What custom wallpapers are you using?

[Halfmad]

If any?

Just curious, I'm looking at making a simple custom one for my school. Probably one for staff, one for pupils and another one for the admin group.

Suggestions?

[Geoff]

Just plain blue here.

[_Bat_]

Yeah, we just use blue with school badge and details of account in top right hand corner using bginfo.

[Domino]

Yeah, apart from having different colours for staff and pupils thats all we have

[Geoff]

You might want to use BGInfo though.

[Halfmad]

I looked at BGinfo, not entirely sure it's useful though. All of the information is easily obtainable and I rarely need to know mac addresses etc.

It'd come in hand now and then but I don't want to add fluff

[Geoff]

I've found it's useful if you run it as a startup script and set it to modify the login desktop. That way you can simply glance at a machine and know what hardware/network config it has.

It also removes the need to label PCs with, often missing, bits of sticky labels. As the desktops are labelled with the PC name.

[daveyboy]

We use custom desktops - Staff, Students, support and Admins - all designed by our students. Great competition every so often!

We also use a custom login screen - changed every week or so, with messages, deadlines, comic strips - basically anything that we can get in a bitmap. (BTW christmas is great - seeing staff members photos photoshoppped within an inch of being well........ Its Bl**dy hysterical)

Anyways we are going to run a new comic strip for next year - competition opens Monday...........

not quite BOFH but who knows?

could be BSFH........or BTFH !

[mark]

BGInfo - useful for machine identification if you're fixing remotely - we publish the PC name as Geoff suggests.

[Halfmad]

Ah perhaps that'd be handy although with NSS I can see the labels remotely before I log in anyway. I shall have a think!

[mark]

Yeah - it's when your phoned about a PC - you can say "read the PC name from the top right corner of the screen" - helps a lot

[dave.81]

The rolling green hills of home here on all pcs.

[webman]

We used the default RM blue background, but have a custom bitmap on the login screen which changes periodically.

[TechMonkey]

We have blue for Students, Green for staff (a recurring scheme across the school) and I have Desktop Earth (http://codefromthe70s.org/desktopearth_dl.asp)

[plexer]

I use a tiles background of student for students and teacher for teachers just to distinguish if a pupil is logged on as a teacher.

Ben