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The 2000 Beanies

Category: Best Unix Eyecandy 57

Posted by CmdrTaco from the we're-having-more-fun-now dept.
What is on your desktop that soothes your tired eyes? A background image? A really pretty skinned application? A webcam of some girl that you obsessively reload every 60 seconds from the moment you sit at your desk until the moment you pass out? (If it's the last one, you might consider taking some sort of medication before she gets a restraining order against you.) If it's something else, why not try nominating them for their own Beanie Award?
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  • that's frightening.
  • Lets face it, no matter what window manager or GUI you're using, themes.org is always there to suck up more of your machines valuable RAM in a convenient and simply excellent manner! I nominate Themes.ORG!
  • Agreed. And it only got better with the release of 0.16.
  • hands down. fire it up with a purty skin, watch the rotating GL spectrum analyzer spin (or one of the other pretty plugins).

  • bomb (Score:1)

    by Thalinor ( 4731 )
    if you think you have seen your share of cool screensavers, think again.

    bomb just blows all of them out of the water.

    according to its author, its a visual-musical instrument. It produces animated organic graphics in response to the keyboard, audio music, or on its own. It runs on the console, under X11, or with xscreensaver.

    get it here : draves.org/bomb [freshmeat.net].
  • I agree in sentiment, but my preffered backgrounds tend to be from Largo (http://wm.current.nu/ [current.nu]).

    Some of his stuff gets a bit "out there" (and I wouldn't go there if you're really easily offended by suggestive stuff), but he also has some of the best Goth-ish stuff I've found. And some of his stuff has actually inspired artistically-challenged me to try designing some of his own.

  • VSA (Score:1)

    by int ( 9392 )
    Hey what about VSA [linuxcore.com] !? :)
  • I'd like to nominate two projects from the XMMS plug-in competition.

    Blursk - More configurability then you can imagine and seamless transitions between functions.

    Blur Scope MAX - Trippy visuals combined with a build your own favorites philosophy.

    (DISCLAIMER: I wrote the Blur Scope MAX plug-in)

    Check them both out (and all the other great plug-ins) at the XMMS [xmms.org] site.
  • An eycandy may of course be both beatifull and fast at the same kind. And it doesn't have to be overbloated with graphics. The only requerement is that it improves look a lot (And perheaps does not improve functionality that much, but that's not a requerement). Gdm and Kdm are such enhancements to Xdm - not much new functionality but a lot improved look.
  • Sorry to say, but I do love my graphical front-end to init for Linux, Aurora (Check out its homepage [dhs.org]). So I'l have to nominate it...
  • psst...thanks!

    Bowie
    Bowie J. Poag
  • You cant deny it
  • I would like to nominate Chris Colefax's Include Files [geocities.com].

    These are basically plug-ins (similar to The Gimp) made for the POV-ray raytracer. His include files do some of the following things:

    - Generate cities: why model an entire city when you can simply run his include file which will randomly create one for you?

    - Liquid Spray: check out his screenshots/movies and drool.

    - Object Exploder: nuff said

    - Object Bender: easily bend an entire object. check out his movie of a pencil bouncing along the ground.

    - Galaxy: create a beatiful, animated, randomly generated galaxy as the sky for your rendering. this one is stunning.

    These are only a few examples of his include files. The POV-ray home page describes that Chris basically invented the "include file".

    Thanks, Chris, from a newbie POV-ray user who is already doing some really cool graphics thanks to your plugins.

  • Regardless if multi-boot machine is booted into Linux, NT, or BeOS, I always have a wonderfully tile-able Propaganda [themes.org] image in the background.
  • >schijnheilige jachtgeweer-Amerikanen die zichzelf

    uhm. jachtgeweer, is that a hunting rifle? I don't really understand this, but it doesn't look too nice ;-)

  • Professional Quality Games for Linux produce the best eye-candy.

  • cthugha (Score:1)

    by ViGe ( 49356 )
    I've had it for years and I still can spend hours wathing it.. Just awesome! :-)
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  • what about gkrellm?


    http://www.gkrellm.net [gkrellm.net]

  • Using doom to kill processes, beats 'kill 23641' any day.
  • xeyes. Good clean fun.
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  • The Eyepoppers [webslingerz.com] set of background tiles is available free for UNIX, Macintosh, and Windows. Pretty. Very pretty. There's a few hundred patterns in the three sets, or you can waste hours with the interactive webapp (click the Launch button on the main page).
  • The award should go to Jeremy Huxtable (I think thats his name), for the original, often immitated, never matched: Xeyes

    It is relatively old (circa 1988?), but still makes your desktop so much cooler. And yes, it is definitely eye candy.
  • I'll third that nomination.. It's the best eyecandy I've seen...
  • I 2nd/7th/whatever the nomination for Cthugha.

    (Zaph.. I love "Star Lego"!)

    Ryan Mannion
    TheForce.Net
  • Nethack! (Yet Another Nethack Radical)

    I love nethack's screen. When i see the little white f or d following me, their dedication warms my heart. Steal for me, doggie! When i see that yellow c coming up behind me while i'm facing a VRT&& surrounding my other side, its brown trousers time! I'm pleased, disturbingly enough, when i'm inside the energy vortex while hallucinating...look at the colours, man! I dream nethack screens! Can you say that for your eye candy?

    Nethack is the eye candy for me, unix or no!

  • I nominate Ryan Bliss at Digital Blasphemy [digitalblasphemy.com] for creating amazing raytraced wallpaper images.

    -- Lightstorm.

  • Chat is dominated by IRC. But let's face it.. It's effective but very dull on the eyes.

    Introduce eye-candy and you have OpenVerse Visual Chat http://openverse.org [openverse.org]

    This is my nomination for best UNIX (or windows, or mac) eye candy OpenSource project.


    You are a threat to free speech and must be SILENCED!

  • I'll fourth it.

    I've been a rabid cthugha advocate since the 5.x days in DOS. chtugha-L warms my heart. Couldn't ask for a nicer author, either. Since the first time I saw Zaph's ethereal image fading to black behind a bumping waveform, with a bottle of Wild Turkey in hand, I knew I had to meet the guy (net-wise, at least). I've chatted with zaph a few times, and he's been unfailingly very cool. (smooooooch, smoooooch, how about that cthugha98 source, Zaph? :) ) It's always nice when authors of software I like respond to my moronic queries. :)

    Cthugha. Better than TV. On par with sex.

    Will Illingworth

  • OpenBSD X-Lock definitly brings me back to my days as a stoner
  • Ok... better than TV, I can buy that, but better than sex... Cthugha's a great addition to sex, but I'd hardly say it was better... (or maybe I'm just lucky :-) Cthugha98 sourcecode... well, I had originally thought of trying to do a registered version, to make a couple of dollars from my efforts, but I can never convince myself that there's something there worth paying for. I've kept that sourcecode under wraps to prevent unscrupulous people taking advantage of it (as they have done). I will release the code, after I update it and make it worthy of a new release - hopefully sooner rather than later... Zaph (still with the Wild Turkey) Author of Cthugha http://www.torps.com
  • Thanks for the nomination - I second it :-) Zaph - Author of Cthugha
  • Some friends of mine used Cthuga rather creatively at a party of ours recently... they basically hooked up a pair of large screen tv's to a video out, mp3ed some cds, and voila! - instant entertainment! Cheap, and way cool! ;D

    PS Interesting side note: one of the tv's was placed on a large speaker due to lack of space. This had the effect of warping all the colour on the lower half of the picture without distorting the waveform. People couldn't figure out how we had two different coloured but otherwise identical pictures! :)
  • Yes, it really does make your eyes melt! The best there is, so I nominate cthugha as well... ...goes even better with some of my tabs (even if Zaph doesn't reply to any of my emails :-) ) -==- (author of xStream98SE for creating awesome swirly tab file stuff... more development soon??) http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/2502/
  • Sure, we've all heard about it and heard people drool about it, but it still takes the cake for best eye candy. Of course, that's why people with 32 meg of RAM and a P-100 hate it, but the award isn't for speed. :)
  • Allow me to nominate xteddy, the only desktop application you'll really need:

    http://www.physik.uni-hall e.de/~e2od5/debian/xteddy.html [uni-halle.de]

    This version of xteddy allows you to use different teddy images, among them a rubber duck, a stuffed penguin, various other stuffed animals.

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  • Nominee #1 : Xscreensaver. (obvious)
    Nominee #1a: Sproingies screensaver. YUMMY!

  • Using the -root option.

    Wow, there's dolphins swimming behind my icons. Can't get much cooler than that.
  • Lay a Voodoo 3 chip on this game, and it's a sight so beautiful as to bring a tear to the eye.

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