• Operating System: NixOs
• Window Manager: sway
• Terminal: kitty
• Color theme: dracula
• Status bar: eww
• Editor: emacs
• Shell: fish

It's been a while since I dusted off Haiku and gave it a shot at customization. After poking and prodding a bit, I am rather pleased with this one -

Using an image from the Unsplash package. Replicants on the desktop are the Activity Monitor meters, Weather (from the package repository) and WordClock (from the package repository). Within the Deskbar, there is WebWatch.

UI font is Montserrat, installed globally outside of packages.

I know it's not as busy as some screenshots, but I figured with the Replicants on the desktop, it's not as bare, as they are technically programs without borders.

cosmic theming is funny (oh yes compiling 517 dependencies in rust just to put colors in qt programs)

I still feel something is off... maybe i should keep the yellow for highlights instead of everything text. still cool and fitting for hoshimachi suisei. the perfect DE. match made in space.

This is just a basic build of dwm with several patches and scripts to run it with minor cosmetics (conditional icons, vanity, etc.).

• compositor: picom
• terminal: st
• browser: qutebrowser (pywalQute integration)
• fetch: turbofetch
• terminal font: Sauce Code Pro Nerd Font Mono
• wm font: Noto Sans Nerd Font
• icons: Nerd Fonts
• wallpaper: from gruvbox wallpapers collection
• statusbar: slstatus
• statusbar scripts: playerctl, volume, caps/numlock (not featured: battery, brightness)
• music player: ytfzf
• dwm patches: tabs in monocle, urgent border, alpha, autostart, bar padding, cursor warp, full gaps, full tag indicator, move stack, netclientliststacking, per tag layouts, restartsig, restore after restart, scratchpad, status2d bar padding systray, window map
• st patches: alpha, anysize, appsync, autosync, bold is not bright, clickurl, clipboard, ligatures, scrollback

Redmond97-SE is a living continuation of the now unmaintained Redmond 97.

"Redmond" style themes for GTK, Xfce, Metacity, WINE.

Includes both old-school retro variants to emulate Win9x/2000/XP, plus more modern darks for the productivity-focused desktop.

AUR packaging for Arch Linux just dropped.

• Distribution: QubesOS 4.3
• Desktop Environment: Xfce
• Theme: Redmond97-SE
• Window Manager: Xmonad
• Terminal: xterm + tmux
• Launcher: Rofi^1^
• Bar: xfce4-panel

Windows

Top-left to bottom right:

1. neovim "IDE" with integrated terminal editing dotfiles (Debian)
2. dom0 admin terminal (Fedora)
3. Qubes Manager looking at some templates (Fedora)
4. Thunar File manager about to move a file between qubes (Whonix)
5. Konform Browser browsing codeberg (Arch Linux)

Each app and window can belong to a separate qube (Xen VM), visually discriminated by differing color schemes.

Thanks to Ben Grandes qusal which was very helpful as base for setting things up.

This is a setup optimized for productivity and efficiency, which is reflected in the lack of eye-candy and gratuitous margins.

^1^: Not pictured - I figured the screenshot was busy enough. If y'all want to see more LMK.

Rices in thumbnail same as the first slide, usernames of the authors on top of each image.

Noctalia Shell: https://github.com/noctalia-dev/nocta...

Chapters:

0:00 - 0:37 Intro 0:38 - 1:38 What ricing means 1:39 - 3:39 - Dotfiles 3:40 - 8:53 - Wayland & X11 8:54 - 9:46 - Panels / Bars 9:47 - 10:29 - Qt & GTK 10:30 - 12:25 - Terminal Emulators 12:26 - 13:14 - QuickShell 13:15 - 14:10 - Desktop Environments 14:11 - 16:26 - Paths and bla bla 16:27 - 16:40 - Pretty Apps

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/44052682

I got a new laptop with active cooling and a dGPU, so I needed to remake my dev environment.

I'm using Sway, my file manager is Yazi, I have jellyfin-tui for music, lunarvim for development and text editing.

This time, I uploaded my dotfiles to my git repo here so hopefully config will be faster in the future.

I hope this screenshot isn't too 'cluttered', I just wanted to show off the environment. Open to suggestions for further customization.

specs in the 'fetch, I reckon

This is my Niri setup which uses Dank Material Shell (https://danklinux.com/) to provide a shell for Niri WM. It automatically uses colours from the wallpaper to generate a colour scheme that is used across the shell and apps like Alacritty, this colour scheme also applies to QT and GTK applications.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/58178309

• Hardware: Lenovo ThinkPad T400
• OS: Salix 15.0
• DE: Xfce 4.16

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• Icons: Obsidian-Purple
• GTK Theme: Skeuos-Violet-Dark
• Qt Theme: Fusion/Custom
• Xfwm Theme: Moheli
• Cursors: cz-Hickson-Black
• Main Font: Sans
• Monospace Font: Terminus
• Shell: yash
• Filesystem: ReiserFS
• Init System: SysV
• Login Manager: LightDM
• LightDM Greeter: GTK

• OS: NixOS

• Compositor: Sway

• GTK Theme: TwoStepsBack (modified)

• Terminal: alacritty (sometimes also kitty)

• Terminal Font: terminus

• Editor: helix

• Music Player: quod libet

• File Manager: ranger

flake/dotfiles: https://codeberg.org/xiaolizhi/flake

Went from Hyprland to Gnome to Sway, and I think I'll stay. I really like the retro GTK theme, but it does not work well with GTK4/libadwaita. So I gotta put in some more work (or avoid those apps :). I also seem to move away from having a uniform theme for everything and just embracing the chaos

Here's some more things being productive (or pretending to be):

https://gist.github.com/reactorcoremeltdown/2ad67cc107f803e5169f3a64f0340cd8

Nord theme is nice. Nord theme is good.

Theme : Nord Dark by Nord Themes

Icons : Robot blue dark

Background: from the github/walls

Hardware

• Model: ThinkPad T400
• CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo P8400
• RAM: 5GB

Software

• OS: OpenBSD 7.8
• WM: cwm
• Shell: ksh
• Terminal: st (formerly XTerm)
• Fetch: fastfetch
• Editor: mg
• Browser: links2

Edit: I'm now enlightened and use mpv, I really like the ModernZ OSC (on-screen controls), and uses config files.

IINA is only on macOS. I looked up linux alternatives but none of them seem to have similar looking UIs, at least out of the box. I want the player UI to float on top of the video + with a blurred background, it as shown in the image; or at least the ability to theme it like so.___

I got good recommendations for desktop shells on my other posts. I looked at Noctalia and DankMaterialShell, they both are built on top of QuickShell. QuckShell is a framework for writing widgets in QML, it wasn't made until 2024. both Noctalia and DMS were made during the summer (all these dates looking at Github). They basically became popular over night.

I was looking at ricing during the spring and didn't find anything as developed or popular. I had a bunch of tabs open for AGS & Astal, but didn't find complete shells built on them. It seems like I would've had to start from scratch if I wanted an exact rice, but now I can edit pre-made QMLs instead.

This actually seems like the best time for linux ricing yet.

A dock & system tray as one bar like KDE & Windows. So far most rices I've seen have docks and system trays separate, or even don't have a dock at all. I'm wondering if there any projects that already implemented this, before I would look at doing it myself with something like AGS or ewww. I'm on Hyprland.

It's very clear that the ricing community wants to set any given colorscheme in many apps automatically, most tools do so either with wallpapers (which is inherently opinionated), or the base16 spec. The original base16 repo hasn't been updated in over 2 years, and 16 colors simply isn't enough to make rich granular themes, especially when code has many different syntax elements. We need a successor that allows for more colors on both TUIs and GUIs, more than 16 colors (like 24 or even 32), mapped more granularly.

My story:

I've spent lots of time looking at how to have good colorschemes in apps that change dynamically, to make my desktop pretty and with variety. Many tools can apply colorschemes to apps using image / wallpaper colors like Matugen and Pywal. These tools are very well made, but I realized I actually prefer rainbow colorschemes like Catppuccin. Either way I got attached Matugen, fortunately it can be used without wallpapers and supports custom keywords, there are also base16 colorscheme managers like flavours and tinty.

But Cattppuccin's base16 theme didn't look right compared to its Neovim plugin. The plugin is very well integrated and colors a lot things for you that base16 plugins may not, I would have to set certain UI colors myself if I wanted them to match. Some of the major colors (variables, keywords, brackets, etc.) were shuffled around, so out of the box Catppuccin's base16 theme doesn't even match Cattppuccin's original vision / color harmony. All of this probably applies to other colorschemes as well. So if I want to switch between different schemes while staying true to each one, I would need to set up plugins for each app rather than automatically.

I want to sort of recreate macOS 15's dynamic wallpaper, and downloaded this set of 8 wallpapers which are most / all the colors it cycles through. On Hyprland, I want to cycle through them throughout the day, but also slowly transition from one wallpaper to another for an hour or longer, crossfading / blending them.

I did some searching, and neither timewall or adi1090x/dynamic-wallpaper can do it. I looked at making my own script to blend images once every 60 secs, but I'm not sure how to quickly crossfade images. This command takes ~15 secs, I feel this should possible much faster with or without imagemagick: magick composite -blend 50 wallpaper1.png wallpaper2.png output.png.

I was annoyed by my default terminal bell sound and that got me thinking!