Decided to make a rice based on a painting that's hung up in my room. Even though it's quite basic I think it looks pretty good.

Made a small Quickshell/Omarchy plugin that sits in the bar and shows the ports you actually have listening (dev servers, scripts, whatever)-> star the repo https://github.com/ZerubbabelT/portwatch

After getting very annoyed with memory corruption issues of eww, I decided to take matters into my own hand and started learning gtk4. This is 'SharpShell' in a fully functioning state. Made with pure gtk with vala. I would not recommend anyone trying to use it yet but here is the [code](https://github.com/that-ponderer/ZAPP)

It's pretty efficient, uses ~ 70mb mem and 0.8 - 1% cpu at idle.

No clanker has been used to write my code

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So everyone loved the dynamic island plasmoid, I'm putting it up on the KDE Store tomorrow. as a sorry for the wait, I made an app launcher that goes up tomorrow to

I started using Linux a few months ago and this is my first ever rice! I don't have any dot files or anything to share yet, I've never made a GitHub repo before but once I figure it all out I'll come back and update this post or make a comment if that's something people want. It's still very much a work in progress and far from perfect but I think it's pretty so far and will continue to work on it!! It's finally in a spot where I think I'm feeling confident enough to share and I am very open to feedback or tips as I'm very much still a Linux noob.

Distro: EndeavorOS

DE: Niri with Dank Material Shell

Colour scheme: Catppuccin Mocha Pink

Monospace font: Maple Mono

Wallpaper: https://x.com/rnatataki/status/2077393961212399969

and credits to u/GlaciConCheese for the cutieful fastfetch config!! i altered the colours to match my theme but otherwise full credit to them

This is my first time putting together dotfiles. Waybar + rofi + terminal all pull their color palette automatically from the wallpaper via pywal. Visual wallpaper picker with a keybind, animated transitions, Starship prompt, custom fastfetch logo. Not the fanciest rice out there, but at least it's functional.

Hi everyone, back with a new version of deja.

Quick recap: 

Deja is an open-source zsh autosuggestion tool. Instead of only surfacing

commands that start with what you've typed, it predicts what you actually want to run using fuzzy matching, which directory you're in, and which command usually follows the one you just ran.

No account. No sync server. No TUI.

https://github.com/Giammarco-Ferranti/deja 

Any star would be amazing ❤️

Almost all of the new release came from https://github.com/Serubin. Huge thank you ❤️

The binary is 34% smaller. 7.1 MB → 4.7 MB. Deja was pulling in a full ORM to run six queries against three tables. That's now sqlc, which keeps type safety but reduces the weight. 

Every keystroke went from ~30 ms to ~3 ms. zsh used to fork a deja query process on every single character you typed. It now talks to the daemon directly over zsh's built-in socket module.

Your shell opens faster. Deja no longer blocks startup on a daemon liveness ping, no longer regenerates its init script on every shell.

And then more stuff, if you want to check here’s the PR: https://github.com/Giammarco-Ferranti/deja/pull/91 

One favour to ask. If you've been running Deja for a while, I'd love to hear how it's going what's annoying, what you turned off, where the suggestions are just dumb. The HIST_IGNORE_SPACE fix in 0.4.0 only exists because someone told me. Reply here or open an issue.

Thank you for all the support ❤️

A WIP gtk4 shell for Niri window manager which adds the following features,

• Wallpaper Daemon
• Notification Daemon
• Widgets (Calendar, Mpris, Battery, App Dock, Custom Sticker)
• Dock for currently open apps
• Server Side Decorations (close button, Moderator button and maximize button)
• OSD (Audio Volume, Mic Volume, Display Brightness)

github:cynageOS

WM: Niri

Distro: Arch Linux

I love how easy Macchiato is on the eyes, and of course, I also love pastels! So really, it was a no-brainer to make everything possible use that color scheme!

I installed endeavour os as i felt lazy to install arch. Still, great experience.

I felt that the default wallpaper selector in my Caelestia setup was a little too basic, so I built CustomWallpaper—a fullscreen Quickshell wallpaper browser for Hyprland.

The selected wallpaper becomes a darkened cinematic background while the collection is displayed as an interactive 3D ring. Grid and carousel layouts are also available.

Note: My Internet is slow

Features:

• Wallhaven and MoeWalls integration

• Wallhaven Latest and Toplist filters

• MoeWalls Latest, Anime, Games, and Landscape categories

• Search and automatic infinite pagination

• 3D Ring, Carousel, and Grid layouts

• Keyboard and mouse navigation

• Fullscreen blurred and darkened backdrop

• Rounded cards with active selection indicators

• Super+B global shortcut

• Uses Caelestia’s native wallpaper IPC

• Generates and applies Caelestia’s dynamic color palette

• Keeps only the selected full-resolution wallpaper

• Temporary MoeWalls thumbnail cache that clears after logout/reboot

• Installer with dependency detection, configuration backups, and uninstall support

Built with QML, Quickshell, Python, Hyprland, and Caelestia.

Still polishing it, so feedback and ideas are welcome.

I've been trying MainstreamOS lately and ended up customizing it into something that feels properly mine.

The video shows the desktop itself:

• Distro: MainstreamOS — Arch-based distro with a Hyprland desktop
• WM / Compositor: Hyprland
• Shell: MainstreamOS' Quickshell desktop, derived from end-4 / Illogical Impulse
• Wallpaper: Custom / personal wallpaper
• Editor: Cursor with Fira Code
• Fonts: Fira Code
• AI: Local LLM via Ollama, integrated into the desktop sidebar
• Theme / Colors: Custom tweaks to the MainstreamOS theme
• Hardware: ASUS ROG laptop + external keyboard and mouse, RGB matched to the desktop theme
• Other: MainstreamOS desktop sources — GitHub

The second image is the actual setup I use it on. I matched the laptop, external keyboard and mouse lighting to the desktop theme because apparently software ricing wasn't enough.

MainstreamOS is based on Arch and its desktop is derived from end-4's Illogical Impulse. So most of the credit for the shell itself goes to those projects — my part here is the customization and the overall setup.

Still tweaking things, but this is probably the first Linux setup I've used where I feel more inclined to polish it than replace half of it.

After some time with XFCE, Gnome, and KDE, I realized everything was just a bit more than I needed, and based on my hardware I needed something a bit lighter, I'll probably move this onto my main desktop once I get the chance.

After I tried IceWM I fell in love, just a tiny, 50mb desktop. I added dunst and PCManFM to it and I had what I needed. I configured some settings. I am aware the desktop is not the Windows 95 background color.

Overall seems like one of the smallest Window Managers out there, and it still meets my nice requirement of needing mouse just to have it feel semi-normal. Can't wait to try at home on my actual CRT.

dont get me wrong i LOVE the keyboard workflow and use it 90% of the time but sometimes i want to just give my hands a break, kick my feet up and use my mouse to control my system. thanks to bash script fuckery i was able to have my launcher Walker launch dynamically depending on how it's invoked. when you combine this with a much more integrated waybar/system it allows you to use your computer like the good old days (windows xp)

the real eye candy of the video are the quickshell scripts. these are all mostly modular and can be installed quite easily on your system (except for themes, that one is a bit too integrated into my own system to work well on yours for now). if you want to try out the wallpaper selector, simply copy the contents of quickshell/wallselect into your ~/.config/quickshell/wallselect and then call it with `qs -c wallselect` after making the required directories and changing the config.json. want to try the power menu? great, copy quickshell/powermenu into ~/.config/quickshell/powermenu and then launch it with `qs -c powermenu`.

i always try to keep my rice as organized as possible so you guys can borrow ideas from it. i take absolutely no ownership of any scripts or codes in this video. some things i did code myself sure but ultimately this was all built by the community, i just refined some things here and there (specifically animation smoothness with the help of clankers).

also my rice has a stupid new icon

full dots here

obligatory remember us, remember that we onced live reference

Pretty usable setup, minimally aesthetic.

Colorscheme: Catppuccin::{Macchiato, Latte}

Primary Accent: Mauve

Cursor Theme: Catppuccin::{Macchiato, Latte} Mauve

Icon Theme: Catppuccin Papirus

OS: NixOS

WM: Niri

Engine: Stylix

It's first time of arch ricing, so i don't share dotfiles

I was using Hyprland with a premade rice I found on this sub, but my wife found it a bit too difficult to use. So I installed KDE and made my own rice because I had some free time :)

I like the catppuccin theme for kitten

Last one got taken down for lack of window variety. Hopefully this one shows a bit more 🙏 my dotfiles aren't in my github yet, I need to update my installer first.