I personally do like all the eye candy, especially animations and round borders, but sometimes i do enjoy using compositors without any of that just as a change of pace. I also really like river for example.
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I will spend an entire weekend ricing my desktop in just the right way.
Then I'll notice that one of my main apps doesn't adhere to the theming i've designed, or that will completely break my theming because , or If I change my wallpaper it will make my entire theme look like shit, or that my cool theme makes font unreadable on one app because it renders shit weird, or that I completely overlooked this one aspect of my workflow that my cool design fucks with.
Then I'll just say fuck it and go back to using standard Gnome.
There's an extension that lets me close and open windows with the Matrix Code Rain so I can pretend I'm cool n shit.
There's an extension that lets me close and open windows with the Matrix Code Rain so I can pretend I'm cool n shit.
Awesome. Looking into that just got added to my weekend plans. Thanks!
The extension is called Burn-My-Windows and I always look forward to it when booting into GNOME because it feels so β¨fancyβ¨
Sweet. Thank you.
i3wm has been my daily driver for the past 4 years. I just flow on it
Same here, improved imprived improved. I have been looking to switch to sway and experimented with qtile (... Wayland is the future yo). One thing that stops from moving is feh. I know wayland has it's own lightweight, image viewer, background setter. But feh is all in one. The closest thing is imv, but I cant get it to render raw images. (.. i am aware feh does work in wayland using xwayland but not natively.)
Say what you wanna say about tiling wms, but there are good tiling wms like niri, paperwm, hyprland(I love it).
Sway not mentioned?
Hyprland is the future old man
Transparent Windows are like scifi where they print stuff on see through foil. How the fuck is anybody even able to read this?
That's why you want to add blur. I also don't understand unblurred transparent terminals.
Or, this might blow off the minds of some people, not using transparency.
booooring
I just boot straight into the terminal. No desktop, just the void staring at me full of possibilities.
Yup and then I have a startup script that asks me if I'd like a GUI. Saved me setting up a display manager and it's basically the same amount of effort when logging in.
To read thru documentation.
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Very simple actually: don't use 100% transparency.
Just use something like 80-90% opaque (10-20% transparent) and use the background color as black so it just dims whatever us behind it.
You can have both function and form.
Additionally use Kawase-Blur with a lot of blurring, and this is a non-issue.
Simple: only the out of focus apps have opacity set to 85-90%, the focused app is always 100%. Easy.
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Itβs not about being original, itβs about what you enjoy eating.
Hotdog theme
volume bar is a hotdog popping out the top a bun?
Better
Why is this like... Kind of ok looking? Is it just the old school look causing nostalgia? Surely right? I can't actually be thinking that's an okay color scheme
Great contrast at least.... Not super harsh like the standard light themes
put this image on a big monitor and stare at it for 30 seconds, then look anywhere else
Actually doesn't do the thing for me. I know the optical illusion you're going for but this color scheme doesn't trigger it in my brain for some reason. I kind of hate that lmao
woah what
it's not even the brain that does it, it's the color receptors getting tired because of the bright colors and when you look at something white it seems less red, and thus blue
maybe your monitor isn't very bright, or maybe because of the yellow it lets the color receptors rest for long enough to keep working properly
Interesting. I think you're right about it being the monitor, I keep my brightness pretty low because I'm quite photosensitive
This was peak peakness. The rest of history is a footnote.
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Effects aside compiz was just gorgeous, every time i go looking for window decorations on pling it always seems like the pretty ones were made for just compiz
nowadays the question is not how you turn on rounded corners, but how you turn them off
Same applies to gaps
I was surprised to learn that
- a) macOS only recently added Left/Right-tiling natively (without extensions, just like GNOME does)
- b) they leave gaps when you tile them so that it looks like you messed up the tiling somehow
so that it looks like you messed up the tiling somehow
I wish more tiling developers understood this. Gaps between windows looks broken. I don't mind it being an option, but to me it's such a weird choice for the default.
plus it's literally unused screen space
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Do the windows wobble?
Unfortunately not :/ But I do have rainbow-gradient window borders.
Every few years I get the customization bug and trick out my desktop. Then things start breaking down slowly. Then I get frustrated and reinstall vanilla gnome, swear off customization forever, and feel better.
For gaming its Plasma.
Knowing the default DE's idiosyncrasies also helps with work -- I'm never surprised when I reinstall/install a new machine. Same goes for aliases. No for me, knowing the commands themselves, however cumbersome or verbose, helps me better deal with freshly installed machines.
I feel seen. And belittled. But mostly seen.
KDE, with breeze and a custom colour scheme. I find it less likely to lead to usability issues.
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