Dellboz is my laptop, a Dell Inspiron 3700 that I bought a couple of years ago. It's a Celeron 433, 10GB disk drive, and 128MB of RAM. Dellboz runs Mandrake Linux 8.0; I used to run Red Hat 6.1, but at the suggestion of my friend Gordon, I tried Mandrake, which impressed me greatly and has quickly become my favorite linux.

I still get by without KDE or Gnome; I run Window Maker as my window manager, and that still suits me just fine. I also run Window Maker on belboz, my desktop/server machine at home, and cragganmore, my Sun Ultra/10 at work. Window Maker has a simple, elegant look, well-designed features, and a wealth of user-tweakable options. I've been using it for several years and like it better than any other window manager I've tried.

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These are the dockapps and application links that you see arrayed along the right side of the desktop:

	WMDock The dock is what all the icons attach to - if I move it, all the docked apps and links will move with it.
	PClock A dockapp; I like to have an old-fashioned analog clock somewhere on my defsktop. I've been doing this since the days of xclock way back in the days of X11R2 in the eighties.
	wmCalClock This dockapp shows me the day and digital time. It's also got a programmable "hidden" feature: I can double-click on the date to launch an xterm - very handy.
	wmapm This dockapp displays my current battery level; I can click on the "Z" to put delboz asleep.
	wmmon This dockapp displays the current CPU load, I/O throughput, memory usage, and uptime. Clicking on the graph cycles through the displays; I usually keep it on CPU load.
	WMMixer This dockapp controls audio-output volume levels, and can control the levels indpendently on different devices, like the digital-audio-out, CD-out, MIDI-out, and overall volume.
	WMCDPlay A dockapp to play CDs with.
	wmMatrix This dockapp displays green falling characters like in that awesome move The Matrix. But it's more than just a bit of animated eye-candy; I can double-click on it to activate my screensaver and lock the screen.
	WPrefs This is a link to a program - if I double-click this icon, the WindowMaker preferences program will start up. (It's running, in the upper left corner of the screenshot, behind the Gimp startup dialog.)
	Mozilla Another program link - double-clicking will start Mozilla.
	XEmacs A program link to start XEmacs
	WMClip The clip manages the Window Maker workspaces - a great concept just like KDE and Gnome have. Clicking on the arrows in the clip's corners moves between workspaces. I can also jump to workspaces by typing Alt-1, Alt-2, etc.

In the lower right of my desktop are the icons for running applications. Every application has an icon to represent the whole app, and usually an additional icon for each open window; the icons with the little titlebars are the icons for the open windows.

I've got two applications running: the Window Maker preferences program and I've just started up the Gimp, which is displaying its startup dialog. This dialog shows the startup progress as the Gimp finds and starts each plug-in, much like Photoshop does. I think the Gimp's got the coolest-looking startup box of any unix program ever. It's just plain pretty.

The background is an image called "Something For Kristen 5" that's part of a group of background images called "Propaganda". The Propaganda images are all rather abstract, sometimes organic, textures that have become my top preference for background images. I use different backgrounds on belboz, dellboz, froboz, and cragganmore. I don't think the dude that made Propaganda is still producing new images, but the old ones can probably be found at themes.org - and I think there were a couple hundred or so at last count.