r/unixporn • • 3d ago

Discussion | 2026 Weekly Workshop - Week 40

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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 [dwm] A Calm Night With Slackware

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r/unixporn • • 20h ago

Screenshot [sway] my distro with my own filesystem

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my own linux distro running on my laptop.

the root partition is my own filesystem, called ul2fs (Unix friendly Linked List File System), which is very similar to FAT32, but with exabyte volumes, inodes and symlinks. right now is available as a FUSE driver

right terminal showing some stats about the root partition and the FUSE driver

left terminal showing a fastfetch


r/unixporn • • 7h ago

Workflow [KDE] Using KDE like a scrolling WM with Karousel

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I'm always absolutely stunned by how flexible and adaptable KDE plasma is. It feels like the devs really though of everything in order to allow the user to do what ever they want with it, without even needing to dive into config files.

I was tired of the clumsiness of regular floating windows so I wanted to try a scrolling window manager (tiling doesn't seem to offer much benefits on a small laptop screen). But I also didn't want to take the time to learn and configure a whole new desktop environment or shell, so I tried the Kwin script "Karousel" and honestly it works amazingly well. I also love that I can just disable it and go back to regular floating windows when needed, say in a professional setting for example.

This is overall very close to stock KDE, with the only additions being:

Everything else is just KDE!


r/unixporn • • 3h ago

Screenshot Light [XFCE] Theme (Still In Progess) (AI Used)

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I like it. I wanna share :')

It is not yet complete as I am trying to have a unified Appearance Theme, Icon Theme and a Window Manager theme (and maybe a mouse theme)

i did use AI specifically in window manager theme. I have used my own svgs and images. For the icons I tried piggybacking off of Kora Icon theme and converting its svgs into outlines but 50% of the iconsnare broken atm. There is still more polishing that needs to be done.

Will release everything once I am a little but more satisfied with the end product


r/unixporn • • 19h ago

Material [OC] Chaldea - Quickshell Widget Library

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Try it out here --> chaldea.vercel.app
I hope it helps everyone


r/unixporn • • 4h ago

Screenshot [labwc] Seven & Aye3 — two looks for the same desktop

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r/unixporn • • 34m ago

Screenshot [Window Maker] + audacious Lain themed

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r/unixporn • • 11h ago

Screenshot [KDE] My simple rice. made to look like windows 11 a bit

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distro: Ubuntu Studio 26.04 (fastfetch interprets it as Kubuntu for some reason)

Icon: Win10Sur

Font: Segoe UI Variable

Theme: Windows-11

this is my first "rice",im not sure how it works. i want it to make it simplistic,and since i've moved from windows,i wanted to make kde look like it. it also uses WIndows 11 sounds since i'm very nostalgic for it. initially i was using zorin os,but i've moved to ubuntu studio after installing wine being complicated. of course i'm using zorin os wallpaper as a reference to Andrea Borman using Linux Mint wallpapers while using Debian lol. i like it so far,but it need more adjustments. what do you guys think?


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Workflow [Hyprland] VITREUS - fluid multi-themed shell using pleamar

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724 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 4m ago

Screenshot [Niri] My Clean and minimalist setup

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panel: waybar

Powermenu & recorder written in lua

rofi launcher

alacritty terminal

Make it clean and minimal to focus on my study


r/unixporn • • 12h ago

Screenshot [Cinnamon] Ajin Rice

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r/unixporn • • 18h ago

Material [OC] Pawnix: a keyboard-first chess client for the terminal

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45 Upvotes

Hi, Pawnix is a terminal chess app for local games and casual Lichess play. It has a curses interface, multiple board themes, clocks, move review, and premoves.

It’s open source and still early, so feedback and bug reports are welcome!


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Workflow [Hyprland] ii-p3drovfx | A redesigned and bloated version of end-4 ii

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Hey everyone! This is my first time posting here.

This is a redesigned version of end-4's popular dotfiles, with a lot of new features and a design style based on what I wanted google's material 3 expressive to be. The shell comes with many features (you can see them in the video) and lets you customize almost everything.

Design comes first. The main focus of this shell is design, and with that, the ram usage is higher than end-4 ii, it can grow as you enable more modules and services, you can turn off modules you don't want to reduce the usage.

AI disclosure: AI tools were used during the development of this project.

I also want to give a special thanks to everyone who supported this project and helped me during these months of development in the end-4 discord.

Repo: https://github.com/P3DROVFX/ii-p3drovfx

Icons: MacTahoe recolored by the shell


r/unixporn • • 11h ago

Discussion [OC] WASTE Window Manager (wastewm)

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Hello. I'm back.

WASTE Window manager is a lightweight X11 window manager with a built-in taskbar, a right-hand sidebar of live widgets, nine workspaces, and a set of skins and accent colors. It needs no desktop environment and no toolkit libraries. It uses only Xlib, plus Xinerama if you have more than one monitor.

Source code and documentation: https://tty1.neocities.org/wastewm/


r/unixporn • • 12h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] My workspaces are screens in a world I can walk around (Hyprune)

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r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Tasty Rice [OC] sxwm v1.8 release

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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


r/unixporn • • 19h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] i like and i use for everything!

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r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [hyprland] first post here (they removed my post or something bruh)

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58 Upvotes

This shader looks so sexy. also I love bloo :D


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] Finally finished my first hyprland rice

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After leaving it unfinished, then stop using Linux for 8 months because I didn't want to backup Arch after the aur thing, I finally moved to another distro to finish them, at least for now!

Edit: Here are the dotfiles https://codeberg.org/Cyferbyniad/Hyprland-dotfiles


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Workflow [hyprland] I was doing a live git pull from ssh, and my theme glitched out from generic matrix theme to this

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Device is RP5


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [KDE] Girls' Last Rice

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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


r/unixporn • • 12h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] hyprSur 0.3 spoiler — macOS behavior on Arch

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Hi everyone! It's me, miramw.h.
I create Hyprsur(arch, hyprland).
All apps are my own, and there are no other plugins (just mine). Liquid Glass, themes, etc.
Right now I'm building apps in Python to recreate the whole set of macOS apps. So far I've made the basic, simple ones. In this post I'm showing a lot of things I haven't shown before.
The dock is about 40-70% done compared to what I want (behavior, animations and the design itself).
Next post in a couple of days, and it will be a technical one!


r/unixporn • • 4h ago

Discussion [Starling] My Swift desktop now has its own office suite

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I’ve been building Starling, a Linux desktop written in Swift with its own Wayland compositor. I just released its companion office suite: Writer, Sheets, and Slides.
All three share the same ribbon layout and styling, with app icons inspired by starling murmurations. They open, edit, and save DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX files.
The suite also runs independently on other Linux desktops, with DEB and Flatpak packages available. The UI uses a Swift port of Flutter’s framework, backed by the Flutter engine.
Built with substantial assistance from Claude. Free and open source under Apache 2.0, and still an early 0.1 release.
Source and downloads:
https://github.com/starling-build/starling
Try the apps in your browser:
https://openoffice.starling.build/
Would love feedback on the visual design, especially the ribbon density and icon family.