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Ricing Related Question (self.unixporn)
submitted 2 years ago by Jean_Lurk_Picard to c/[email protected]
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I've been ricing my desktop slowly over the years (don't have a lot of time). I've gotten it somewhat down to what I like. I use Archlinux with Open box, polybar, and rofi. I don't use a desktop environment. My question is what are my options for ricing default applications like dolphin or similar apps with default gui's (xsensors) without using a packaged desktop environment. I believe my default theme and icons are Adwaita (GTK-3)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Kvantun for qt themes and lxappearance for gtk themes. In either one you'd have to first download a theme you want and apply it via correct program. You may have to export a shell variable to tell programs to actually use that theme (may not be necessary, I use a lot of flatpaks so for me it is)

The easiest way to get uniform colors in my experience is to full screen a program running the theme, use a dropper tool in Kolourpaint, see the hex color for what I want to change, then search for that hex in the theme file and change it to the one that matches my rice.

[–] iguanajuice 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry if I'm wrong, but doesn't lxappearance only set the GTK-2 theme? You set the GTK3 theme via dconf or set the GTK3/4 theme using the GTK_THEME env var. There are hardly any apps that use GTK-2 anymore; only one I can think of off the top of my head is PCManFM.

[–] Jean_Lurk_Picard 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you for this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What is ricing

[–] Cris_Color 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Generally, customization. My understanding is that the origin of its use for describing customization, modding, personalization, etc. comes from the car world where it was used to describe tastelessly modified cars with too many cosmetics, and is most associated with Japanese cars. Folks in various communities where the term has been used to describe customization have occasionally debated whether it has a racist origin (it seems probable that it does, though is now pretty much unrelated to any of that origin), and whether it's innaproprate to use today as a result

It's often used in this community to describe thoroughly customizing your Linux or Unix desktop, and carries sort of the same energy in my mind as like pimp your ride, but for your desktop.

Hope this helps!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you!

[–] Cris_Color 3 points 2 years ago

You're very welcome! :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel dumb. That makes sense. I always just figured the name was based on the dot files that are used to customize and a bunch of dots were being referred to as rice. Your explanation makes way more sense than what I came up with.

[–] Cris_Color 2 points 2 years ago

Lol, I'm very glad I could help. Have a good one! :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for asking. I just got here and was confused too.