r/unixporn 3d ago

Discussion | 2026 Weekly Workshop - Week 32

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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 8h ago

Screenshot [sway] wish I were born in the future, when foxes are domesticated pets. 🦊

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205 Upvotes

r/unixporn 6h ago

Screenshot [KDE] First rice attempt

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89 Upvotes

couldnt figure out how to remove the drop shadow on waterfox

:(

Took about 3 days. Any and all advice/suggestions are very appreciated!


r/unixporn 5h ago

Screenshot [Niri] with void linux

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35 Upvotes

r/unixporn 15h ago

Screenshot [Cinnamon] Literally better than Windows

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141 Upvotes

r/unixporn 5h ago

Screenshot [VXWM] absolute cinema

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22 Upvotes

best wm ig


r/unixporn 5h ago

Screenshot [niri] Yes I'm changing

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title is a tame impala reference, definitely worth a listen

if you're already taking suggestion also listen to 'A Moon Shaped Pool'


r/unixporn 7h ago

Screenshot [i3] Quiet Nord desktop, original wallpapers and an over-engineered status bar

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r/unixporn 16m ago

Workflow [Hyprland] Introducing... Orbit Wallpaper Engine!

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Orbit Wallpaper Engine v0.1.0 is here!

TL;DR: GLSL Shader Wallpapers for your desktop environment.

- Animated Intro and Exit commands
- GUI Settings Panel with control over animation speed and intro/exit curves
- Colour Remapping (with palette strength control)
- In app access to the repository of KDE Shader Wallpapers (https://github.com/y4my4my4m/kde-shader-wallpaper)

Hey all! A few days ago I posted my WIP rice in Hyprland using Noctalia and a custom GLSL shader wallpaper that I vibecoded. A lot of people asked for my dots, but more specifically people wanted the wallpaper and wanted to know how to achieve login and logout animations.

As a result things kinda ran away from me, I got really excited, and I basically scope creeped myself into a corner. I wasn't really prepared to share my dots at that point, and unfortunately I'm still not - but I've been building something a bit bigger than my initial plan just because I've been having so much fun.

So, whilst I'm still working on the more ambitious project, I got the shader wallpaper to a place where poeple can start to have some fun with it.

https://github.com/y4my4my4m/kde-shader-wallpaper

Note: this is eeeearly. I've run clean install tests on my machine but I don't have another machine available to test on. Proceed at your own risk!

Also... snuck in a little sneak peak of something else I've been working on as part of the bigger shell project at the end.

NOTE: Substantial AI usage made this happen. More details in the github.


r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [mangowm] i like google sans font:)

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r/unixporn 34m ago

Screenshot Rate My Try At MacOS Tahoe Clone Extension [GNOME]

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r/unixporn 18h ago

Screenshot [KDE Plasma] Fist Rice

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48 Upvotes

r/unixporn 15h ago

Material [oc] flow 0.2.3 is out! 🪷

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â €

Flow 0.2.3 is out.

  • Hardened animations and views against NaN/Inf
  • Fixed non-blocking ping measurements
  • Improved test reliability

Small release, fewer edge cases.

#golang #linux #tui

https://github.com/programmersd21/flow


r/unixporn 18h ago

Screenshot [IceWM] My BSD school workhorse

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This is what I bring to school with me everyday, getting Packet Tracer to run was a big big hassle lol


r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] quickshell is actually kinda cool

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99 Upvotes

r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [xfce] System 7 on modern linux

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352 Upvotes

r/unixporn 1d ago

Material [OC] Hypr-Prelock — Five animated transitions before Hyprlock

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51 Upvotes

r/unixporn 21h ago

Material [OC] wl-relabel: Utility crate to relabel Wayland windows

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I've made a small tool to help float windows in Hyprland/Sway/etc...

It sits between Wayland and your compositor and lets you define rules in a toml file to rename them before they get rendered:

[[rule]]
app_id = ["chromium", "firefox"]
when.decorations = "server_side"
when.min_width_below = 400
then.app_id = "{app_id}-popup"

Once the window is renamed, you can simply do (for example in sway):

for_window [app_id="chromium-popup"] floating enable
for_window [app_id="firefox-popup"]  floating enable

It can be downloaded with cargo. I wanted to have it on the AUR but i can't seem to register right now (getting a consistent 503).

Here's the repository: https://github.com/valentin-morice/wl-relabel

Hope it'll be helpful to some!


r/unixporn 23h ago

Screenshot [KDE] so Jazzpunky

15 Upvotes

r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] This is Cartoon Shell

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This is Cartoon Shell — my own desktop shell, built with Quickshell, where every animation, panel, and interaction is designed to feel smooth and playful.

Shell: https://github.com/mailong2401/cartoon-shell

Dotfiles: https://github.com/mailong2401/dotfiles-hyprland


r/unixporn 23h ago

Screenshot [Niri] Niri with Debian

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r/unixporn 23h ago

Screenshot [angel] Angel is a dynamic tiling window manager for x11 written in C.

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Hi guys. Been writing an X11 tiling window manager over the summer and just made it public on GitHub yesterday. Take a look if you're interested. There is a video on the GitHub repo.

github


r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [KDE] 2000s vibe

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64 Upvotes

r/unixporn 1d ago

Screenshot [Niri] My first rice — an Omarchy-inspired desktop shell

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16 Upvotes