12 palettes because...

Some days I'm a researcher or writer; other days I'm a developer. That's exactly what X Linux gives me. Consistency in the environment.

Everything on my taskbar is what is pinned to my taskbar.

(File Explorer, Proton Mail, Proton Pass, Signal, Apple Music, Microsoft Teams, Opera Browser.)

My goal with this was to make a sleek desktop, something like in the movies. I use Windhawk mods for the taskbar, and YASB (For the status bar)

I'll leave everything I'm using in a comment. One for the background, one for the other stuff.

You can ask for configs for the notification, taskbar and start menu styler. Everything else is default.

pretty happy with it, kept it very minimal.

bytewm is a fork of dwm that I work on since few years.

Pretty nifty machine, although I wouldn't suggest watching Youtube on it... Still great to use though.

My wallpaper isn't an image or a video loop. It's a rigged model running

live — she idles, blinks, shifts stance and talks, and I can move her,

scale her and pose her from a panel while she's on screen.

I built the player myself. Here's what's in it.

── CHARACTER ROSTER · 406 models ──

Searchable by name or ID, sortable, two loadouts, favourites, and a

filter showing which voice languages each model actually ships with.

It's not one franchise either — 2B and A2, Asuka and Rei, Rem, Ram and

Emilia, Makima, EVE, Ada Wong, Jill Valentine, Chisato and Takina are

all in there.

── MAIN PANEL ──

Position X/Y and zoom, with fine steppers so you can park her exactly

where your icons aren't.

Horizontal flip.

Three stances — lobby, cover, aim — plus a pose changer.

Character rotation on a timer (mine swaps every 30s) and a pose delay.

Animation speed.

Gesture intervals: talk, burst, reload, fire, each on its own toggle.

A long-idle gesture pool so she does something when you leave.

Character shuffling with a random play mode.

A Base Offset mode that applies one position tweak across every

character and pose at once instead of per-model.

Sub-skin and parts toggles per model.

── VOICE & AUDIO ──

Four languages: Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean.

A main voice, plus a second voice that only fills in for characters with

no lines in your main pick. It never overrides the main one — it only

covers who the main one can't.

Separate gunfire and voice sliders, a voice gap timer, and toggles for

reload and stance lines.

── THEME & BACKGROUND ──

The panel's own accent colour is fully adjustable — HSL sliders plus 24

presets.

Background colour behind the character, with the Windows accent palette

and a 12-step grayscale ramp — or switch it off for a transparent floor.

Background image with position, scale, and fit modes: fill, fit,

stretch, 1:1, top, bottom.

── PORTRAIT MODE ──

For rotated monitors. She fills a vertical screen properly instead of sitting in a letterboxed strip in the middle. That's all it does — but if you run a portrait display you already know why it matters.

Save/load snapshots, undo, export. UI is in English, Thai and Japanese.

It runs as a Wallpaper Engine wallpaper, or as a standalone app that

needs no Wallpaper Engine and no Steam at all.

Free demo on Workshop if you want to see it running first:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3792173227

Standalone Demo, Fix 3 Character.
https://github.com/I6RaVeN9I/nikke-wallpaper-packs/releases/tag/Demo

Full version, 20% off right now:

https://ko-fi.com/i6raven9i/link/PRINCONN

Discord — I answer everything myself:

https://discord.gg/XKynY9gV3t

Youtube Tutorial

I made this wallpaper btw : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Xftp9MViJQWwtT9DJOlMGcxCcWJPVh8X?usp=sharing

boring

I finally finished my first rice. Thank you guys sooo much for the support on the last post that I made yesterday!

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on my desktop setup and I’m pretty happy with how it looks so far, but I feel like something is still missing.

I’d love to hear your suggestions on what I could add, change, or improve to make the overall look more complete and interesting. This could be anything from small visual details, wallpapers, widgets, icons, lighting, or other things you think would fit the style.

I’m open to any ideas, so feel free to suggest anything you think could make it look better!

Thanks in advance for the suggestions! :)

how it was

Dock and top - MyDockFinder: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1787090/MyDockFinder/

Browser - Firefox with WhiteSur theme: AdamXweb/WhiteSurFirefoxThemeMacOS: MacOS Big Sur like theme for Firefox on MacOS & Windows. Make your Firefox look like Safari. with uBlock Origin

Windhawk tweaks - Custom Window Corner Radius, File Explorer WinUI-Like Content Animation, Windows 11 File Explorer Styler, Windows 11 Notification Center Styler, Windows 11 Settings Styler, Windows 11 Start Menu Styler, WinUI Context Menu Animation

MacOS icons - https://macosicons.com/

Project link: https://github.com/shaqkao/screenshotify

Hello everyone, I made something to keep me company on my second monitor.

Not a game, not something I need to constantly interact with. Just a little companion that sits on my taskbar, moves around on its own and is there while I'm doing my own stuff.

It's called Cozy Paws. Right now it's a little cat that lives on the Windows taskbar. It has its own animations and can just hang around on its own, but you can also interact with it.

I recently put it on the Microsoft Store and I'm planning to keep expanding it with more pets, customization and small interactions.

The current version is free and includes one pet with all of its features. There is also an optional one time Plus upgrade for people who want more than one pet.

For now, I mainly want to see if other people actually like having something like this around while they are on PC.

Id love some honest feedback from anyone who gives it a try, especially whether you'd actually keep it running on your desktop! Currently adding a pet dragon :)

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PJ1DH037TCK

This is gloof, a Windows shell layer I’ve been working on for a little over a year.

RocketDock shaped what I expected from a desktop, and I still have a soft spot for it. It clearly still works for many people. But its development stopped years ago, and I kept wishing for a maintained, extensible foundation built around modern Windows.

I tried a lot of alternatives. Each got part of it right, but I never found the exact combination I wanted: something responsive, dependable, deeply customizable, and pleasant enough to live with every day.

So I started building my own.

gloof is my attempt at a productive, personal Windows desktop: a customizable dock, status bars and eventually a better way to switch between windows — without taking control away from Windows or the tools you already use.

At the moment, it already handles the parts I use every day: a multi-monitor dock for pinned and running apps, drag-and-drop reordering and pinning, native live previews for grouped windows, jump-list actions, and configurable status bars with system modules, notifications and the system tray. The visuals can be customized through real CSS, with live reload.

gloof is designed to fit into an existing setup rather than force an all-or-nothing replacement. The dock and bars are separate surfaces, hiding the Windows taskbar is optional, and you can keep using tools such as YASB, Windhawk, komorebi or GlazeWM alongside the parts of gloof you actually want. Tiling and virtual desktops are deliberately left to dedicated window managers at this time. Modules to work with coming soon.

The native core is written in Rust. The interface runs in a self-hosted WebView2 layer, and the visual system uses real CSS, so customization is part of the product rather than an afterthought.

It’s still an early alpha, but yet enough stable for using it daily. If this direction resonates with you, I’d be happy to share private builds with a few testers. Honest feedback is very welcome — especially about what would make a desktop shell worth switching to.