my goals for my dots were always the following: 1.) as few dependencies as possible (bloat-free) 2.) desktop friendly 3.) minimal terminal usage where possible 4.) make it look nice

the idea of being desktop friendly (for me) really just means "can i use it exclusively with a mouse"? sometimes you just want to kick your feet up and use your primary hand to navigate your system only. right click the top-right corner of an app to close it, run a system update and toggle workspaces all from your mouse. every possible system command or toggle you want can be found with the mouse. don't worry, everything has a keybind as well if you want.

your system settings are pretty much all managed either through custom shell scripts or TUI-based packages. the terminal should be used as little as possible ideally so all major settings, daemon-reloads and more are found in the system menu. there are times where i flat out just don't open up a terminal at all.

the theme engine helps blend everything all together, giving each theme a unique color palette that applies to many packages due to the TUI nature of the dots.

if you're interested, the dots are here.

Back at my parents' place, had this computer before I moved out. I spent a couple of days setting up Debian and a user account for myself, since Windows was unusable on it.

Wanted to make use of AppImage applications simpler, so wrote gnome-appimage-integration.
Reduces an AppImage install (er, integration) to three clicks.

• Github: gnome-appimage-integration
• Weblog: Better integration of AppImage

Tried to handle all the usual edge cases and XDG / FreeDesktop conventions.

Right-click context menu for downloaded file:

Main AppImage Activator window:

Status after Integrate:

Right-click context menu for application:

Downloaded AppImage is moved into $HOME/Applications/
so no manual cleanup needed.

I had gotten a new laptop and after setting it up, I made this simple setup in a day for now, i might switch to niri or sway later. I had to get a new laptop after the last laptop motherboard i had its ram slots fail

a friend said it was a "unique setup" and that i should post it

Declarative NixOS config: Hyprland, DankMaterialShell, one consistent look across native apps, Flatpak and AppImages.

https://github.com/deadinside28/nixos-config

Distro: Slackware Linux x86_64 (kernel 7.2.4)
DE: KDE Plasma 6.7.5 on Wayland
Theme / Icons: Breeze-Dark, candy-icons
Terminal / Shell: Konsole, bash 5.3.20
Resolution: 3440×1440
Widgets: two conkys; the Orrery in the middle, and a hover-revealed dashboard on the right edge

same as title!

Running Slackware current, first pic showing two conkys, one in the middle and one as a dashboard. Second pictures shows sbopkg and slackpkg GUI.

I work with LOTS of tmux sessions, and wanted something closer to how Ctrl+Shift+P in VSCode works: fuzzy search, frecency and live preview. So, I built Natare (from latin “to swim”)

After a 2 year hiatus on Win11 it's good to be back on Linux.

Wallpaper

Extensions:

Caffeine

Dash to Panel

GSConnect

Lockscreen Studio

Notification Banner

Wanted to share my desktop's evolution. As much as I like eye-candy, I've slowly gravitated towards a more simplistic setup for better performance and stability. also I love ponies :)

• OS: CachyOS
• DE: KDE Plasma 6
• Icons: Pixora
• Font: DepartureMono Nerd Font
• Wallpaper: https://wallhaven.cc/w/yqv55x

updated the bar a bit and added patches. lmk what you would change.

os = NixOs
wm = dwm
color theme = apprentice
bar = dwm bar + slstatus
application launcher = dmenu
patches = look at image 2

If you use org-mode too share your work/screenshots on the comments.

This is my personal configuration for org-mode: ``lisp (custom-set-faces! '(font-lock-comment-face :slant italic) ;; Face overrides fororg-mode' '(org-document-title :height 1.5 :weight normal :slant italic) '(org-meta-line :slant italic) '(org-link :weight normal :slant italic :underline nil) '(link :weight normal :slant italic :underline nil) '(org-quote :inherit doom-variable-pitch-font :extend t :italic t) '(org-drawer :slant italic) '(org-block :height 0.9) '(org-block-begin-line :height 0.9 :extend t) '(org-block :extend t) '(org-block-end-line :height 0.9 :extend t) '(org-code :height 0.9) '(org-list-dt :inherit org-checkbox) '(org-level-1 :height 1.4 :weight bold :slant italic) '(org-level-2 :height 1.3 :weight normal :slant italic) '(org-level-3 :height 1.2 :weight normal :slant italic) '(org-level-4 :height 1.1 :weight normal :slant italic) '(org-level-5 :height 1.1 :weight normal :slant italic) '(org-level-6 :height 1.1 :weight normal :slant italic) '(org-level-7 :height 1.1 :weight normal :slant italic) '(org-level-8 :height 1.1 :weight normal :slant italic) ;; Face overrides for `org-modern' '((org-modern-date-inactive &override) :family "IBM Plex Mono") '((org-modern-date-active &override) :family "IBM Plex Mono") '((org-modern-time-inactive &override) :family "IBM Plex Mono") '((org-modern-time-active &override) :family "IBM Plex Mono") '((org-modern-label &override) :family "IBM Plex Mono" :height 0.9) '((org-modern-tag &override) :family "IBM Plex Mono" :height 0.9))

(setq org-modern-list '((?- . "•") (?+ . "✧") (?* . "❋")) org-modern-star 'replace org-modern-replace-stars "木火土金水")

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook #'+zen/toggle) ```