What is it they say about people with neat/cluttered desktops?

[afuna_archive]

Picture of my desktop (when I'm just relaxing for the night):



Main window is iTerm, which is currently running irssi (IRC application). I've set the background to be translucent because my screen is tiny, so there's not enough space to chat comfortably and to watch videos at the same time. It's not always YouTube in a browser; the video is often an episode or a movie played in VLC.

Irssi is split up into two sections: my current active window, and the hilights/PM window. Current active window is the main chat area. PM & Hilights split window lets me see any incoming private messages or highlighted messages so I can keep up with private conversations without needing to flip back and forth all the time (I don't redirect channel chatter there though; too noisy, and less urgent).

GeekTool is a nifty tool for monitoring whatever. I find the "Shell" option most useful (run a shell command and have its output auto-update in a window you can leave open and flip to whenever). That window is running netstat for kicks. It's practically invisible, so I can ignore it most of the time, and only look over when I need to/want to.

Note that there are a couple of other windows open, but these sections I highlighted are the ones I tend to focus on when I'm not really doing anything. When I'm coding, it's mostly a text editor open, and a browser or terminal window for reference (APIs, man pages).


Now that I've shown off my own slightly messy workspace, I'm sort of curious as to what yours are like!

[Poll #1113180]

Comments

[nescienx.livejournal.com]

Hmm I'm not sure. I don't think mine is cluttered, relatively speaking. I automatically close windows when there becomes too many to handle...

[iruka11.livejournal.com]

:O i remember thesis days with those kind of chats O_o

mine's not really cluttered but it's just a lot of tabs (yeah.. 4 rows!!!! -- top row is already hidden) and lots of windows...


(click for actual size)

the part of the left is my extended desktop to my tv... i just watched house a few days ago and i haven't removed that part yet XD
you can see part of my wallpaper though... ^_____^

[afuna]

Hahha rabbids! :-p

These days I group my tabs into separate windows according to how permanent/temporary I'm going to need them, so I rarely have that many tabs in one window XD

[iruka11.livejournal.com]

ang cute cute nung rabbids dyan XD

oooh... mahirap na kasi kung maraming windows... baka di masave ng session saver... ikaw kasi di na nagooff ng computer e... :P

[afuna]

Hm. I use the built-in Firefox session saver (the one that opens all my previous windows at startup) and I've had no problems so far.

[iruka11.livejournal.com]

ah... wouldn't risk it... XD pwede na rin ako dito sa system ko XD

[scaryjeff.livejournal.com]

I have a dual monitor set up which really helps to reduce clutter. When developing I'll have browsers open on one, and code on the other. Normally I'll just have browser/whatever I'm working on on one, and chat/iTunes on the other.

My workspace is relatively uncluttered at the moment as I just installed Vista last night though. Need to re-install a load of software before it gets back to normal :). Here's what it currently looks like anyway,

[afuna]

Oh that is nice and spacious. I am envious :)

[connie]

(I'm on a MacBook.)

[afuna]

*giggles* It confused me so much when I saw the picture of my entry in your browser.

Relatively clutter-free. Cool :)

PS. out of curiosity, anything interesting in the things in your menu bar, especially the ones on the left? The flower intrigues me.

[connie]

I figured it was an appropriate tab to have in focus for the screenshot. ;-)

The menu bar items are:

Shades - for dimming the screen in finer increments than the buttons on the keyboard.
Overflow - app launcher
Norton AntiVirus
desktopia (the flower) - app that automatically changes your desktop image based on time of day
Caffeine - disabling computer from going to sleep
Google Notifiers
Growl
a bunch of system stuff
MenuCalendarClock iCal - dropdown calendar

I have other open windows hidden behind those two, for the record. I have Exposé set so that one corner is dashboard, one is all windows, and one is desktop.

[afuna]

Yay, thanks :) Some of those look interesting.