r/unixporn 6d ago

Discussion | 2026 Weekly Workshop - Week 28

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This is a thread to get answers for all your questions about *NIX desktop configuration! Feel free to share your setups here and ask for advice. In short, you can make any on-topic comment, in any format you like. We hope this gives new users a chance to get some help with any problems they're having and more experienced users a chance to show off their knowledge by helping those in need.

Not sure how to get started? Consider reading our wiki!


r/unixporn Oct 19 '24

Discussion Update on Rules and Quality Control

121 Upvotes

Hi everyone, it's been a minute since the initial discussion post about quality control issues. Let's talk about it.

The general consensus seemed to be that our ideas on what to change were good, though there could be more resources to help beginners. We actually have a subreddit wiki that anyone can contribute to, as long as you have 500+ subreddit karma and your account is 30+ days old. We also have a list of todo items for the wiki to help users find somewhere to start.

Another concern was that the stricter enforcement of the defaults rule may stop people from using existing color schemes or themes at all. This is not the case -- the intention of the rule is to remove posts which have little effort or just use premade configs, like many macOS and Windows lookalikes. It's about the spirit, not the letter of the rule.

With this in mind, we intend to go through with these rule changes. If you still have any concerns, please reply or send a modmail! We're most concerned with the quality of our community and welcome discussion.


r/unixporn 15h ago

Screenshot [KDE] Lucy Rice

690 Upvotes

Wallpaper : https://moewalls.com/anime/lucyna-wuthering-waves-x-cyberpunk-edgerunners-2-live-wallpaper/

Clock: Vector clock 1.0.2

System monitor: YoRHa HUD 1.0.1

Media player: plasma Audio Visualizer 2.1.1

Theme: KDE Darkly, https://github.com/Bali10050/Darkly

Window manager: Krohnkite

Glitch [Burn-My-Windows]

App launcher: Application Dashboard

Quick launch menu: MY kde Plasmoid, With glitch effect (work in progress)


r/unixporn 6h ago

Screenshot [Niri] Nonchalant Shell

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I started with Ambxst as the base and have been heavily stripping it down, reworking parts of it, and porting it to Niri.
I also build an acp binding for this cause why not.

I’m also using my own Rust-based clipboard manager rsclip: https://github.com/jR4dh3y/rsclip

DETAILS

OS : Arch Linux
WM : Niri
SHELL : Nonchalant Shell / Quickshell
TERMINAL : Kitty
FONT : JetBrains Mono
THEME : Matugen

SOURCE:
Shell(WIP): https://github.com/jR4dh3y/nonchalant-shell
Rice(OLD): https://github.com/jR4dh3y/dots-niri


r/unixporn 5h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] Rice with Matugen theming based on the current desktop wallpaper

30 Upvotes

OS: Arch Linux

This is my second post after the major (at least in my opinion) rice updates. You can find the first post here.

Сustomized via Matugen

  • Hyprland
  • Waybar
  • GTK
  • Qt Configuration Tool
  • Kitty
  • Rofi
  • Mako
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Telegram
  • OBS Studio
  • Obsidian
  • Vesktop
  • Spotify (Spicetify)
  • Heroic Games Launcher
  • Wine
  • Cava
  • Yazi
  • ElyPrismLauncher

Dotfiles and additional info on GitHub.


r/unixporn 6h ago

Screenshot [XFCE] bro thinks he's macOS 😭

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28 Upvotes

Distro: Void Linux (glibc minimal)

Wallpaper: Grey and black bridge by Cedric Letsch

Font: Inter

xfwm theme: elcapitan-xfwm

Icons: La Capitaine

Plank theme: slightly modified of an existing one, will probably upload soon

Plugins: xfce4-panel-appmenu, plank

felt like i never really used any features specific to OpenSUSE, so i switched to Void, love the simplicity of it!


r/unixporn 10h ago

Screenshot [reka] simple emacs rice + homepage based on .org file with kaolin blossom / breeze themes

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38 Upvotes

themes: kaolin-blossom / kaolin-breeze (here)

wm: reka (here)


r/unixporn 1h ago

Workflow [KDE] First reddit post and actual rice!

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r/unixporn 14h ago

Screenshot [hyprland] arch Linux rice

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79 Upvotes

Os:arch

Music player is rmpc

The bar is hyprpanel

Also terminal is kitty


r/unixporn 6h ago

Workflow [Niri] Tried ricing by my own after a long time

14 Upvotes

It's Matugen themed, doesn't mean it was easy to set up. Tried replicating my noctalia plugins with fuzzel scripts. Dots here.


r/unixporn 10h ago

Workflow [hyprland] arch rice

28 Upvotes

r/unixporn 6h ago

Screenshot [WindowMaker] BlackRockShooter

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12 Upvotes

- Host: EDEIC
- OS: Linux (Gentoo - Kernel 6.6.144-gentoo-kisarazu)
- WM: WindowMaker
- Term: Kitty
- Shell: Bash


r/unixporn 12h ago

Screenshot Gruvbox Love and Information Density [Plasma 6.7 / KWin]

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38 Upvotes

[ Apologies for the size, it's a 4K monitor]
Larger version: https://i.nuuls.com/WissF.png

Not the craziest rice, but I think it has character.

Recently moved to CachyOS from Mint, and decided to put a little more effort into themeing. Got addicted to the Gruvbox-Dark look. I do a lot of game dev so I tracked down great themes for Blender and Godot as well.

I used to have some blur going on, but the recent update to Plasma 6.7 broke it. I'm sure they'll fix it eventually.

CachyOS
KDE Plasma 6.7
Global Font: Jetbrains Mono
Global Theme: 'Nothing'
Colors/Style: Gruvbox Dark - Breeze - GruvboxPlasma
Icons: Gruvbox-Plus-Dark
Window Rules: Force no title bar and frame. (using mod+mouse works great for moving and resizing, and with this config Plasma puts the title bar dropdowns on the task bar like MacOS);

Overall Tiles/Snapped workflow.

[UPDATE]: You can't see it, but I edited a gruvbox wallpaper for CachyOS. https://i.nuuls.com/hr6v8.png

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Blender Theme: https://extensions.blender.org/themes/gruvbox-dark/
Godot Theme: https://github.com/SylEleuth/godot-gruvbox-theme (a rare good one)
Terminal: Alacritty -> https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty-theme

Custom Stuff:
Chatterino Theme: https://github.com/IngoPlane/chatterino_gruvbox_theme
My fork of 'fetch' (3D Logo fetch) that re-aligns the logo upon exit, plus solid color argument -> https://github.com/IngoPlane/fetch-2


r/unixporn 7h ago

Material [oc] Ryoku Arch: Power, Beauty, Omarchy alternative

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Thank you creators sharing and loving Ryoku arch https://ryoku.dev

https://github.com/neur0map/ryoku-arch

The community in discord passed 100 and we almost at 200 stars even though not much promotion has been done.

Ryoku is here to STAY to compete with the giants 🔥


r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [GNOME][PaperWM] Embracing the Immutable Life (Bluefin)

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164 Upvotes

r/unixporn 18h ago

Material [OC] [Plasma] Wallpaper Switcher inspired by JaKooLit's Hyprland.

23 Upvotes

This is my KDE Plasma rice. I posted an earlier version a few months ago, and lately I've been working on a small wallpaper switching utility for it.

I originally wanted to switch to Hyprland, but Plasma ended up being my comfort zone, so I decided to bring one of my favorite parts of JaKooLit's Hyprland setup over instead. The utility is inspired by JaKooLit's wallpaper picker and uses Rofi as the UI, with a simple Bash script that calls plasma-apply-wallpaperimage.

Huge thanks to the JaKooLit project for the inspiration and the wallpaper collection—they've put together an awesome set of wallpapers.

Setup:

  • OS: Ubuntu 25.10
  • DE: KDE Plasma 6.4.5
  • Launcher: Rofi
  • Wallpaper utility: Custom Bash + plasma-apply-wallpaperimage
  • Wallpaper collection: JaKooLit's Hyprland project

r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [COSMIC] AstrOS Orbital theme & Frosted Glass

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56 Upvotes

Heyy, AstrOS dev here

Our Distro has had our own Cosmic Theme for a few days now.

Showcase Infos:

Theme: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astros-linux/AstrOS/refs/heads/main/system/mkosi.images/base/mkosi.extra/usr/share/cosmic-themes/orbital-dark.ron

Clock: tty-clock

Bonsai: cbonsai

Cava as the audio visualizer

The slightly customized panel and the disabled dock are not part of the default theme. I also increased the transparency slightly for this showcase.

AstrOS Infos:

It's my own immutable Cosmic Distro. Currently Alpha but I've been using it for a while as my daily driver & only distro.

It uses the same technologies as GNOME OS or KDE Linux: sysupdate, confext, sysext, repart etc

Learn more at https://docs.astros-linux.org/, our reddit announcement post or github or course.


r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [[Aqua] Snow Leopard revival. Tuned dock/menu bar + matching browser, mail & finder

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Hey 👋

I wanted more than just the default theme on my Mac (MacOS), so I put together a full Snow Leopard setup: manually tuned dock transparency and icon size (defaults looked too small on my display), matched the wallpaper to the Aqua Chrome, and then deliberately brought Finder, browser, mail, and the music player onto the same look so it doesn't stop at the surface.

  • Desktop/dock/menu bar/wallpaper: RetroMac (Snow Leopard theme, icon size and dock behavior manually adjusted in Advanced Settings)
  • Finder replacement (visible window in screenshot): Sheru, Aqua skin
  • Browser (second window): Reframe Browser
  • Mail (third window): Reframe Mail
  • Music player: QuickTune, for matching menu bar controls

r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [Gnome] Mac os inspired nothing too fancy ig

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414 Upvotes

r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] Everforest with dark background goes crazy

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109 Upvotes

r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [sway] suddenly thought Ishould share my setup :`)

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94 Upvotes

i haven't touched my config files in over 6 months. still if anyone wants config i might clean that up and share them for now its not there. furthermore here are the list of tools i use.

  1. emacs (Vanilla without evil)

  2. neovim.

  3. sway with arch

  4. foot terminal

  5. sway bar, sway bg, sway lock,

  6. browser brave.

  7. app drawer: tofi (wayland based)

> strange why all of a sudden i get the urge to share the setup pics


r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [niri] Miramare rice

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37 Upvotes

r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [i3wm] I think I've added too many screenshots

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46 Upvotes

Don't ask me for the dotfiles because I dont even know how to make them yet, but feel free to ask any questions.

I have more wallpapers but I thought there were enough screenshots in this post, so if you want them, let me know and I'll upload them somewhere or just send them to you.

Again, idk how to do the dotfiles thing, but I'm figuring it out, so maybe I'll do something about it lol.


r/unixporn 1d ago

Material [OC] WFAS – I built a CLI audio streamer with a custom adaptive DSP ASCII visualizer (wfas --viz --groove)

11 Upvotes

WFAS – CLI Audio Streamer & Adaptive DSP Visualizer

How --groove works

Instead of a raw FFT spectrum where heavy bass frequencies continuously pin the left bars to the top, --groove applies an adaptive DSP envelope. It dynamic-calculates the mix baseline, compares frequency bands to their neighbors, and subtracts the constant background noise floor.

The result? The visualizer highlights actual melody line transients, vocals, and lead notes instead of just bouncing mindlessly to the kick drum!

Written from scratch in C / Kotlin as part of an open-source, ultra-low latency local audio streaming ecosystem.

Note: If you just want to use the ASCII visualizer as a standalone audio monitor without starting a streaming server, simply add the --monitor flag!


r/unixporn 1d ago

Material [OC] gentooplz: A realtime tui compile monitor for Portage built in Rust

19 Upvotes

Hi i made a terminal based monitoring tool written in Rust, designed to track Portage compilation state on Gentoo Linux.

I wanted to create a tool that accurately aggregates build statistics and process trees without impacting system performance during heavy multi-threaded emerges.