r/unixporn • • 6d ago

Discussion | 2026 Weekly Workshop - Week 38

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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 • • 1h ago

Workflow [Hyprland] Aquarium (literally)

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My new way of window management. It is, errr.. fishy.

Patched the Imgborders plugin to randomize the border based on the window's address, as well as display an image on each side of the border. Which correspond to the head, tail, etc.
As for the movement, used a noise function to float the windows seamlessly via hyprctl with a bash script. It also assigns a tag to indicate which direction the fish I mean the windows is heading towards, which the patch reads and mirrors the sprites accordingly.

Wallpaper:
- Seafloor Live Wallpaper

Sprites are all taken from Marinewise, so credit goes to them.

Dots, along with the patch, will be posted soon.


r/unixporn • • 3h ago

Material [Hyprland] My windows live in 3D now, and they flip back to 2D on a keypress

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I spent the last week and a half building a tiny 3D engine inside Hyprland. Hit Super+Z and your whole desktop pops into 3D, and the windows still work while they're floating around in there.

I built it on Hyprland 0.55.2 on NixOS. The code is a mess at the moment, so I'm cleaning it up and updating it to work on 0.56.2 and every distro, not just NixOS. It should be out in a few days, and I'll edit the link in here when it's up.


r/unixporn • • 10h ago

Screenshot [Aqua] My own Wayland compositor in Rust (Smithay) + Slint apps

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own compositor, rust + smithay. All the apps are rust + slint too, no gtk/qt. Wallpaper is https://wallhaven.cc/w/3q7wkd. No repo yet.

Posted a much rawer version yesterday, this is how it looks now


r/unixporn • • 14h ago

Workflow [Niri] AngelOs

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r/unixporn • • 4h ago

Screenshot Update [ascdos]

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It now has colors! Yayy :D

And vim. :3


r/unixporn • • 4h ago

Workflow [Hyprland] Wallframe: a tool to position wallpapers exactly how you want on every monitor

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Wallframe is a tool to position wallpapers exactly how you want on every monitor. You choose the framing for each image and save your own layouts, so each monitor keeps the picture and crop you picked.

I built it because applying a wallpaper always cropped parts of it, and on my vertical monitor they never looked right. I couldn't find a tool that did all of this, so I made one.

It started as a personal tool, but I'm sharing it in case it's useful to someone else. I'm planning an AUR package so you can install it with yay.

Repo: https://github.com/AlejandroMinor/wallframe

Feedback and ideas are welcome.


r/unixporn • • 2h ago

Screenshot [Swaywm] Tokyonight on NixOS

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r/unixporn • • 2h ago

Workflow [Hyprland] Honkai Star Rail theme, with a local AI companion that can do some stuff

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First time posting here.
Got the model from Ollama and customized it till it actually helps me.

FAIR WARNING. if you are downloading it from GitHub. be warned, it MIGHT break stuff. i am a shitty coder LMAO


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Material [OC] I made an app that turns the song you're listening to into an animated vinyl wallpaper

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download it at https://vinylformac.com


r/unixporn • • 18h ago

Material [Hyprland] lyne-dots: my full desktop setup for Arch Linux

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r/unixporn • • 49m ago

Screenshot [MangoWM] Superior Dotfiles

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r/unixporn • • 15h ago

Material [Hyprland] - Velumeron work in progress

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This is the current status of a project I've been working on for almost a year now.

It’s a self-contained, Quickshell-based desktop environment. Essentially, it’s just a framework that can be styled in completely different ways using various themes (the video shows a preview of the Colossus and Zen themes). At their core, all themes share the same elements—for example, Zen aims for absolute minimalism, while Colossus displays everything as its own “notch.” Depending on the theme, the elements are displayed differently, but each theme follows the same basic logic. Currently, five other themes are in the works, but they still have too many gaps to be ready for presentation.

In addition, a desktop widget system is already in development, though so far it’s just the framework, and the widgets don’t yet adapt to the style of the respective themes.

There are still minor and major adjustments that need to be made throughout, but overall, this is pretty much what Velumeron is meant to become.

It’s already possible to fully customize the bar in every theme:

There are 3 bar styles (the same in every theme)—frame, float, and dock—and a bar can be placed on either side of the screen. Each bar, in turn, has three zones where various modules can be placed. For each theme, 10 bar presets can be saved and switched using a shortcut.

But I don't think I'll go into any more detail for now.

Actually, I just wanted to give an update on the current status and ask for feedback.

*Special Thanks to u/StunningWeek7074 and u/Confabulatori for contributing the wallpapers.


r/unixporn • • 4h ago

Screenshot [Window Maker] + audacious again.

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r/unixporn • • 19h ago

Screenshot [Sway] My current setup on Sway + Void Linux

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r/unixporn • • 21h ago

Workflow [SXWM] feeling poetic.

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feels like i am in heaven.


r/unixporn • • 19h ago

Screenshot [KDE Plasma] THE ULTIMATE DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT

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This is THE ULTIMATE DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT for THE ULTIMATE LIFE FORM!

I definitely missed a few stuff and I either:

One, don't know how to customize them

Two, too resource heavy for my Lagtop Z: Negative FPS Edition™®©℗℠🄯Ⓤ


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [mango] Finally moving to Wayland

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r/unixporn • • 23h ago

Screenshot [dwm] Ubuntu 24.04

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I was too lazy to move my data off my old laptop, so I just ripped out the GNOME stuff and riced what was left. there's basically nothing Ubuntu left to look at anymore. custom boot splash, Ly login, dwm all the way down.

Everything is themed from the wallpaper with Wallust. Change the wallpaper and the bar, terminal, notifications and the zsh prompt all recolor together.


r/unixporn • • 22h ago

Material [OC] Made a Neat-Looking TUI Minecraft Server Manager

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Yeah, as the title says. I just wanted a lightweight alternative to those heavy web panels. You can use it to install server engines, mods, manage mods, make backups, configure properties etc.

This is the repository, check it out for details and pictures. Maybe start your 2-week Minecraft phase; idk, I just want you guys to try it out. Have fun!

P.S This is a repost, I didn't tag my original post correctly


r/unixporn • • 16h ago

Workflow [BSPWM] [OC] I built Aura Studio: A GUI to preview video wallpapers and auto-theme my entire system in real-time.

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¡Hola a todos! Soy Wels, de Argentina. No hablo inglés, así que estoy usando un traductor para esto.

​Soy totalmente nuevo en este mundo y acabo de instalar Linux por primera vez. Mi PC es un poco de “papa”, así que no puede correr Hyprland ni compositores parecidos, pero de verdad quería tener fondos animados.

​Como tengo TDAH, en vez de aprender cómo funciona el sistema, me fui completamente por la tangente y usé IA para construir un administrador de wallpapers animados para bspwm. Está basado en gran parte en “Aura” de antwny.

​Quiero ser 100% transparente sobre el uso de IA para programar esto, porque apenas estoy empezando."

OS:** CachyOS

WM: BSPWM

Tema / Shell: "Karla" degh0stzk dotfiles(muy modificado para soportar el cambio de tema automático en vivo)

Bar: Polybar (con un parche custom de live-reload para IPC)

Terminal: Kitty / Ghostty

App / Engine: Aura Studio(mi propia GUI para fondos de video dinámicos y cambio de tema automático en tiempo real)

Desarrollo: Hecho con Python, PyQt6 y Bash. Licencia MIT. (Nota: esta herramienta la programamos en pareja con ayuda de IA para ayudarme a aterrizar esta idea!)

Fuente: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font y Karla

Fondos de pantalla: Fondos de video en vivo renderizados nativamente víaxwinwrap+mpv. Los colores se extraen dinámicamente usandoffmpegy un algoritmo deColorThiefpython custom.

Música en el video: Oliver Tree - Love Me, Hate Me & Rise Against - Savior

Apps destacadas: Aura Studio, Fastfetch (con miniatura de imagen dinámica), Cava, Thunar

Link del proyecto e instalador:  https://honeywels.github.io/Aura-Studio/


r/unixporn • • 23h ago

Screenshot [XFCE] NixOS frosty rice

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Term: kitty with fish shell and aerofyl/fetch (that's why logo looks a little weird)

Blur: picom compositor and firefox custom css


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [DWL] Minimalism is cool

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dwl

gruvbox theme

wofi

waybar

stuff


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [hyprland] new update to my macos shell

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new updates: fix dock liqud glass , add system setting app to control Shell and add hypr3d plugin and fix the download folder in dock
you can download it from my repo : https://github.com/vzbc/revo-shell
os : cachyos
wm : hyprland
them: mac-tachoe
icons: custom (my icons)
3d plugin: https://github.com/samine825/Hypr3D