r/unixporn • • 4d ago

Discussion | 2026 Weekly Workshop - Week 41

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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

135 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 • • 3h ago

Screenshot [KDE Plasma] Simple evergreen setup. Any tips?

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91 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 10h ago

Screenshot [KDE] Fedora 45 CDE theme

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64 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 22m ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] HYPER•AERO, a Y2K and 2000s tech inspired rice is now public!

• Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 7h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] Lean, no-frills gruvbox setup

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28 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 13h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] vdx - my own shell in Quickshell

72 Upvotes

- WM: Hyprland (Lua config)

- Shell: my own, in Quickshell — bar or a floating island, popups open inside it

- Apps: Files, Music (Yandex / local / radio), Capture, Task Manager, Cleaner, Backups, Clipboard, launcher, Overview — all part of the shell

- Settings: one app (Shell Manager) with search, every option applies live

- Themes: 13 (Gruvbox, Kanagawa, Tokyo Night, Catppuccin, Nord…), each with a light twin; one switch recolours Hyprland, the shell, kitty, Neovim, mako

- Terminal: kitty + zsh + Starship · Editor: Neovim · Font: JetBrains Mono

- Installer: a wizard that detects the hardware and links everything

Dotfiles: https://github.com/diominvd/vdx

Wallpapers wanted! Each theme has only one or two, the light twins none. PRs welcome for any theme — see wallpapers/README.md.

Ideas, feature requests, bugs — open an issue, I read them all and I'm happy to build what people actually want: https://github.com/diominvd/vdx/issues


r/unixporn • • 11h ago

Workflow [Niri] My Niri Rice With Cartoon Wall Combination.

48 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 7h ago

Screenshot [XFCE] DesktopSuite: Lightweight live wallpaper & audio-reactive canvas running on ~200MB RAM (GTK3 / Cairo)

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r/unixporn • • 12h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] I'm really obsessed with TUI's

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My daily setup of NixOS and hyprland as a solo developer.
OS: NixOS 26.05(Yarara)
WM: Hyprland
Shell: retard
Terminal: Kitty
File Manager: Yazi
Bar: custom AGS shell
Editor: fracture
Music player: PULSE
Browser: Qutebrowser


r/unixporn • • 4h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] My new Dotfiles. made all my widgets in quickshell, everything follows pywal

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Dotfiles in Comments


r/unixporn • • 14h ago

Material [Hyprland] ChillPill-Shell now with (optional) lockscreen, spotlight and many new features with config options

59 Upvotes

Shell: ChillPill-Shell
For: Arch and NixOS with Hyprland (Doesn't requires dGPU)
Repository URL: https://github.com/LUCKYS1NGHH/ChillPill-Shell

Song: Bunny Bunny Bunny


r/unixporn • • 3h ago

Workflow [Hyprland] My wallpaper selector using Quickshell

7 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 12h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] Made my own dock with Quickshell

34 Upvotes

Hey everyone! I built my own dock for Hyprland using Quickshell. It hides on the left edge and slides out when you hover it. Its colors follow my wallpaper through pywal, so the whole setup changes together when I switch wallpapers.

WM: Hyprland · Dock/Bar: Quickshell · Colors: pywal

Dotfiles coming soon!


r/unixporn • • 7h ago

Workflow [KDE] Cyberpunk style rice

13 Upvotes

Not quite finished cause i still have some keybinds to adjust and some other minor tweaks but its close to done. (i think)


r/unixporn • • 10h ago

Material [OC] TSWM. A window manager aiming to to replicate the oldschool Syllable desktop experience, by me.

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TSWM is an X11 window manager made by me (texivi) TSWM stands for
T-Texivi's S-Syllable W-window M-manager

WM: TSWM

Walllpapers: https://github.com/texivi/tswm/tree/main/data/wallpapers

Icons: Syllable 0.6.6 icons

Repo: https://github.com/texivi/tswm


r/unixporn • • 12h ago

Screenshot [niri] vitrum shell showcase

23 Upvotes

Void Linux + niri, with the Niri-glass patches for glass that actually refracts what's behind it.

Everything you see is my own shell, written in Quickshell:

On screen

A bar made of separate islands that grow when something happens (recording, a game, updates), a dock, and a control centre for network, Bluetooth, VPN, sound and the player. Notifications and the lock screen are on the same glass.

Under a key

Mod+Space opens search for apps, files, maths, clipboard and emoji. Mod+/ shows every shortcut. Screenshots, recording, a colour picker, a window switcher and an overview are built in, no extra tools.

On the desktop

Clocks, weather, calendar, system graphs, notes and a to-do list, 26 widgets in all. You drag and resize them in an edit mode on the desktop itself, and you can write your own in QML or as a shell script.

Wallpapers are from wallhaven

Colours

One palette, taken from the wallpaper, for the shell, kitty, GTK, Qt, tmux and Neovim. It goes light or dark with the sun.

The rest

kitty, fish and Starship · Inter and JetBrains Mono · Papirus · Bibata

Getting it

An installer that asks once what you want and shows each step, with retry and skip if something breaks. It runs on Arch, Gentoo, Fedora and Void.

Code and dotfiles: https://github.com/LanisOff/vitrum-shell

If something breaks or you're missing something, open an issue. I read them all.


r/unixporn • • 1h ago

Screenshot [KDE Plasma] who says Frutiger Aero is dead

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r/unixporn • • 1h ago

Discussion | Does anyone know of a wm with hlwm style manual screen splits that allow for tabbed floating windows?

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I don't know if this is the right place to post this but if anyone knows about niche wms, it's gotta be this place.

For those who don't know, hlwm splits the screen and then runs a tiling algorithm for the windows inside that split. I'd like to find a window manager that can do that but also keep the windows grouped while floating, allowing for tabbed floating windows.


r/unixporn • • 9h ago

Screenshot my first rice - shoreline [Hyprland]

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wallpaper is a live glsl shader

Details

- OS: Arch

- WM: Hyprland 0.56 (Lua config)

- Bar: Waybar

- Launcher: Rofi

- Notifications: mako

- Terminal: Ghostty with cursor-trail + bloom shaders

- Shell: zsh (autosuggestions, syntax highlighting)

- Font: JetBrains Mono Nerd Font

- Editor: Neovim (LazyVim)

- Files: yazi, with no highlight bar, just a white dot after the hovered file

- Wallpaper: shoreline.frag on shaderbg

- Matrix: unimatrix

Colours come from a small script: one palette file (bg / fg / accent) whichgets written out to Ghostty, Hyprland, Waybar, Rofi and Neovim

Palette: #000000 / #f2faff / #3fb6ff


r/unixporn • • 6h ago

Screenshot [OmniWM] Rose Pine and DMS-clone on Mac

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Worked a bit more on my dms port for mac os, decided to update my rice to better show a different theme.
DISCLOSURE: The swift port of dankmaterialshell created with LLM-assistance. It still has many bugs and is nowhere near ready. But if you want to check it out, it now has a git repo https://github.com/JonasNowak/DankMacShell


r/unixporn • • 11h ago

Screenshot [niri] Ephemeral root + dendritic NixOS rice

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12 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 18h ago

Screenshot [blackbox] 90s corporate system

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48 Upvotes

A slightly modified version of my Virtualcorp blackbox style, which happened by chance when I was testing the appearance. I made it smaller and tried to get rid of the window buttons. So I settled for a flat button look.

Os: Devuan 1.0

Desktop: none

Window manager: blackbox 0.70

GTK theme: Raleigh

Icons: Tango

Wallpaper: none [just a solid colour]


r/unixporn • • 10h ago

Material [KDE] Fastfetch with current song album art and title

9 Upvotes

I have it working on my server and windows too (i don't want to be taken out back and shot so i wont show the windows one)


r/unixporn • • 18h ago

Screenshot [Sway] Minimalistic Quickshell

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