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in reply to My favorite kind of desktop background is:

Many years ago, I used to deal with the "never see it because too many windows are open" problem by using (pseudo-)transparency on my terminal windows, so that I'd be able to see my desktop background "through" them. Great idea in theory, but, in practice, it just added background noise that made the text in the terms hard to read. So I stopped doing that and now I only see my desktop background for a brief moment after rebooting.