Desktop thread

Previous thread hit bump limit Previous thread: >>17783 Share your Desktop setups and Unix rices and discuss the choices you made for your desktop A little bit about mine: KDE Plasma with bspwm as my WM, my color theme is "Dracula" and I've done a bunch of small tweaks to make it as comfy for me as possible. I currently use Manjaro for ease of installation and access to AUR. On screen is Gwenview for pictures, tmatrix for the "matrix" graphic, customized Neofetch for system info and cowsay I use a X230t docked and connect to a screen (some crappy ultrawide LG screen) through an egpu dock to my GTX970 Please share your desktop and setup and discuss/ask questions about each others setup ʕ ·ᴥ·ʔ

To answer a question from previous thread >>21574 Okular is for reading pdfs, you can adjust color output, so I've made all light colors appear dark and like so the other way around, which helps with eye strain from reading on a screen. If i have to take notes i usually do it physically, since i like the freedom of having a notebook, and being able to carry that around (like for meetings and presentations), and if i do take it on the pc i prefer either making notes in vim or Typora (or whatever i'll be making Markdown documents in, this is also how i would take notes when i studied CS and had to take classes, but thankfully that time is over for now). I do read about half of my material on my laptop (All my news, all my mangas and some socialist theory books / computer science books), it's a Thinkpad model X230t which means it has an alternate mode where i can make it (a quite heavy but still usable) tablet, which is comfy for reading. The screenshot is from the docked mode for my main screen. This is just an example of how i would setup my screen for an actual work flow, i just installed a new SSD (1TB) in this laptop so i don't really have anything on it currently

>>21582 Is this the commie lain from before? Also based, I just installed KDE Manjaro and I am pretty happy with it, downloading drivers for it was actually more easy than mint which is what I moved from and that surprised me, it also surprised me how easy it was to update Manjaro, the KDE themes are also the best.

>>21582 Please give me the background image, please.

I am currently running a void linux installation with i3 as my de facto window manager. I initially want into this window manager and minimalist thing as a meme, but I have grown to love it. I used to run a soykafty solarized colorscheme but have decided that I don't want to burn my eyes anymore and used the 'Doom-One' colorscheme from Doom Emacs but I have modified the accents to match my current wallpaper. My current status bar is a slightly modified polybar with gaps because I like the feeling of having some space in my windows and panels and having some feeling of "controlled inefficiency" with regards to screen space.

Anyone using EXWM? I'm thinking about using it, gonna try it out anyway.

>>21614 I think this is pretty close.

>>21642 Those are some harsh reds, I hope it doesn't cause issues for you, but it still looks cool regardless.

>>21582 Very aesthetic, wish I had a screen that large >>21642 Much Red, but nice wm. I've tidied mine up a while ago, but its still mostly the same. I want to find more things that need notifications.

>>21582 >Share your Desktop setups and Unix rices and discuss the choices you made for your desktop ratpoison >>21583 How do you know dark colors cause less eye strain than light colors? What does matter is having the luminance of the screen close to the luminance of the whole room. Most eye strain is caused by hardware. Here are some little known things that are annoying as fuarrrk (and can probably cause eye strain) -"Viewing angle". Looking at a single spot without moving your head, each eye sees a different color. Happens on TN and VA type panels for me, IPS seems to even have it as well. -motion blur. it's pretty obvious if your eyes keep trying to refocus it's going to result in strain -PWM. At the corners of your eyes, a line turns to a bunch of lines every single time you slightly move your eye. -backlight bleed. all LCDs have this crap and even looking at a black screen can look and feel terrible, even after turning the brightness low enough that it no longer hurts -There's a problem where on some monitors just looking at one spot it feels like shapes on the screen are disappearing (but they still look like they're there). It's too subtle for me to say whether it's caused by PWM or something else. -Then there's other placebo crap like flicker past the flicker fusion threshold (so like a CRT on 85+Hz) causing "subconscious" effects. Also, using redshift or the like and setting the color temperature low or reduce contrast or brightness gets you into the edge cases where LCDs REALLY break down and look like crap, amplifying all the above issues

>>21582 used to run manjaro kde + a different wm as well. It just worked, but my /home folder and .dot folder got trashed with files, add up you had to disable splash screen, disable kde's compositor, shortcuts and desktop effects and add another 10 window rules to wm config to have an efficient desktop. It got hard to replicate a setup with scripts and hard to rice. Now i use this with color-scheme changing on the fly.

Any suggestion to improve it? I started using Linux three months ago, my laptop is really bad so i installed Xubuntu because it's light.

Thinking about switching to a different distro. I already know my way around Ubuntu, which distro is the "next step"? >>21938 Very nice music taste, how do you play music on the terminal? Also, you should listen to Autechre

>>21941 Thanks, i already listen to Autechre, it's great as AFX. I use CMUS, you just install it typing "sudo apt-get install cmus" and then you open it and add some music that you have installed on your PC. Here's a good tutorial to start using it: https://linux.die.net/man/7/cmus-tutorial And a good video to see how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGJZ5Cfaacg

>>21936 Really like the fluidity with different color-schemes of the whole setup. What music player are you using? I've been looking for something that also displays the album art.

>>21947 Thanks! The music player i'm using is ncmpcpp. I use tmux to split the fixed size popup window and ueberzug to display the album image, so it should work with any ncurses player. Something like this: https://gitlab.com/sourplum/dotfiles/tree/master/.ncmpcpp

>>21941 No one expects the dorothinquisition,

>>21941 There is no next step. Linux is linux, and if you're happy with what you have and confident in administrating your system, there's not much to be gained out of distrohopping aside from burnout. However if you're still set on exploring and have a computing ideology or paradigm you want fulfilled, you should jump to the distribution that best accomodates for it. Considering you're a lainon, you might be interested in: -Distributions that stress freedom in configuration such as Void, Gentoo, or Artix (/Arch if you want to use systemd) -Distributions that stress or encourage absolute minimalism and control such as bonsai, tiny core, KISS, etc -The declarative configuration distributions GuixSD and NixOS (both which can be essentially trial run by bootstrapping them to your current installation) -The efficiency and security oriented distribution Alpine, or the resource hungry but secure compartmentalizing distribution Qubes. -Out of the box ram-only amnesic distributions such as TAILS and Slacko puppy -Slackware The BSDs also exist if none of those suit your fancy. I cannot reccomend OpenBSD enough for being both great to use and having phenomenal documentation.

Cute desktops. Mine is pretty minimal. I use i3wm and the wallpaper I made using pictures I've found here.

>>21902 This is fuarrrking incredible

>>21936 Pape for first one?

I use this Parabola + JWM combo since march and i absolutely love it, although i've spent most of my time learning c and testing my hardware with FSDG distros and inserting the info in h-node. I didn't wasted too much time on ricing- it generally looks poor unless you're hyper obsessed with having all those colors everywhere. Parabola: Arch but with openrc (which i'm in favor of), no proprietary garbage, PCR instead of aur crap that crashes often and fixed browsers for my privacy taste. Gets 100MB ram usage at startup, with conky. Had to downgrade my GPU for this. Jwm: purple theme with the pseudo-motif hints. I start everything with a dozen of keyboard shortcuts and some startup commands like cpupower and xinput scripts. Wallpaper is fedora 29 purpleized. Pcmanfm: GTK2 theme is haiku + some slight modifications. Hate how uncustomizable it is but it's too late to change since i grew up with it on lubuntu. Editor: I do my job with Vim with darkmeadow theme and a decently customized nedit. Browser: Icecat with extra about:config modifications, uBO,uMatrix,Decentraleyes,httpz and invidition as addons. W3M and Iceape for some sites only. Music/Video player: mpv with ytdl. I like how it can grab videos from mutiples sites without running JS at all. Conky: I consider getting rid of it after they left out that laughable RAM display bug for almost 1 month and still counting. I just need a basic I/O, interface, CPU, RAM and HDD monitor. Image editor: base Krita since it's easy to use and i don't expect too much. Feh for just viewing them. One problem i have is that i can't show too much with this low resolution + stacking wm that doesn't play well for this. I could increase it just for the screenshot but i have to keep it down for my use since i have an eyesight problem. Any ideas on having more stuff on the screen at the same time without clutter and without tiling? >>21582 Unlike me you have a ton of unused space. It would look better with a more colorful wallpaper too. >>21583 What's the firefox theme? The font on the right window looks nice aswell. >>21642 Too much red, i have to say. I've also used void for my server for a while but then replaced it with devuan since wine is in a really bad shape there (no 64-bit and the 32-bit one runs without 3d acceleration only due to missing i686 mesa libs). >>21902 Good looking and cute. >>21936 What filter/scheme you're using on the second one? >>21938 Different terminal and a better browser. Also use LXDE instead or a plain wm to speed up the laptop. >>21941 Depends on what you expect from it. Next step is getting better at the ones you build from scratch: Arch-based, void, gentoo, alpine, nix, or even a bsd system if you dont mind. >>22009 What distro is it?

god's chosen resolution.

I'm >>21941 , it looks waay better now. >>22008 Thank you for your answer. i think i'll be sticking to ubuntu for now. Maybe in the future i'll give Debian a shot, who knows. But i'm happy with my decision at the moment.

>>22023

>>22025 youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py from ..jsinterp import JSInterpreter from ..swfinterp import SWFInterpreter

>>22025 >>22009 is Manjaro.

>>21936 Nice. Also, your workspaces read '1, 2, 3, 5, 6'.

using kde plasma for a while now after a long period from dwm to i3 and a bit of xfce.

>>22064 That picture is gross.

>>22064 lain does not approve.

>>22064 >>22066 >>22074 ʟ ᴇ ᴛ s ʟ ᴏ ᴠ ᴇ ʟ ᴀ ɪ ɴ

I've been experimenting again with window maker, this time with Lain inspired theme and old school icons.

>>22064 This is cursed.

>>22064 Nice!

Finally getting to grips with FreeBSD after stumbling about after leaving GuixSD behind. Currently running bspwm, cool-retro-term (which is oddly nice with all effects off), tmux for everything including status, zathura for PDF (at the same opacity as term), and vim with all (soonTM) of it's status in the tmux status line to save space. Oh and various status items change to blue, blue background black text, etc depending on state (charging lights up the battery meter for example). Not sure if there's anything else to monitor apart from mail notifications which I have yet to figure out. >>21902 That's a really nice setup >>22025 FOSS is nice and it would be fun to run another fully free system (using non-free wifi sadly). Know of any apart from DragonflyBSD (if that qualifies) on the non-gnu side that qualifies? iirc OpenBSD lost their stance over including scripts for installing non-free after install (namely fw_update) and now seems to be too slow (at least for me) for use.

>>22184 Who's on the desktop? That looks the spitting image of this person I knew in college. Northeast US?

>>22196 Other side of the globe though would have been amusing if she was the same.

>>21936 These are some of the best rices I've seen. >>21902 This one is really cute and has a nice color scheme. I'm just using i3 with polybar. Lately, I've been using animated pixel art as wallpapers. I generate my color schemes using Pywal and Oomox (GTK and Qt). I started using i3 some months ago because I liked the idea of being more productive, certainly I'm sometimes more productive.

>>22203 What are your visualizer and file browser?

>>22210 The visualizer is cava, sometimes I use cli-visualizer instead (called with "vis" from the terminal after installation). The graphical file browser is PCManFM, the browser in the terminal is called ranger. What I like the most of ranger is the command ":sort random", because I can pick random albums from my music folders and send them to my phone. A bash script would be faster, but in ranger, if for any given reason I don't want some of the first albums displayed, I can just skip them.

>>22203 That is a lovely wallpaper. Care to share?

>>22223 No problem

>>22025 >Different terminal and a better browser Which browser do you recommend?

Mine is as simple as it gets. Each workspace is for something specific.

>>22247 Well tire the best ones and see which one fit's you

>>22109 your wallpaper is awesome, can you share?

>>22283 Okay.

>>22285 Yeah, you can have it. I made it to match the default background color of windowmaker.

does android count?

>>22325 >2 clocks

>>22326 You never know when a 2nd clock will come in handy.

>>22326 >entire OS stack of everything made after 1990 is the left hand not knowing what the right is doing

if you guys are asking, yes, i'm on a virtual machine (don't wanna fuarrrk it up with dualboot so it's better this way). I'm using Xfce because it has this simple style that makes it look older. It kinda makes me feel nostalgic.

>>22362 yeah, the speed of xfce4-terminal makes me feel like im on a 90Mhz windows machine again

>>22203 i need that ascii

>>21582 r/unixporn didnt like my desktop

>>22451 I thought that was the AC insignia from the thumbnail and questioned why you would have it so small

>>22247 I'm mostly following this guide https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/browsers.html + some salt of course since that site is a bit outdated. I also consider some they don't have listed for which i pick based on my experience and trustworthiness like GNU. >Tor The onion protection is way too complicated to use properly in Icecat or the standalone browser (which seems to be available in repos of only a few select distros and some BSDs). It's great but changing its settings can leave you fingerprinted, the best tweaks are done in the Tails distro. So run that in a VM. >Icecat Deblobed firefox. The stock addons can be removed but before installing others you have to add these in the /etc/hosts file so that you don't get tracked when you install from mozilla's addon page: 0.0.0.0 addons-amo.cdn.mozilla.net 0.0.0.0 google-analytics.com This is to be used on every post-XUL browser and Waterfox, the addon page will have its UI fuarrrked up afterwards. >Palemoon Very good and fast, but you have to use the deblobbing guide on that page then install the XUL addons from palemoon's site. >Seamonkey/ Iceape Those two can be configured with just the UI settings while not having internet access, then it's the same as palemoon. Addon compatibility is worse than PM however, but the essential ones are working. >Iceweasel Old Debian version is just a Firefox reskin, FSDG distros have a better version which is still in progress. >Firefox Stripping this garbage is a nightmare (librefox, tons of user.js choices and about:config tweaks), but it's worth for musl/uclibc distros or BSDs which can't run anything else. >Any browser without JS support W3m, links, elinks, links2, lynx, netrik, xlinks etc. All are solid picks but you miss a lot of functionality. What to avoid? -Anything Chromium-based including garbage like Brave and Dissenter due to Google dependency (see Manifest V3 which will kill addons) and lots of privacy problems all around. -Midori, Qutebrowser, Otter, Winebrowser, Falkon and Sphere since they have poor/no means of blocking web trackers which is very important. They are aren't spying you but you don't have privacy either. -Everything else, since there are haundreds of them, most of which are scams. To meet my standards, it has to be free software, because i'm already comitted for almost always using free sw only, but as a privacy standpoint having the complete source code of the browser is enough. Then it must not make any aimless requests or being able to do so after a trivial configuration, so when you open iftop and nethogs then start the browser on a blank page no requests over the network are made (basically it means it doesn't do more than what you tell it to, including the spying). And if it can use javascript it then has to have access to uBlock Origin and uMatrix at bare minimum, so Gecko or XUL is required. Other addons i use are HTTPZ for https enforcing, invidition for redirection from youtube to invidious, and Decentraleyes to replace some api cdns like ajax.google with free ones which allow you to use some features from sites like rbt.asia without requests. I enable Javascript except for sites i trust (i disagree with the LibreJS thing), i don't make any requests to botnet giants: Microsoft, google, facebook etc. some of them i have blocked in the hosts file. (Except for invidious which is a proxy). For search engines i use ddg.gg/lite with bangs, for others see https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/search.html I made a titanic research on this topic so give me more questions, i've only scratched the surface.

>>22030 But it's so small

>>22518 solid advice thanks for posting for anyone interested in moving to icecat you are going to find out that some add ons(a lot) will not install because they dont have their extension id in the manifest json To ammend this Download the add on from firefox (rightclick save as) Note the extention id after temporarily loading it from the add on debug menu Unzip the xpi add on you downloaded Add the following in the manifest json file "browser_specific_settings": { "gecko": { "id": "{76ff949c-6d62-4461-8417-95996bc3ad48}", "strict_min_version": "56.0" } }, Then zip the files (not the folder) rename to xpi and you are good to install to icecat

>>22362 Is that ascii art what I think it is?

Too bloated, thinking of doing a minimal fedora install but i don't want to retorrent 40 GB of anime

>>22588 Whoops forgot image

Ended up changing colours and such but still the same with tmux and the lot.