You never know exactly what to expect before a rock is sliced open it’s a surprise every time. On the juxtaposition of rugged exteriors and glittering interiors of the stones, Brenda says: After all, who produces better design than nature herself? Gemstones have been highly prized since ancient times and that’s not changing in modern times.

She sources her minerals from around the world (some of them are more than 100 years old!) and she lets their interiors dictate the design of her pieces by looking at their veining, marbling and silhouettes. American designer Brenda Houston gives gemstones, fossils and minerals the attention they deserve in her line of contemporary tables, lighting and decorative accessories. If you’re running a 64-bit version of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or 18.This month’s Designer Desktop is a gem…literally. Use the wallpaper creator you can, duh, create your own image or video backgrounds, set the position of the clock, and choose to enable or disable parallax effects.

Komorebi 2 lets you see desktop icons while a live wallpaper is active, so you won’t lose any functionality while using it.Īlongside a stack of wallpaper customization options, including the ability to show date and time, or set a web page as a wallpaper, the app also features an in-app wallpaper creator. Komorebi 2 claims to be “faster, smoother, and better” than before. There are new features, a new codebase and (naturally) new wallpapers.īecause it supports video wallpapers you can recreate the terrifying zombie wallpaper effect you see in the gif that opens this post! Not that most of us see them for much of the time anyway! We’ve written about this nifty open source wallpaper app before, praising the app for its slick pseudo-parallax effects and for trying to something to do something innovative - if resource intensive - with the humble desktop background. Using Komorebi you can set your desktop background to:

Komorebi is an open source animated wallpaper manager for Linux desktop. If you want to use animated wallpaper on the Ubuntu desktop, you can.

September 2017 desktop wallpaper