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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Curiosity Post 15039 by adam_crosby on Saturday 9th of February 2002 12:52:03 AM
Old 02-09-2002
Here's a very popular X Windows interface setup - GNOME:
http://www.gnome.org/seegnome.html

Keep in mind that one of the beauties of windowed desktops in Unix and Unix-like systems is that there is no set shell (excepting the default of CDE on commericial unices [AIX, Solaris, HP/US (I tihnk)]). Linux and FreeBSD ship with Gnome (pictured in the link above) or KDE (http://www.kde.org) as their default desktops. However, you do not have to use any of these - there are all sorts of window managers out there. To name a few:
Blackbox
Enlightenment
fvwm
Icewm
The list seems endless. Check out http://www.themes.org/ for more beautiful examples of XFree86 desktops in action.
 
gnome-background-properties(1)					   User Commands				    gnome-background-properties(1)

NAME
gnome-background-properties - customize your desktop background SYNOPSIS
gnome-background-properties [gnome-std-options] DESCRIPTION
The Background preferences tool allows you to customize the desktop background. The desktop background is the part of the desktop where there are no interface graphical items, such as panels and windows. The desktop background is always beneath the other interface items. You can customize the desktop background in the following ways: o Select an image to display on the desktop background. The image is superimposed on the desktop background color. The desktop back- ground color is visible if you select a transparent image or if the image does not cover the entire desktop background. o Select a color for the desktop background. You can select a solid color, or create a gradient effect with two colors. A gradient effect is a visual effect where one color blends gradually into another color. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: gnome-std-optionStandard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5). EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching the background preference tool example% gnome-background-properties EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gnome-backgrounExecutableefor Background preferences tool ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-desktop-preferences | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ |Interface stability |External | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Preference Tools Manual Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. gnome-control-center(1), gnome-std-options(5) NOTES
Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003. SunOS 5.10 2 Oct 2003 gnome-background-properties(1)
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