r/unixporn • • 4d 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 • • 2h ago

Screenshot [Xfce] Bringing life to 12 year old hardware back to life

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65 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 17h ago

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

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243 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 3h ago

Screenshot [KDE] Windows 7 Frutiger Aero

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AeroThemePlasma with some modifications:

  • Themed and renamed Konsole to resemble the Windows 7 command prompt
  • Linux Explorer is a recreation of the Windows 7 Explorer as seen on the screenshot
  • Installed a plymouth theme that resembles the Windows 7 startup animations
  • Geckium + Aero UserChrome for Firefox
  • Modified fastfetch config to resemble the output of a Windows 7 install

Be advised, many distributions have now replaced SDDM with PLM. Meaning that you need to reinstall it again in order to utilize AeroThemePlasma's SDDM theme.


r/unixporn • • 4h ago

Screenshot [Sway] Got my fair share of terminal enlightment.

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My pc my tty :D


r/unixporn • • 11h ago

Screenshot [Hyprland] my final NixOS setup (for now)

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Shell: Noctalia

WM: Hyprland

Terminal: Kitty/TMUX

Browser: brave

OS: NixOS


r/unixporn • • 17h 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 • • 1h ago

Screenshot [Xfce] Night flight over a city that doesn't exist – now running natively on Linux

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Last week I posted a realtime flight through an endless procedural megacity as a Windows screensaver. A few of you asked for Linux, so here it is: a native build, no Wine.

Download (about 320 kb): https://flashview.net/screensaver/?lang=en (the Linux demo is the button below the Windows one)

What it is:

Street canyons, loops, barrel rolls, knife-edge along the facades, a climb through the storm clouds and a dive back down into the neon. Lightning strikes the towers and the glitches land on the beat.

Everything is generated at runtime: city, lights, flight path and music. No models, no samples. The soundtrack comes from a small softsynth running in real time.

Linux details:

- single ~320 KB x86-64 binary, tar.gz, no install, just ./flashview-city-flight
- X11/GLX, runs on Wayland via XWayland
- needs glibc 2.34+, libX11, libGL (OpenGL 4.5+)
- music through ALSA (works under PulseAudio/PipeWire); if libasound is missing it just runs silent
- no network access, no telemetry

Fly it yourself: grab the mouse and take the stick. Left/right turns at the next crossing, up climbs into a loop, down dives. Wheel = speed, R = rain, M = music, ESC = quit.

Tested on Linux Mint (Cinnamon, X11). Should run on any X11 or XWayland session.

On Linux it's a standalone demo for now, not yet an xscreensaver hack. That's next on the list.

It scales down well: smooth on an Intel N150 iGPU, and it looks great on a proper GPU.

+ **Distro**: Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" (Cinnamon, X11)
+ **Theme**: Mint-Y-Aqua (stock)
+ **Icon Theme**: Mint-Y-Aqua (stock)
+ **Fonts**: Ubuntu (stock)
+ **Wallpaper**: none, the city is the wallpaper
+ **Other**: [FlashView City Flight](https://flashview.net/screensaver/?lang=en) – realtime procedural night flight, native Linux build (the Linux demo is the button below the Windows one)


r/unixporn • • 16h ago

Workflow [Hyprland] My weeb Arch setup

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47 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 14h ago

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

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25 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 • • 21h ago

Screenshot [Hyperland] Minimo OS minimalista con una isla dinamica

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95 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 • • 21h ago

Screenshot [XFCE] My daily driver Gentoo on my X220

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104 Upvotes

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 • • 20m ago

Screenshot [ Hyprland ] Arch rice.

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r/unixporn • • 14h 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 • • 14h ago

Workflow [XFCE] Mageia finishing rice

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


r/unixporn • • 18h ago

Workflow [ShojiWM] My New Linux Setup...

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30 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 • • 17h 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 • • 21h ago

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

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26 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 16h ago

Screenshot [dwl] Simple

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Hyprland to dwl

Happy life

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


r/unixporn • • 1d ago

Screenshot [dwm] A Calm Night With Slackware

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53 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 1d 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 • • 1d ago

Screenshot [Window Maker] + audacious Lain themed

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r/unixporn • • 16h 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

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4 Upvotes

r/unixporn • • 23h 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