Desktop thread

>>61601 & >>67531 hit the bump limit wow! What are your favorite games edition.

>>75915 > What are your favorite games. Blasphemous and Salt and Sanctuary.

>>75918 What are those about. they look interesting. Mine as of now are osu!mania and surf. osu!standard is circle clicking. but osu!mania is like ddr for fingers and keyboards. Idk how to describe surf, but it's interesting. I prefer rsurf the most surprisingly, but roblox corporation and the community are insufferable. Also, is it me or have games been running way better on linux lately than on windows, regardless of native or wine.

>>75920 Salt and sanctuary: basically a 2D souls like, metroidvania Blasphemous: A metroidvania, but they've added the Spanish Inquisition to the mix, and now you have to kill the corrupted trinity that's trying to erase the real miracle

I dont play games much but desktop pic

>>75920 Surf used to be big in the counter strike community as mods. I miss old counter strike

>>75920 >>75930 I still surf and bhop CS:S. It hits a certain part of my brain that nothing else can, something about the math going on in the background, but expressed as fine mouse movements, especially in bhop. Someone said something to me months ago, and I hope to impart the mindfuck it gave me: When strafing to increase movement speed midair, a more mathematically precise strafe can be achieved by adding curvature to your left/right mouse twitch, coefficient to the curvature created when rotating the viewport around it's vertical axis. By emulating that curvature, it's possible to actualize a more perfect perpendicular reference to your desired acceleration vector. It's for this same reason that there is optimal acceleration(as opposed to incrementation) for each twitch of the mouse during a strafe, where less distance is traveled along the perpendicular the further out from the acceleration vector one rotates. Therein by this additional curvature we can get more acceleration out of each strafe.

Nothing crazy, minimal dwm+OpenBSD setup. Been daily driving for ~2 years now. Very comfy and nice. I don't really play a lot of games anymore. I used to really be into Valve games, but if I play any games now its either FOSS games/game engines. Here and there I'll occasionally play some Minetest, but not that often as it's rather demanding on my x230, even with graphics settings turned as low as possible and render distance <60 blocks. Other than that, I either play some simple games; basic X games (xminesweeper, xchess, etc.), terminal based games (dungeon crawlers, mainly), "retro" games (diablo, xcom) and some visual novels. I really spend most of my time on my computer either listening to music, doing work, watching shows/movies, surfing the 'net, or reading/archiving information that I find useful (gardening, mechanics, bushcrafting, tech, cooking, general self-sufficency, etc.)

Simple as >>75915 I don't play a lot of games, mostly 2hu and anime fighting games

first for void :-) it makes my corebooted gramps run very smooth

>>75961 switched to openbox again, had forgotten how easy to use and lightweight it is

daily driver + chroot in my funtoo install for my favorite games i would probably have to say 999 and cave story

current using "le good" edition of windows 10 but it's still kinda ass also here's my (good) old wangblow 7 setup i used to have on a different laptop

>>75983 *currently as for games, for me it's osu! (stable, lazer is mediocre)

:3 desktop threads, my favorite

>>76056 >>76056 Wallapaper. Need...

>>76194 startisback++ for the start menu and taskbar, 7tsp for the windows 7 icons and 7+ taskbar tweaker for some other tweaks.

>>76104 > i don't use linux as i'm not willing to run half my windows only software under wine yah, wine is like kicking dead whales down the beach > or to use a vm (which defeats the purpose of escaping windows in the first place. nod really. windows in a vm eliminates a lot of its problesm, like its vulnerability when exposed to the net, its phoning home, its ability to snoop your data, etc. it's like a criminal in a jail cell. yet you can still run your windows software.

flood detected post discarded wtf

>>75934 Did some changes, looks much better now

I'm still getting used to the pomodoro technique.

im not playing your game. let me channel shiva real fast ... >>76440 play skyrim 2

>>76056 you're lying. thread theme: https://youtu.be/YUKLs0KwAUs?si=ZrWqyNGTvm3DEln2 good.

>>76440 > ok I'm installing quake iii again :) heck yeah :D download it from http://openarena.ws/download.php?view.4 and remember to enable automatic downloads in the game settings

It's extremely plain, but it works. I switched back to Debian after using Fedora for quite a while and I'm glad I did. It doesn't feel as "corporate" and I prefer APT. As for the hardware, I'm probably going to buy a refurbished Latitude soon. This thing is a piece of junk. It does run old versions of Minecraft quite well despite the CPU only having two cores, so that's nice.

>>76491 bless Haruhi Do you use openbsd as a main OS?

>>76492 only on my thinkpad now but I will switch to it on my main machine (which runs arch now) in the near future

>>76493 I wonder what is your motivation for doing so, is openbsd better than linux in some way? I wanted to give a try to openbsd but I was too lazy to do that.

Gruvmaxxed desktop on qtile goated with the BAR.

>>76647 swaywm, waybar Maybe I'll switch to dwm, but I think it's pointless since it won't just work

>>76476 Update, moved to void linux, i already had it on all my other machines anyways so it seemed natural. got tired of having to upgrade my distro every 1-3 years, at this point all i want is to install my OS and forget about touching anything at all. the setup is the exact same but now i use wpa_cli to manage wifi, and nemo for the FM instead of caja

>>76728 have you tried disabling anti aliasing

>>76732 I did but the fonts end up looking so ugly. I'm not sure why and what to do about it. I'm on XFCE.

>>75934 Dang you make me wanna use OpenBSD. I'm definitely up for challenge

bspwm+lemonbar+st wish lemonbar worked natively on wayland. gonna port it to wayland by next month.

>>76728 The font I use is Terminus: https://openports.pl/path/fonts/terminus-font Specifically at size 14 for st, and size 17 for dwm. >>76743 OpenBSD isn't much of a challenge if you're used to Linux, albeit there are some small changes when it comes to config stuff. If you know basic UNIX commands, OpenBSD will work just fine. I started using OpenBSD knowing practically nothing about the Linux/UNIX command line; I knew basic ls, cd, etc. but I didn't know much more than that. Through using OpenBSD, as well as dwm & st, I not only have learned more about the command line, but I have realized the true power the command line and minimal cli tools holds, and I have become rather proficient in using them. OpenBSD also isn't an OS that tries to be "difficult". It's very easy, as long as you know what you're doing (although you can walk in with no clue like I did and still end up fine). I have always had an issue with that specific group of Arch/Artix and Gentoo users bragging about how hard their OS is to install and use (I see much, much less of this with Gentoo users than Arch users, but it still happens). OpenBSD, despite using a text interface for the installer, is very easy to setup and maintain; Within my two years of daily driving (on -current, the rolling-release branch) I have had 0 package breaks, kernel panics, or just random soykaf breaking that I have to take the time out of my day to go fix. OpenBSD allows for me to tinker and modify my system as much as I want, when I want; but it is a reliable, stable, minimalistic-as-possible OS when I need it to be. That's something I did not experience when using Linux. It was either one or the other. No diss though, Linux is cool in it's own right, but as a daily driver I want stuff to "just werk" with minimal (as low as you can go) resource usage, which OpenBSD excels at. And I haven't even talked about the genuinely next-level security features and documentation it has. OpenBSD rocks. Try it in a VM, or on a spare Thinkpad or something. It's dope.

>>76999 That's xfce? How did you get it to look like that? Also, how did you get Photoshop running? Would you mind telling me what version and how well it works in Wine? I want to try it myself.

been on nix for a few years. My reasoning was that I needed it because I managed to keep breaking my previous systems. Learning nix was a pita and even then... it's been quite limiting... sure it's 'safer' and you're less likely to break things and yes it is very stable in the long run but... the cost is limitation. In the end though... I think I kept breaking my regular old systems just because I didn't understand unix enough. Tldr: I'm back on arch now, running a minimal setup and using the mindset that nix helped me develop to keep the system somewhat clean and organised. One thing I realised I was doing wrong was just randomly installing packages upon packages without end. Often using multiple package managers or whatever worked to get a piece of software installed as quickly as possible. Of course, this is a mistake. Now I strictly stay with pacman and dip my toe in the aur a little and build things from scratch. I use a fuzzy finding tool to download and manage my packages (picrel). I'm still not entirely sure how to manage stuff I built from source, like the suckless stuff. Where does one keep the source files that have the uninstall files, patches, etc... ? Are there tools to archive them somewhere on your system and easily navigate them with similar tool I found to manage pacman? Any ideas, experiences, tips, welcome! Always eager to learn Thanks for reading my blog

>>77142 Too bad Nix has been completely exploding recently.

>>77143 I feel like Nix is overhype or a grift, just like most of these developer trends I'm learning about. Why? The Nix forums felt like reddit mixed with /g/ but high a higher pitched voice, and the existence of Guix. Their developers and users aren't constantly wrapped up in pointless drama like implementing communism through a corporate funding structure or whatever lol. Nix kinda feels like wrapping system configuration with a less intuitive HTML file now that I think about it. And wow is everyone I know that's involved with Nix filthy rich.

>>77137 So there are actual people who like gnome?

>>77151 There are people who like windows 10/11

>>77165 KDE, xfce, cinnamon in terms of full DEs. My second thinkpad is running dwm, which is probably my favorite non-GUI centric standalone WM.

>>77166 I do not like that Nictotine+ uses a GTK interface. I want something simple as QT or KDE.

Nevermind. I'm going back to Nicotine+ Apparently it has way less ram usage than the soulseekqt client

>>77226 Yes long time Soulseek user here, I used the Linux client after ditching Windows but finally ended using Nicotine+ as the official Slsk appimage is really old. Once you're accustomed to the GTK interface it's a nice client.

>>77146 I really enjoy how dark this theme is, the font is really good too.

>>77266 Same. I really like Xfce but GTK sometimes piss me off. The problem is I don't want to take time to learn and configure a new wm and I'm really accustomed to how Xfce works.

>>77397 Not that anon but I don't think they'll respond back so I'll post the wallpaper for you.

>>76435 >last update was 7 years ago if i install and play this(online), will my computer explode?

Trinity truly is a hidden gem. The best part is it's still maintained, even if it tends to lag behind in terms of features. It also themes GTK2 applications too so Palemoon-gtk2 looks great with it. >>77164 Nice. I use soulseekqt for the same reason.

>>77481 hey, this looks pretty nice

>>77528 It does everything you expect a music player to do. This is actually the TDE version so it has integration and theming without too much tinkering.

>>77528 1.4 was great, that's the version you're looking at. However, they fuarrrked it up bad with the release of 2.0 way back when and I haven't looked back. Personally I moved on to Clementine and then Strawberry.

>>76838 >>76756 >>76491 >>76204 >>75934 nice

>>78088 https://www.73lab.com/?p=wallpaper

Archcraft on HP Elitebook 2730p

I mainly just play visual novels in terms of games im not gonna lie

>>75925 og lainon with the lain pic on his neofetch, insane >>76201 wtf you guys have great desktops wtf DOSBox and PCSCX2? AND Paint.net?? With the STALKER game on the bottom left??? I'm sorry for sperging out, but this is so fuarrrking cool >>76456 >>76465 Great background pics >>78333 based Klondike solitaire player. Got back into it recently while reading some podcasts Not exactly playing it anymore, but these past few days I was on City of Gangsters. Surprisingly nice economy manager and influence trafficking simulator. Could use some fine-tuning and extra challenges.

>>77150 tasty looking tomatos obligate blank desktop. These threads always tempt me a little into getting a background picture or something, but I resist.

I'm sure a lot of people have interesting desktops here, post em if you want ^^

>>78500 Same :) body2short body2short body2short body2short body2short body2short body2short body2short body2shortbody2short body2short body2short

>>76491 I'm a tourist from another chan, just here to say I love teeworlds too.

>>78464 This isn't my main gaming pc, have been considering linux for it when windows 10 goes EOL. This is primarily a "work" computer cause the websites and soft for my job does not like windows and I have my upgraded T420 lying around.

>>78912 Windows 7? Very classy

>>78912 Should mention I cycle through ~300 wallpapers, changing one every minute or so >>78913 Aero10 theme with DWMBlurGlass. Can't seem to get titlebar size correct, as when I tick that option in DWMBlurGlass it bricks my PC and I gotta fix it through windows startup repair. Just in case you wanna try!

>changed to nord theme This is great. Of course, there will always be those one or two programs which won't fit the theme, but all the main ones I use look nice. I just hate that Tor resistFingerprinting forces light mode on webpages.

>>78417 >Age of Empires 2 Have you got any thoughts on 0AD?

>>79070 It's the default Cinnamon clock desklet.

disappointed there's no catppuccin

>>79097 pretty sure this is vanilla chrome os lmao

>>79114 It is, complete with a default wallpaper, but it's ok!

>>79128 Retrobar for taskbar?

>>79135 Yes, that's correct.

>>79138 The body was too short or e..empty? Write a longer p..post? Frankly, I couldn't care less.

>>79133 Accidentally quoted someone else instead of you. Apologies for that.

i cry sometimes when i'm laying in bed

>>79144 Why do you cry, my friend? What good has it ever achieved? Not only does it provide a mirage of solace by offering a temporary cathartic experience, but it's also a form of escapism. Crying not only showcases your helplessness and weakness of character, but it also highlights that you, as a person, do not have the iron will required to change your destiny.

>>79145 shut the fuarrrk up, and they're song lyrics by three non blonds

currently traveling, so I'm only using a USB and the laptop of friends

i am still learning step by step about i3 but i guess i am in the good way

>>77146 very nice, font? >>79795 what's your color scheme? :o and what do you use your setup for?

>>79854 Custom-made Lime color. Everyday use. 3D modelling, videogames, edu, etc.

Flat nord - Like it or hate it? I personally like the way the titlebar blends into the menu bar.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

>>80585 >chrome the defense rests, your honor

>>80585 >win11 >roosevelt quote gr8 b8 m8

>>80639 Well for what it's worth the file explorer theme is pretty sick. Also good wallpaper. If u think your soykaf's basic, check out mine.>>78464 I have ootb mint, with the standard themes. I'm a pedestrian in this thread

>>80648 >(dpkg) Debian, devuan or derivates.

I've made a few updates on the colors since last time. And I now have a DIY'd little CPU and RAM monitor.

Since we're posting desktop-related stuff, thought I'd show you a widget that I'm working in support for the Trinity Desktop Environment (KDE3).

>>80664 Arch indeed. With Flubox's bar, SysGauges cpu and ram monitor I wrote, and Hotpot, a pdf organizer I also wrote.

>>80640 thank you! much appreciated, it wasn't very hard, really easy to do actually. if you would wish to do it yourself here are the programs i used: Wallpaper Engine (the wallpaper used is "Serial Experiments Lain Wired) Retrobar (Windows Vista Basic) DPet (for the shimeji) https://www.deviantart.com/scenikeight/art/Evangelion-Desktop-Window-Sitters-DOWNLOAD-822940243 (for the evangelion shimeji) i used winamp with a lain skin from https://skins.webamp.org/ Vencord for the custom discord themes and i manually changed all the icons of my programs to older versions hope you get use out of this!

>>80639 Could you share your WP please?

>>80747 No, I've decided not to share the wallpaper with you.

>>80747 I found it for you. Searched "lain" on wallhaven and scrolled for a little bit. You could have also put his screenshot into yandex image search and it probably would have found it.

>>80553 That was really fun lainon, thanks for sharing that! Is this really Win7? If so why was this choice made?

>>80805 hey, i didn't say that. you stole my nickname

>>79860 I'll have you know, he is a heavyweight

>>80553 Miu? body too short or empty body too short or empty

>>79459 here ya go :) and adding some more text because the body was too short

>>80661 Keep up the great work! This reminds me of pharo, at least with the file inspector. Specifically that one program that lets you inspect objects. I really hope this goes somewhere, the current state of most ui and ux design is horrifying, if not on the surface, in terms of it's reliability, mutability, and implementation. Have you considered making it a tiling system rather than floating though, I think it would fit with the theme of proportional symmetry (?) better.

Incremental, tiny changes. All software and hardware is like kicking dead whales down the beach btw

My old laptop running Slackware and dwm. I tried to keep it as vanilla as possible.

>>80945 > old laptop specs? body too short

>>80900 Thanks! >Have you considered making it a tiling system rather than floating though I'd like to make a WM using this toolkit for decorations. I'll probably start to work on that by mid-2025. But it won't be a tiling wm, because I prefer stacking WMs. However, it won't also be a pure stacking one in the standard sense, I want to force everything to snap to a grid (and not just display corners). Grid whose size could be set in a config. Both the window position and size will snap to it.

>>80947 If nothing, it cured my distrohopping. Tho I fancy *BSD nowadays. >>80948 Too much Slackware. >>80949 Nothing cool: IdeaPad 320 Series featuring the infamous Celereon CPU. I guess it's not that old, it's just low-end garbage.

Can anyone suggest some better wallpapers? This one is just a bad photo i took

Does anyone have a wallpaper tile with Tux or Gnu styled like the old mac wallpaper?

>>81058 what's your daily check in like?

Void with a soykafton of packages i haven't cleaned off yet

>>81181 Excellent wallpaper. >>81319 Please get a better computer.

>>81319 what window manager is that? >post too short aeiueo

>>81321 It's written in the screenshot: i3. https://i3wm.org/ And I'm pretty sure that's polybar on top.

>>83866 Is claws bad for security because it doesn't allow you to compose html mail? Better to use Thunderbird??

>>80662 I know the thread died but I think this is neat

simple. dwm and void. i need to do a lot of cleaning but so far im liking btw is the irc down? im trying to connect in irssi but im unable to

>>90689 is it irc.libera.chat ?

>>90689 can i have the wallpaper :))))

>>90690 no it was irc.lainchan.org. i forgot to encrypt the connection but it's working now. i just can't join #lainchan channel but everything else seems to be fine >>90691 yeah :)

>>90692 it says connection refused to me? how can i join it.

i solved it joined the irc tfw

>>90695 I still can't join #lainchan :[, can you share your fix?

>>90694 >#lainchan: Cannot join channel (incorrect channel key) no idea whats happening

I recently installed Nitrux, which replaced the usual Plasma desktop environment for the Hyprland tiling window manager, and the Dolphin file manager with some completely unknown one called "Index". I have A LOT of issues, but I`ll just list the more urgent: 1) Extremely important: How do I edit the file-application associations? Whenever I try the "open with" option using Index, no options are shown; if I try Dolphin (which I reinstalled), every change I make is immediately revoked. Also, some apps do not work when I try double clicking them in Dolphin; this does not happen with Index. 2) I swear to God, there is absolutely no guide/tutorial whatsoever on the internet about how to configure Index, not even on Nitrux official site. Does anyone have any more info about it? 3) Is there any way to have a normal desktop with normal desktop icons in Hyprland, add normal "close" button on the windows, and enabling dragging without having to use other buttons? More in general, how can I bring the experience as close as possible to that of a normal desktop environment? The best I could come up with is editing the conf file in order to make all windows floating by default

Recently remade my rice, I like to keep it simple, but I also like to rice pretty much every single part of my system, even made a firefox extension so I can have the same colorscheme on every website I browse. I try to generally theme everything I can for that cohesive look >>75915 Ooooh I play osu!mania as well! I really like the wallpaper >>76431 I'm loving those widgets and that wallpaper, I need it >>77306 I love the aesthetic, its simple but its really efficient

>>90709 really cool aesthetic. plus bspwm. is that polybar? >I try to generally theme everything I can for that cohesive look me too but sometimes is a pain to set everything, i end up preferring monochromatic themes btw can i have the wallpaper?

>>90709 >imaginary linux I haven't heard of it and I just saw a github page saying it was some sort of hardened arch. I'm not going to be using systemd by any chance in hell, so does this work on Artix too I wonder

>>77450 2 years 2 late but thank you for this, I just set it up on my bullshit windows 11 work laptop

>>90714 Well it's my project, I plan on introducing new inits in the next version, as well as its own kernel. For now both the imaginary-angel tool and imaginary linux only really works with systemd, but I plan to change that

>>90721 Have you considered making it easier to rice out as a feature?

had it like this for a while, don't seem to ever get bored of it

On a fresh install of Arch, taking things more slowly this time. Almost no customization unlike before, and I don't plan on changing that anytime soon.

>>75915 what rythm game is that, Lainon?

>>75915 I'm still rocking my Galaxy Tab A8 as my main computer and it's sweet.

>>90782 Not OP, but based on the screenshot it's osu!mania with a custom skin. >>90787 Is it your pastime machine or do you manage to do any meaningful work/study with that?

>>90793 It's my main machine mostly due to the convenience, I do have a laptop for tasks where my tablet isn't capable, usually due to the OS or its lack of ports, but for most of my work, which is usually using the browser for research, an e-mail client, and some notes application, I have everything I need in Firefox, Gmail and Samsung Notes, it's especially useful how some stuff manages to sync with my smartphone, mainly Samsung Notes, it makes my workflow very practical, also love how my art is synched with Google Photos so I can easily access on my smartphone when I want to look at it.

>it's especially useful how some stuff manages to sync with my smartphone I understand the convenience, but that would make me incredibly uncomfortable. "The cloud" is someone else's computer.

>>90808 It's certainly not for everyone, it just works for me though.

most ricing i ever did was changing the terminal font thing's just werk and don't break or look messed up

I use Void Linux on my laptop but I couldn't get Linux to play nice with my monitors... so I've had this PC setup for a while. if it ain't broke

>>90924 winbloataboat E.T Callin home Where are you getting your music from btw?

Artix OpenRC - GNU/Linux Black & green matrix / Lain theme >why Artix the perks of Arch without the bloated systemd >usecase: everything from writing articles , documents , programming , media and gaming. Mainly things that don't require crazy opsec. That's my void linux musl Thinkpad L470 job

>>90936 Soulseek, using the superior frontend application Nicotine+. (and a bit of my own CD collection but that's too much work to rip.) >>90937 sick stuff

>>90947 I have a bunch of stuff on CD But I need to find somewhere else to rip half decent audio from, ripping it off youtube is doodoo quality and TOOL Requires quality

Bspwm and polybar. Font on polybar is bitbuntu. I like using ascii art as background because i can set the background color separately to fit the rest of the colors.

>>75915 Nothing special. Making my way through the 99 lisp problems in Guile right now.

mangowc+void is so comfy windowed just for the vibes too bad yambar is unmaintained, it's really good

>>91323 flood detected, post discarded, im just trying to show off my desktop..

>>81043 can you share the photo though? it looks great

Lots of pretty cool backgrounds here, imma yoink a few :shy: Not gonna post desktops because confidentiality (some folders names are real people names) but here are the backgrounds of my two machines. i wish i had time to play games :') i'd love to fully play these 20 ish games that have been collecting dust on my drives for god knows how many years

I got a bit bored of using KDE so I switched to sway just because. I've selenized all the things, also just because. It's been kinda fun going back to tiling since I used to use i3 a decade ago. Games-wise I guess my favourite's still Metal Gear Solid 2. Completed it so many times. Currently playing Dark Souls though.

>>91561 simple but great colors and solid distro- 8/10 >>91325 mismatched, disorganized- 5/10 >>91303 clean, one of the better gdk desktops ive seen, nice pape- 8/10 >>90982 7/10- generally solid i like the bg and widgets >>90937 awesome setup cli ftw 10/10 >>90924 0/10 u know why >>90851 best bsd 8/10

>>91576 How do you close your windows? I really like the borderless look though!

>>80051 Lol, everyone hated it so much you got zero replies!

>>91592 >>80051 Hey- I like it I just dont have the energy to comment on desktops usually- solid color- solid panel 9/10

>>91591 >>91591 thanks mang- only terminals have no title bar and I exit out of terminals with ctrl-D sometimes i'll right click on their icon in the panel and close them via option menu but primarily I access the terminals with Win + T and close them with Ctrl + D- fun fact you can almost always use Ctrl-D to cancel a terminal program mid process

I am kinda os agnostic and non religious personality.

>>91632 brother you should accept terry davis as your lord and savior and take TempleOS into your heart

It's not much, but it's comfy. I've never really used basic WMs before, is there any other ones I should try aside from IceWM? I only really plan on using this thing for writing, maybe basic web browsing and coding from time to time.

>>91646 >It's not much, but it's comfy. I've never really used basic WMs before, is there any other ones I should try aside from IceWM? Yes. Try WindowMaker (wmaker) and Ratpoison next. WindowMaker is stacking/floating WM that's similar to NeXT Step GUI. On the other hand, Ratpoison is simple and manually tiling WM. It works just like Tmux or Gnu Screen but it's used for managing GUI windows. Type ctrl+b ? to see list of keybindings. The best thing about Ratpoison is that it doesn't get in your way and it's simple. It can also select a window by typing a part of its name ( C-t ' ) and try pressing Tab key. CWM also has this feature and it fully supports floating/stacking windows. (the screenshots aren't mine) Here is example config file aka ~/.ratpoisonrc # mostly copied from Arch Wiki # https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ratpoison # # I suggest reading the Ratpoison info manual because it's good and short! # # Link https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/doc/ # Make messages appear in the center: set bargravity c # run a programs at start. # you can also use your ~/.xinitrc exec xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr exec xterm # Keybindings for programs. # "bind" command requires that you first press the prefix key. # Overriding CTRL+t 'c' to start alacritty instead of default xterm. bind c exec alacritty bind f exec firefox # Make a screenshot command for Ratpoison. # Bind it to Meta-Ctrl-PrintScrn. # Note that "definekey top" causes the keybinding to work without prefix key. alias sshot exec import -window root ~/screenshot-$(date +%F).jpg definekey top M-C-Print sshot # Virtual desktops. # Note: you probably want to use rpws gnewbg one gnewbg two # rpws # see /usr/share/ratpoison/ # Press Alt+F1 or Alt+F2 exec /usr/bin/rpws init 2 -k # Alt+Tab now switch to next window. definekey top M-Tab next # resurrect that ugly rodent! exec /usr/share/ratpoison/sloppy # also, see https://github.com/jbaber/ratpoison_scripts # advanced custom Ratpoison commands definekey top M-l exec ratpoison -c "select -" -c "gprev" -c "next" definekey top M-h exec ratpoison -c "select -" -c "gnext" -c "next" # these 2 are fromkborling/.ratpoisonrc GitHub Gist paste. # make a display a calendar for the current month. #bind a exec ratpoison -d :0.0 -c "echo `date +'%r - %A %n %D - %B'` `cal | tail -n +2 | sed -e 's/^Su/\n\n Su/' -e 's/.*/ & /' -e \"s/\ $(date +%e)\ /\/\"`" #bind c exec xterm -e bash -c "tmux -q has-session && exec tmux attach-session -d || exec tmux new-session -n$USER -s$USER@$HOSTNAME" # EOF StumpWM is basically extended clone of Ratpoison but it's written and configured in Common Lisp. You can also browse this list https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Window_manager#Stacking_window_managers

>>91576 Haven't seen anyone use Bunsenlabs in a while. Nice setup, Lainon.

>>91652 Have you tried EXWM? It's perfect for me.

>>90787 I put the Edge Panel (A.K.A. Taskbar/Dock) on the left and now it sort of reminds me of Ubuntu with Android/One UI having both it on the left, and a top panel, even if said panel is transparent here. I don't know, I just like how it reminds me of my favorite Linux distro, and the iconic Unity DE, though even nowadays with GNOME they still go for this look somewhat.

I wish I was cool enough to figure out all these cools themes, WMs, and TUI apps, but I figure unless I'm trying to impress people I'm better off spending my time studying coding.

Haven't posted here in a while, probably going to change the font. A part of me is curious about Gentoo but dunno if I have time for it. >>91725 End of the day use what works best for you and go from there.

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how come barely any of the setups itt use wayland? there are plenty of good wayland compositors, i.e. sway, river, niri, labwc...

>>91758 >how come barely any of the setups itt use wayland? picrel >good wayland compositors, i.e. sway, river, niri, labwc... they're not good. they're a bloated mess. i can't have 20 of them installed to play around because each and everyone of them will bring redundancy when it comes to wayland components. i won't even explain mysef further, do 5 minutes of reading about the design and implementation of wayland vs the monolithic xorg and you'll see xorg or xlibre are still the best options. also it's extremely stupid to loose our desktop history for some hipster shiny new thing that's a glowie tech handled by redhat. to expand further, check out "reflections on trusting trust"

>>91758 I use sway and have for years, but I don't really do much ricing so there's no point in showing it off. >>91759 > i can't have 20 of them installed to play around you totally can. The entire sway package on my system is less than 500 kilobytes and it's entirely self-contained -- just kill your current wayland session and start a different one if you want to play around. wlroots compositors actually can run *inside* of each other, as in you run a compositor inside a window of another compositor, which I think is pretty neat. >our desktop history why are you phrasing it as 'history'? If you switch to using a different system, you haven't erased any history. X is still around. >check out "reflections on trusting trust" what does that have to do with it? Are you implying that redhat put a backdoor into GCC?

>>91757 I love this themeing. Wish they'd never gotten rid of the old mozilla logo :(

>>91760 to be honest i cant tell if >>91759 is meant to be a joke or not: >"bloated mess" (lol) >random nonsense about not being able to switch wms >"i won't even explain mysef further, do 5 minutes of reading" >weird "loose our desktop history" conservative dogwhistle >mentioning some random irrelevant paper for no reason i mean this is a spot on parody of what your average reactionary tech "enthusiast" (illiterate) idiot sounds like >i dont really do much ricing so there's no point in showing it off same, but for the heck of it i compiled and ran phkaeser/wlmaker on my system, picrel! and as i mentioned river 0.4 seems really promising for those of us who like the tiny wm culture around x11 https://isaacfreund.com/blog/river-window-management/

>>91724 I went with a wallpaper that reminds me more of Ubuntu's color scheme and wallpapers in the Unity era, also changed the Edge panel a bit, adding the recent applications as I've found it useful.

>>91779 >>91724 I'm looking to do something similar with android when I get a new tablet, what stuff have you installed to get a desktop environment like this? Are you able to use it with a bluetooth mouse/keyboard?

>>91785 It depends, I didn't install anything, higher end tablets should have desktop modes, I know Samsung and Lenovo usually have them, and in my case where I use a lower end Samsung from the time those didn't get desktop modes, I just use the floating windows and the "Edge Panel" it has out of the box, to get windows that minimize and a pseudo taskbar, and it works well. What tablet are you considering, anon?

>>91800 Lenovo Idea Tab 11, there's a sale on so I can pick one up for a decent price. Looks like it supports a desktop mode, also has stylus support. It'll be replacing my old and slow Samsung S5e.

can someone give me a "fun" operating system recommendation i'm running a thinkpad t530 i usually go with mint, slackware or gentoo, but i've reached computer boredom i want to use something that brings a bit of magic back to computing lainOS was sorta in the path of thinking of, just want something that'll make me want to use my laptop again please, lains TYBG

>>91808 TempleOS is fun, I've heard.

>>91808 I'm not sure it's the kind of "fun" you want, it's more of a "the most proper way to do Linux". And it is declarative immutable distros like Guix and NixOS. The problem with NixOS though is that they made their soykaf tightly coupled with systemd which already started introducing identity verification. So you're basically left with Guix here, it is quite nice, everything is configured in Guile, which is a Scheme dialect. I started working on my configs in a VM recently, but it's gonna take me a while I believe, because I need every proprietary driver and gaming related thing in existence. And I also actually want a custom kernel, maybe Zen, that doesn't have a premade package here.

>>75933 How can i improve the rice of Arch Linux installed hyprland, waybar, wofi but still looks ass hmu

I guess I should post my main desktop PC too. >>91808 Maybe give Haiku a try? It's a community-run continuation of BEOS, still being worked on too.

>>91804 Lenovo seems like they have the best tablets alongside Apple and Samsung, and often cheaper for better hardware, also their desktop mode and stylus both look pretty great. Make sure to post about it when it arrives, anon! I'd definitely get it, hope you enjoy it and that if fulfills your expectations.

>>91843 I decided to save my money for now instead, I'll be working from home soon so I don't really need a shiny new mobile device. Might try installing Lineage on my old S5e instead, play around with that some.

>>91902 That sounds like a great idea too, anon. Hope it can bring new life into the S5e.

>>91814 Delete all of them i was in that cave too Just install caelestai shell. >Its peak

>>91758 i used wayland a couple times. it was a terrible experience. xorg works everytime with minimal configuration and far better documentation*, nevermind the fact xorg on startup on my machine. * i likely do not have enough experience troubleshooting wayland compositors to make that statement with 100% certainty :|

there is so much to do but i don't like using dot files, cook your own desktop on your own navi and have fun!

>>92045 Nice bitmap font. what font is it?

How do you get sterio audio to work in linux as it were in windows?

>>92125 >Ugly font >Uglier bold >Terrible contrast (wtf is that dark blue on dark green? White and black exist, use them) >Irregular spacing I hope nothing bad happens to you >>92127 I use pipewire, it just werks

>>92130 serif fonts are amazing don't lie to yourself

>>92115 https://github.com/the-moonwitch/Cozette

>>92130 you know he's cooking when it looks like absolute dogwater. it has a certain... je ne sais quoi. :)

>>92130 pic related Too short? no, it's not too short. What do you mean it's short? Your dad was too short when he coded you >:(

classique my laptop which i use for notes and the browser. distraction free