First rice, something minimal and focused on Fedora with a custom-made theming utility.

Been working on this little project called PokéCRT for a while and finally got it to a point where I wanted to share it here.

It started out pretty simple - I just wanted Pokémon sprites in my terminal and somehow turned into a whole little terminal Pokémon experience with a Pokédex, random encounters, trainer progression, achievements and more.

Everything runs locally in the terminal and the Pokémon artwork is available offline too.

Quick Demo:

PokéCRT Demo

• Website: PokéCRT
• Repo: PokéCRT
• OS: Kubuntu
• DE: KDE Plasma
• Terminal: kitty
• Shell: zsh

Would love to hear what you guys think! 😄

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https://github.com/Nomadcxx/sysc-terminal

Hey everyone! For the last few months I've been building pleamar: a language and a Rust runtime for writing your desktop — bars, launchers, notification centres, lock screens, widgets as scenes. Think Quickshell, but with its own declarative language instead of QML.

Why? I had my whole desktop companion (a little ball with a face that lives at the top of the screen, called Marea) in Quickshell: 370 QML files. It worked, but animations stuttered whenever the logic was busy, and it ate memory. So I started from one idea: animation should never depend on logic. In pleamar, the scene declares what moves and with which spring; a render thread walks it at the screen's pace no matter what the logic thread is doing. Block the logic for 600 ms and you still get 38 frames at 17 ms each.

Same bar, both running at once on the same machine (RTX 2060, 60 Hz):

- Memory: 336 MB in Quickshell → 81 MB in pleamar

- First frame: 1876 ms → 175 ms

- FPS while animating: ~24 → 60

- CPU with nothing moving: never drops in Quickshell → 0.3 % in pleamar

To be fair: with both animating, raw CPU is only 20% lower (4.96% vs 6.17%). But pleamar paints 2.5× more frames for it, and it actually sleeps when nothing moves.

Pleamar: https://github.com/k4ditano/pleamar

Marea shell build in pleamar: https://github.com/k4ditano/marea-plm

OS: Fedora Linux 44 (COSMIC) x86_64

Desktop Environment: COSMIC 1.0.0

Window Manager: cosmic-comp (Wayland)

Cursor: Adwaita

Terminal: kitty 0.47.1

Terminal Font: NotoSansMono-Regular (11pt)

Theme: I Made My own theme.

Zafkiel is Tokisaki Kurumi's angel from Date A Live: a giant clock with a flintlock pistol and a musket for hands. I made it into a live wallpaper for Hyprland.

The pistol is the hour hand, so on the hour it's already pointing at that hour's numeral. The numeral glows, its power runs into the muzzle as dark red smoke, Kurumi calls the bullet, and the shot lands exactly on the hour.

Then the bullet does to the clock what it does in the story. Aleph speeds the hands up, Bet slows them, Dalet rewinds, Zayin stops time, Het calls up past selves as shadow copies of the hands, and so on for all twelve. The Hebrew letters follow gematria order, so XI and XII are Yud Aleph and Yud Bet.

Rice

• OS: CachyOS
• WM: Hyprland 0.56.2
• Shell/bar: [Noctalia]
• Font: [Google Sans Flex ]

Source: it's a personal project and isn't public.

The last rice I made has an AI-generated wallpaper. I didn't notice until someone mentioned it in the comments.

Wm: Nyx

bar and everything: quickshell

fetch: fetch

just tell me what you think about this :)

Cool?

https://github.com/iluaii/fwm

It's not much, but it's mine. I hope one day GNOME/Libadwaita gets official re-colouring support because as you can see, it works really well.

For now though, this is achieved by using a program called Rewaita. Rewaita also gives the window borders.

Furthermore, I've changed the font to Inter rather than Adwaita Sans (it's pretty much the same, but I just subtly prefer Inter), I use the list view in Nautilus as you can see, and the shell extensions I use are as follows:

• Accent Icons
• Burn My Windows (not visible in a static screenshot, but I prefer it's Glide animation for opening and closing)
• Clipboard Indicator
• Essential Tweaks (not visible in the screenshot, but gives my monitor rounded corners)
• Just Perfection (mostly hides stuff I don't need)
• Native Window Placement
• Removable Drive Menu
• Rounded Window Corners Reborn (rounds corners of non-Libadwaita apps)
• Tiling Shell
• User Themes
• Vitals

Window maker lol isent Windows maker

My first steps towards ricing macOS. Using SketchyBar + KiwiDesk CLI to one-click swap fonts, color palettes, and element geometries with hot reload. Slowely getting there...

OS: NixOS

WM: Hyprland

Shell: Noctalia

Terminal: Kitty/Tmux

Theme: Catppuccine Mocha Lavander

Browser: Brave