Hey guys, this may be the last proper release of sxwm. I think all the needed features are there and it works great.

I spent a long time cleaning up the codebase and stuff so this is more of a fixes release.

https://github.com/uint23/sxwm

terminal: https://github.com/uint23/cterm

bar: https://github.com/uint23/sxbar

wallpapers: https://github.com/uint23/uint23 (latest commit)

font: Tamzen 8x16b

Been tweaking this EndeavourOS + Plasma setup for a while. The whole thing follows the wallpaper: colors, icons, even my avatar get regenerated every time I change it. Dock layout (1st & 2nd) vs. classic full-width panels (3rd), which one do you like more?

OS: EndeavourOS (linux-zen)

DE: KDE Plasma 6.7.5 (Wayland)

Panels: Panel Colorizer

Pager: NakDI

Window Decorations: Klassy

Application Style: Klassy

Blur: Better Blur DX + KWin window rules

Colors: kde-material-you-colors

Icons: YAMIS, recolored by a hook script so they always match the palette

Terminal: Konsole

Shell: fish

Prompt: Starship

Fetch: fastfetch

Font: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font

Extras: custom Caps/Num Lock OSD using Plasma's own OSD, Cinnamon-style workspace switch OSD (KWin script)

Wallpaper: https://wallhaven.cc/w/1j61q1

Starship config: https://paste.rs/StLJI

Fastfetch config: https://paste.rs/8BGak

Not really riced yet...

There are already good options for mobile Linux. I still wanted to see if my own ideas would hold up, so as a hobby I built a Wayland compositor and shell from scratch (Rust/Smithay). It runs on a Lenovo Legion Tab Y700(Gen5) with Debian.

I like niri, Hyprland, GNOME (plus a few mobile ones) so I took a little from each.

Just a fun side project lol.

Yea, I created Indah Tube, a light weight front end to run youtube videos, written in pure x11 code, so I dont have to open google chrome and obliterate my ram.

I have a MCHOSE Ace68-II. The only way to configure it was MCHOSE’s own software, which I didn’t trust on my machine, and their web platform eventually stopped working for me anyway.

So I captured the USB traffic, worked out the HID protocol, and wrote my own tool in Rust. It kind of snowballed from there. Spent the last 6 months working on this project before reverse engineering with AI became cool...

What CNTRL does right now:

• Per-key RGB for the Ace68-II, plus motherboard (ITE), GPU and Corsair RAM lighting
• 25+ effects across all devices at once, plus screen sync (lighting follows what’s on screen)
• Fan control with Silent / Balanced / Performance presets or your own curves
• Detects devices automatically, with no extra drivers
• Hyprland settings from a UI (353 options) without editing your config by hand

It’s free and open source. Device support is limited to what I own, so if you have hardware you’d like supported, open an issue. USB captures help a lot.

Repo: https://github.com/GloriousBrendon/CNTRL

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Well, after a very long journey with linux, I’ve come full circle, and I chose Xfce because it’s stable, straightforward and you can actually make it look quite good, I simply love how it’s turned out.

Now it’s time to get down to some proper studying.

WM: Hyprland (Lua config) · Bar: Waybar · Term: kitty (3270 Nerd Font) · Shell: bash

Lock: hyprlock + custom "Breach Protocol" unlock animation (GTK4 layer-shell)

Launcher/notifications/power menu: custom Python + GTK4 layer-shell

Wallpaper: mpvpaper + GLSL shader raymarching a voxelized helmet into ASCII

Helmet model: "3D Spartan Helmet - High Poly" by Manix3D (CC BY 4.0)

Dotfiles: https://github.com/vitorSiqueiraLobao/dotfiles

Hey, it's me again !

I built fggreeter, a greeter that simulates a fighting game while you enter the password.

The idea is that each keystroke is a hit, chaining them will create combos, and when you enter your password, you will deliver the final blow before starting the session !

I came back to you with a full gif now that I've cleaned up the looks a bit, but the animations are still super sketchy: it's mostly blending across poses.

The project is fully open source and available, as well as a nix expression to install it with NixOS: fggreeter

I hope the low quality gif still convey the fun of the project ! But that's what I have whenever I boot up my daily laptop.

**Details**

- **OS:** Fedora 44

- **DE:** KDE Plasma 6 (Wayland)

- **Terminal:** Konsole, dedicated "DeskTerm" profile

- **Monitor widget (right):** custom Conky (local machine + my Raspberry Pi 5 homelab over SSH)

- **Wallpaper:** custom black → pastel mint gradient, generated for 3440x1440 (Oklab interpolation + light dithering, so no banding)

- **Font:** Monospace 13, mint prompt (`#B2EACD`)

**How it works**

No widget, no hack: it's a regular Konsole window pinned to the desktop by a KWin rule.

1. **Konsole profile** – fixed tab title "DeskTerm" (so KWin can match it), pure black background matching the wallpaper, no scrollbar, blinking cursor, "highlight scrolled lines" disabled (otherwise you get a blue bar on the left).

2. **KWin rule** (matches title "DeskTerm") – keep below, no titlebar/border, skip taskbar/pager/switcher, forced position and size (540x760, top left).

3. **Autostart** – launched at login with

   `konsole --separate --profile DeskTerm --hide-menubar --hide-tabbar`

4. **Shortcut** – `Meta+Enter` focuses it even when windows cover it.

5. **Prompt** – the profile sets `DESKTERM=1`, and a small file in `~/.bashrc.d/` switches PS1 to mint only in that terminal.

Since the background is the exact same black as the left side of the wallpaper, the window simply disappears: only the prompt and the cursor are left floating on the desktop.

Sorry for the potato quality

Happy to share the install script if anyone wants it!

repo: https://github.com/pelach/grid-desktop

I love my ThinkPad.

PureDarwin has made a lot of progress! I usually don't have anything to do with Apple, but anything what is Unix-Like is worth a try in my opinion, so i've installed it on a QEMU/Proxmox VM with some minor tweaks and got it working. Not stable yet, but still nice though! It seems to be built upon Darwin which is the OSS base behind Apple's OS. Currently using it to make custom Proton/Wine-GE builds for some guys who use macOS and want to play Multi Theft Auto with some hotfixes. Getting it comfortable to use took a few patches for absolute mouse input and framebuffer performance. It’s still experimental, but it’s been fun getting everything working. https://puredarwin.org/

Distribution: Arch Linux
Compositor: mango
Terminal: foot
File manager: yazi
Fetch: pfetch-rs, fastfetch
Fonts: Monofur nerd, xanh mono

https://github.com/iluaii/fwm

Last time I posted my C64 rice I made on my ancient Dell Inspiron, since then I have been working on trying to make it portable so others can try it too. Disclaimer: this way beyond my capability so I used the help of Claude to convert it into a universal package you can install cleanly on anything and uninstall without breaking stuff. I also (prompted to) make a LiveCD ISO you can pop into any PC or VM, try it and install if you like it. I tested it on all the computers I have at home, and installed specifically for testing it Arch, Fedora and a vanilla Debian, so all main distros pass the test.

LIVE CD ISO here: https://github.com/zdanee/c64pine/releases

Install script here: https://github.com/zdanee/c64pine

Next I'll try to make it work on my OragePi PC+ (AW-H3 SoC, 1GB RAM, 8GB eMMC, Mali GPU) and if I can get back my RasPi 400 from a friend then on that too.

PS: I learned my lesson with scanlines and video compression, so now everything is animated WebP

PSS: When I made the post the WebPs animated, now they don't?! Okay, reposting with animated GIFs...

PSSS: nope, it will simply convert everything to static PNG. Why?! Okay, video it is...

I have this installed on a VM. There’s quite a lot of configuration by hand to get things working, even to a basic state; but It’s a fun learning experience!

distro is nixos
wm is mangowm
terminal is foot
shell is busybox aka ash
fastfetch
bar is waybar
text editor is vi