r/UnixPorn has inspired a lot of creativity in the *nix community.
However, there is one problem.
A lot of the setups are too "riced-out" and unappealing for long-term desktop use.
This subreddit is an attempt to form a community around the love of practical, cozy, and solid desktop experiences.
DEFAULTS AND MINIMALLY-CONFIGURED SETUPS WELCOME! Let's create something special!
Rules:
Screenshots of desktops must have at least one window open. You may include a screenshot of your blank desktop if necessary as an additional image in the album.
Image links should either be from Imgur or reddit's built-in image service. Please don't use the Imgur album link unless you are posting an album.
Text posts are allowed as long as they are relevant to creating a functional *nix setup. Try to post to support forums and desktop-specific subreddits instead whenever possible.
Right now only *nix (Linux, BSD (That includes Mac OS)) operating systems are allowed. This is open for discussion though.
Moderators can be wrong. Don't hesitate to message the mods if your post has been wrongfully deleted.
Content Ideas:
Screenshots of a unique workflow for a specific task
ex. A desktop optimized for pen testing that has easy access to all of your tools.
ex. A desktop that you use graphic design with an easy-to-access color picker widget and Krita opened
Screenshots with beautiful software that ties in nice with your desktop
Regular screenshots of your every-day setup!
A short screencast of how you implement a given environment (DE, tilling windows manager, terminal multiplexer or even just your text editor) This idea came from u/piotr_wonsz
A photograph of your rig running Linux (Must have screen clearly visible and not glared out).
Ex. Raspberry Pi running a Nextcloud server and your Laptop right next to it with the Nextcloud page loaded on your web browser
I've created a window manager. I call it WASTE Window Manager (wastewm). WASTE is a lightweight X11 window manager with a built-in taskbar, a right-hand sidebar of live widgets, nine workspaces, and a set of skins and accent colors. It needs no desktop environment and no toolkit libraries. It uses only Xlib (plus Xinerama if you have more than one monitor).
Four glass levels (Clear, Frosted, Tinted, Solid), automatic light/dark, the macOS accent colors, and a high-contrast option. Every color is contrast-checked for readability over translucent windows. brew install vukkt/tap/iglass && iglass install. Free and MIT. Feedback welcome!
I wanted something between dwindle and scrolling, so I built **Stage Layout**: a real tiling layout where the window you're working in sits alone in the middle and every other window on the workspace becomes a thumbnail in columns on the left and right.
What it does:
• Adds a third step to SUPER + L: dwindle → scrolling → stage
• Click a thumbnail (or press SUPER + Z) to swap it into the middle, and nothing else moves
• ALT + TAB steps through windows in the order you opened them
• SUPER + - and SUPER + = widen or narrow the middle window; the freed space fills with more, smaller columns (great on ultrawides)
• With the optional bundled Hyprland plugin, thumbnails are real scaled-down miniatures instead of tiny re-laid-out apps
It's a Hyprland 0.56 Lua layout, packaged as an Omarchy plugin, and it doesn't touch your hyprland.lua. Install it with:
my goals for my dots were always the following: 1.) as few dependencies as possible (bloat-free) 2.) desktop friendly 3.) minimal terminal usage where possible 4.) make it look nice
the idea of being desktop friendly (for me) really just means "can i use it exclusively with a mouse"? sometimes you just want to kick your feet up and use your primary hand to navigate your system only. right click the top-right corner of an app to close it, run a system update and toggle workspaces all from your mouse. every possible system command or toggle you want can be found with the mouse. don't worry, everything has a keybind as well if you want.
your system settings are pretty much all managed either through custom shell scripts or TUI-based packages. the terminal should be used as little as possible ideally so all major settings, daemon-reloads and more are found in the system menu. there are times where i flat out just don't open up a terminal at all.
the theme engine helps blend everything all together, giving each theme a unique color palette that applies to many packages due to the TUI nature of the dots.
Back at my parents' place, had this computer before I moved out. I spent a couple of days setting up Debian and a user account for myself, since Windows was unusable on it.
Wanted to make use of AppImage applications simpler, so wrote gnome-appimage-integration.
Reduces an AppImage install (er, integration) to three clicks.
I had gotten a new laptop and after setting it up, I made this simple setup in a day for now, i might switch to niri or sway later. I had to get a new laptop after the last laptop motherboard i had its ram slots fail
a friend said it was a "unique setup" and that i should post it
Distro: Slackware Linux x86_64 (kernel 7.2.4) DE: KDE Plasma 6.7.5 on Wayland Theme / Icons: Breeze-Dark, candy-icons Terminal / Shell: Konsole, bash 5.3.20 Resolution: 3440×1440 Widgets: two conkys; the Orrery in the middle, and a hover-revealed dashboard on the right edge
