***Post Your Desktop / Guide To A Great Desktop***

[neighb0rh00d]

POST YOUR DESKTOP RULES:

1. Do not quote the same picture asking for the OG. If he/she does not answer, then simply PM him/her.
2. If you can, try putting the OG in a spoiler when you post your desktop.
3. All NT rules still apply.
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A quick guide to help people that wants object dock, rainmeter, etc..


Object Dock:

http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/

Find Icons for your object dock (after you downloaded it):

http://iconeasy.com/

or

http://www.iconseeker.com/

or

http://www.deviantart.com/

1. Find a icon you like. Save the picture. (I suggest you make a new folder in your pictures.)
2. Go to your object dock.
3. Find the icon you want to change.
4. Right Click > Dock Entry Properties
5. Change image
6. Find the Icon you saved in your picture
7. Boom!

To add object:

1. Go to your start menu, and drag program into the object dock.
2. You can add the start menu button into the object dock to.
3. Right click on the space between the two sectors > Add > Start Menu (you can add other things too.)
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CD Art Display:

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/CD-Art-Display/1109367710/1

To get the Photograph CD Art Display Skin (Must Download the OG Cd Art display first):

http://gu5taf.deviantart.com/art/CAD-Photograph-Skin-97181139?offset=10#comments

The Step to display it:

http://www.cdartdisplay.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1284

1. Follow the guy that answered my question. I was having trouble too. But i got it.

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Rainmeter:

http://rainmeter.net/RainCMS/

This is complicated.

When you first download it. Make sure you take away anything you dont want on Rainmeter.

To do this:

1. Choose what you dont want in Rainmeter
2. Right Click > Skin Menu > Close Skin
3. There will be a big rectangle on the side of your computer. You can take that off if you want.

DO NOT CLOSE EVERY SKIN AND START FROM SCRATCH. YOU NEED ATLEAST 1 SKIN TO ADD MORE.

Skin = The Clock, Notes, Music Player, etc...

To get skins:

1. Right click on any skin
2. Config
3. Enigma or Tranquil > Choose what you want

After you choose everything you want:

1. Right click on the skins > Skin Menu > Click Through - ONLY IF YOU ARE SURE YOU'RE NOT GONNA MOVE IT. BECAUSE ONCE YOU DO THIS, YOU MAY NOTMOVE/DELETE THIS SKIN AGAIN.
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How mines look:



Feel free to ask questions. I'll do the best i can to answer.

 

[18key]

Add http://deviantart.com to the Objectdock icons. That's what I use for most of mine.

 

[capricorn1229]

Any mac app similar to Rainmeter?

 

[mr monday niight]

Niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[neighb0rh00d]

Originally Posted by 18key

Add http://deviantart.com to the Objectdock icons. That's what I use for most of mine.

Good looking out bro.

I completely forgot about that.

Originally Posted by Capricorn1229

Any mac app similar to Rainmeter?

I'm not sure. I have a PC. But im sure a couple Mac Nt'ers can help you with that.

 

[jae oh en]

Originally Posted by Capricorn1229

Any mac app similar to Rainmeter?

geektools, google it.

 

[mister916]

Making your own icons

 

[mr monday niight]

Originally Posted by Mister916

Making your own icons

Post some

 

[regal black]

kudos for this thread. Needed something like this.

 

[mister916]

Originally Posted by MR MONDAY NIIGHT

Originally Posted by Mister916

Making your own icons

Post some

Deleted most of them cause I never use them but here's a set I made for myself.

 

[spsfinest212]

What are the size restrictions for icons? I want to make some.

 

[regal black]

how do you get the custom clocks like some people have on their desktop

 

[neighb0rh00d]

Originally Posted by Regal Black

how do you get the custom clocks like some people have on their desktop

Thats Rainmeter.

You gotta download those skins from:

http://www.deviantart.com/

However, i dont know how to add them...

Yes, im still a noob.

 

[1stwitit]

posting for updates

 

[physicx]

can anyone be so kind to make a mac tutorial like op's?

the last few weeks or so i feel like i want to go back to windows

 

[kneenoh]

Might as well change it this to the new Desktop thread since everyone asks the same questions in the other one.

Vid slaterSB made to change your icons on Snow Leopard.


And search "niketalk" in Deviant art for all the hundreds/huf/supreme/NFL/NBA icons, that I put on there.

And NothingToLose made a guide on how to make your own icons, just can't find it

[Mac] Application called "pic2icon" will fix icons if they dont show up right.

 

[jpioneer]

posting to view later.

 

[mr monday niight]

*%%! is mad work

 

[servechilled81]

^^Yea it's tedious at first but once it's all set up

I'll post a few tips in a sec on icons, docks, and rainmeter.

 

[justsnoopit86]

Originally Posted by MR MONDAY NIIGHT

*%%! is mad work

 

[capricorn1229]

Originally Posted by Mister916

Originally Posted by MR MONDAY NIIGHT

Originally Posted by Mister916

Making your own icons

Post some

Deleted most of them cause I never use them but here's a set I made for myself.

I need those clean $@@ icons in my life and ON MY DOCK.

*gets to work on making some*

 

[proper english]

good lookin' out OP.. Stardock's website gets on my damn nerves.. +1

 

[servechilled81]

[color= rgb(255, 255, 0)]Icons[/color]
For Windows, icons on the desktop must be .ico format. Most docks use PNG.
You can convert ICO to PNG and vice versa with convertico.com The program I useis called IcoFX,
with it you can covert to and from ICO and PNG, and you can covert MAC icons to PNG or ICO.

If you want to hide Your recycle bin and keep your other desktop icons in
[color= rgb(0, 153, 255)]Vista[/color]
Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization> Change Desktop Icons (on the left)
uncheck the recycle bin.
This way, you can have the icons you want on the desktop,
while the recycle bin is located on the dock.
I suggest creating a folder on your desktop and putting all of your desktop shortcuts and shortcuts to any programs you want to use on the dock there.



[color= rgb(255, 255, 0)]Xwindows Docks[/color]
I'm currenty using xwindows dock 5.6. I tried Object Dock and used Rocket Dock for a while, but I like this one better.
Xwindows Dock
-Tip: Right click on the dock, choose preferences. Click on the "Panel" settings on the left and uncheck thebox that say "Reserve screen space for dock", or leave it if you like the dock to show under every window even in fullscreen.
-Installing a new dock template.
Search deviantart.com for "xwd" browse through the different docks.
Download and extract the dock. Drag the file (.xwd) to this directory
C:>Program Files>Xwindows Dock>Skins. Close and restart the Dock.
-To add programs to the dock
Right click on the dock>Add File
now add the file from the Shortcuts folder you made earlier if you're following these instructions.
Or if you know where to search for program you want to add you can do it that way.
-Changing dock icons
Right click on the icon you want to change, click edit and select a PNG file to replace the current icon.
-Adding a dock stack.
Right click on the dock, click "Add stack". Once you add a stack you can add multiple files and folders to it by right clicking on the stack andclicking "Add to Stack"
Dock Stack

expands tothis

[color= rgb(255, 255, 0)]Rainmeter[/color]
Rainmeter.net

-Basics
1. Download Install (you need to choose 32 or 64bit) here
Everything that is displayed by rainmeter is called a config.
When you first run Rainmeter you will get a screen like this.
This is the Enigma Home Config. Here, there are several configs you can add by clicking on the name of the config. Notes, Music, HDD, CPU, taskbar and sidebar<--(the shaded areas)
are running by default.
Click the X at the top right to close this screen. Now you can turn off
and add any configs you want to see

Turning off a config
Right Click on the config>Skin Menu>Close Skin
(if you choose "EXIT" it will close Rainmeter instead of the individual config)
The grey areas that appear on the sidebar and taskbar are configs, you can
turn them off this way.

Turning on Configs
To turn on an existing config, Right click on the black rainmeter icon on your toolbar.
Go down to "Configs" there you can choose from all you have available

Adding a new config.
http://yboris.deviantart.com/art/10-Foot-HUD-YBoris-edit-105201352
Any new configs you download should go in this directory (YourUserIDocuments>Rainmeter>Skins)
Some confiqs come with a font that you need to install first in order for it to show correctly.

After you have placed the theme folder in the correct directory, restart rainmeter.
Now, right Click on the Rainmeter Icon in the system tray, and select Configs, the config should be there now.


Setting the Weather and Notes config.
Notes
Right click on the Rainmeter icon on the system tray click
Configs>Enigma>Sidebar>Notes. Choose 1

To add your notes, click on the check mark on Next to "Notes"
a text document will open. Type what you want there, save and exit,
Wait a few seconds, or right click on the config and click refresh, and your notes should
appear.



Weather
Right click on the Rainmeter icon in the system tray.
Select Configs>Enigma>Taskbar>MoxaWeather.
Choose one.
Setup your weather code.
Right click on the Rainmeter icon in the system tray
at the bottom you will see Enigma\Taskbar\MoxaWeather
choose this and then choose "Edit Skin"
you will get a text document, here is where you edit your zip code:

 

[ducky quack]

doesn't having those apps running eat up a lot of memory? i wanna do it but am turned off by that thought

 

[neighb0rh00d]

new desktop since its almost 2010 anyways.