The post your desktop thread!

SABERinBLUE

2008-05-01 12:28:07 am

Cook of the Sea

I have now read every single file that was on that desktop.

playerman1230

2008-05-17 03:57:41 pm

Hated by all

Got mine from deviantART.

And a question: How do you take snapshots of your desktops?

attachment:

Samus Gallery 3.jpg

arkarian

2008-05-17 04:07:35 pm

red chamber dream

Windows: press the print screen button ("PrtScn" at the upper left on most keyboards). Paste into MS Paint, then save.

OS X: press ⌘+Shift+3. The image will appear on your desktop.

Gamma_Metroid

2008-05-17 05:48:01 pm

Quote from Arkarian:

("PrtScn" at the upper left on most keyboards)

Really? On all the keyboards I've seen, it's been to the right of F12, above Insert, and to the left of Scroll Lock. It also says

Print
Scrn
------
SysRq

arkarian

Edit history:

arkarian: 2008-05-18 07:12:05 pm

2008-05-17 09:40:12 pm

red chamber dream

Er, sorry, I meant right.

My current desktop cycles between this:

and this:

Can see my dock in the second one. Marimite ftw.

playerman1230

2008-05-17 10:18:38 pm

Hated by all

*face meets desk*

Damn, my pure desktop snap takes a lot of memory. What's the best format in terms of lowest memory?

arkarian

2008-05-17 10:22:32 pm

red chamber dream

Should be able to just save as a .jpg or .png and be fine, unless your wallpaper is some superdense image.

playerman1230

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playerman1230: 2008-05-17 10:30:15 pm

2008-05-17 10:27:01 pm

Hated by all

Here's a chop 248 Kilobyte JPEG image of my desktop (PNG is 2.78 Megabytes, BitMap is 3.75)

It's from a Japanese game called "Suguri: A little war in brand-new earth". The English patches I get for that game crash on me.

attachment:

Desptop 1B.JPG

arkarian

2008-05-17 10:30:08 pm

red chamber dream

So... what's the problem? That .png size is about average.

playerman1230

2008-05-17 10:38:54 pm

Hated by all

Quote from Arkarian:

So... what's the problem? That .png size is about average.

As far as I know, my attachment limit is 10240 Kilos. I suppose I'm crapshacked (no Photo Bucket/Image Shack account)

tomatobob

2008-05-17 10:41:08 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Last I checked Imageshack doesn't need an account.

arkarian

2008-05-17 10:48:55 pm

red chamber dream

ImageShack has a 1.53 MB limit, though. I use the limit-free 2Shared for anything larger (such as the second image in my above post). It also seems to upload faster.