#Waybar

[lynx-xdg]

I spent some time making my desktop look nice. A lot of it is still the default hyprland theme, but I've enjoyed messing around with the hypr ecosystem!

[unix--porn]

[labwc] Minimal + Dynamic Wallpaper Theming

Desktop: KDE Plasma 6.1.4 Wayland

OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed

Terminal: Kitty

Panel: Waybar

Launcher & Widgets: Rofi

Icons: Papirus (Pywal Accent color gets matched to the closet Papirus presets)

Accent Color: Accent from Wallpaper

Dotfiles: https://github.com/ulinaaron/dotfiles (Super rough, I've been in the weeds theming that I haven't cleaned up my mess)

I recently switched from Hyprland to Labwc. Mostly for simplicity and it covered most of my needs. I was able to port most of my custom scripting for theming. I started with a rudimentary foundation from Archcraft and continued to expand on top of it. I am now to the point where I have my own theming and templating system in bash to handle randomizing themes based on wallpapers in a directory. Instead of using Pywal templates I have opted to do my own. Some are full config files stored as templates, others are just color overrides. Not for everyone, but works for me.

I switch themes multiple times a day, thus my goal is my standard daily apps all get refreshed automatically or with relative ease.

—trustytussle

[aspendruid]

specifically put this sticker here because that's how it feels working on my config files

[recreationaldivorce]

have not done any "work" since saturday because ive been busy making my fresh arch install look sick as hell

[gcc-official]

The default config vs the configuration on the fedora sway spin

Just following the links of " exec /usr/libexec/the-THIRD-shell-script-so-far" I'm awed by how much more complex this is of a start up process and running environment than just > sway

I'm being driven to madness rn

[typescript-official]

My desktop rice isn't very unique yet. Literally just hyprland running someone else's waybar and catppucin. I should make my own themes because everyone in the linux community is apparently too cowardly to use bright colours. You fools, the beauty of linux is that we can make it excessively gay!

[flatpak-official]

half my yambar is network interfaces i don't care about and it's tedious to configure but i don't like waybar

[sway-official]

I'm very used to KDE and having Big Desktop Environment™ set up things like my DBUS session, system tray, notifications, clipboard management, and all that. But in the Before Times, I was a big i3 fan, and I think I'd like to experiment a bit.

Do you have any tips / suggestions for a comfy sway experience? I'm competent with reading the docs / code and all that, but they only go so far--I would love some more opinionated thoughts based on real world daily use.

Feel free to tell me to sod off, too, if you want, that's really quite okay :)

Okay! A few things of note (keeping in mind I use Void Linux, this might be sliiightly different on your distro of choice, obviously you know to check the docs etc) The default Swaybar's implementation of a system tray is iffy at best. If you make use of things like the NetworkManager applet and want to be able to actually click it and stuff use another bar, such as Waybar Setting up screensharing was a little tricky. You'll need dbus installed and enabled as a service, and the wlroots xdg portal. Then inside of your sway config you want to have the line

exec --no-startup-id dbus-update-activation-environment --all

tucked away somewhere (I have it near the end but I don't *think* it matters?) so that it restarts dbus to make that portal work and enable screensharing. Or something Final small detail is if you use the hide_cursor thing in your config (to, for example, hide your cursor when typing) it doesn't play super well with games since it doesn't just hide the cursor but actually turns it off until you start doing mouse input again

So in terms of usage, I've found it really smooth! Obviously no screentearing rocks, and in general I love the manual tiling workflow. Wlroots is probably the place to be in terms of wayland compositors (outside of huge DEs) so it's nice that Sway is built on it

[lynx-xdg]

fixed some issues with waybar today

I spent some time making my desktop look nice. A lot of it is still the default hyprland theme, but I've enjoyed messing around with the hypr ecosystem!

[wayfire-official]

Hey, how well do you replace hyprland and do you have the wobbles windows?

I'd like to try this project out.

🥨 to find this later

Generally pretty well.

However the configuration uses a pretty different syntax, so it'll be a little more work than just copy+paste and fixing a couple of words. It's not super complicated tho and I'm sure you'll figure it out.

I've had trouble getting workspace numbers in my Waybar. In theory wlr/workspaces should work but for some reason it doesn't.

But other than that the switch for me was relatively smooth. I could even continue using hyprpaper, and there aren't any features I personally miss.

Keep in mind that it's still in active development and hasn't even hit 1.0 yet, but it's definitely more than usable.

Also the windows wobble. They wobble a lot, they wobble nicely, and it's fun to wobble them.

[hemthead]

NixOS Rice Journey

I've always considered myself something of a minimalist when it comes to function over form and beauty within simplicity, but there comes a time in every Linux user's life when they must rice.

Now, firstly, I want to acknowledge that @kfithen's recent ricing journey is like, 50% of the reason I went through with this (\shrug/ he had a good idea, what can I say?!). To be fair, the other 50% is the control and understanding that a good rice gives a person over their computer and environment. I want to know how everything works, and I want to be the person who makes it all come together really well.

I'm not really the type for flashy things or eye-catching rices / eye-candy (I've been using only I3wm for almost the entirety of my Linux history), so I want my rice to take a more subtle, simple approach. I use NixOS because I want my system to stay with me forever and only do what it needs to. I want to spend years optimizing everything I use until my OS reaches its minimal state. In the same way, I want my rice to display the elegant simplicity of nothing extra. I want some basic utilities and visuals that look nice, but aren't distracting.

Most of all, I want my rice to embody my own spirit, or at least what I strive to be. I want to put work into making something that does everything it needs to without encroaching on others. Ideally, I will be able to look at this every day for the rest of my life and it will help me feel secure in myself.

All that said, here's what I've done so far:

Migrated from X11 to Wayland

Switched to greetd and tuigreet for my displaymanager

Switched from I3wm to Sway

Setup Waybar to tell me what I need to know

Setup a custom desktop wallpaper (as opposed to the default Xfce wallpaper or Sway grey)

Setup vifm to view and manage my filesystem

Setup ivm, foot, mpv, etc. to replace xfce-given programs

Upgraded from NixOS 23.11 to 24.05

[Image ID: A (16:9) screenshot of my desktop. There are no windows open. The wallpaper prominently features a modified Nix logo in the center, taking up a little over a third of the vertical space. The logo has been modified so that each of the six "arms" corresponds to a stripe in the trans-nonbinary-flag; the top-right corresponds to the blue stripe at the top of the flag and the arms continue down the flag in a clockwise motion (i.e. blue, pink, yellow, white, purple, black). The background of the wallpaper is a dark grey that is light enough for the black arm to be visible. At the bottom of the screenshot is a Waybar status bar. On the left it shows (left to right) the sway workspaces, workspace name, and scratchpad; on the right it shows (left to right) the system volume (with wireplumber), the keyboard layout, the free space on the root partition, the memory and sway information of the system, the local ip address and wifi-connection strength of the system, the core usage of the system, and the current time and date of the system. The bar is styled with the default styles (for now). \End ID]

[Image ID: Another desktop screenshot. This one shows three windows open with the Sway window manager/compositor. One window, containing my home-manager configuration open in neovim (using the slate colorscheme), is the result of a horizontal split and lies on the left half of the screen. The right half of the screen is vertically split into two windows. The top displays an unstyled vifm, and the bottom displays the output of neofetch. The inner gaps of the windows are set to 10 in sway and there are no other gap configurations. \End ID]

So far, I've been focusing mostly on getting my system working again (leaving xfce completely left a big mark on my system, previously I was using Thunar and a billion other things I took for granted). I'm going through another terminal-based-stuff craze so I'm trying to do more and more stuff through cli and tui applications (flameshot -> shotman, xfce-img-viewer -> imv, xfce-video-player -> mpv, thunar -> vifm).

The only thing I've done cosmetically so far is the background. I wanted to get something that wouldn't clutter my screen if I ever implement transparency, so I didn't want to do anything too complicated. (I'll admit, my first thoughts were Homestuck, Lackadaisy, trains, etc., but those were way to complicated (save for some of the Homestuck stuff, that was good, I just didn't super vibe with anything)). I'm really happy with how it turned out though (the Nix logo is great for customization)! I think the trans-nonbinary-flag colors look great here and fit the vibe sickly. Also, it's Pride Month, so how could I not have something queer on my screen all the time?!?!?! (Well, besides Linux, and NixOS especially, that's queer already, lol).

This post is getting a bit long, so I'll quit my yappin' and end it off with a little summary of what I hope to do next:

Get some sort of transparency (what's the use in having that beautiful wallpaper if you can't see it, plus the background has a low enough complexity that transparency will actually work well)

Set some standards for theming/colors and put them in place (right now my Waybar and vifm especially just don't look right) (this one is going to require a lot of work, but there are also a lot of people who do this amazingly; plus, I've got some colors to work with already :), I really like the the "slate" vim theme and those trans-nonbinary colors are a great start as well, particularly that purple!)

MOAR TERMINAL (maybe try again with steam-tui, risk discord-tui, and re-examine links/lynx) (plus this really helps with fileviewer in vifm)

Try out nix-flakes (I really need to figure out what these things are, they sound right up my alley!)

Setup backups of my system / get all my configs into nix (the few that aren't already there) (I have some suspicion that nix-flakes might help with this)

Learn more (there's always more to learn!)

Welp, that's about it for now! See ya :3

[rodrigocarran]

Configurar o Sway Tiling Window Manager no Fedora com o Waybar

O Sway é um compositor Wayland de tiling que é totalmente compatível com uma configuração i3 existente. Ele facilita a substituição do i3 e o uso do Wayland como protocolo de exibição. Tenho usado o Sway desde que troquei minha distribuição Linux do Arch Linux para o Fedora Silverblue . Neste guia, discutiremos como você pode instalar e configurar o gerenciador de janelas de tiling do Sway no…

[trans-mortarion]

spent 2 hours switching from sway to hyprland on my arch machine. broke my waybar config cause i tried to copy and tweak someone else’s and it was in .jsonc format and now waybar just says can’t open config file

[steamos3-official]

Just wrote a bash script that chooses a keyboard layout for me daily with an option to apply it.

Today's ended up being boring QWERTY (thus I write this post in Colemak).

The layout is decided by day_of_year % number_of_layouts.

I do this in effort to strengthen my skills in switching between QWERTY and Dvorak as well as to learn Colemak.

I am learning Colemak the same way I learned Dvorak and QWERTY: Trial and error until your fingers and mind know exactly where the keys are. No tutorials or tutors, just pure insanity until the insanity becomes wisdom.

It was a fun project, and accounting for the waybar module, only took about an hour!

If anyone wants the program, I can send it to you or put it on GitHub, but only by request because it's spread across about 4 files rn.

[800lbs]

okie so i fix almost all the problems with hyprland now i just need to set up shortcuts how i want them and fix volume shortcuts andd make waybar not ugly