Photos The 'post your desktop' thread

Physical placement of a monitor isn't always the same as the port it's connected to.

For instance, the primary card will have output 1 and 2, but you normally want the most powerful (and primary) to be physically in center. That's the whole reason for the monitor-setup where you can rearrange the "logical" monitors to match the physical setup

 

oh durr.

 

Class.

 

I also need an explanation for the numbering of your monitors. Also how did you hook up that many monitors, how many cards do you have?

 

The explaination:
Hardware -
1xATi Rage (PCI) - Old and crappy works very well for my TV (Screen1)
1xGeForce 6800GT Ultra (PCi-E) - Powers 1xLCD (Screen2) and the touch screen monitor (Screen4)
1xGeForce 6800GTo (PCi-E) - Powers 2xLCDs (Screens 3 & 5)

As for the numbering it all went to pot after I cleaned behind my desk and pulled a couple of cables out and plugged then back in the wrong place been meaning to sort that out.

What you can't see on this image is the TV (Screen1).

customh - The cursor runs from one to the other, the monitors don't need to be in order i.e. 1 thru to 5.

Works nicely

 

nice change. Eton J15s with (i think) Putney Bridge in the back ground at Schools Hear of the River '07

(i'm somewhere in that boat!)

 

No. 87 or 37, the yellow guy/...

 

My bet's with 37..

 

Nope.

 

stroke?

 

nope. Thats me at 6. However, i'm normally at 5.

 

where you guys come?
and i was wondering ... what are the eton top boats going to use seeing ERB's are now antiques?

 

I have no idea... Shame about ERB, all ways thought that they were much nicer then Empacher..

I think we were 5th or 6th out of all J15 A's, but don't quote me on that.

 

Our 1st VIII came 2nd The last time I went to School's Head, I was at bow and had to wear a pink bib... I looked particularly virile

 

A BASH script for automatically changing your background in Gnome:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

#wallpaper directory
IMGS_DIR="$HOME/Backgrounds" #change 'Backgrounds' to where you keep your wallpapers

#number of seconds after which the background image will be changed
SLEEP_TIME=180  #change to what you like :)

function random_bg
{
        #count number of wallpapers and extract a random one
        COUNT=`eval find $IMGS_DIR -name \'*\' -type f | wc -l`
        NUM=$(($RANDOM % $COUNT))
        NUM=$(($NUM + 1))
        PIC=`eval find $IMGS_DIR -name \'*\' -type f | head -n$NUM | tail -n1`

        #set background
        gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename "$PIC"

        #stretch background to fit screen
        gconftool-2 -t str --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_options "stretched"
        #Possible values are "none", "wallpaper" (eg tiled), "centered", "scaled", "stretched"
}

while true; do
        random_bg
        sleep $SLEEP_TIME
done

I didn't write it, but it works a treat (I got it from Gnome-look.org). Just remember to change the file permissions after you've downloaded it otherwise you'll get a 'Permission denied' error. Also, consider inserting it with the rest of your startup programs if you want it to load and execute automatically when you start X.

 

can see my monitor setup in the Room+computer section i don't do icons cause i can't normally see the desktop for windows, today is some light browsing later maybe more cad work.


morgan.

 

WOW morgan, how wide is that screen? lol

Sam

 

I'd guess he has 3 x 19" (1024x1280) on a Matrox TripleHead2Go

Colour me jealous.

 

You got a link to that background?

 

I got bored of seeing myself sitting in a boat.