show off your desktop

[natirips]

At some point I also used to have 5+ panels all over the place, at all four edges of the screen plus floating ones, I had animating wallpaper, glowing windows, fire and water effects, etc., but I realized that running several virtual machines parallel with that and gaming at the same time on a 2Ghz 2GB computer with 128MB of video memory get terrible. And it gets boring after a while anyway.

[Rylius]

Yeah I have most of that compiz stuff disabled. But I love those wobbly windows

[natirips]

Well, wobbly windows is one thing I never liked and never used. I prefer them hard as rock.

[wurst]

tries to make a nerd profession more attractive to teh girls

[Unclefragger]

now if this isn't going to get the ladies I do not know :D

[Rayne]

Not good, i have to reduce the space between 2 parts.

[natirips]

tries to make a nerd profession more attractive to teh girls

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Ah, reminds me of the time I used to play with compiz, having bubbles, leaves, rain, snow, etc. all over the screen. But I have none of these nowdays, I conserve both RAM and video memory lately because applications crash or swap otherwise.

[Rylius]

dont forget the sweeper that sweeps (duh) the rain that falls on your desktop

[wurst]

ah im sitting there, testing compatibilities with different apps, drivers and everything.
cause after ignoring win vista, the 7 seems to be the next. some machines are allready bigger then the xp support and soon support will die out, then i must.

all in all i think its a girlsystem, thats the reason for the nice "screensaver"
btw: the BEST idea that killbill ever hat:
transparent screensavers.
(just my opinion)

[natirips]

My screensaver is 90% visible and 10% transparent (as all other apps are by default). I hate it when a window pops up in the background behind another one and you can't see it, and I hate even more when a window pops up in front of the window you're working in.

After all, they are windows, they're supposed to be transparent.

Anyway, transparent screensaver may look cool, and may not, depends from one to another. From my experience "BSOD" look awesome when transparent, also flying toasters and such. An images slideshow screensaver doesn't look so good when transparent though.

Edit:@rylius: I never liked the sweeper, I prefer thinking of the scene as a pool of water with raindrops on it.