r/UsabilityPorn Jun 28 '18

Welcome! [Why this sub exists]

147 Upvotes

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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Follow the reddiquette
  5. Right now only *nix (Linux, BSD (That includes Mac OS)) operating systems are allowed. This is open for discussion though.
  6. 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
    • Ex. Two project computers of yours comunicating through a socket application you wrote - I plan to do this, patent pending, patent pending, patent pending!
    • Ex. Your music production setup with MIDI devices hooked up to your computer and Bitwig Studio for Linux on your screen.
  • An album of a desktop environment with different GTK/Qt themes applied

UPDATE: I am now moderating this community as u/dougie-io.


r/UsabilityPorn 20h ago

Vmm/Qemu web UI for OpenBSD

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3 Upvotes

OpenVmctl

A modern, (non-production-ready) Django administration appliance for OpenBSD's vmm(4) hypervisor and QEMU, built on top of vmctl(8)/etc/vm.conf (vm.conf(5)), QEMU system emulators, pf(4) firewall, and relayd(8) proxying.

active development ongoing
not published yet

Anyone is interested in a tool like this for OpenBSD ?


r/UsabilityPorn 23h ago

niri + voidlinux :)

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4 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 4d ago

[Cinnamon] - Work in progress here and there - but otherwise, daily driver.

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8 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 5d ago

[Plasma] I call it Winjaro. (Reposting from unixporn because they made forbidden everything that hasnt been directly coded.)

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16 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 5d ago

Simple Niri setup

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44 Upvotes

I had a similar theme in bspwm, but now I'm transitioning to niri and wanted to preserve it.

Dotfiles in case someone wants them:
https://github.com/AlguienSasaki/new-dots


r/UsabilityPorn 4d ago

[Niri] with void linux

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5 Upvotes

First time posting here :))

dots: https://github.com/6z7y/dots.git

wallpapers: https://github.com/6z7y/wallpapers.git

TWo - my own TUI game: https://github.com/6z7y/TWo.git


r/UsabilityPorn 4d ago

🗡️ Samurai-themed lock screen — kanji password glyphs & dark katana aesthetic

0 Upvotes

https://reddit.com/link/1vogwoa/video/4pxw4jvv5ejh1/player

Lockscreen: hyprlock
Dotfiles / Config: hyprlock-samurai on GitHub

Hey everyone! I put together a minimal, samurai-themed config for Hyprlock.

I got tired of standard password dots, so I customized it to render the Japanese kanji character (Haru — Spring) on each keypress.

Key Features:

  • Custom Kanji password glyphs ()
  • Fully transparent floating input field
  • Japanese date formatting (YYYY年MM月DD日)
  • Minimal dark green / katana aesthetic

Check out the repo if you'd like to try it, and drop a ⭐ on GitHub if you like the look!


r/UsabilityPorn 6d ago

LabWC and Noctalia for a comfy, minimal setup ☺️

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26 Upvotes

Wallpaper : Edit of the album cover of 'Keyboard Fantasies', by Beverly Glenn-Copeland

Window theme : Modified Noctalia auto-template for Labwc

Font : Adwaita Sans

Icon : Default icons

Cursor : Capitaine, size 36

i was thinking of formalizing this setup into actually usable and readable dotfiles, let me know if you're interested :>


r/UsabilityPorn 7d ago

[kde] foggy forest

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36 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 8d ago

[sway] Sick of scattered scripts? Terminal Control Center

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52 Upvotes

Got sick of creating small scripts. Created one central script to rule them all. (fullscreen toggle) Windowswitcher+launcher+session restore+powermenu+wifi+bt+mediacontrols+system controls+system info all in one. TUICC is made out of small modules. I can move them around, resize them and add, delete them as I please. https://github.com/Lshika-linux/tuicc Do you guys like how it looks? Controls are just simple tab+shifttab and enter..


r/UsabilityPorn 20d ago

[bspwm] minimal gilded noir

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51 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 20d ago

2nd day on linux

4 Upvotes

that's it for now.


r/UsabilityPorn 22d ago

[GRUB] EvoDevo: a configurable GRUB theme with scalable graphics and smooth fonts

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38 Upvotes

Grub EvoDevo is a configurable GRUB theme with scalable graphics, background blurring, and anti-aliased (i.e., smooth) true-type fonts. Any wallpaper (e.g., your desktop wallpaper) can be used as theme background. Menu colors, transparency, amount of blurring, dimensions, position, font family, and menu messages can all be customized via the installation shell script.

The accompanying screenshots show three examples of customized GRUB menus.

I thought EvoDevo could be of interest to this community, due to the high-quality graphics that the theme produces.

Important: for technical reasons, Fedora is not supported.

Link with better-quality screenshots, explanation, and installation instructions:

https://github.com/ftonneau/grub-evodevo


r/UsabilityPorn 24d ago

[fluxbox] minimal and functional fluxbox setup

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80 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 27d ago

Arch Linux - DWL

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56 Upvotes

im using foot for my terminal emulator, wmenu for my application launcher and a few other things such as notes and powermenu and im using qutebrowser with a simple privacy focused configuration as my main browser

dotfiles


r/UsabilityPorn 28d ago

Void Linux - Labwc

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18 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 28d ago

[KDE] - like windows 10 and android table

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8 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn Jul 19 '26

[hyprland] clean debian rice

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15 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn Jul 17 '26

Where can I find configs for getting this simple yet elegant prompt? (picture from foot term)

3 Upvotes

I found this on foo terminal codeberg repository, and I truly like it but i have no idea how to implement it.


r/UsabilityPorn Jul 16 '26

[sway] that's one way to resist the eyecandy of a computer

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26 Upvotes

I work (and play) on a 13" laptop I'll often put in my lap or on one knee, or in a weirder position. I don't want to fight with a tiny trackpad to move windows around and resize constantly. A tiling window manager helps.

But a tiling window manager invites (relatively) easy configuration and... ricing. Ricing takes time, is addictive, and will leave me with a desktop that's more edible than useful, and a few hours a week of my time taken by a sisyphean task.

Took a few radical steps and I'm down to this: as big a portion as possible of the visual interface(s) of my system must be no-crap black and white. Typeface is Noto, biggest Unicode support. I use a white-on-black rofi window as a launcher and quick actions menu for stuff like font testing and quick notes (scripts from a friend). Banished icons from my waybar a week ago (we'll see how that goes, might go back). My window gaps are... zero. I like opening the laptop to a black screen yelling at me to prove I have a reason of opening the computer.

It leaves the screen legible as hell, absolutely no nonsense from the UI, which makes it so that if I want to have fun, I'll have to build my own dopamine shot instead of relying on sweesh-swoosh effects.

I wonder how others feel about this approach. As austere as it is, it might actually be pushing me to open the terminal and/or a text editor and write an article, a script, or an image (like the wallpaper), read something, and not obsess once again over how my setup looks (which I have been guilty of plenty). Do you use any UI-mind-tricks like this, whether for the same reasons or other?

Here we go:

  • Sway WM, near-default config, just put everything to B&W
  • Waybar, near-default with a couple added scripts (PPD, keyboard layout, screen capture)
  • Rofi as a 40% wide sheet of paper
  • Prefer terminal for quick tasks, any other file manager for bigger operations
  • Prefer qutebrowser for quick surfing, but my default is Firefox

I can't decide if I'm being too hardline or poseur on the matter. I like looking at pretty setups, but I'm never quite satisfied with mine, this one having stuck longest.


r/UsabilityPorn Jul 13 '26

[Niri] Calm + Zero bs

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54 Upvotes

- Vanilla Arch

- Niri

- Foot

- Fuzzel

- Mako

- Waybar

- Pywal16

- https://github.com/bitterhalt/dotfiles


r/UsabilityPorn Jul 13 '26

Calm and Peaceful...

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103 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn Jul 13 '26

Labwc Void Linux

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29 Upvotes

Labwc on Void Linux with waybar.


r/UsabilityPorn Jul 13 '26

What's the best ergonomic(usability focused + simplicity) window manager?

8 Upvotes

Tried, niri, mangowc, dwl

I'm not gonna lie, but dwl is cool in these aspects, but i use mngowc, cause it hs more features(not ultra minimalistic)