cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29998408

XFCE note: autohide panel (the clock is not), accessibility WM tweaks turned on (hide title...) as I usually have a window maximized. Raise-on-focus (Window Manager settings, similar setting in tweaks for window cycling) turned off, allowing rolled-up windows to not disappear when unfocused.

System note: ~~I have not maintained it well, broken dependencies right now and have finally got bit by nVidia as my system won't properly wake from suspend. Getting an alternative GPU is somewhat of a mess, especially prices and getting full performance.~~ EDIT: Updated, working fine now

I made this ultra-minimalist window theme a while ago (this is the second version, with the widget-capable layout and style-based color accent) and have been using it.

The title is 12px tall (the buttons are default 8px, though can get taller with alternate hover/click states).

At this size, XFWM has a design issue with font sizes/baselines so most fonts are cut off (the selected font is Nimbus Mono PS Bold 10, larger has text descenders cut because text can't overlap window contents)

I would try to take this idea further (and fix some of XFWM's other relevant issues) with my own WM but I use a somewhat niche language and couldn't figure out how to render a rectangle the last time I looked into it (the WM I was looking at doesn't have titles/window controls).

Not set on a name as lots of themes have size-based names but are not as minimal.

Loving this "frosted glass" effect...

WM: dwm White iPod: That's rockbox's UI simulator. Red iPod: Is just a dzen window with two lines

Been messing with it after midnight. Turned out ok, I guess. Dzen is fun to mess with, but I don't know if I want to use it as a statusbar and/or notification daemon.

The only thing I wish to know, is how the hell do I move a dzen popup, I tried wmctrl but that didn't work.

soooooooooo... links to the applications from the screenshot (I made them myself :3):

catgameGTK: tamagochi on Python3 with PyGObject

pynotes: cool notes widget (PyGObject)

pyclock: analog clock widget (PyGObject and Cairo)

If you've downloaded one of these apps, please leave a review in the comments below the post :3

xfwm4 theme

Fedora GNU + Linux, GNOME, tiny-dfr, MacBook with touch bar

Yeah I love gruvbox.

• Distro: Void
• WM: River
• Bar: Waybar
• Fonts: JetBrains Mono
• Symbols and icons: Nerd Font Symbols
• GTK-theme: adw-gtk3
• Icons: Papirus Dark
• Image Viewer: swayimg
• Media Player: mpv
• Notification daemon: mako
• Terminal foot
• Cron daemon snooze
• Shell: zsh
• Editor: neovim
• Filemanager: Yazi
• Launcher bemenu

Dotfiles: https://github.com/bitterhalt/dots-river

Software shown:

• The Browser is Zen.
• The Terminal is Kitty.
• The Fetch Utility is neofetch.
• The Shell is Nushell.
• The Wallpaper Utilities are:
  • pywal: Getting a color scheme from current wallpaper.
  • wpgtk: Graphical variant of PyWal, templates.
  • blurwal: Blurs wallpaper once two or more windows are present in workspace.
• Terminal User Interfaces:
  • radiogogo: Various radios from the terminal.
  • chess-tui: Rust-written Chess Terminal User Interface.
  • botany: Virtual garden.
• Browser Add-ons:
  • Pywal-fox: Uses PyWal's current color scheme, if told so.
  • Dark Reader: Automatically darkens websites.

I feel like you don't see a lot of vertical setups here so I wanted to share what I've done so far. I found having everything at the top was way too dense so I moved it to the side but added a second panel at the top in a different color (to go with the wallpaper) for the window buttons.

KDE Plasma with Plank dock, Plasmusic toolbar, AI generated wallpaper of Surge the Tenrec, Unimatrix, transfem Tails mod for Sonic 3 AIR

Some time ago, someone convinced me to try out Hyprland, and I've been working on this one ever since. It might look minimalistic, but not for the lack of trying.

Bare desktop with a cheatsheet widget on one screen and krun being used on the other.

Bare desktop with a launcher widget on one screen and a calendar widget on the other. The mouse is hovering on the lock desktop icon on the launcher widget sidebar area.

Browser window on one screen and swaync notification center on the other.

Browser window on one screen and on the other window, a terminal emulator, bmon, and htop.

Things used:

• Launchers: anyrun and rofi (rofi -show drun)
• File manager: thunar
• Terminal emulator: foot
• Bars and widgets: eww
• Notifications manager: swaync

DE: React/TailwindCSS

Distro: NodeJS

Theme: Uuh... Yeah, it's a theme

Shell: TBD

Source Code

Visit Here!

Aurora

• Plasma Theme: Colloid Dark
• Icon Theme: Colloid Dark + Custom Icons
• Wallpaper: Here
• Terminal: Konsole
• Fetch: Fastfetch
• Widget 1: Fokus (Pomodoro)
• Widget 2: Disk Usage

I still struggle with getting the colors right. Does any of yall have an advice about how to properly choose colors? The repo for the app is at: https://github.com/lasermtv07/i3colors The i3 theme is custom, the vim theme is sorbet and the alacritty theme is modified cyber_punk_neon.