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Post Your Desktop: March 2023
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Goodbye Big Sur, hello Monterey, plus decided to give Dock on the left a second chance.
One of my favourite backgrounds - especially as a surfer 😁
And that dock on the left won't last long 😆
NICE wallpaper! And theme, too! What application/"extension" did you use to get the other theme for macOS?
Looks great! How did you get an opaque menu bar while still having a translucent dock? Are you on an Intel or Apple Silicon Mac?
Using Lickable Menu Bar to add a Gradient like in Leopard-Mavericks, and rotating through some of my favorite classic OS X Wallpapers when I wake my Mac up.
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Lickable Menu Bar + Boring Old Menu Bar.
If you do not feel like paying for BOMB, take the desktop background of your choice and add white strip on top of it that is of the same height as your menu bar.
Also if you like bigger text of menu bar items, go Accessibility -> Display -> Menu bar size - set to “Large” (this does not increase the menu bar’s height, just makes text bigger)
Indeed, what I love about it is how it doesn’t make anything on desktop hard to see or read, yet it’s a photo, not an abstract image.
As for the dock, I must tell you, it already broke the record for time spent on the left side. 😁
I thought this was - well just was. Transparency is achieved with just Aqua.car file and some trickery with CoreAnimationArchives and colors
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Almost Crystal Clear! One of my all time favourite themes.
I am just wondering, do you use with dock hidden or showing (this size)?
Also awesome wallpaper, do you have the source?
Any benefits so far compared to Bigsur? my only gripe is with onedrive changed mechanics was almost unusable.
Nothing fancy, my brand new M2 Pro Mac mini with my brand old 5K2K-monitor
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No particular benefits, Monterey was mostly iterative update. I like that there is now "Show button shapes" option in Accessibility (what a sad state of matter, from slightly annoyed I am becoming slowly agitated that I even have to do such things, and what's even more depressing deterioration of the user interface continues, it keeps getting worse and worse).
*I guess Quick Note deserves a mention, but it could have been so much better. Good idea, poor execution.
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Thanks! I always have the dock showing unless I’m full screen for some reason. Send me a DM I’ll send it over later.
On my main monitor - quite an interesting, but also somewhat minimalistic wallpaper. Can't remember where I found it though—it's been in my collection for awhile now. On my second monitor, I think I found that one on Backiee.
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I've been using GNOME for about a week so far just so I could have a more level and experienced point of view when I talk about it, after having not really used it much at all since the GNOME 3.0 transition. I can't say I love it, but in this current state it could be worse, for sure. That's not to say I don't have criticisms or do like how it depends on systemd or how the main Wayland compositor is basically modelled after it, but I can at least use it and be happy enough with it.
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