My minimalist work desktop so far. wmx as my window manager, idesk for all the decorations & static icons, & xcal, xload, xclock, & xbiff as undecorated windows. My load avg peaked above 1.0, & I got new mail while taking screenshots (using xbiff icons I drew today).
Wallpapers used in the screenies:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21975312/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/3771319/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/22242412/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/10675384/
https://computerfairi.es/media/4nwnJtKjToTFJiKUvNc https://computerfairi.es/media/oZbZ3MCWf_dtbB5dE54 https://computerfairi.es/media/zSlPkjiMRl0OwpmMblA https://computerfairi.es/media/ALcjM5bO3qvun0CcKzM
I like chakats, just in case it's not obvious. I'm a furry, what can I say. :3c
Also, it looks cool to me & isn't as hard as it looks to maintain if I need to add or remove icons that do things, but I'd like to hear if it looks cool to you, too.
When I finish, I'll write up a huge post of what I did, how I did it, and why I did it this way.
I am so close to liking this icon theme I'm working on well enough to call it ready to write about. Whole screen, left-edge icons, and top-edge icons.
(Wallpaper: "Chakats on the Beach" by rickgriffin https://www.furaffinity.net/view/5271044/ )
(Also, I like sailorhg's fairyfloss editor theme too much: https://sailorhg.github.io/fairyfloss/ - https://github.com/sailorhg/fairyfloss/ - and that's why I turned my xterm pastel purple, which I also need to share.)
. https://computerfairi.es/media/kZoOszITrkVFQqYQnds https://computerfairi.es/media/eBqRzkim3uTTyykgsv0 https://computerfairi.es/media/3Q-HA6O69O5sSQnk4sE
... I have 66 icons to manage so far, wow. :/
- 18 icons I configured to do nothing but look pretty (by running `true` if clicked)
- 48 icons that actually do things when clicked
- also, 5 programs running in windows that look like icons
I ended up writing a shellscript to help me manage them all (so much for not being as hard as it looks), because I'm definitely not done moving them around and adding more. https://computerfairi.es/media/FPgpo1AoVETrludsk38
"- also, 5 programs running in windows that look like icons"
LOL I can't count. I have 8 programs running: xcal, xload, xman, xclock, & xbiff 4 times.
I'm still tinkering with with my desktop icon theme.
I decided I don't need a tall xload because I'd only need to know if the load average gets above 4.0 or 5.0, not necessarily how much above.
I also decided that a wider xcal would help me reread date info a lot quicker. (I just realized I'll have to widen it more for "September.")
Combine those together, & that let me move xclock closer to the corner, too.
(Wallpaper is the left part of "Chakats at the Onsen")
On the fairyfloss tangent, I added the following X resources to my ~/.Xdefaults file to make my xterm match:
XTerm*background: #5a5475
XTerm*foreground: #f8f8f2
XTerm*cursorColor: #c2ffdf
XTerm*scrollbar.foreground: #ffb8d1
XTerm*scrollbar.background: #716799
(On some systems, the user's X resources file is ~/.Xresources or ~/.Xres instead. See manpages X(7) and xrdb(1).)
(Also also, there's a vim port, which is why I made xterm match: https://github.com/tssm/fairyfloss.vim )
@Ulfra_Wolfe There's just something nice about happy L-shaped people, y'know?
maple classic™ 
@arielmt i wish i could make things like this :(
@squirrel You can. You just need motivation, patience, & that most precious of resources, time.
More encouragingly, when I'm done, I'm going to write up & show what I was thinking along the way. All of these are small & haphazard pieces, & it's almost accidental how I decided on this style.
@arielmt yeah i don't have any of those things..
@squirrel :<
Maybe someday?
I'm kind of in awe at your putting together this site with its theme & favicon in a beautiful & usable way. This beauty is beyond my abilities today.
@arielmt i got so much flak from it
a lot of people think this theme is ugly and unreadable
you're one of the very few people who seem to like it
@arielmt this is really great~!
@arielmt i'm kinda jealous of your theme making abilities, i'm still stuck with mate looking mostly default and forcing myself to call that a day out of frustration
@arielmt oh my gosh I love this
More progress with my desktop theme. There's still some work left, but it's mostly usable & somewhat presentable.
4 xbiff mail boxes beside 3 mail action icons (read mail, write mail, use webmail), above "Netscape" (Firefox), Xpdf, Gimp (rockin' the Deluxe Paint I brush), canfield solitaire, & a drawer for pcmanfm. I still need a volume mixer & frequent Web bookmarks.
Wallpaper: "Chakat Newbeat" by Kacey Miyagami.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/10233357/ https://computerfairi.es/media/GKMrrLbeF8KSewYLrSQ https://computerfairi.es/media/3XI6U8IP47PQ_KgHw50