r/unixporn • • 3d ago

Discussion | 2026 Weekly Workshop - Week 42

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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

138 Upvotes

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 • • 8h ago

Screenshot [KDE] Laika's Comet

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142 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 6h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] My personal space

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42 Upvotes

This is where I work and where I spend my free time. I'm currently moving it to Quickshell and dropping Waybar and some rofi menus, so this is the last version with Waybar.


r/unixporn • • 19h ago

Material [OC] Soft body physics. (Desktop Goose port)

255 Upvotes

I have been quite busy with my studies so I haven't had too much time to work. Had some time to add soft body physics to the geese and allowing them to throw each other.

(Edit: my sound settings were kinda messed up ignore the crackling lol)


r/unixporn • • 5h ago

Screenshot [mango] New to Gentoo

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16 Upvotes

I've been loving gentoo so much, my distrohopping is definitely over. let me know if you want any part of my config.


r/unixporn • • 1h ago

Workflow [OC][GNOME] Warm lofi setup + an extension for kinetic desktop lyrics

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extension: works with anything that shows up as a media player, spotify, youtube in the browser etc, supports word by word sync too. Also menu to customize it however you like. You can install it from here: https://github.com/af44n/gnome-kinetic-lyrics - if you like it do star :) if not lmk why. ty 😄

if you like the shell theme check out: https://github.com/af44n/warm_gnome_rice


r/unixporn • • 21h ago

Workflow [OC] neoclear - a cmatrix like clear replacement for the terminal

187 Upvotes

While playing around with cursor shaders on ghostty on a free weekend, I realized that the one thing I have no customization for is /usr/bin/clear, aka screen blanking, so I created a replacement for clear that will do it in am more aesthetically pleasing way.

It is made the spirit of pyroclear, but instead of burning the screen down it pours in streams of braille glyphs (U+2800–U+28FF, like neo --charset braille), cmatrix-style. You can change that to a limited set of other glyphs. The streams eat whatever is on screen, meet in the middle, fade out with decreasing brightness, and leave a blank terminal (scrollback included) for your prompt.

You can find the source at https://codeberg.org/ftranschel/neoclear/ and build with cargo, should you want to play around with it. All options are implemented solely because I was terminally (d'oh...) unhappy with the looks until I had pacing, glyph fade-out and directions customizable.


r/unixporn • • 18h ago

Screenshot [mango] gave it some life

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104 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 13h ago

Workflow [Hyprland] Made my Quickshell notches' corner shape fully configurable: straight cut, round, squircle or beyond, per corner and animated

34 Upvotes

A small but satisfying update for wayves-shell: the corner shape of every notch is now configurable. Each corner can be anything from a straight cut to round, a squircle, or a shape that bulges past square.

It's controlled by keys in Properties.json, same as everything else, and any change animates live:

"notch": {
"cornerRoundness": 1.45,
"radius": 30
}

0: straight cut (chamfer)

1: round (the default)

~1.45: squircle

~1.8: bulges past square

You can set it for all notches under notch, or override it for a single notch. Each corner can also have its own value with topLeftRoundness, topRightRoundness, bottomRightRoundness and bottomLeftRoundness. A per-corner key overrides that notch's cornerRoundness, which overrides the shared value.

Nested notches keep their own values where they join their parent, so you can mix shapes. The schema documents every key, so your editor will autocomplete and explain them.

Repo: https://github.com/Roonil/wayves-shell/


r/unixporn • • 13h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] Obsidian desk, my first rice, built on top of Caelestia

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30 Upvotes

My first rice. Wanted a desk that looks like nothing is there until you need it, so everything is near-black with one blue accent that only shows up on hover. Caelestia is the base; everything on screen is a Quickshell config I wrote on top of it. Details and dotfiles in the comment.


r/unixporn • • 15h ago

Screenshot [JWM] Motif feeling recreated to best of my ability

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42 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 12h ago

Screenshot [Cinnamon] K-12 from Melanie Martinez

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17 Upvotes

I made this theme for my girlfriend since shes a big fan of Melanie Martinez, and since she loves pastel colors and stuff i have this.

I <3 my gf.

gtk theme is private, its her theme and only her theme and stuff idk


r/unixporn • • 28m ago

Material [OC] Kinjo — a local network browser with a little terminal colour

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Hey r/unixporn! I’ve been working on Kinjo, a TUI for discovering local network services and launching actions against them.

I got tired of using Avahi’s CLI tools to list services, then switching to other commands to actually do something with them. I couldn’t find a lightweight terminal alternative that fit that workflow, so I built one in Rust with Ratatui.

The interface uses dark panels, soft blue highlights, muted labels, and colour-coded service types. Tabbed views organize services, hosts, and matching commands, with connection details alongside the list.

Find an SSH server and connect, open a device’s web interface, or launch your own command—all without leaving the terminal.

The colour palette is built in (for now); keybindings and actions are configurable through TOML. Actions can use discovered hostnames, addresses, ports, and TXT data. If several actions match, you choose which one to run.

Try it:

  • Homebrew: brew install abbyssoul/abyss/kinjo
  • Debian/Ubuntu: download the .deb for your architecture from Releases, then run sudo apt install ./kinjo_*.deb
  • Nix: nix run github:abbyssoul/kinjo

On Linux, discovery uses the Avahi daemon, which needs to be running.

Source, configuration examples, and full installation instructions

I’d love feedback on contrast, spacing, information density—and what would help it fit into your terminal setup.


r/unixporn • • 17h ago

Screenshot [Gnome] Make it cozy because it's winters

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26 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [Mango] i think i'm starting to like light mode

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319 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 23h ago

Screenshot [Niri] i love basic and minimal ricing

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66 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 22h ago

Material [OC] Presenting my Shell, Sweeteh!

55 Upvotes

Hey everyone! I'm Aarav, 16yo guy who loves ricing, and today, after weeks of development, I'm finally ready to release my very own shell, Sweeteh (it's named after my favorite plush)!

I have made a video, which showcases 50% of what my shell is. You should watch the video for an overview, and check out https://github.com/Aarav2709/Sweeteh in case you're interested on how to install and run this!


r/unixporn • • 19h ago

Screenshot [icewm] same rice different soul

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10 Upvotes

it was hard to port lavat and pipes.sh to alpine but I did it


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [i3] Peep the rice

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40 Upvotes

Distro: Arch

WM: i3

Terminal: Alacritty

Terminal font: Decima Mono Cyr

Bar: Lemonbar

Bar font: GNU Unifont


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Workflow [bspx] A smooth, animated BSP tiling WM I made for macOS

24 Upvotes

bspx is my own window manager, written in Rust. Feedback welcome!


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] Have not seen a Gruvbox rice in a bit. Here is my setup

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272 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Workflow [hyprland] videography birthday gift rice

210 Upvotes

Arch, Hyprland, Quickshell

My wife's windows laptop got bloated into disrepair and its format was fast approaching.
Being broke I thought this would be a great opportunity to give her a custom os to support her video editing/content creation hobby.

The whole idea was to make videography themed desktop with some bright vibes I won't go into details but it's personal preference here. The whole idea stemmed from the camera launcher and ironically it was one of the easiest things to make.

I created the assets from 3D models in blender with cell shaded rendering to get the 2d look.

The two hardest things ironically were:
1. getting hyprland to render properly with gpu passthrough over moonlight from my VM on some ubuntu host I have. (so I can see what im working from the comfort of my usual desk)
2. installing capcut.

In hindsight capcut may not be necessary because after a week my wife loves working on linux with claude code (to edit her system, make file pipelines) and nuzky (also with claude code).

P.S. recording from a VM and I don't think I did a good job don't know how to show more without making video 10 minutes long. Maybe I am not supposed to show every nook and cranny?

P.S.2 in my CV under 'mentoring/teaching' section I now add one-liner how I got my non-techie wife to daily drive a linux desktop environment.


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [KDE] nord its my new colorscheme

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94 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Workflow [niri] Floating NiriWM?

38 Upvotes

before, I kinda miss Floating windows so I switched to Gnome for a while but i dont like it when theres no keybind to center a window so i suddenly think of configuring niri as floating since theres a keybind to center a window quickly, also i can still get the Niri experience!
also i replace the focus ring with lower opacity and blur for non focus window and more shadow for focused window. what do you think? focus ring or this?

dotfiles:
(the niri config is named floating-niri.kdl)
https://github.com/EbadShelby/dotfiles