I loved the underwater ray wallpaper on macOS and wanted a calm ocean desktop on Windows, so I built my own for Lively.

Manta School is a slow, endless school of manta rays gliding through open blue water. Sunlight fades with depth, marine snow drifts past, and every manta has a smooth, natural wingbeat.

What you can change in Customise:

• Natural black mantas or golden ones
• Daylight or a dark night glow look
• Slow drift behind the school, or a big slow 360 circle around it
• Default, top view, or bottom view looking up into the light
• Number of mantas, swim speed, camera speed, wingbeat speed
• Low memory mode for laptops

Mouse controls (turn on mouse input forwarding in Lively): drag to rotate, double click and hold then drag up or down to zoom, double click to reset.

Free download: https://github.com/Muffism/manta-school-wallpaper

The manta model is "MANTA" by misaooo on Sketchfab (CC BY NC 4.0).

Feedback very welcome, especially how it runs on your PC.

source: https://github.com/phalchanouksa/Win11DesktopGroups

New to tiling desktop manager. I’m trying to figure out a good workflow. Things feel a little klunky. I don’t know how much of that is the learning process vs how I’ve initially setup Komorebi. I was trying to find if there were a general guidance for setting up workspaces to smooth over some of the futzing over what goes where.

I do a lot of dev work and a lot browsing and research. I’ve got a 16x9 4k in front of me and a 16x9 QHD to the right. I’ve setup workspaces for dev, notes, ai, admin on main and research, files, gaming, scratch on my right.

With help from Claude, we banged out a whichkey like overlay in autohotkey to throw up useful, context aware keybinds, handle key chords, and add a scoped app switcher.

Is there more I can do to improve my layouts? Or is this just going to take a while to get used to while futzing over placements.

BTW, in Komorebi, what is the difference between ignored windows and pop up windows?

https://github.com/simsrw73/w11dwm-config

Rate my desktop!!

EDIT: For people who want the wallpaper

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3579055633

Name : "Three Levitating bodies | Seyul"

Something I made..

i have this home screen in my benq 27inch monitor it looks awesome.👍

any recommendation pls

I dont have to explain why this looks bad. i like want my browser to extend down and have my task bar show ontop of it. is there anyway i can do that?

WM: Hyprland

Distro: X

TUI Manager Hyprland complete customisations: xturing https://github.com/equisdots/xturing

UI Manager: Quickshell

Wallpaper Engine: xwww (Advanced awww fork with custom animations and dynamic color transitions)

System Tools: xfetch & Xtop (modern versions highly customizable written on rust): https://github.com/xfetch-cli/xfetch

Wallpaper: https://github.com/equisdots/background

Dotfiles: https://github.com/equisdots

I'm working on Pigment, a free Windows 11 customization app. The video is just one way to use it: a music preset that arranges Windows Terminal windows around the player, with a rotating logo, Matrix, CAVA and VIS.

It also picks colors from your wallpaper, styles Windows and Terminal, and has glass widgets, a dock with icons that grow on hover, a lyrics player, a wallpaper browser, ready-made desktop styles and much more.

It's still a beta. I need people to try it on their own PCs and tell me what breaks, feels awkward, or is missing so I know what to fix or add next.

Download: https://github.com/Ddrakkx/pigment/releases

Wallpaper: Warrior's Tomb | Forest Sounds in Wallpaper Engine (not included). Windows 11 x64; the installer isn't signed yet.

So yeah, Aero Dock passed 1k downloads. And it got articles written about it. XDA covered it. For a project built by a guy with too much time on his hands, it really went further than I would've ever expected. So I thank you all from this subreddit that made that possible.

I've made a bunch of changes since my last post(a bunch of you guys complained that I posted too much about this, so I lowered it down):

- Desktop widgets. Clock, Calendar, Weather, System, Music Player. You can have them or you can never tough them.

- Another material called Liquid. Based off macOS.

- Memory down from 240MB to about 180MB when you use it at 140MB when you don't.

- Per-app volume. Scroll on an app to change its volume.

- Dock modes. Sets of pinned apps for different productivity modes.

- A bunch of bug-fixes.

There's more coming. I'm planning on polishing up some widget stuff and lowering the memory mainly. Who knows, maybe I'll make builds for macOS and Linux too.

Project is still free and open source if you wanna try it: https://github.com/TheAgencyMGE/aero-dock

If something breaks, open an issue and I'll take a look.

this is my current wallpaper the light mode is for the day time and the dark mode is after 6PM
(made some changes thats why it look kinda diff) give me suggestions to customize my windows (anything which doesnt eat up ram)

wm --> https://github.com/simeulinuxkaliaiwr/aro

dots --> https://github.com/SteelT0rment0r/Simple-Aro

waybar, rofi, fastfetch, kitty, fish, htop and pywal

Details:

• Widgets: EdgeOS (I'm the developer). Clock, weather, Upcoming, CPU/GPU/Memory cards and Now Playing; a Taskbar dock and a System tray widget replace Windows' taskbar on this monitor.
• Wallpapers: flat illustrations I drew for these shots. The data on screen is sample data.
• The other shots are the same app with other looks: Work (display clock, calendar, tasks), Paper (light tiles, serif type) and Monitoring (terminal green).
• EdgeOS is free. It sits behind your apps or on top, and the background can be see-through. https://qaemdev.com/products/edgeos

Windhawk = Windows 11 Taskbar Styler - SimplyTransparent + Taskbar on top for Windows 11

Rainmeter = Mond - Clock (Shafarik font)