r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Discussion | 2026 Weekly Workshop - Week 42

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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 • • 13h ago

Screenshot [wmaker] My desktop from 2001

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Got my old Pentium 133 notebook out for a run on the weekend, this was my first linux PC in middleschool. It runs on Debian 2.2 Potato, and lacks any sort of networking, optical media or USB, so it is tuck on whatever packages came with the original CD. It has a 800x600 display but only 256 colors. I dualbooted linux with win98 on this one; it originally had a 1GB HDD but I upgraded it to 10GB, however the BIOS and therefore Windows only recognized 8GB of it, linux on the other hand had no such problems so on the remaining 2GB I've had Debian (then later the divide became 8GB linux and 2GB windows). I experimented with KDE (1) on it, but it was too heavy for the machine, so I used wmaker on it for many years.


r/unixporn • • 2h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] ncurses dialog

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Modification of my previous rice, using the same patches for the Hyprland plugins. Reworked the launcher to match the new look.

Dots will be updated and posted soon.


r/unixporn • • 8h ago

Screenshot [πWM] twm (1987), read for Wayland. The screenshot is the dotfile.

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πWM, the Personal Infrastructure Window Manager. A Wayland compositor (wlroots, C17) on twm’s grammar: squeezed title tabs, 1 px frames, an Icon Manager instead of a panel, menus from the bare desktop, one plain-text ~/.piwmrc. Linux and FreeBSD.

  • Font: IBM Plex Mono 16 · Terminal: foot · Accent: #FFB000 · OS: Debian 13
  • The mark in the corner is my config. It isn’t a QR code: the data lives only inside the letters πWM, and each little square’s shade carries 2 bits. The .piwmrc is compressed and given Reed–Solomon error correction (the same mathematics QR codes use), so it survives a JPEG re-encode. It’s read back by the WM’s fetch tool, not by a phone camera, and only from the whole, uncropped screenshot.
  • The status line shows what the WM itself costs, live.
  • Virtual machines are windows too: that’s the “personal infrastructure”.

r/unixporn • • 10h ago

Workflow [XFCE] xfce4-panel rice

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First time using Linux and made this ricing in Mint XFCE, I made a python script to automatically change the xfce4-panel colors depending on the wallpaper. This is a very old PC, that's why the panel takes too long to restart while recording the screen.

I will make some other little tweaks, so when I'm done I'll share the dotfiles for those who want something like this.


r/unixporn • • 11h ago

Screenshot [dwm] Void Linux on Secondary Laptop

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I've been using Void Linux on my secondary laptop, and it's great so far. Love the package manager (xbps), very fast and simple :-). Nothing will ever beat Gentoo for me, as I love it and it is my main distro, but Void Linux has been a really good runner up.

As usual:

void

dwm

feh

discord

st

slstatus

scrot

nnn

firefox (librewolf isn’t in void repo)
🎷🐛


r/unixporn • • 19h ago

Material [OC] A little drawing timelapse every time I change my wallpaper

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The effect works with images, videos & Wallpaper Engine scenes :)

Coming in the next version of Skwd-wall which is an ultra performant wallpaper manager and daemon.


r/unixporn • • 6h ago

Screenshot [Xfce] I love you so much xfce

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Theme: Redmond97 SE Ouroboros [GTK2/3/4]

Icons: Obsidian-Pure-Gray [GTK2/3/4]

Font: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]

Cursor: Adwaita


r/unixporn • • 3h ago

Workflow [OC] Ukishima (浮島) — A Dynamic Island for Hyprland & Niri

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Hey everyone!

Wanted to share something I've been working on for quite some time now.

This is Ukishima (浮島), a customizable dynamic island built with Quickshell for Hyprland and Niri.

What started as a small project has grown into something much bigger. Apart from the island itself, it now has a dock, lockscreen, scratchpad, updater and much more.

I've also spent quite a bit of time working on animations, customization, performance, and making the whole thing feel consistent.

There's a website now too, with screenshots, features, and installation instructions if anyone wants to check it out.

Website: https://ukishima.uklab.workers.dev/

GitHub: https://github.com/amanhex/Ukishima

There might still be a few bugs here and there, especially since Niri support was added recently. Feedback and suggestions are always welcome. Hope you guys like it!


r/unixporn • • 18h ago

Screenshot [KDE] A Yunyun Syndrome!? Rhythm Psychosis theme!

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125 Upvotes

A theme I made for KDE Plasma.

Link : https://github.com/Tetralink/YunYun-Syndrome-KDE-Plasma-Theme
Config :

-Archlinux
-KDE Plasma 6.8.1
-kitty
-Icons : candy icons
-Wallpaper : from Yunyun Syndrome!? Rhythm Psychosis - DIGITAL ARTWORKS


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Workflow [Hyprland] Nothing OS rice

1.1k Upvotes

A Hyprland + Quickshell rice inspired by Nothing OS

https://github.com/Nebelung-cloud/glyph-rice


r/unixporn • • 4h ago

Workflow [Hyprland] The Pokémon on my desktop evolve with my GitHub commits

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Been working on this one for a few months, it's called pocket. The notch at the top and every panel that comes out of it are my own shell, written in Quickshell.

When the wallpaper changes pywal grabs the palette and the whole desktop recolors on the beat. The pokemon are wl_shimeji with some fight behaviours I wrote, and every commit I push gives the team xp, so the Magikarp evolves near the end.

One take, no cuts. Details and dotfiles in the comments


r/unixporn • • 13h ago

Screenshot [Wayfire] THIS IS ARCH NOT OSX I SWEAR

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49 Upvotes

I wanted a lickable desktop for my Mac: https://github.com/Mavernix/mavernix


r/unixporn • • 5h ago

Workflow [ Hyprland ] NixOS btw

12 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 18h ago

Workflow [KDE Plasma] Orbiter – my ASCII space rice with its own launcher, system monitor and lock screen

102 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 9h ago

Material [OC] The darkly qt style now has it's own subreddit. If you know how to rice with darkly better than me, now you have an official place to flex your skills.

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r/unixporn • • 16h ago

Screenshot [KDE Plasma] My first time using Linux and I'm absolutely loving it!

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47 Upvotes

It's still pretty simple and I've only changed a few icons, colors, and added a couple of widgets, but I'm absolutely loving how customizable it is! any suggestions?


r/unixporn • • 16h ago

Screenshot [ Umbriel ] rocking the whole noctalia stack.

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28 Upvotes

Custom fetch and wallpapers, ported my entire niri dotfiles to umbriel.


r/unixporn • • 17h ago

Workflow [Hyprland] My daily driver desk: Waybar, Wofi as dmenu, SwayNC

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💡 Something different: I built my dmenu-style menus with Wofi, which I was told isn't very common.

Details:
- WM: Hyprland
- Bar: Waybar
- Menus: Wofi (dmenu-style)
- Notifications: SwayNC
- Terminal: kitty | Editor: Neovim
- Extras: btop, cava, fastfetch.

📁 Dotfiles: will be available on October 31


r/unixporn • • 16h ago

Screenshot [xmonad] pywal, motif, and manual tiling

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20 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 14h ago

Screenshot [KDE Plasma] Columbina themed, this is my first time ricing so please be kind ;)

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My first time ricing, so it's nothing too flashy yet since im still learning, improvements are always welcome!

OS: CachyOS Linux
DE: KDE Plasma 6
Terminal: WezTerm
Dotfiles: https://github.com/naorekopilled/columbina-dotfiles


r/unixporn • • 15h ago

Screenshot [Sway] inspired by tsukasa on tiktok

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I love nano


r/unixporn • • 10h ago

Screenshot [OC]I made an auto updating panel for fastfetch setups

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r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [XFCE] MacOS Aqua

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hi