Prefered desktop environment: Plasma.
I am happy that Cube is back in 5.27, I added Gnome-like Overview. Also has Plasma Activities now: virtual desktops on steroids. Activities let user configure autostart separate applications in each individual Activity (just an example what Activity can do) - not possible in virtual desktops. Also one can use different wallpapers which helps to see while scrolling activities which I want to use.

note: forgot to add that each Activity can be configured to contain several virtual desktops. So Activity iz not the replacement of virtual desktop but it is larger workspace unit.

Cubes exceeded total size of allowed upload, so here they are:

Slackware64-15.0
XFCE

Hello, here is my desktop. I'm using the Inside Your Computer colorscheme, which I modified the titlebar color to match the wallpaper better. The wallpaper I just found online somewhere with google images. I have the Win7 Show Desktop widget by Zren which I think looks a little better than the standard one, especially on vertical panels. I choose the Liberation Sans font, and have a few desktop icons, not because I use them that often but because they feel homie. Other than that, it's pretty much standard Plasma!

Not a tesseract, maybe a 3.5 dimensions cube :D

I've been fiddling around with my fvwm3 configuration, and this is what it looks like now. It's got a few more bells and whistles than it did the last time I posted here:

• Automatic generation of nearly all colors (grays and an accent) and dimensions (gradients, panels, handle size, tiling, etc.) from a separate read-in configuration file
• Scroll up and down on the 'volume' button to change the volume
• FvwmForm to look up man pages and read them at a pleasant aspect ratio
• A Slackware button with an XDG menu
• Toggled calendar, conky, large pager (pictured) and large button bar (not pictured)
• Easy access to ssh connections and a QEMU menu

"But the panels make your desktop look like Mate with a dark theme," someone might be saying. "Why go to all this trouble?"

Well, it's the same reason I switched back from fluxbox after a month or two of trying it: Desks and Pages. This setup has six virtual desktops, each composed of six screen-sized pages for a total of 36 screens' worth of space. The fact that they're divided among different Desks makes both organization (two VMs testing a SlackBuild are on Desk 2) and navigation very easy. That's a killer feature in my book.

Nice. I haven't made the jump to 3 yet.

pghvlaans, that is one great looking desktop, serious kudos, but how do you stand running at 71C? Even if the fan output air dropped 10C (unlikely), it'd still be well above the threshold of pain. I'd be drilling holes, upgrading/adding fans or buying one of those cooling stands.

My laptop gets that toasty too when its running under full load, which is why I'd never use it on my lap. :)

That's just a read on the CPU itself, and the rest of the computer doesn't really get all that warm except for the parts in the back near the fan.

I did have a laptop that routinely became painful to the touch when I was in college. That one always stayed on a table, and I had to mount it on bottle caps in July and August to keep it from shutting itself down. :)

Thanks but I'm well aware of what lmsensors reports. I'm also aware that many laptops run hot but are designed to do a pretty ok job of avoiding thermal throttling at rather high cpu temps. Unfortunately many systems share 1 fan between both CPU and GPU and have little or no active cooling for other hotspots like audio and wifi. The rest of the computer does "get all that warm" and despite the fact that most computers don't experience substantial life shortening effects from temps below 85C or so, ALL electronics are "happier" (run better) at the low end of operational specs.

Example: I have an ancient Lenovo T61P that was not designed to employ a Core 2 Extreme X9000 but a community BIOS upgrade provided support for that hefty (and hot) of a CPU as well as activated support for double the RAM and a higher (more taxing and hotter) SATA version. I bought a high performance hs/fan, lapped the CPU and hs, used high performance thermal grease, expanded the size of the air intakes with a nibbler, and run pwmconfig to set very high fan speeds.

The result, even with that Extreme CPU and an Nvidia Quadro GPU and upgraded wifi, is it idles around 36C and maxes out well below 60C. Between physical comfort, improved longevity and stable high performance it was worth the expense in both bux and effort. It runs circles around many top notch laptops less than half its age of 16 years.

I'm not bragging. The point is for as little as ~$20 USD with a maximum of around $70 USD active cooling solutions can vastly improve comfort, lifespan, and performance of everything you have now... plus it makes performance upgrades practical. If you'd like to Go Big and are a bit of a tinkerer, you can do a great deal for just your time and effort and even less expenditure. Just keeping fan blades and ports clean is a big deal. Often just the expense of a can of compressed air will help a great deal without any disassembly.

If all you do with your laptop is to turn it on briefly to check email and keep up to date on the news, and then shutdown, the learning curve and expense may not be worth it but if you run for hours or do anything at all intense, I think it's worth knowing you don't need to buy a new one which once again tends to hide how hot they commonly run. You don't have to be stuck with it.

Hey, brag away; that's an impressive temperature figure. Maybe I should look into thinkfan (pwmconfig didn't seem to work very well on this model).

EDIT: I owe you an apology for my earlier reply. With the fans maxed out as you suggested, the CPU was about ten degrees cooler running that same load!

No apology needed pghvlaans. I know I'm not the average laptop user. It's exceedingly rare I run on battery power so it's no biggy for me to run fan at 100%. I use my Thinkpad as a portable DAW mostly and I have yet to record where there isn't AC available. 10C is not a small improvement. Kudos.

BTW it is extremely common that laptops employ those stupidly thick sponge-like wafers soaked in thermal grease to make assembly easy but they suck at thermal transfer. A sandwich of copper and good thermal grease to improve contact and thermal conductivity can easily earn you another 10C.

Love the cubes!