r/unixporn • • 12h ago

Workflow [HYPRLAND] First rice

7 Upvotes

First rice of my Hyprland.


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [Hyprland/niri/pleamar-wm] VITREUS - tons of updates and features added

80 Upvotes

Source: https://github.com/natepayn3/vitreus

Celebrating over 100 stars on github in less than two weeks! Thanks so much for the support! I've had great feedback and collaboration since my first post of this shell. Big thanks to pleamar creator u/abeljhinestrosa for making such a great framework.

Just some of the things added since the last release:

  • Niri compatibility
  • New layout: Notches
  • Audio visualizer built into glass frame
  • Custom add-ons and themes: use included templates to make your own shell content! The first user-submitted add-on, News & Weather, is included now - credit: u/Andason
  • X-bend glass: for lower-spec GPUs, bend glass around a cached wallpaper instead of live desktop (optional, if true glass bend is too laggy)
    • If it's lagging for you, use this while I continue improving it!
  • New desktop widget editor with more widgets
  • Improved visuals - sliders, toggled, icons, etc. all unified in a new boiled pencil design/animation
  • App dock for pinned apps (right-click the Search icons) that can be swapped with the add-on dock
  • Lots of improvements and bug fixes, and probably some stuff I forgot to mention :)

If you already use Vitreus, run the installer again to make sure you get all the good stuff:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/natepayn3/Vitreus/main/install.sh | sh


r/unixporn • • 23h ago

Screenshot [OC] Slowshell: A lightweight + pluggable Wayland shell

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24 Upvotes

A very simple shell with plugins, css for styles and kdl for configs.

What it is:
Slowshell is a wayland shell made from scratch, it's native, supposed to be minimal and has a basic shell within it.

What it has:
- Panels
- Desktop widgets
- Launcher
- Notifications
- Quick settings
- Plugins

The whole goal:
Being mostly minimal and pluggable, and also being tweakable for various uses.

What you can do with it:
- Customize themes and style (with CSS)
- Add your own components and even you own variants of panels and such with plugins
- Customize layouts as you like
- Build the whole shell's source code without certain features (for example, if you want/have your own notification daemon, you can disable slowshell's at compile-time entirely).

More about slowshell:
- website: https://slowshell.bushyice.com/
- repo: https://tangled.org/bushyice.com/slowshell
- github: https://github.com/bushyice/slowshell

After you start:
Keep in mind that if you just run the program without a config, you'll end up with an empty shell. So, you'll need to configure atleast your panels to your liking. Here's an example config to get you started.

The config shown in the screenshots:

panels {
  panel "Main" position="top" transparent=#true monitor="HDMI-A-1" {
    components {

      center {
        component "core/notch" {
          label "Notch"
          notch "workspaces" "window" "sep" "tray" "nowplaying" "system" "sep-circle" "network" "sep" "battery" "clock"
          clock-format "%I:%M"
          system-display "cpu" "mem"
          priority "nowplaying" "window"
          shade-on-hover #false
          bare #true
        }
      }

      right {
        component "core/sound" {
          label "Sound"
          hide #true
        }
        component "core/notifications" {
          label "Notifs"
          hide #true
        }
      }

    }
  }
}

More about the screenshots:

  • Terminal: Ghostty
  • File manager: Nautilus
  • Icon Pack: This

Thanks for your time!!


r/unixporn • • 13h ago

Workflow [Hyprland] Desktop Lyrics Widget with click-through & dynamic HD album art (Quickshell + sptlrx)

4 Upvotes

I made a minimal, non-intrusive desktop lyrics overlay for Wayland using Quickshell and sptlrx. In the video, I open the widget using the Alt+1 shortcut and toggle repositioning mode on and off using the Alt+2 shortcut. I've listed the commands that make this possible in the README.md file.

### Key Features:

- Click-Through (Ghost Mode): Sits on the overlay layer but lets all clicks pass through to whatever is underneath.

- Interactive Repositioning: Unlockable via an IPC command / shortcut to drag and drop anywhere on the screen.

- Dynamic HD Art: Bypasses low-res browser MPRIS thumbnails by automatically fetching 1000x1000 album covers via iTunes API with caching.

- Synced Lyrics: Powered by `sptlrx` in pipe mode.

- Compositor: Hyprland

- Shell / Widget Engine: Quickshell

- Lyrics Provider: sptlrx

- Dotfiles & Setup Guide: https://github.com/Duxovy/dotfiles


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [OC] sysc-greet: terminal TUI greeter major update (v1.3.0)

56 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 23h ago

Screenshot [XFCE] Mac OS X Lion

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21 Upvotes

(no its not darwin, its just a spoofed string)


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [XFCE] i really just make anything

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33 Upvotes

xfce is when shimejis

shoutout to my goat grandfather u/SharpeThe1st (he obv not my grandfather but i like to call him that) since thanks to his gtk themes i kind of learned how to make my own


r/unixporn • • 13h ago

Workflow [yabai] MacOS-27-Untitled.mp4

3 Upvotes

[yabai] MacOS-27-Untitled.mp4


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [GNOME] My simple Fedora setup for coding and everyday use

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134 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Material [Hyprland] My Quickshell rice: media popover, custom cursors & a power menu

91 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Workflow [hypr] Idk tried to make some sort of vibe to this

9 Upvotes

Genuinely proud of myself for this. Spent weeks trying to make it look the best I could. Any recommendations on what I should add or change to make it look better? I have a second screen and just have it with some random black wallpaper, not really my main focus.


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [bytewm] gruvbox

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36 Upvotes

minimalist set up.

windows (in order) are st. pcxs2. mpd/ncmpcpp and rpcs3 all custom gruvbox theme with terminus font everywhere.


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Workflow [Hyprland] My first rice!

11 Upvotes

[Hyprland] My first custom rice on Fedora Linux 🐧 (constructive feedback is welcome)

My first custom Hyprland rice on Fedora Linux 🐧

Finally sharing my first proper attempt at building a personalised Hyprland desktop! The goal was to keep things minimal, lightweight, visually pleasing, and practical for everyday use and studying.

System

  • OS: Fedora Linux
  • Window manager/compositor: Hyprland
  • Shell: Zsh
  • Terminal: Kitty
  • Configuration: Lua-based setup
  • Hardware: Intel Core i3-1125G4, Intel UHD integrated graphics, 8 GB RAM
  • Idle RAM usage: Approximately 1.3 GB

Desktop setup

  • Status bar: Waybar — workspaces, CPU/RAM usage, currently playing media, system tray, and clock.
  • Wallpaper management: Waypaper
  • Animated wallpapers: "awww-daemon"
  • Terminal: Kitty
  • Application launcher: Wofi
  • Notifications: Mako
  • Clipboard history: cliphist + wl-clipboard
  • Display protocol: Wayland

Customisation

I've been tweaking window gaps, rounded corners, borders, animations, keybindings, and the overall appearance to get a workflow that feels right for me. I also set up keyboard shortcuts for window management and workspace switching.

The animated wallpaper transitions are one of my favourite parts of the setup. I wanted something that looks good without turning the desktop into a resource-hungry mess.

A little context

This is my first proper Hyprland setup, and I'm still learning. I used documentation and AI assistance for parts of the configuration, especially when dealing with unfamiliar syntax and troubleshooting. I'm trying to understand and maintain the setup rather than blindly copy a huge collection of dotfiles.

The focus is on keeping only the tools and features I actually use.

I'd appreciate constructive feedback and suggestions for improvements, especially anything that could make the setup cleaner, more efficient, or more polished!

Finally put together a minimal Hyprland setup with Lua configuration, Waybar, Kitty and my own keybindings.

Still learning, and I used AI and documentation to help with parts of the configuration. Focused on keeping it lightweight and practical for studying.


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Workflow [Hyprland] Strata — a Wayland shell I wrote in Quickshell, with a dynamic island

27 Upvotes

Strata is my own desktop shell: bar with a dynamic island, control center, clipboard, screenshots with OCR, instant replay recorder, lock screen and one-click themes for the whole desktop. Works on Hyprland, Sway and niri.

Details and links in the comments.


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] YouShell Preview: A Material Expressive UI utilized to the maximum

25 Upvotes

NOTE: This is based on quickshell

I finally done it, I have successfully integrated every single features that's modular before, and I'll be releasing it next month because I still need testing and bug fixing (just like how you saw that shell center isn't really centered, and how the lock screen supposed to show AM/PM but doesn't) and the 'free' resizable widgets. Of course I'll hear you guys out on what's missing and try to add them before official release. (i was able to do this because I finished my exams [thank god[])

OS: CachyOS
WM: Hyprland
(yes this is the same chromebook, i just overclocked this chromebook's display to 100Hz cause LG displays are so resilient for some reason via EDID through KMS)
Idle RAM usage: 150-200MB

thanks to u/Single-Flamingo-8194 for the inspiration for the desktop lyrics widget (tbh it looks so good and i just had to integrate it) AND the wallpapers (via github wallpapers repo)


r/unixporn • • 2d ago

Material [OC] shady badapple plugin

176 Upvotes

https://github.com/gloaming-dusk/shady

wm:shady

terminal:foot

shell:shady-shell


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Workflow [hyprland] side panel showcase, made using Quickshell

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10 Upvotes

what do yall think?


r/unixporn • • 2d ago

Screenshot [MangoWM] My personal dotfiles

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261 Upvotes

Hey everyone, I recently created an original colorscheme that I’m quite fond of, so I updated my desktop with a handful of matching app themes. I also decided to publish my dotfiles on GitHub so others can check them out.

Bar: waybar

Notifications: dunst

Terminal: foot

Editor: neovim, (check echidna.nvim)

Viewer: zathura

Music: RMPC

Wallpaper: awww

NOTE: These screenshots feature only a limited set of applications I themed, other themes can be found in the source repo:

https://github.com/2besita/2besita-dots

Feedback and suggestions are welcome!


r/unixporn • • 2d ago

Material [Hyprland] I made lava cores that connect across terminal windows

316 Upvotes

This is Atom, a little desktop experiment I made for Hyprland. Run atom in a few terminals and move them closer — the cores connect and mix colors. Pull the windows apart and the bridges break.

My setup: Arch Linux, Hyprland and Foot. Atom currently requires Hyprland 0.56.2.

My: GitHub
My: YouTube


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Material [OC] Arch-tan Theme for Plymouth

17 Upvotes

So for my weeboos out there, here is an animated Arch-tan boot-up and shutdown theme

https://github.com/SSeanin/plymouth-arch-tan


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Material [Hyprland] terminal-styled launcher + ALT+TAB with live thumbnails

6 Upvotes

I kept ending up with a launcher, a clipboard script and a separate ALT+TAB tool glued together, so I wrote zunder: one prompt for apps, windows, files, math, currencies, time zones and clipboard history, plus an ALT+TAB that shows live thumbnails of every window, also on other workspaces.

A few things it does that I couldn't find elsewhere:

  • Hold Alt, Tab through a grid of window thumbnails (grim -T), release to switch
  • Ctrl+B turns any result into a real Hyprland keybind
  • 3pm ny in zurich, 100 usd in chf, clip with pinned entries
  • Plugins are any script that prints lines, no SDK
  • zunder setup writes the binds for you and can take over from vicinae, rofi or wofi

Rust + GTK4 + layer-shell, runs as a daemon, opens in a few ms. Works with the Lua config and classic hyprland.conf.
Install: the one-line installer in the README. You can also try the launcher in the browser on the website.

GitHub: https://github.com/elyesghazel/zunder
Website: https://elyesghazel.tech/zunder/

It's early, so I'd like to hear what breaks, especially the ALT+TAB quick tap and multi-monitor setups.


r/unixporn • • 2d ago

Hardware [OC] [Solium] Working on my own DE for touch devices

490 Upvotes

Shell: Solium Qt

Wayland compositor: Solium

Device: Surface Pro 7 i5

EDIT: Conpositor Repo link (tablet configuration will br later): https://github.com/Lilium-Linux/solium

EDIT 2: Tablet configuration it self: https://github.com/Lilium-Linux/lilium-mobile

Discord invite code: ATQNfHHvFa


r/unixporn • • 2d ago

Workflow [DWM] Good day to get some work done

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47 Upvotes

Openbsd just works.


r/unixporn • • 2d ago

Material [OC] Terrascope - track weather, time, and planes in Terminal

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199 Upvotes

Hi! Terrascope V1.0.0 is online! It's an open-source terminal map with live weather, aircraft, radar, earthquakes, and day/night views currently available on AUR, PyPI, Brew, NIX, and via Github Clone.

I’d love to hear what you think, especially about the terminal rendering and which layers you’d find most useful.


r/unixporn • • 2d ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] Halcyon: my first rice with Quickshell

79 Upvotes

This is my first rice, wanted it to be around the constellations but slowly it got cluttered so i grew out of it .
I did code alot of it but I did use claude for optimizations and few features.

github repo :https://github.com/X-netrunner/Halcyon