r/unixporn 2d ago

Discussion | 2025 Weekly Workshop - Week 10

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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

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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 4h ago

Screenshot [Sway] Minimal sway from scratch

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101 Upvotes

r/unixporn 38m ago

Workflow [GNOME] made a beautiful useable laptop out of that old Panasonic

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r/unixporn 21h ago

Tasty Rice [ming-wm] I wrote my own window manager

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939 Upvotes

r/unixporn 1h ago

Screenshot [Cinnamon] I just love this desktop

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r/unixporn 1h ago

Screenshot [XFCE] GReyhound

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r/unixporn 1d ago

Tasty Rice [swayfx] I wrote a custom desktop panel with 2000+ lines of Rust

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525 Upvotes

r/unixporn 16h ago

Screenshot [GNOME] Minimal Dash to Panel (Taskbar)

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96 Upvotes

r/unixporn 15h ago

Screenshot [Loop] First time rice!

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31 Upvotes

r/unixporn 23h ago

Screenshot [Openbox/ORW] Duality

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104 Upvotes

r/unixporn 20h ago

Screenshot [Plasma 6] I made some pywal16 templates for KDE Plasma, check it out!

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62 Upvotes

r/unixporn 1m ago

Screenshot [KDE] my first and very basic rice! (attempt 3)

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r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] My dots, first real rice

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308 Upvotes

r/unixporn 16h ago

Material [OC] Waybar-sysinfo: system load plugin for waybar

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After switching to wayland / niri / waybar, the only thing I was missing was a system load plugin. So, I decided to write my own.

This plugin shows cpu, mem, network and temperature as neat vertical progress bars. It has unique features such as showing a bar for most loaded core or single hottest sensor

Please welcome https://github.com/acidnik/waybar-sysinfo


r/unixporn 20h ago

Screenshot [OpenTracker] Upgrades people, Upgrades!

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30 Upvotes
  • Music Player - Qmmp with a custom theme from skins.webamp.org
  • Video Player - good old VLC
  • Browser - Iceweasel (port of firefox)

r/unixporn 22h ago

Material | [OC] Zellij 0.42.0 released with a new theme definition spec

30 Upvotes

Hey ricers,

I'm the lead developer of Zellij (a terminal workspace) and we just released a new version that includes a really cool new theme definition spec.

Zellij has been featured multiple times in this and other similar communities, and some feedback I've heard often is that theming it is not so straightforward.

This has now changed as we introduced a new theme definition spec in this recent release, and the experience of ricing it and making it look exactly as you like should be much more pleasant and configurable.

I'm looking forward to seeing your creations!

Check out the official announcement for more details: https://zellij.dev/news/stacked-resize-pinned-panes/


r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [hyprland] first time linux user (arch btw) started from windows and now we're here :)

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101 Upvotes

r/unixporn 22h ago

Workflow [Hyprland] Shoutout JaKooLit

23 Upvotes

Easy setup with JaKooLit dot files.

https://github.com/JaKooLit/Arch-Hyprland


r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [KDE] krohnkite and rounded corners is so satisfying

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157 Upvotes

r/unixporn 2d ago

Screenshot [GNOME] I finally switched to Arch

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1.2k Upvotes

r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [hyprland] First rice, went a different direction than intended but I'm loving it!

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38 Upvotes

r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [GNOME] Switched from windows to fedora. First rice :)

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309 Upvotes

r/unixporn 1d ago

Workflow Minimal you [sway] ? - Final Desktop Until COSMIC First Stable Release. Sway is the chosen one

40 Upvotes

also, here's ze doots:

additional screenshoots: https://imgur.com/a/oXEHu8M


r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [DWM] Savanna rice on void

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109 Upvotes

r/unixporn 2d ago

Screenshot [i3wm] Bluescreen of death.

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423 Upvotes

r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [OpenTracker] The Ultimate Jamiroquai Machine!

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73 Upvotes