How about a Linux gallery?

My first attempt:

yarr.png
 
@jack.mitchell - whats the calendar thing in the top right? Cheers

Its called conky. There's loads of documentation about it on the web. Here's my conkyrc file if you want to use it!

Code:
# Conky configuration
background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont "AvantGarde-Book Th":size=30
xftalpha 0.8
out_to_console no
update_interval 1
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
stippled_borders 5
border_margin 4
border_width 1
default_color grey
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color black
alignment top_right
gap_x 10
gap_y 10
no_buffers no
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale yes
use_spacer none

#Set size of conky window to allow ridiculous offsets ;)
#maximum_size 300 300

TEXT
${color black}${font "AvantGarde-Book Th":size=60}${time %H}
${offset 105}${voffset -120}${color black}${font "AvantGarde-Book Th":size=30}${time %M}
${offset 110}${voffset -20}${color black}${font "AvantGarde-Book Th":size=15}${time %a} 
${offset 5}${voffset -5}${hr 2}
${offset 5}${voffset 0}${color black}${font "AvantGarde-Book Th":size=13}${time %e %B %G}
 
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