Flickr user (and Arch Linux forum member) Paanini loves Arch Linux, and loves customizing his desktop. We love Arch too, and when we saw this beautiful twilight wallpaper, customized with some sharp-looking Conky scripts and a dash of Todo.txt, our favorite plain-text to-do list manager, we had to highlight it.


We don't see many Linux desktops come into the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell Flickr Pool, so if you have one to share, make sure you add it and let us know how you made it. If you want the same look for your Arch desktop, here's what you'll need:

The wallpaper

Conky

The Faience-Azur

The Flat-Black-Squares

The Docky application launcher

Gina Trapani's ToDo.Txt

Lua desktop widgets for the semi-circular patterns on the desktop

update: Paanini was kind enough to share his Conky scripts and the lua widgets with us, and you can get them here. You'll need conky and conky-lua installed for them to work. Thanks Paanini!


We know there are a few things missing in this one and we don't have direct links to the widgets or Conky scripts that Paanini used , but we wanted to feature it anyway—it looks great, and is really well themed, especially for a Linux desktop. If you're not sure how to fit all of the pieces together, head over to his Flickr page to ask for a little help, or check out this Arch forum thread where he also posted the desktop. Don't forget to let him know how much you like the desktop when you ask your questions, too!

Windows users looking for a similar setup can get the same effect with Rainmeter and a little Rocketdock or ObjectDock action. Not familiar with how to use Rainmeter? We have a guide that can help. Mac users can approximate much of this with GeekTool, the Mac OS dock, and our guide to setting up GeekTool.

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Do you have a gorgeous, productive, informative desktop you'd like to see featured at Lifehacker? Post it to the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell Flickr Group, and please include a description of how you made it. You never know, it may be the next featured desktop!


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