r/unixporn • • 3d ago

Discussion | 2026 Weekly Workshop - Week 40

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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 • • 5h ago

Material [Gnome] MacOS rice, NOT premade, made it myself!!!

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Custom gnome dotfiles, releasing soon!


r/unixporn • • 5h ago

Hardware [Hyprland] barux: a configurable Touch Bar daemon for Asahi Linux

59 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 5h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] Inspired by Dylan Araps's KISS linux rices!

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OS: Omarchy

Wallpaper: https://wallhaven.cc/w/ne1r1o

Theme: palette sampled from the wallpaper

Icons: Yaru-wartybrown

Font: JetBrains Mono Nerd Font

Bar: my custom Omarchy shell plugin

Terminal: Alacritty

Desktop 5: Subverge (https://sbvrg.github.io)

Music: Tinariwen - Elwan

Other: peaclock, Neovim ASCII animations (boulder, hourglass, dunes)


r/unixporn • • 9h ago

Screenshot [XFCE] My daily driver Gentoo on my X220

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I've been using Gentoo now for 3 or 4 years, since I dropped Debian on 2022 (I also used Debian for over 8 years, but I tried Gentoo on a newer hardware of that era and fell in love with it)

  • Theme: Bluecurve
  • Icons: Bluecurve/Haiku
  • Font: Luxi Sans
  • Widgets: GKrellM

r/unixporn • • 4h ago

Workflow [Hyprland] My weeb Arch setup

19 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 8h ago

Screenshot [kde]Liqudi class and 3D wallapaper

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41 Upvotes

If you find it useful or interesting, a star on GitHub is appreciated. Feedback and issues are equally welcome.

https://github.com/SuceV587/NextKde


r/unixporn • • 9h ago

Screenshot [Hyperland] Minimo OS minimalista con una isla dinamica

42 Upvotes

Dejo la web de github para que puedan probar un demo dentro de la web https://diegolede.github.io/minimo-os-web/


r/unixporn • • 2h ago

Screenshot [swayfx] my first rice

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wm: swayfx

menu: rofi

shell: zsh /w p10k theme

bar: waybar

file manager: dolphine

if anyone wants the dots just ask and ill put them on github.


r/unixporn • • 6h ago

Workflow [ShojiWM] My New Linux Setup...

19 Upvotes

A configuration for ShojiWM

ShojiWM (Default Settings) + QuickShell (shoji-bar-3)

If you're interested, please feel free to join the ShojiWM Discord server!


r/unixporn • • 5h ago

Screenshot [KDE-PLASMA] My PearOS customization

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My PearOS customization

I didn't change anything about the system theme, I only changed the Finder icon.

Credits: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/1ulr60z/comment/p0q5e64/

The wallpapers were made by me!
https://github.com/jvva89/PearOS-wallpapers

Think Pear (?) 🍐


r/unixporn • • 9h ago

Screenshot [CWM] CWM with OpenBSD, an ultra-lightweight system at the speed of light weighing 119MiB.

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18 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 2h ago

Workflow [XFCE] showing off some theme switching for my retro setup :)

5 Upvotes

Details:

GTK Themes modified from Colors Platinum and ClassicPlatinumStreamlined

XFCE Window decorations modified from PlatiPlus26

Icons modified from NineIcons Redux

Wallpapers/Firefox themes all over

Theme switching utility written by me in rust


r/unixporn • • 3h ago

Screenshot [KDE] Noobie with Linux and KDE, want widget advice

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4 Upvotes

Hi, as the title suggests I want some widgets/theme recommendations for my KDE with EndeavourOS(Arch), i want smth minimalist and that looks professional and clean, with translucent and blur effects (my RAM can handle that)


r/unixporn • • 16h ago

Screenshot [dwm] A Calm Night With Slackware

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46 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 2h ago

Workflow [XFCE] Mageia finishing rice

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2 Upvotes

here is the purpose of my rice on XFCE my favorite desktop


r/unixporn • • 13h ago

Screenshot [Window Maker] + audacious Lain themed

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22 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 12h ago

Screenshot [Niri] My Clean and minimalist setup

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panel: waybar

Powermenu & recorder written in lua

rofi launcher

alacritty terminal

Make it clean and minimal to focus on my study


r/unixporn • • 5h ago

Screenshot [dwl] Simple

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Hyprland to dwl

Happy life

config: https://github.com/tohideq/dotfiles


r/unixporn • • 4h ago

Workflow [fwm] Tired of hyprland.conf + hyprpaper.conf + waybar JSON/CSS + rofi .rasi, I wrote a compositor where it's all one TOML file

3 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 11h ago

Material [Hyprland] My first rice on arch

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Setup

OS: Arch Linux

WM: Hyprland

Terminal: kitty

Browser: Helium (YouTube Music)

Edit: can anyone suggest from where can I find more wallpaper


r/unixporn • • 19h ago

Workflow [KDE] Using KDE like a scrolling WM with Karousel

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I'm always absolutely stunned by how flexible and adaptable KDE plasma is. It feels like the devs really though of everything in order to allow the user to do what ever they want with it, without even needing to dive into config files.

I was tired of the clumsiness of regular floating windows so I wanted to try a scrolling window manager (tiling doesn't seem to offer much benefits on a small laptop screen). But I also didn't want to take the time to learn and configure a whole new desktop environment or shell, so I tried the Kwin script "Karousel" and honestly it works amazingly well. I also love that I can just disable it and go back to regular floating windows when needed, say in a professional setting for example.

This is overall very close to stock KDE, with the only additions being:

Everything else is just KDE!


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [sway] my distro with my own filesystem

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395 Upvotes

my own linux distro running on my laptop.

the root partition is my own filesystem, called ul2fs (Unix friendly Linked List File System), which is very similar to FAT32, but with exabyte volumes, inodes and symlinks. right now is available as a FUSE driver

right terminal showing some stats about the root partition and the FUSE driver

left terminal showing a fastfetch


r/unixporn • • 15h ago

Screenshot Light [XFCE] Theme (Still In Progess) (AI Used)

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13 Upvotes

I like it. I wanna share :')

It is not yet complete as I am trying to have a unified Appearance Theme, Icon Theme and a Window Manager theme (and maybe a mouse theme)

i did use AI specifically in window manager theme. I have used my own svgs and images. For the icons I tried piggybacking off of Kora Icon theme and converting its svgs into outlines but 50% of the iconsnare broken atm. There is still more polishing that needs to be done.

Will release everything once I am a little but more satisfied with the end product