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Ok then!

Fine! Desktop meme!

Why that background? It’s easy on the eyes. Occasionally I’ll
use a background generated by

perl -e '$x=int(rand(5))+2;$y=int(rand(5))+2;print "P3\n$x $y\n255\n";
print int(rand(128))," " for(1..$x*$y*3);print "\n";'|
pnmrotate $[RANDOM] |xv -root -max -quit +noresetroot -smooth -

instead, which I got from Dagbrown.

Why is your toolbar where it is? Well, erm, it’s not one,
really. Menus appear when I click on the desktop. I don’t use the
workspace thing at the bottom at all, except as a clock.

Why the choices on your toolbar are present: Well, erm, there
aren’t any, really. :-)

What the desktop icons are: Absent by design.

Well, that was fun. To make up for it, I give you href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~msittig/bento/">Hello Kitty
bento.

Comments 4

  1. tiredofsleep wrote:

    Haha I like the Hamtaro one.

    Posted 14 Apr 2004 at 3:17 am
  2. node wrote:

    Though it should probably be

    perl -e '$x=int(rand(5))+2;$y=int(rand(5))+2;print "P3\n$x $y\n255\n";
print int(rand(128))," " for(1..$x*$y*3);print "\n";'|
pnmrotate `expr \( $[RANDOM] % 180 \) - 90` |xv -root -max -quit +noresetroot -smooth -

    because $[RANDOM] is often larger than 90. Also, pnmrotate can take values from -90 to 90.

    Posted 14 Apr 2004 at 8:35 am
  3. dagbrown wrote:

    Well, the way I originally had it was $[RANDOM%90], so it’s mendel who broke it. Boo hiss, mendel.

    Posted 14 Apr 2004 at 1:34 pm
  4. Rich wrote:

    Sigmonster ate it.

    Posted 14 Apr 2004 at 4:50 pm