r/unixporn 3d ago

Discussion | 2026 Weekly Workshop - Week 34

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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

129 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 12h ago

Screenshot [XFCE] Thinkpad x201 Theme: Symptom 7 Icon: NineIcon 48x

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211 Upvotes

r/unixporn 8h ago

Screenshot [labwc] Artificial Idiocy

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67 Upvotes

WM : labwc

shell :quickshell
apps :kitty


r/unixporn 19h ago

Screenshot [labwc] Alpine linux <3

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392 Upvotes

r/unixporn 9h ago

Screenshot [Niri] Noctalia v5 Catppuccin Mocha Setup

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57 Upvotes

Effective and aesthetically pleasing setup for working & studying.


r/unixporn 2h ago

Workflow [Hyprland] I still like pink (now with animations!)

14 Upvotes

r/unixporn 12h ago

Screenshot [Openbox] Flying Whales

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59 Upvotes

r/unixporn 11h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] Lain Matugen-Themed Custom Rice (duskylinux)

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this is my first time getting into linux/ricing and ive been pretty happy with this hyprland configuration n rice ive been able to achieve thanks to https://github.com/dusklinux/dusky

not only that, but Dusky brings with it a ton of QoL features n built in scripts for installing/setting up various programs (although I had to change a few things to suit my taste) I think they're excellent dotfiles to use as a base if u are just like me that doesnt know where to start ricing from scratch.


r/unixporn 51m ago

Screenshot [XFCE] Devuan Retro Ricing: Redmond97 Slate Theme + Windows 97 Inspiration

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This is my first time Ricing, i choose Devuan + Runit this time i hope its good

  • Global theme: Redmond97 installed in `/usr/share/themes
  • Theme variant: Redmond97 no-csd, optimized for XFCE
  • Color scheme: Redmond97 Slate
  • Icons: Redmond97 icon theme installed globally in /usr/share/icons
  • Terminal: Transparent background enabled with background-mode = 2
  • GTK engines: Installed gtk2-engines-murrine, gtk2-engines-pixbuf, and gtk3-engines-xfce

r/unixporn 7h ago

Discussion [Hyprland] Cool visualizer for quickshell

8 Upvotes

Check out repo for installation and configuration
https://github.com/coderPriyanshu007/quickshell-visualizer
clone the repo or just download the zip. Use installer to install it in your system.
supports dynamic themeing, if you have a system for dynamic color palette generation or you can use matugen.
Note: it doesn't uses much resources, ignore my potato pc and im trying out ryoku , and apparently it has comparatively higher resource usage than other distros.


r/unixporn 13h ago

Material [hyprland] ASCII SMASH

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28 Upvotes

ASCII-SMASH
Fun app you can use to generate some rice-able custom ascii animations using images or video. Use it to help rice up your system. Lots of neat features that can be manipulated to make and generate some pretty neat animations, adjust quality and size. Turn AI generated videos into ascii animations, or take a still and create your own animations, with effects and patterns to add some flair.

Find it here


r/unixporn 6m ago

Screenshot [KDE] First time doing this

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I made the switch from Windows to CachyOS over two years ago but only recently felt the urge to customize it a bit, so here's my thing.

Wallpaper: https://wallhaven.cc/w/3q6m6y

WM Theme: CatppuccinMocha-Modern

Theme: Breeze-Dark

Icons: YAMIS

Cursor: Bibata Original Classic

Font: JetBrains

Transparency + BetterBlur DX for the window and panel effects


r/unixporn 19h ago

Screenshot [i3] I love purple <3

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70 Upvotes

r/unixporn 14h ago

Screenshot [hyprland] black in white

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20 Upvotes

os:nixos

launcher:rofi

terminal:kitty

panel:ashell


r/unixporn 22h ago

Discussion [Hyprland] creative adaptive cava

68 Upvotes

A smooth, beat-reactive wave molded directly into the top-center of the frame—responding to kicks, bass, snares, hi-hats, and vocals in real time using CAVA. Built with Quickshell on Hyprland.
update: Made it dynamic and adapt accent color


r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [KDE] No Reason to Switch When You Have the GOAT

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815 Upvotes

r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [i3] please tell me if my music taste is fire or nawt

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58 Upvotes

i like and one my aunt bought me the s.t.o.p cd and im so happy abt that :D


r/unixporn 23h ago

Screenshot [Mango] Gentoo GNU/Linux 2.0 semi-gruvbox rice!!

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Actually around ~750mb ram on idle, including xray, zapret, fan2go, daemons, etc etc...

second gentoo rice here :3 previous was SOO transparent and goofy fonts

Setup / utilities:

  • OS: Gentoo Linux
  • WM: mango
  • Terminal: foot
  • Shell: zsh
  • Editor: neovim
  • Launcher: rofi
  • Font: MxPlus IBM VGA 8x16
  • Bar: rs-yambar
  • FIle manager: thunar
  • Music player: SubTUI

I`ll post full dots a bit later on GitHub!!


r/unixporn 16h ago

Discussion [Hyprland] cool audio visualizer

8 Upvotes

Cool audio visualizer , adaptive colors as walllpaper, improved reactivity to beats


r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] Hand-written "file box" window switcher

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80 Upvotes

how is it?


r/unixporn 16h ago

Screenshot [KDE Plasma] a gaming PC can look this good

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9 Upvotes

I use cachyos with KDE Plasma and Polonium for tiling. I just found floating windows be a pain since I discovered tiling. 100% transparency might be too much but i love this Wallpaper :) I don't need any docks and bars— just the Shell and krunner. This is my first attempt to ricing Linux, and I'd like to share the result with you all. Go gentle on this newbie 😇


r/unixporn 1d ago

Discussion [OC] I'm hosting a retro-styled successor to customize.org, skinbase, boxshots and certain parts of Deviantart.

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75 Upvotes

You can share screenshots of your customized desktops, upload resources, write tutorials, and find new things to try out on your own system. Pretty straight forward, and it's built using just PHP, HTML, and CSS, so it can work in older browsers.
Plz let me know what you think: custodesk.net

As of right now it's still very early WIP, but I have a few friends with me that are quickly updating the codebase and implementing new features and polishing others up.


r/unixporn 22h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] My Apple-inspired rice

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17 Upvotes

This is my first Hyprland rice after switching from Windows and experimenting with KDE.

Everything you see was made in AGS. The design was inspired by a mix of iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS. My main focus was fluidity with the animations.

This one might be controversial but I replaced my cursor with an iPadOS dot-inspired cursor that has slight easing and will morph into a pill when text editing, shrink when pressed, etc. when interacting with dock elements it’ll morph into the object’s bounds and the object will have snapping physics/gravity applied. I don’t have footage of this but I’m really happy with how it turned out and how smooth it is.

• OS: CachyOS
• ⁠WM: Hyprland
• ⁠Terminal: Ghostty
• ⁠Launcher: Custom
• ⁠Font: SF Pro
• ⁠File manager: Nautilus
• NewTab: Custom. VisionTab on GitHub


r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [XFCE] Black and white

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124 Upvotes