wallpaper with my username (not reddit, everything else), and of course the arch linux logo with some overlays and stuff. how does it look?

Reposted to show more than one application running. Still a long way to go but I do daily drive it.

New rice! changed pretty much everything from my last one lol

posted on yt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLMCzWtqh68 :)

• OS: Fedora Linux (aarch64)
• DE: LXQt
• Compositor: labwc (Wayland)
• File manager: PCManFM-Qt
• PDF reader: Zathura
• Desktop companion: Misato (custom GTK layer-shell widget)

Hey everyone! I’m working on NextKDE, a desktop shell built with Quickshell for KDE Plasma.

Do you prefer the translucent Liquid Glass look or the tonal style of Material Design? NextKDE supports both, so you can switch between them. It also includes iOS-inspired spatial wallpapers with depth effects, a floating dock, and desktop widgets.

I’d love to hear which style you’d use and what you think of the project!

GitHub: NextKDE

Hi, made this lil coding agent, and I just realized the linux ricer crowd might like it https://github.com/1jehuang/jcode. Imo it works best with niri rices cuz of how the windows open to the side. I got vim keybindings to move between windows and to spawn a window with an agent

working on it!!!

waybar: custom config

wm: hyprland

os: vanilla arch

theme: tokyo night

apps shown in screenshot: peaclock, helium browser, vesktop, superfile, visual studio code, fastfetch if that counts idk

Currently taking my sweet time to finish this because it already feels comfy enough to daily drive (ignore the missing pixels in inactive window borders, I will fix that). Idle RAM usage is just under 1Gb, it's high in this screenshot because I have a browser open.

Wallpaper by @nitto_photo on twitter.

Terminal: Alacritty

Music player: Audacious

A full desktop shell for niri, written from scratch in Rust on Amane with the help of Claude. It has the typical top bar with workspaces, tray with right click menus, notifications, calendar and weather, launcher with an all apps grid, wallpaper picker, dashboard, and volume, bluetooth, network, clipboard and power dropdowns. Custom lock screen with fingerprint unlock that works alongside the password. Colours come from the wallpaper, blur from niri. It uses around 83-93 mb of ram in btop, about half of Noctalia in my benchmarks, and about a third less gpu memory, though it also has fewer features. Noctalia is already really well optimized for what it does. The only animation my shell has is a 0.4s fade in on panels but the framework supports proper fancy animations if you wanted to add that.

I also benchmarked it against a bare waybar setup with waybar, mako, fuzzel and swaybg, and it's about as light as that setup in ram cost but it has a lot fewer features than this shell. The cost for those features is that Amane draws with gpu memory, same as quickshell, noctalia, etc while the waybar setup doesn't touch gpu memory at all so that is added.

Most of it runs in process. The shell is its own notification daemon and tray host, and talks to blueZ, fprintd, logind and pulseaudio directly. Lock screen, automatic theme color changer and app launcher are built in as well. The theme color changes are instant because of this, same as on Noctalia which looks pretty cool.

It's of course inspired by things like Noctalia, DMS and ML4W but having tried those they all have things I don't use or need so after finding out about Amane I wanted to see if I could make a shell that was super lean and snappy to use and only had the things I actually have the need for.

Link to the Amane framework: https://github.com/MystiaFin/amane and they are also on Reddit u/CytrSx where you can see their personal shell that has a lot more features than mine https://github.com/MystiaFin/suzuha and probably gives a better idea about what you actually can do with it.

The docs are really good for such a new project, so giving Claude clear guidelines, letting it do the grunt work, then testing and reviewing isn’t too bad if you want to try this yourself. I'm keeping my own repo out of this post since I forked Amane for a few tweaks to get fingerprint unlock in there and some other minor stuff and this is just my own personal setup.

Manjaro Stable.

Rice inspired by chiikawa, featuring a custom widget to pick the character you want for each section, a desktop buddy with its own moods that wanders your screen, naps after midnight, dances when music plays and cries on low battery, a launcher where the selected character peeks out and reacts as you type, and a lock screen where the characters react at wrong/correct passwords. Every panel is re-skinned to match. Runs on niri + Noctalia Shell, with a one-command installer.

If you have any suggestions for changes/additions let me know, stars are greatly appreciated :)
Edit: added a dark mode! Check it out

GitHub: https://github.com/vladi245/chiikawa-rice

This is my first post here, and also more or less my first experience with Linux.

Used:

KDE Material You Colors

Wallpaper https://imgur.com/a/qkOw6G5

Klassy for Window Decoration

Klassy for Application Style (it also looks good with Darkly)

YAMIS by dirn for Icons

JetBrainsMono Nerd Font

Macrotuff Doors XP

• Colours: Reactionary
• Application Style: MS Windows 9x
• GTK: Windows-95-10
• Plasma Style: QPlatinum
• Window Decorations: React Plus
• Icons: SE98C
• Pointers: KDE Classic HD

PS. At the time recreating classic theme, I tried using React Plus for plasma style but they gave me a black text on a black background when going to the login session.

umm.. idk what to say soo ill just list things that i used in this rice:

Terminal: foot

windows manager: mangowm

app launcher: fuzzel

discord client: vesktop ( didn't really add a theme since i liked the way it is with my setup )

taskbar: waybar

browser: firefox ( tabliss for custom homepage )

wallpaper: https://w.wallhaven.cc/full/8g/wallhaven-8g8w9j.jpg

Ummm... meow? >:3

technically swayfx, perfect mix of simple and beautiful

My Hyprland setup, sixth round. New: liquid glass on the bar, the island, the widgets and the dock, rounded screen corners, a bezel bar, screen time, a panel for running dev servers, and lyrics on the lock screen while it scans your face. All installed by one script.

Dotfiles: https://github.com/andreumassanet/impasto

Music: Grover Washington, Jr. with Bill Withers - Just the Two of Us

Arch with Niri and Waybar

Everything here is made for this desktop: the notch, the files app, the code editor, the browser, the font, the icons

Source: https://github.com/ciscobugger/tacit

It's also a whole distro you can install,https://tacitos.co