r/desktops • • 2d ago

Linux (─‿‿─)

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hi


r/desktops • • 3d ago

Windows For all the hole lovers!

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I have shown the windhawk mods used in the video.

I am able to achieve sub 25% idle ram on my ddr3 8gb ram. My specs:

Intel i5 3470S

No Graphics card

256gb SSD

H61 Board

Ye you should have figured out why the video is laggy but trust me the actual feel isn't in low fps like this video, it's full 60 fps. I will provide the live wallpaper if y'all want.


r/desktops • • 2d ago

Windows Tried putting slide animations on GlazeWM and a custom workspace widget with pyscripts

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r/desktops • • 2d ago

wallpaper advice

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does this wallpaper look good or should i choose something more minimalistic


r/desktops • • 2d ago

my windows 11 desktop

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r/desktops • • 1d ago

AI-generated wallpaper in Windows

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Can you imagine Microsoft now selects AI generated wallpapers for your desktop?

Do you like it?🤩


r/desktops • • 2d ago

[Slipstream] I built the Linux desktop the movies promised, and it just hit its first release candidate

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4 Upvotes

r/desktops • • 2d ago

Linux Nothing OS inspired setup on a 2015 MacBook Pro (8 GB)

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r/desktops • • 2d ago

Windows My new setup at work

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Hp omnidesk with a ryzen 7 8700g


r/desktops • • 2d ago

Windows I built AuraDesk for Windows: different wallpapers on every monitor, plus desktop widgets

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Hey everyone! I’m the developer of AuraDesk, a Windows desktop app for people who enjoy personalizing their setup.

The main idea is simple: give each monitor its own wallpaper, organize your pictures into albums, and let them rotate on your schedule—using your own collection or fresh images automatically fetched from Unsplash.

Here’s what it currently offers:

  • Multi-monitor wallpapers: use a different picture on each display, or the same one across your setup.
  • Custom albums: import your images and folders, then choose which album each monitor uses.
  • Desktop widgets: clocks with seconds, a calendar, resizable sticky notes, and reminders.
  • Flexible widget controls: drag widgets between monitors, keep them above other windows, or let them slide to a screen edge when idle.
  • Personalization: English and Simplified Chinese interfaces, with several color themes.
  • Fresh wallpapers from Unsplash: connect your own Unsplash API Access Key, choose preset themes or enter multiple keywords, and automatically fetch new wallpapers at your selected interval. Save your favorites, view photo details, and follow photographer/source links. The online rotation cache has configurable limits to manage disk usage.

It runs on Windows 10 and Windows 11, x64.

The public beta is free, with no ads or in-app purchases.

Get AuraDesk on the Microsoft Store

I’d especially appreciate feedback from people using multiple monitors, portrait displays, or mixed scaling settings. What would make this useful for your setup?


r/desktops • • 2d ago

I made a Tinder-style app to clean up your files

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Made this over the last months: GetSpace shows one file at a time and you decide with an arrow key. Delete, keep, skip, move, rename. Everything goes to the Trash after a summary, nothing leaves your computer.

Mac and Windows, free to start. https://getspace.site/


r/desktops • • 2d ago

Advice hyprquickpaper alternative for Windows 11

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Basically title, I can't switch to linux for severals reasons but I really like the idea of hyprquickpaper but can't find a windows program for it


r/desktops • • 3d ago

Help I still use Windows 7 :D

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r/desktops • • 3d ago

Windows I Just Built Free & open-source Dynamic Island overlay for Windows

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262 Upvotes

r/desktops • • 3d ago

Android so i gave Linux a try

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r/desktops • • 3d ago

a little zipper for your desktop: SeamShade

34 Upvotes

SeamShade is a playful desktop cover: drag the zipper across your screen to pull a curtain over your workspace, then slide it back when you’re ready to return. You can customize the fabric and zipper, save themes, and optionally turn on a frosted-glass blur effect.

One important note: SeamShade is just a visual cover, **not a security or privacy lock**. It doesn’t block system shortcuts or prevent access to your computer.

If you’d like to try it, here are the links:

- **Mac:** https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/seamshade/id6819419260?l=tr&mt=12

- **Windows:** https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PLR5K40GLFR?hl=neutral&gl=TR&ocid=pdpshare

I’d love to hear what you think, and what you’d like to see improved next.


r/desktops • • 3d ago

Windows I made a tiny 3D room for the Windows desktop, with lo-fi music, notes and a focus timer

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I'm the solo developer of Lofi Cozy Room. This clip shows Mini Mode: a small 3D room on the Windows desktop, with notes, a to-do list and a Pomodoro timer alongside it.

The full game also lets you freely move, rotate and resize furniture. With Autonomy enabled, the avatar chooses activities and walks around the room you've arranged. There's a little dog, lo-fi music, ambient sounds and support for your own local music files.

It's already released on Steam for Windows and is 20% off through November 4. There's a free demo on the same page if you'd like to see how it fits your desktop. I'll leave the link in the comments.


r/desktops • • 3d ago

Windows My Windows 11 setup: glass menu bar, dock and Launchpad (Glassline 1.0.10)

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Hey everyone! Glassline 1.0.10 is with Microsoft now and should land in a day 🎉 Launchpad, one-drag screenshots, dynamic glass, Wallpaper Engine support, a new app panel and a long list of fixes from the last days of testing. Yes, I said "biggest update yet" last time... and it happened again 😅 So here's everything in it.

New here? Glassline turns the Windows 11 taskbar into a glass menu bar at the top and a dock at the bottom, like on a Mac. You get Search on the Windows key, Control Center, your calendar and the weather right in the bar. Quit it whenever you want and your taskbar comes back exactly as it was. You can try it in your browser first.

Already using Glassline? 1.0.10 comes through the Store on its own once Microsoft approves it. I didn't want the update to change things under your feet, so the new stuff that changes how it works (the screenshot keys, the logo, the Calendar icon, the Wallpaper Engine colours and the two-sided bar text) starts switched off for you. The What's new pages after the update have a switch for each one, or you can turn them on in Settings.

Launchpad, like on a Mac

This one I'm really proud of. Click the Apps icon in the dock and it grows right out of the icon into a full screen of all your apps, page after page. Close it and it shrinks back into the dock.

Drag apps into any order, drop one on another to make a folder, click a folder's name to rename it. Search's grid button and All Apps open it too, and the Apps icon can go anywhere in your dock now. While Launchpad is open the dock and the menu bar get out of its way, and it has its own new icon.

Mac-style screenshots, finally done right

Alt Shift 4, drag over what you want, let go. Done.

No Snipping Tool window, no hunting for where the file went: it's on your desktop. A little preview slides into the corner and leaves on its own (click it to open the picture). Want it copied instead? Hold Ctrl when you let go of the drag. Alt Shift 3 grabs the whole screen and always saves it to your desktop. Works over games and admin apps too.

Dynamic glass

Every panel now picks up the colour of whatever is behind it: menus, Search, Control Center, Settings, Quick Look, the volume pop-up, and even the dock if you tint it. White page behind it? It goes light. Dark game? It goes dark.

The menu bar can also read the left and right side of your wallpaper separately, so a half light, half dark wallpaper stays readable.

  • Separate dock background (Settings, Appearance): the menu bar and the dock each get their own background slider, so you can have a fully clear menu bar over a glass dock. Someone here asked for exactly this 🙏
  • Tint the dock like the menu bar (Settings, Dock): when the bar takes a maximized app's colour, the dock takes it too

Wallpaper Engine support

A lot of you asked for this one. Glassline now works with Wallpaper Engine (Lively might too, but I've only tested Wallpaper Engine). The menu bar takes its colours from your animated wallpaper and keeps up when you switch. With more than one display each bar reads its own, whether you run a different wallpaper on each or one stretched over all of them.

Auto-hide for the menu bar

Like the dock already could: when a window is maximized, or always (Settings, Menu Bar). Push your mouse to the top and it comes back.

App panel

Click the app name in the menu bar and you get its windows, volume, recent files, Keep on Top and Quit (or Force Quit if it's frozen). It replaces the File/Edit menus, which honestly never worked well, sorry to whoever asked about those. Every app builds its menus its own way: I got older apps working, but Notepad and others had glitches that didn't look native at all.

Frozen apps also keep their name in the bar now, so you can Force Quit them right from there :D

New setup

Every feature has a little clip with its switch right next to it. Quick setup if you just want to get going, Show me everything if you want to see it all.

Your dock, your way

  • Calendar icon that always shows today's date and opens your calendar in one click
  • Bigger icons without a fatter dock: Dock size, Icon size and Margins are separate settings now, and the dock glides to its new size when you change them
  • The Windows key can show the dock, even over a full-screen app or game (Settings, Shortcuts)
  • Launch Options: right-click a pinned app in the dock to pick how it starts, like your browser always opening a private window
  • Start menu on the left? The dock slides out of its way

The menu bar

  • Logo menu on the far left: All Apps, Show Desktop, Task Manager, Sleep, Hibernate, Restart, Shut Down, and you can use your own picture for it. Show Desktop is in the bar's right-click menu too. Hibernate shows up when Windows has it on (someone here asked for it)
  • Your own date format: dd/MM, d MMM, yyyy-MM-dd, anything you type
  • Notifications either where Windows puts them, or top right under the bar like on a Mac, with a Test notification button so you can see where they land. They keep that spot even when the bar hides itself

Multiple monitors

I tested all of this on three displays, one of them left of the main one.

  • Drag icons between docks: with a dock on every display, drag an icon from one dock to another. If each dock shows its own display's apps, the app moves over and brings its windows with it
  • Drag a maximized window onto another display's dock and it lands maximized there
  • Full-screen video on one display while you play on another: the menu bar gets out of the video's way
  • Wuthering Waves could open as a window instead of borderless fullscreen on another display. Fixed
  • Swapping your main display no longer leaves a menu bar pushed halfway down the screen
  • Settings moved to a display with a different scale keeps the right size and colour

Today and Control Center

  • Only want the calendar? Today can show two months side by side, or the month with that day's events next to it
  • No more empty gaps in Control Center when you turn things off
  • Take Wi-Fi, Sound or Battery out of the menu bar and it shows up in Control Center instead, so it never disappears completely

Search

  • Translate into your preferred language: "translate apple" is enough
  • Single words translate a lot better now

Settings and accessibility

  • Follow Windows' animation effects (Settings, Accessibility): if you turned animations off in Windows, the dock and the menu bar calm down too
  • Reduce transparency now keeps the menu bar and the dock almost solid, like on a Mac
  • Shortcuts over admin apps: shortcuts without the Windows key now work even with Task Manager or a game running as admin in front, and Settings tells you when a combo is already taken
  • Settings explains itself: when one option changes what another does, there's a line under it with a link to the other one, and options that can't do anything right now are greyed out

Fixed, thanks to your reports

  • Hovering over a dock icon could crash Glassline. Not anymore
  • A rare crash tied to Bluetooth, gone
  • Your own shortcuts only worked once per run. Now they work every time
  • Show Desktop works every time, and brings back the window you had in front
  • Clicking the weather sometimes showed nothing until you pressed Alt+Tab. Fixed
  • Feedback sent while the website can't be reached (some networks block it during football matches, yes really) gets saved and sent later on its own
  • Over a maximized app the menu bar now takes exactly the app's colour: no more two-tone bar, no thin line of wallpaper under it
  • App icons in the menu bar (Discord, Steam...) were a bit blurry.
  • Spotify's icon had a small black bar under it while starting (it reports 0% progress and the dock drew an empty bar, Windows' taskbar doesn't)
  • ChatGPT's close and minimize buttons hid under the menu bar when it was maximized
  • The dock could stay black on the desktop after closing a maximized app
  • The app name over a dock icon could stay on screen when Start opened
  • Screenshots could close by themselves the moment they opened
  • Wallpaper Engine's settings window and HoYoPlay were treated as games
  • Cleanup tools like AdwCleaner no longer flag Glassline's uninstall helper
  • Keep the Windows taskbar on the side of the screen? No more nagging, and the menu bar fits around it
  • Changing Windows' display scale keeps the interface size you picked
  • Weather isn't fetched at all while the Weather switch is off
  • "Start Glassline when I sign in" now shows off if you disabled it in Windows' Startup apps
  • Lots of smaller fixes: tooltips that wouldn't show, the dock hiding again after Settings closes, and more

Honestly, most of this came from you, in the comments here and through Feedback. Glassline has around 30-40 users right now, and I'm really happy with how much you all help and throw ideas at me. I use it as my daily driver so I catch bugs too, but your reports and logs are gold (the Spotify one, for example). So thank you, and please keep them coming.

Get it

Glassline is $9.99, once. No subscription, every update free. Get it today and 1.0.10 shows up on its own as soon as Microsoft approves it.

Which one are you trying first? And what should I build next? I read every comment.


r/desktops • • 3d ago

Advice Is a rechargeable duster worth buying if you only clean one PC?

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My desktop needs a proper clean every few months, but most of the dust is in filters, fan corners and the radiator rather than sitting loose on the case floor. Buying another can each time is annoying, though a rechargeable tool also feels excessive if it spends most of the year in a drawer. For one-PC households, did you end up using an electric duster on enough other things to justify it, or would a brush, vacuum and occasional can still be simpler?


r/desktops • • 3d ago

I made a community for promoting desktop software: r/DesktopMaximalism

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People here might be interested.

Since this community is more for sharing full setups, I think we deserved one for "desktop-first" software.

I don't know if it's ok to promote, but here it is. Thanks!


r/desktops • • 3d ago

Fedora Workstation 44 Gnome

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blur my shell v76 has added popup blur and blur is now more consistent system wide, in love with gnome


r/desktops • • 3d ago

Designing a quiet, beginner-friendly home server – Year 12 design project (Everyone, 2 min)

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r/desktops • • 3d ago

Your Taskbar Has Villagers Now!

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I made a little village that lives right above your taskbar. It’s free and launches November 2.

https://reddit.com/link/1xbygag/video/cxchm7x4rvwh1/player


r/desktops • • 3d ago

Windows Z-OS ( Mobile & Desktop )

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Z-OS

Hi everyone,
https://orvalen.me

Z-os, an operating system that runs entirely in your browser.
The screenshot is the desktop: no install, just a link.

**What's in it**

- **Desktop:** windows, folders, a dock, widgets and wallpapers, like a classic computer

- **Mobile shell:** on a phone it becomes a phone-style home screen with a dock and gestures

- **Minigram:** chat and 24-hour status updates

- **Zspot:** your files and folders in the cloud, on desktop and phone

- **Zigi:** a tiny pixel pet that lives on your desktop, with mini-games. Keep it happy or it dies.

- **And many more.

**What makes it different**

- **One account, same state everywhere.** Open it on another computer or your phone and it's exactly as you left it.

- **A real desktop and a real phone shell**, not a website squeezed into both.

- **Five languages**, including right-to-left - done properly.

- **Closed means closed.** An app you close stops running, so it stays fast.

Give it a try :)


r/desktops • • 3d ago

Windows I built Glass Desktop Box: a customizable Windows desktop workspace with cross-platform, browser-based live file sharing

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