Traditionally Fedora isn't thought of as a 'fancy desktop' distro. It has always been a trailblazing distro which had been the first to use a lot of desktop technologies used in other distros. Since I use Fedora as my main desktop distro, I just wanted share my current desktop screenshot.



I don't really have a preference for dark vs. light. Just using a dark theme at the moment.

Theme: Aurora-Midnight
Window borders: Shiki-Colors-Metacity
Icons: Faenza (Dark)
Panels: Set to be transparent

Here's it in some action.


Apps in use: gvim, system-monitor, Guake terminal (transparent background)

I had a blueberry cheesecake for dessert last night. Wasn't nice, but don't tell my mother who made it...

Hey, Fedora is as good looking as any other distro - plus, it's Linux man! It can be anything you want it to be, yeah!

Yeah.. it can pretend to be windows!!!... ???

1.4 GB memory usage just 'coz of gvim and Guake terminal ...

@Acid: Heh, look at my system stats on the left, man! If I can make a system look like "Seven" on 1/32 the amount of its minimum required RAM, I deserve nothing less of applause. My friend's got 4G RAM, a dual core processor, and his seven feels like my grandpa trying to take a leak (slow and difficult to point in the right direction). Again, it can look like anything you want it to be - I've downloaded themes from gnome-look.org that can make my system look like XP, Jaguar, BeOS, Amiga ...

@ Mr. Sharma: The composite extension can make X use a lot of RAM .. something as subtle as a pixmap theme and SVG icons can affect system performance - why not use vi directly, by the way? FBCon gives a full 1024x768 resolution - I sometimes use sisfb - virtual consoles running at 1024x768 with 32bits depth at 85 hertz, I got chills just now #:-)

Holy crp!

I can guarantee that gvim has no fault in that.