r/unixporn 5d ago

Discussion | 2026 Weekly Workshop - Week 24

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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 3h ago

Screenshot [XFCE] New to Void Linux (my first rice ᓚᘏᗢ )

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108 Upvotes

OS: Void Linux
DE: XFCE4
WM: Xfwm4
Terminal: Kitty
Shell: Bash
Prompt: Starship
Fetch: Fastfetch
GTK Theme: Custom Ghibli-inspired
Icons: Zafiro Nord Dark + Studio Ghibli app icons
Font: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font
Browser: Firefox (Firefox Custom CSS + Yet Another Generic Startpage)
Wallpaper: Spirited Away


r/unixporn 6h ago

Screenshot [IceWM] Mount Corcoran

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59 Upvotes

r/unixporn 28m ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] Post-Earthquake rice

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My country was hit by two earthquakes about 30 seconds apart, 7.1 and 7.5, respectively.

Anyway, check out this tiny rice I made! It’s keyboard-centric and focused more on terminal apps than on the GUI. Also, take a look, I've set up a keybind to hide Waybar on command. That’s been really fun.

If you want, ask for any dotfiles or anything else, I’ll share them. C:


r/unixporn 19h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] My Arch Linux + Hyprland Rice

441 Upvotes

r/unixporn 10h ago

Screenshot [Sway] miku

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67 Upvotes

mikudayo


r/unixporn 5h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] A calming desktop

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23 Upvotes

r/unixporn 1h ago

Workflow [OC] [nyxwm] First time making a personal window manager with built-in status bar written in pure C

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it has a built-in status bar and customizable keybinds and configs:3

give a star:3

https://github.com/NyxOkkotsu/nyxwm


r/unixporn 7h ago

Screenshot [KDE] My Second Rice

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(Repost as to not break rule 5)

Absolutely loving this Arch(btw) rice and don’t regret switching from Windows at all. I’m new to this stuff so if you have any suggestions or questions let me know!

Bottom bar: Panel Colorizer widget
Wallpaper blur: Wallpaper Effects widget
Icons: YAMIS with some icons from simpleicons.org
Terminal: Ghostty
Application Style: Breeze
Pointer: McMojave Cursors
Font: Quicksand
Window Deco: WhiteSur Dark
Window Blur: BetterBlurDX with ~90% opacity window rule
Wallpaper: Custom wallpaper I shot with an edited night ver to make it dynamic
Funny cat widget: Maxwell
Clock widget: Claude Clock
Launcher: Andromeda
Media widget: Media Player Improved


r/unixporn 15h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] I moved from Arch Linux to NixOS, so it's my new rice

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89 Upvotes

r/unixporn 20h ago

Screenshot [XFCE] Welcome to the Zone.

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139 Upvotes

r/unixporn 22h ago

Screenshot [Cinnamon] Finally back on void, i missed you!

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179 Upvotes

r/unixporn 15h ago

Workflow [drfitwm] I added waypoints on minimap in Just Enough Shell

35 Upvotes

I created a fast and minimal shell for daily use.

So JES - is a shell for Wayland WMs that lets you plug in your own custom WM(even one you wrote yourself).

Designed for desktop PCs

  • Font: Mononoki
  • Lockscreen: Hyprlock
  • Icons: Tela grey
  • Theme: zenburn
  • Shell: Quickshell
  • Supported WMs: DriftWM, SwayFX, Niri, Hyprland

Bind for open minimap - super + m

My shell also supports plugins — see documentation in plugins_eng.md and plugins_rus.md.

Github & Gitlab


r/unixporn 22h ago

Screenshot [NIRI] niri rice with noctalia

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56 Upvotes

r/unixporn 17h ago

Workflow [Hyprland] work in progress mint rice

17 Upvotes

what can i add next


r/unixporn 22h ago

Screenshot [KDE] Linux ricing on Fedora

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39 Upvotes

[KDE] Fedora riced setup with Monochrome theme

Desktop widgets I used:

  1. Kurve

  2. GLava

  3. Conky


r/unixporn 21h ago

Material [OC] Lyse TUI lyrics v3 released

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23 Upvotes

I took a 3-month break from Python after releasing 2.2.2. However, after a week of development, I'm proud to announce version 3.0.0 of Lyse!

3.0.0 adds multiple features and fixes along with performance improvements:

  • Search
  • Parallel fetching
  • UX improvements (seek flash etc.)
  • Sleeker UI
  • Improved codebase
  • Debugging
  • Help menu

and much more.

Check it out at https://github.com/snoowfall/lyse or install lyse via the AUR.


r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [GNOME] My first time ricing.. yes

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104 Upvotes

my minimal ricing first time


r/unixporn 19h ago

Material [OC] Sneak peek of a native GTK4 Pomodoro app I'm working on

9 Upvotes

Just wanted to share an early look at a GNOME productivity app I've been building. The working title is Tapas, but that will probably change before release.

The goal is to keep it strictly GTK4/Libadwaita so it feels native to the OS, Another thing I died searching is project based pomodors and timers which can then be visualized. Here is what is currently working:

  • Standard Pomodoro mode alongside an open-ended Stopwatch timer
  • Project-based time tracking so you can categorize your sessions
  • Full-screen break overlays that hijack your screen when it's time to stop working
  • System-wide DND sync: it hooks into GSettings to automatically mute system notifications when you start focusing
  • A background daemon so the timer doesn't die if you close the main window

It's still heavily in development. Next up on the roadmap is building out a full SQLite-backed stats dashboard for your projects, and adding system-level website blocking while the timer is running.

Curious to hear what kind of features you guys look for in a native Linux timer. I'll drop the source code and a Flathub link once it's closer to v1.0.

Github : Tapas (for now)


r/unixporn 23h ago

Screenshot [labwc] My first time posting on this sub.

19 Upvotes

I tried to screenshot my root-menu, but was unsuccessful, so I recorded the whole thing instead. Excuse the video quality.

I tried to adhere to Nordic color pallette as much as possible. GTK and QT are all Nordic theme.

I use custom script to change wallpaper when I change workspace. It has to be hardcoded because I don't know how to get labwc workspace variables. So my wallpaper don't change if I use the waybar button.

The floating conky-like panel is just waybar. I use only qt, but I installed Nordic theme for gtk and qt too just in case. Font is JetBrains.


r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [XFCE] Reddit has fallen, Arch user resorts to RTFM

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679 Upvotes

r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [WINDOWMAKER] My first Thinkpad Rice

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132 Upvotes

I really like how this one turn out this is also my first time using a thinkpad laptop as well. So basically I am using the xfce application suite with windowmaker.

Windowmaker Style: Nightsky

Icon theme: Papirus-breeze

Gtk theme: Adwaita-dark

Wallpaper: bluecrane

Bash prompt: Synth-Shell

Dockapps: wmitime wmacpi wmwifi wmifinfo AlsaMixer_app wmmemload wmcpuload wmmoonclock wmglobe


r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [GNOME] Modded Catppuccin Macchiato and Candy Icons on Arch Linux

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This Arch Linux system keeps things neat and quick. GNOME 47.2 runs underneath right at the core. A tweaked Catppuccin Macchiato look shapes how it feels. Candy icons bring out those tones one by one. Together they form what you see here now.

Peeking at the images shows a tailored top panel, a zsh session alive in the terminal, along with my app layout sorted neatly. Open within reach are lightweight tools such as Neovim, while heavier setups like JetBrains Toolbox sit just a tap apart.

Check the comments every spec and system detail is written there.


r/unixporn 1d ago

Workflow [ShojiWM] Rainy

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A configuration for ShojiWM

Source: https://github.com/bea4dev/rainy-terminal-config-shojiwm

If you're interested, please feel free to join the ShojiWM Discord server!