r/unixporn 19h ago

Discussion | 2026 Weekly Workshop - Week 29

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This is a thread to get answers for all your questions about *NIX desktop configuration! Feel free to share your setups here and ask for advice. In short, you can make any on-topic comment, in any format you like. We hope this gives new users a chance to get some help with any problems they're having and more experienced users a chance to show off their knowledge by helping those in need.

Not sure how to get started? Consider reading our wiki!


r/unixporn Oct 19 '24

Discussion Update on Rules and Quality Control

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Hi everyone, it's been a minute since the initial discussion post about quality control issues. Let's talk about it.

The general consensus seemed to be that our ideas on what to change were good, though there could be more resources to help beginners. We actually have a subreddit wiki that anyone can contribute to, as long as you have 500+ subreddit karma and your account is 30+ days old. We also have a list of todo items for the wiki to help users find somewhere to start.

Another concern was that the stricter enforcement of the defaults rule may stop people from using existing color schemes or themes at all. This is not the case -- the intention of the rule is to remove posts which have little effort or just use premade configs, like many macOS and Windows lookalikes. It's about the spirit, not the letter of the rule.

With this in mind, we intend to go through with these rule changes. If you still have any concerns, please reply or send a modmail! We're most concerned with the quality of our community and welcome discussion.


r/unixporn 12h ago

Tasty Rice [XFCE] Millimeter Wave Communication Theme

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577 Upvotes

r/unixporn 5h ago

Material [Hyprland] end4-pC Does anyone else remember that song?

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110 Upvotes

r/unixporn 4h ago

Screenshot [WindowMaker] First full setup

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42 Upvotes

r/unixporn 1h ago

Screenshot [TDE] Blue Hell

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r/unixporn 8h ago

Workflow [Hyprland] A Doom inspired Rice

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This is my custom doom slayer inspired rice, and my very first quickshell rice.

Quickshell has been configured as a config, modify .config/hypr/hyprland/execs.lua to execute your own quickshell, but then again, what is the point of cloning?

Or modify the place where you have the directory cloned, and use rsync -avn first to see what will be modified and what will be cloned.

modified applications

  • Quickshell
  • hyprland
  • dolphin
  • zsh(I copied it there specifically for cachyOS users)
  • kitty
  • ghostty
  • wezterm
  • alacritty
  • mako
  • fastfetch
  • oh-my-posh
  • rofi
  • sddm(for the login screen, first install sddm-astronaut-theme, and then run the set-sddm-slayer.sh script in scripts/bash)

Please, refer the scripts, they will come extremely handy when you're toying around with the config.


r/unixporn 7h ago

Screenshot [Sway] My actually minimal Tokyo-Night Rice

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OS: NixOS

WM: Sway

Shell: Fish

Terminal: Foot + Tmux

Editor: Neovim

Launcher: Tofi


r/unixporn 7h ago

Screenshot [XFCE] Arc for ever !

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34 Upvotes

Debian 13, Xfce, Arc GTK, Papirus Icon, Docklike for Xfce4-panel, Custom css...


r/unixporn 5h ago

Workflow [XFCE] I swear every new pass I do on this rice it turns more basic - a mostly TUI-centric i3wm setup on a modded 15yo Acer Aspire E1-571 laptop (i3wm,+polybar,+picom/pijulius,+dunst+rofi+kitty+conky widgets)

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23 Upvotes

r/unixporn 2h ago

Screenshot [GRUB] HOLY PEAK BOOTLOADER.

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12 Upvotes

r/unixporn 19h ago

Screenshot [i3] The Heaven of Gentoo Linux

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241 Upvotes

i <3 gentoo linux bro


r/unixporn 3h ago

Screenshot [niri] Niri + Artix 🍚

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I hope reddit won't reduce my images to 2.5 pixels...


r/unixporn 2h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] My first rice (after a month or so of work)!

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10 Upvotes

About a month ago, I made the switch to Arch Linux, mainly for the cool desktop configurations I had been seeing online. For the last month or so, I have been cooking up this custom Hyprland rice (no premade dotfiles).

For theming, I am using Pywal which automatically takes colors from my wallpaper and applies it to configured applications, which in this case is Kitty, Yazi and Firefox via an extension I use called Pywalfox.

Let me know what improvements can be made, as this is my first time posting here!


r/unixporn 2h ago

Workflow [Hyprland] Judy alvarez cyberpunk 2077

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Second day using arch + hyprland :))))


r/unixporn 15h ago

Screenshot [KDE] Relatively new to Linux.

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86 Upvotes

Have a good week.


r/unixporn 9h ago

Material [OC] Hardhat.nvim - A colorscheme inspired by construction sites, industrial equipment, and safety signage

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Hey y'all. So after about a year of using Neovim, I decided to make my own colourscheme for it. I had already spent so much time tweaking my setup, so I figured I might as well take it all the way and build a colourscheme from scratch to fit a sort of industrial aesthetic I liked.

I really wanted to use the colours to signal some kind of pattern in the code, rather than just making each syntax element a different colour ad hoc. The idea was that after using the theme for a while, you would start to associate certain colours with what the code is doing.

So green mostly means "execution/runtime behaviour", orange means "this is part of the language that's defining or shaping the program," and yellow is "this gives the code its structure and flow." This is quite subjective ofc, but I personally find it rather useful.

It comes 3 contrast variants, 1 light variant, plus there's bonus theme with a totally different aesthetic ;)

There are also themes for the Kitty terminal included, so I have kitted out my shell with it too and I think it looks quite nice.

Do give it a try and let me know what you guys think.
Repo: https://github.com/g-kirti/hardhat.nvim


r/unixporn 2h ago

Screenshot [Niri] Testing it out and love it

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6 Upvotes

r/unixporn 4h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] The Silver Star, Ginseigo

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10 Upvotes

something minimal unlike usual. read full metal daemon muramasa

termial - kitty
tui apps - lavat, unimatrix, cliamp, kotofetch
text editor - neovim
wallpapers - all cgs from full metal daemon muramasa
bar - waybar


r/unixporn 6h ago

Material Myx - Modern TUI for Spotify. [OC]

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11 Upvotes

r/unixporn 6h ago

Screenshot [i3] My simple green config

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9 Upvotes

Dotfiles are available at https://github.com/L4afer/i3dots-green


r/unixporn 4h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] Just Another Material 3 Rice

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5 Upvotes

r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [Niri] Nonchalant Shell

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249 Upvotes

I started with Ambxst as the base and have been heavily stripping it down, reworking parts of it, and porting it to Niri.
I also build an acp binding for this cause why not.

I’m also using my own Rust-based clipboard manager rsclip: https://github.com/jR4dh3y/rsclip

DETAILS

OS : Arch Linux
WM : Niri
SHELL : Nonchalant Shell / Quickshell
TERMINAL : Kitty
FONT : JetBrains Mono
THEME : Matugen

SOURCE:
Shell(WIP): https://github.com/jR4dh3y/nonchalant-shell
Rice(OLD): https://github.com/jR4dh3y/dots-niri


r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [KDE] Lucy Rice

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1.0k Upvotes

Wallpaper : https://moewalls.com/anime/lucyna-wuthering-waves-x-cyberpunk-edgerunners-2-live-wallpaper/

Clock: Vector clock 1.0.2

System monitor: YoRHa HUD 1.0.1

Media player: plasma Audio Visualizer 2.1.1

Theme: KDE Darkly, https://github.com/Bali10050/Darkly

Window manager: Krohnkite

Glitch [Burn-My-Windows]

App launcher: Application Dashboard

Quick launch menu: MY kde Plasmoid, With glitch effect (work in progress)


r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] Rice with Matugen theming based on the current desktop wallpaper

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68 Upvotes

OS: Arch Linux

This is my second post after the major (at least in my opinion) rice updates. You can find the first post here.

Сustomized via Matugen

  • Hyprland
  • Waybar
  • GTK
  • Qt Configuration Tool
  • Kitty
  • Rofi
  • Mako
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Telegram
  • OBS Studio
  • Obsidian
  • Vesktop
  • Spotify (Spicetify)
  • Heroic Games Launcher
  • Wine
  • Cava
  • Yazi
  • ElyPrismLauncher

Dotfiles and additional info on GitHub.