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Topic: My Favourite Wallpapers

There are often requests for wallpapers in the Desktop Screenshot thread. It might be a good idea to start a thread to share links to favourite wallpapers.

*Please only include pictures if they are thumbnails that link to the original. Otherwise, just post the link (or both)*

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Re: My Favourite Wallpapers

A couple of favourites at the moment

http://www.ewallpapers.eu/uploads/523326573_thumb_.jpg
http://www.ewallpapers.eu/Nature/Photo- … e-Sky.html

http://www.ewallpapers.eu/uploads/644785193_thumb_.jpg
http://www.ewallpapers.eu/Nature/Space/Infinity.html

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Re: My Favourite Wallpapers

For tasteful minimalsim:
http://customize.org/wallpapers/tags/minimal

For blatant crazyism:
http://www.klukeart.com/

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Re: My Favourite Wallpapers

http://netghost.deviantart.com/ has cool wallpapers smile

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Re: My Favourite Wallpapers

^  love those!

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I just use a tux png since he's cute and I like the white conky on black:

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/2350/screen081009.th.png

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Re: My Favourite Wallpapers

Here are some of my favorites..

The first image i made of several other images and edited with
the Gimp after that..

http://omploader.org/tMmJpeg

http://omploader.org/tMmJqMQ

http://omploader.org/tMmJqMw

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Re: My Favourite Wallpapers

http://www.mandolux.com/archive/2005/0313.html  cool:cool:

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Re: My Favourite Wallpapers

I have this obsession with bones, you see. And with the band Faust and their x-ray album covers.

http://omploader.org/tMmg3MQ http://omploader.org/tMmk0dA

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http://omploader.org/tMmg3NQ http://omploader.org/tMmk0eg http://omploader.org/tMmk1Mg

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One of my favorite sites for wallpapers : http://www.extremeinstability.com/imagesbyyear.htm

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Re: My Favourite Wallpapers

High quality artistic wallpapers from the Desktopography project:
http://www.desktopography.net/
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Re: My Favourite Wallpapers

this is one of my fave sites for finding wallpaper, and this used to be my wallpaper when i was using ubuntu... but its too busy for conky to be useful

http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/node/7072

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not a favourite exactly, just found it and I think someone will like it...

http://th04.deviantart.net/fs70/300W/f/2009/354/7/f/CAMARO_SS_by_RussPAir.jpg

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check the Zen lines smile

http://th03.deviantart.net/fs70/150/i/2009/361/b/3/Squiggle_background_by_zerocustom1989.jpg

http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/150/i/2009/361/1/4/Wave_Strokes___Background_by_zerocustom1989.jpg

http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/150/i/2009/361/1/4/Wave_Strokes___Background_by_zerocustom1989.jpg

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Re: My Favourite Wallpapers

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Re: My Favourite Wallpapers

I found a cool set of backgrounds here.

http://coolvibe.com/2009/100-epic-image … telescope/

Scenes taken from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Re: My Favourite Wallpapers

vrkalak wrote:

I found a cool set of backgrounds here.

http://coolvibe.com/2009/100-epic-image … telescope/

Scenes taken from the Hubble Space Telescope

ive always liked that image of the eagle nebula http://coolvibe.com/2009/100-epic-image … fcreation/
when you think of the scales involved in the hubble photos it boggles the mind

edit - by the way, you can go here: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/  to see hubble photos and download high res images and pre-formatted wallpapers

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Re: My Favourite Wallpapers

A nice one:
http://dl.ziza.ru/other/122009/29/pics/037.jpg
 
comes from here: http://ziza.ru/2009/12/29/fotopodborka_133_foto.html
ziza.ru is a good source of wallpapers, despite the Russian. smile

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http://th02.deviantart.net/fs70/300W/i/2010/012/7/8/404_by_TraceurHass.jpg

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I'm enjoying this one at the moment. Hermik's photography is always interesting cool

http://th09.deviantart.net/fs51/300W/i/2009/304/d/0/Green_Blur_2560x1600_by_hermik.jpg

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Re: My Favourite Wallpapers

http://upl.photosphere.nl/2010-02-03--1265152923_1366x768_scrot2.png
My desktop with the link to wallpaper. Be sure to check out more of the wallpapers they have, this is one of the best sources I ever found for wallpapers yikes
No, seriously, almost all my wallpapers I regularly use are from that site.

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Re: My Favourite Wallpapers

And do you know about some calendar/wallpaper, full desktop size? I mean, I got very bad memory, and the first thing I want to see when I open my laptop is a calendar/agenda, full size. With transparency or not, but full size.

I'm looking for this but not lucky.

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Re: My Favourite Wallpapers

I don't know about calendar wallpapers, but `osmo -c` is damn close to fullscreen on my netbook.  You could probably run it (with terminal ampersand obviously) via your autostart.sh.

EDIT:  OK, not exactly fullscreen, but it takes up the center half of my screen.

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Re: My Favourite Wallpapers

pvsage wrote:

I don't know about calendar wallpapers, but `osmo -c` is damn close to fullscreen on my netbook.  You could probably run it (with terminal ampersand obviously) via your autostart.sh.

EDIT:  OK, not exactly fullscreen, but it takes up the center half of my screen.

You may even be able to edit the application settings for it in the rc.xml file, to make it always open to the size of the desktop.

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Re: My Favourite Wallpapers

Thanks for the info. Maybe it's not the place, sorry.

Osmo is not very beautiful, but it's ok, what I was looking for (light permanent calendar/wallpaper).