratulations!
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Not Ubuntu MATE, but I thought I would post my desktop. It's pretty much like this for months.
- Xubuntu
- Yaru-blue
- Elementary Xfce icons
- +3px padding on Whisker Menu
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I won't bother posting mine because it looks basically the same as it did in 2017. I don't change it often.
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Tried to come up with an alternate Redmond today using the mate-dock-applet. Not sure what to make of it.
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Why do people continually tinker with their desktops? Are they hoping for something better? Something more unusal than what everyone else has for a desktop?
I finally changed my wall paper after 24 years. I had used the last one since 2001. So it is no surprise I use the Mate desktop with the Classic menu. I love my icons on my desktop, I hate docks. I do like to experiment with different distros on a USB stick, this wall paper is from Pearl Linux, and I liked it enough to change after all those years. The great thing about Linux is it satisfies those that like to tinker, and those that just love the classic and stable.
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This is my 2011 27" iMac, resurrected with ubuntu-mate. It works like a charm with compiz and some theming. It is purposefully styled as a Mac (which is something I only do with this iMac, given that I want to preserve its look). Everything feels snappy because of clever compiz animations and, as a nice "plus", both my browsers (waterfox and brave) support global menu.
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Just thought of coming up with an alternate layout for someone who borrows my device from time to time. Normally though, this is how my desktop has been for months already since I installed it. I like it this way, never bothered much to keep any other layout.
I'm running Ubuntu MATE 24.04.2 on my Dell Latitude 5300. I'm using Marco's XPresent and the Familiar layout.
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(P.S. I hope this is the right place to share such things).
My desktop configuration of the day. Sort of a mix between Ubuntu from the early 2010's and the familiar MATE desktop. I enabled the full-screen Brisk menu (dash option in dconf-editor) to get closer to a Unity Dash and enabled the HUD in MATE Tweak.
Personally, I like the colours of the Ubuntu versions of this time (10.04 - 12.04) but prefer the traditional Gnome 2 layout (two panels) to Unity.
The wallpaper is the default from Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" and the theme is the Orange variant of Ambiant MATE.
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As a reply to my desktop post, by the end of the week I ended up going full blown Unity and changed my desktop appearances a few times. The weather has been very miserable in my area which has afforded me time to play around with the look of my system some more.
I know Mutiny exists, but in my honest opinion it looks like Unity but some of the functions (global search, buttons on the left, menu bar in top panel) from Unity were missing that made it really awesome, so I aimed to recreate them.
Honestly, one of the best and most fun parts of MATE is how customisable it is, but within reason (as in, you won't get lost in settings like KDE).
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It does have a nice Ubuntu feel to it.
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My current desktop. Familiar layout.
Took the photo myself on an old smartphone I had on me back then, it’s a small town called Mar del Sur, on the south coast of Buenos Aires, Argentina, it was December 31st, 2017. I have not been able to go on vacation anywhere since then 
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not my desktop but this is a sandstorm (haboob) we had in PHX last month.
For scale, compare the size of the houses with the dust cloud.
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And that is Nature FTW.
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shift! That looks like war ! 
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