r/unixporn • u/Thang1191_GameDev • 19h ago
r/unixporn • u/AutoModerator • 6d ago
Discussion | 2026 Weekly Workshop - Week 40
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r/unixporn • u/Stardust-kyun • Oct 19 '24
Discussion Update on Rules and Quality Control
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 • u/gitpulldeeznutz • 11h ago
Screenshot [COSMIC] Anime Noir
- OS: Pop!_OS 24.04, COSMIC
- Terminal: COSMIC Terminal, zsh + starship
- Fonts: Maple Normal UI / Maple Mono NFM
- Icons: Cosmic-Noir (recoloured Kanagawa)
- Cursor: Oxygen, recoloured orange
- Wallpaper: noir-anime, in the repo
Dotfiles: GitHub
r/unixporn • u/nate_payne • 8h ago
Screenshot [pleamar-wm/Hyprland] VITREUS updates - dashboard and screenshot utility
Dotfiles: https://github.com/natepayn3/Vitreus
r/unixporn • u/Elegant-Rock-2033 • 13h ago
Screenshot [Hyprland] Pixel Dream
Never got to post it because of low karma.
Made this rice with a few other ones when my main os was Arch Linux
The rice is based on Zelda, Pokemon and other retro pixel art/games
r/unixporn • u/HitlerTheStripper69 • 10h ago
Workflow [KDE] I built a PS3 XMB login, lock screen and power menu for Plasma 6
Built in QML: the SDDM login theme, a replacement KDE lock screen, the logout/power screens and the installer. The goal was to make the whole flow, from boot to login, lock, unlock and shut down, feel like the PS3's XMB.
🔊 Sound on! The sounds in the video are my own PS3 sound files. The repo doesn't include any Sony sounds: it comes with its own original sounds, and there's a custom-sounds folder where you can drop in your own.
Repo and install: https://github.com/luk3h/xmb-ps3-theme
Wave shader credits: int_45h ("PS3 Menu effect") and llmciv ("Ps3 XMB 3.0 Background") on Shadertoy, which my shader builds on.
- Note: Fedora 44's Plasma Login Manager can't be themed yet, so the installer can switch you to SDDM with --use-sddm (the uninstaller switches you back)
r/unixporn • u/GlaciConCheese • 10h ago
Screenshot [LXDE] A calming earthbound environment 🌍
This time using CWM as the window manager and not Openbox!
OS: Loc-OS 24 (Devuan based)
Term: ST
GTK Theme: Sunrise-Dark
Icons: Pixora
Shell: Bash
DE: LXDE
WM: CWM
r/unixporn • u/debianPhenomenom • 6h ago
Screenshot [niri] + noctalia
i love noctalia
wallpaper: https://wallhaven.cc/index.php/w/7pkm9e
music app: Sonora
r/unixporn • u/Unfair_Physics9 • 39m ago
Screenshot [XFCE] Mrs puff rice
Wallpaper by Dollenea (I forgot the source link..)
Icons: SE98
r/unixporn • u/SnooTomatoes9240 • 15h ago
Screenshot [OC] terrahour - A world clock with a live day/night map in the terminal
terrahour is a terminal-based world clock with a live day/night map, multiple time zones, and a 24-hour timeline.
Includes different themes and display modes to fit your terminal setup.
https://github.com/ACoci86/terrahour
Feedback is welcome!
r/unixporn • u/Individual-Hawk-1590 • 12h ago
Workflow [Hyprland] Anime girls on my desktop + smooth everything 🌸
YOO 👋 my Hyprland rice, with the anime girls running on GifEngine, my own
open-source desktop overlay. Free forever, works cross-platform.
🌸 GifEngine: [https://github.com/SunqdXX/GifEngine\]
🐧 Dotfiles: [https://github.com/SunqdXX\]
💬 Discord (Linux, anime, hackers, open source, we chill): https://discord.gg/eBAz5q7TpY
Smooth kitty cursor is a patch I made too. Ask me anything about the setup!
r/unixporn • u/Wait-Administrative • 21h ago
Material [KDE] Early look at my DoodlebookOS project, aiming to bring GooglebookOS UI to KDE Plasma
Work in progress, planning to bring 1:1 GOS UI. Let me know what you think!
r/unixporn • u/abeljhinestrosa • 12h ago
Screenshot [OC] One compositor, eight layouts: tile like Hyprland, scroll like niri, float like KDE. Per monitor, switched live
r/unixporn • u/OukenM24 • 17h ago
Screenshot [Hyprland] Minimo OS 1.1.0 - Entorno minimalista con isla dinámica (Novedades y correcciones)
Les presento la nueva versión Minimo OS 1.1.0. He estado trabajando en solucionar varios errores que encontre y en sumar nuevas características para hacer la experiencia mucho más fluida, funcional y personalizada.
Novedades:
- Pantalla de inicio propia: Minimo te guiña al entrar y se duerme si no hacés nada. Avisa del Bloq Mayús, deja ver la contraseña y tiene selector de sesión.
- Español e inglés, con selector en Ajustes. Las fechas y el calendario cambian según el idioma.
- Notas y calendario del mes dentro de la isla.
- Podés reordenar el menú de la isla y fijar accesos y deslizadores.
- Historial del portapapeles con imágenes (Super+V) y aviso con miniatura cuando sacás una captura.
- Vista de ventanas estilo Exposé con Super+Tab.
- Fondos animados (video o GIF) que se pausan solos.
- Minimo como mascota: comer, descansar y jugar.
- Batería y Wi‑Fi en el panel de estado, y sección de atajos con buscador.
- configuración de Ghostty y saludo en la terminal.
- Atajos predeterminados como navegador, archivos y terminal (se usara el que este como predeerminado)
Para ser completamente transparente con la comunidad: este proyecto lo desarrollo combinando mis conocimientos en programación y tecnología con asistencia de IA (vibe coding).
Aprovechar las herramientas tecnológicas actuales para agilizar el desarrollo y la corrección de código es algo totalmente normal, eficiente y estándar en el entorno actual. Utilizo este sistema a diario, le invierto recursos continuamente para reparar errores y mejorar su rendimiento. Minimo OS no es un proyecto abandonado, sino un entorno vivo que sigo puliendo día a día.
Para los comentarios malintencionados o críticas destructivas de siempre: si hay feedback técnico, sugerencias de UX/UI o reporte de errores concretos, siempre serán más que bienvenidos para seguir mejorando.
r/unixporn • u/sogataw • 18h ago
Screenshot [KDE] My Celeste based theme (again)
Reposted to match the rules I've missed.
- Wallpaper: Chapter 7 Ending Screen Animated
- KDE Theme: Sweet-KDE
- Fonts: Renogare
- SDDM Theme: Celeste-sddm (a bit of edit was needed
- GRUB Theme: CelesteGRUB
- Fastfetch Logo: Based on the real strawberry sprite
- Starship Theme: Paste-powerline recolored and modified
- Plymouth Theme: Made by myself with some assets extracted from the game (3rd screen)
r/unixporn • u/bbodi • 14h ago
Screenshot [tinywm] A niri-style scrolling window manager for macOS
Details:
- OS: macOS 26
- WM: tinywm (my own project, free and open source):
https://github.com/bbodi/tinywm
- Terminal: Ghostty
- Editor: tt
- Browser: Firefox
tinywm puts windows on a strip that scrolls past the screen edge, like niri on
Linux. New windows open next to the focused one and nothing else resizes.
Right ⌘ + arrows to move around, workspaces per display, an overview, and a
plain-text config. Happy to answer questions!
r/unixporn • u/akad-is-me • 11h ago
Workflow [gnome] Introducing loco shell (colour based launcher instead of boring categories and a customisable pinch panel)
The ideas come from POCO Launcher on Android and One-Handed Operation on Samsung. I only vibe-coded (I hate clankers as the next guy, but i had to use them) the concept, and I'm not going to publish this extension to the GNOME Extensions site (but you can!) because I'm not a real programmer.
The launcher: I've always hated that Linux, Windows, macOS and others organize apps into categories, which feels boring and cluttered. That's why I wanted to present POCO Launcher's simple idea of organizing by color instead of by context to the Linux community. + i added an emoji picker with google emoji kitchen support.
The pinch panel: This saved me a lot of frustration on my old Samsung phones. It's easy and intuitive: add the tools you want, then pinch the screen to see it. I even stopped using the volume controls on my phone because the pinch panel provided anything i need.
Why are they together instead of in separate extensions? If you pinch toward the middle of the screen, it starts the launcher instead of the pinch panel. which i believe is super neat.
The entire code is about 3.5k lines and most of the complexity comes from google emoji kitchen integration, so it's not hard to reimplement elsewhere: https://github.com/coder56765/loco-shell
r/unixporn • u/sharanoth • 13h ago
Material [OC] sleek screenshot/screen recording tool
if you find satty ugly like I do (no offense), try https://github.com/faetalize/waytator
It's basically an all encompassing screenshot tool - started out as merely an annotator, but expanded in scope recently :p
Not sure if it matters to anyone, but this app is AI-free as well (I'm not anti, but I'm working on this to practice on my C)
Standout features:
- Based on GTK4, but fast - sub 70ms launch from cold, so no need for a daemon (lots of pain to get this, GTK is annoying asf)
- Sleek design, fits in any WM, blurrrrrrr
- More than just for annotating screenshots - you can use waytator to take screenshots directly, either from the gui or from the cli (try binding to `waytator --screenshot --notify`
- Hyper configurable. Almost everything can be rebound
- OCR and text extraction (optional tessaract dependency)
- can be piped into if you prefer to use your WM's screenshot tool
- Planned, coming soon: screen/area recording, GPU accelerated video editing.
r/unixporn • u/swinkq • 19h ago
Material [OC] Now Playing Card: a minimal media card + live spectrum analyzer for the GNOME top bar
It puts a small animated indicator in the top bar and opens a compact card with cover art, a seek bar and playback controls. It works with any MPRIS player (Spotify, Firefox, mpv, Flatpaks...).
The indicator can be:
- classic equalizer bars (they can follow the system accent colour)
- a real spectrum analyzer that reacts to the audio (PipeWire)
- Waves: hills that drift by and rise with the sound


It can also go into Quick Settings instead of having its own button, show the player's icon in the panel, and react to all system sound, not only the player.
Setup
- DE: GNOME 50.5
- Distro: Fedora 44 Workstation
- Shell / GTK theme: Adwaita (dark, blue accent)
- Icons & cursor: Adwaita
- Font: Adwaita Sans 11, Adwaita Mono 11
- Wallpaper: Dracula Leaves (https://github.com/dracula/wallpaper/blob/master/second-collection/leaves/dracula-leaves-6272a4-dark.png)
Links
- EGO: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/10736/now-playing-card/
- Source: https://github.com/epogonii/nowplaying-card
Supports GNOME 45–51. Feedback and feature requests welcome!
r/unixporn • u/FrostyF42 • 18h ago
Screenshot [Hyprland] WhiteRabbitShell — follow the white rabbit 🐇 (my own Quickshell desktop)
WhiteRabbitShell — a dark, terminal‑green Hyprland desktop with a shell I wrote from scratch in Quickshell (QML).
- OS: Arch Linux
- WM: Hyprland 0.56 (Lua config)
- Shell / bar: WhiteRabbitShell — custom, Quickshell 0.3
- Terminal: terminology
- Browser: Valkyr Browser
- Lock / login: hyprlock · greetd + tuigreet
- Hardware: Framework Laptop 13
Guys be honest with me... gas or ass? hahah
r/unixporn • u/garig999 • 1d ago
Screenshot [dwm] 1-bit amber workstation on deeply debloated Linux Mint (tcsh, XLibre)
Im want doing "Stereotype-breaking rice" and do this
r/unixporn • u/nothing29395 • 18h ago
Screenshot [Hyprland] 2nd ever rice
if you have any tips for stuff i could do better please tell me :3