i know that on Windows, you can change the colours of the menu, taskbar, background pic, windows frame etc.. i would like to hear what you have done to personalize your computers look.
Sometimes at work, if you were dealing with anything sensitive (company secrets or personnel matters, say) you needed to lock the computer off at times, so a pretty picture or screen-saver brightened up the office a little. At home you aren't really looking at anything other than the particular application you are using.
My own desk-top background image at work for a while, was a landscape photo I'd taken.
Talking of screen-savers, a few days ago I encountered a video that would have good for this. I wanted to learn to make an eye-splice in ordinary rope, and the web-site manual I found happens to present a series of step-by-step images using a rope with its strands coloured to help illustrate the instructions. There are no fingers and hands in the pictures; just rope on a neutral background. If you let it run as a video the rope elegantly splices itself! It's slightly startling at first, then rather soothing to watch just as an image - given a random location-step function, it would have been quite neat as a screen-saver.