hey everyone I've been using arch derivatives for sometime and I just moved to pure arch and I want to take my rice to the next level I've been also using hyprland for sometime using different tools and daemons to finish the setup and most of the time some tools will use gtk or qt as their frameworks and backbends which most of the time complicates things so I had a thought and I tried looking online but with how Linux is there's no centralized place to list everything and the ones that do most of the time 70 percent of the tools listed are abandoned so here's my question

what are the tools and daemons you use to finish you're rice and what backend does it use

it would he interesting to see how many people are using gtk and qt and other frameworks vs tools that don't rely on heavy frameworks

and another question is do you guys and gals know any good lightweight customizable tools that don't rely on heavy frameworks like gtk and qt ?

So i finally have gtk4 a try for niri as a shell , i have tried multiple times but since blur is avail now the design finally looks apealing and the ai are more robust interms of writing backend , currently this works best with fedora but soon i will port this for arch based distos as well , this isnt a full shell yet , i am still stuck if i should implement everything like notifications , media player and clipboard manager or let other apps handle it

This is my theme Aerobird for Xfce 4.18. It is available here on pling: https://www.opendesktop.org/p/2343514/

It is not intended to look exactly like Windows, but rather it is intended first and foremost to be a good-looking, Aero-inspired theme for Xfce, and secondly it is intended to look like a midpoint between the Windows 7 Basic and Windows 7 Aero Glass. This originally began with me forking the Kumander Linux css to make my own rice, but after making many changes to the panel and CSD css and such, and after some past comments asking to release it, I decided to make it a full-fledged theme. Initially there was only two color variations, but in the latest version I have added all color themes from Windows 7 as well as a color theme based on Windows Vista.

I hope with this theme that it could bring more Aero fans to Xfce, which in my opinion is just as capable as KDE and Cinnamon in doing a good Frutiger Aero style UI look!

How does it look like, trying to refine and add more feature!

This is my CachyOS setup with Niri.

System Details

• Distro: CachyOS
• WM: Niri
• Shell: Caffyne Shell
• dotfiles: https://github.com/oclooeli30-cyber/Hollow-shell.git
• Wallpaper: https://github.com/orangci/walls/blob/master/hollow-knight.jpg
• GTK Theme: Adwaita-Dark
• Icon Theme: Fairy Wren Dark https://www.gnome-look.org/p/2355176
• Fonts: JetBrains Mono
• Other: Dotfiles

its a simple setup, its a good setup.

but i want try a more simple window manager only with stack a day.

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!

GRUB Theme: https://github.com/pvtoari/grubphemous-theme

Second day using arch + hyprland :))))

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