Screen capture of your desktop!

[DanielSmith]

i usually use ACA Capture Pro ,here is my shot

[jscheuer1]

For all you folks who like the 'death and metal' look (© 2007 yours truly):



At least that's what it looked like a few hours ago with the top down.

[jnscollier]

wow, all of you guys have such few icons on your desktops!! I have about a million folders and application icons on mine. Seriously, about 3/4 of my desktop is covered with icons.

[jscheuer1]

wow, all of you guys have such few icons on your desktops!! I have about a million folders and application icons on mine. Seriously, about 3/4 of my desktop is covered with icons.

Try desktop cleanup wizard.

That's a windows only thing, I think. Anyways, when installing new programs I usually do not select or deselect (if it is selected) the option of having a desktop icon added. I also routinely delete any desktop shortcuts I don't think I need. I can easily do this because I am quite familiar with how to make new ones if I want them and with finding programs on my computer that have no icons on the desktop or in the start menu.

[boxxertrumps]

i usually use ACA Capture Pro ,here is my shot

Why did you PAY for a screen capture program?
it comes with the OS, you just hit the "print screen" button then paste it into an imp...

[jnscollier]

It's one of those things where I'm always thinking I'll need something later on down the road. Bad habit i know. lol.

[Twey]

There are issues with the standard Windows screen-capture utility... it doesn't display OpenGL- or ActiveX-rendered widgets, and it does odd things to scrollbars. It's a lot less flexible than a dedicated program, too (although, as you said, an image editor removes a lot of this, it's an extra step).

I use KSnapshot for this reason, even though KDE provides built-in screencapture functionality. KSnapshot does most of the things that program claims to do (but it's free ).

wow, all of you guys have such few icons on your desktops!! I have about a million folders and application icons on mine. Seriously, about 3/4 of my desktop is covered with icons.

The only icons I have on my desktop are my (rather bulky) TODO list, and my CD drive, which KDE puts there automatically, and which I can't be bothered to remove, even though I rarely use it. KDE provides a list of commonly-used applications at the top of the main menu, which happen to be my web browser, mail client, chat client, media player, and terminal, the only applications I use regularly (read: fire up at boot). I find this faster and neater than minimising all my applications, clicking an icon, and restoring them all. If I need something else, I tend to hit alt-f2 and type its name (which tends to be faster than clicking anyway).
As I think BLiZZaRD mentioned, Linux desktops also have the concept of "drawers," a single panel icon (as seen in the quick-launch bar in Windows) each of which can store a large number of further icons, rendering desktop icons redundant for a lot of users.

[killerchutney]

heres mine. (p.s. I don't have vista, it's a transformation pack)
http://www.killerchutney.co.uk/imgs/mydesktop.JPG
p.s. ImageShack is slow and has ads. Use my one http://www.killerchutney.co.uk/imgupload.php

[Twey]

I don't have vista, it's a transformation pack

Do you get glass?

p.s. ImageShack is slow and has ads. Use my one

I think it's only for we Brits... no-one else seems to have this problem, but as you say, I frequently find ImageShack so slow that the browser gives up and closes the connection before getting the page.
So, folks, yes, please do use his.

[killerchutney]

Do you get glass?

Sort of, its either none or 100% transparency, unless you get somw strange program that costs money