this is actually the best, uncluttered, background

i work on a black terminal, without window borders, on a black background without icons, and people pass by my desk and are all "whoa, what kind of super-fancy interface is that?"... it gets me every time

Screenshot?

when I do ^L, only black pixels except for the shell prompt

haha I was interested in seeing how I could set it up myself - any hints before I start researching a similar setup?

you can configure gnome easily to look that way (with a hidden panel and no icons, and a bit of tweking of your compoositor)

or you just write a tiny ~/.xinitrc that calls evilwm or cwm

    xsetroot -solid black
    evilwm &
    exec xterm

thanks!