cool things to do with your desktop?

[homozygotte]

heya!

ive got a pretty standard desktop. background is my favorite musician, games, applications, etc. but nothing too special. i know shimejis and such are out there, but id like to hear some more inputs

what are some cool or niche little additions you guys may have on your desktops that youd recommend for others?

THANKS

[alexela64]

Idk if you've heard of Rainmeter but I loved adding widgets to my desktop in highschool. You can add stuff like "now playing", a tracker for your cpu usage, or even just a big ol picture of Miku. Some "skins" get really complicated but most of the time I just used it for stuff like I mentioned previously.
Iirc it's documented pretty well but my dms are always open if you want help setting it up/finding cool addons.

There's also something I do now, which is use a wallpaper that has sections for me to put my various folders and files in. It's just cosmetic, but it's pretty cute.
I'll edit this if i can think of anything else but for now these are the two I have the most experience with.

[homozygotte]

havent heard of it until now!!! ill look through some addons once i get the chance from the looks there seems like a WHOLE lotta different options which is really nice to know

any skin recs? mayayybe preferably windows 3.1/95/XP -esque ones? OR any you overall think are cool would be nice to know about

thank yew!!!!

[lakes]

any skin recs? mayayybe preferably windows 3.1/95/XP -esque ones? OR any you overall think are cool would be nice to know about

this is not rainmeter related
but if you use windows & want the taskbar & start menu to look like anywhere from win95 to win7, open shell & retrobar are worth looking into

[alexela64]

any skin recs?

Unforch i don't know of many skins that fit that specific criteria, as I used to look for specific ones that matched the theme of my desktops -- there's a lot of good places to look, specifically deviantart has a large number from back in the day. There's also this reddit thread about it with a bunch of good links.

[littlelum]

In high school, on my old laptop, I found this tool that would replace you wallpaper with either a GIF or video. I didn't really use it though, because it ended up being too distracting for me. (And the fact that it would pause whenever you maximized a window. It was too save CPU/RAM/whatever, but I found that jarring)