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It's hip to be square(ish)
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I don't think I've seen anyone else here with an 8:9 monitor, so I'll break the ice! The color theme is Layan Light; everything else is stock KDE.
Everforest KNOME
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>Konsole with neofetch on the left, Dolphin on the right and Elisa just below Konsole
I've always quite liked how Polybar / Waybar look with WMs but I've never been bothered to fiddle with all the config files that come with that. I want to spend more time using my desktop than making it look nice. So I initially tried GNOME but found the panel CSS too confusing. I tried KDE Plasma after hearing that panels were quite powerful if you use them right, and I believe I did. The colour scheme was originally going to be Gruvbox but the global theme I used gave off a more everforest vibe so I embraced it, I'm quite glad I did because I think this looks amazing...
I know I know, I just like how cursive fonts look in terminals, I use them for programming too. This one is Victor Mono
Gren
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-=Stuff=-
OS: You can see it... do I need to type it here?
DE: Plasma (Wayland)
Panel: the plasma panel
Programs shown: Dolphin (file manager), neofetch (fancy Ascii art on the terminal)
Plasma theme: Fluent
Kvantum theme: Fluent-dark-green
Icons: Papirus
Background image: image
Trying some neon stuff ✨
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Different themes hacked together with sed to match the color scheme https://github.com/Aesistril/dracula-neon
My five desktops, across four laptops
Over the past decade or so, I've managed to accumulate four laptops:
Garnet
- Model: HP 17-ca0003na
- OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed
- Desktop: KDE Plasma (Wayland)
- Year: 2019
Amethyst
- Model: ThinkPad T400
- OS: Arch Linux
- Desktop: Sway (Wayland)
- Year: 2007
Pearl
- Model: MacBook A1181
- OS: Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard"
- Desktop: Aqua (Quartz)
- Year: 2007
- OS: crunchbang++ 12
- Desktop: Openbox (X11)
LapisLazuli
- Model: Acer Aspire 5742z
- OS: Fedora 38
- Desktop: MATE (X11)
- Year: 2009
Basic Light(ly) Setup
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Nothing too fancy. Just Lightly Application style, Colorscheme and decorations plus a Panel setup "inspired by MacOS". Wallpaper
I can't believe it's not Windows 11!
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More info: https://lemmy.ml/post/85643/comment/86342
This is the default look of a real distro!
Okay, I might have loved 5.21 Breeze's little red circle on the close button too much
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I know, stock theme and all of that, but did I tell you guys HOW MUCH I FUCKING LOVE this teeny tiny addition to KDE's stock theme? I love this thing so much I made my entire system's color palette around it. So there you go.
- Tiling: Quarter Tiling (used Krönkhite for a while, preferred this);
- Plasma theme: ChromeOS Dark;
- Color scheme: Breeze-Dark-Red (my custom scheme);
- Window decorations: Stock Breeze-Dark (but without the gradient on the top bar and shadows set to small instead of medium);
- Icons: Papirus-Dark (Yaru color scheme with Papirus-Folders);
- Terminal: kitty (with my custom kitty.conf file);
- Chromium's NTP: NightTab (with my custom theme);
- Wallpaper (with some color corrections to match the theme).
"I Can't Believe It's Not Windows!"
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Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/k9x7hw/plasma_i_cant_believe_its_not_windows/
- Distro: Arch Linux
- Desktop Environment: KDE Plasma 5.20.4
- Plasma Style: Modern 10 Light (modified the Action Center icon)
- Icons: "Windows 10"
- Cursor Theme: Win-8.1-NS
- UI Font: Segoe UI
- Monospace Font: Recursive Mono Linear
- Window Decoration: Breeze10
- Wallpaper: From WallpaperHub (AI Upscaled with Let's Enhance)
- Terminal Emulator: Kitty
- Kitty Color Theme: BluCrystal (slightly different, will update soon!)
- Shell: fish
- Taskbar: Latte-git
- Font Rendering: Infinality Remix (to better match Windows 10's font rendering)
I also had to modify some files to better fit Windows, here they are
Comfy Gruvbox setup
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DE: Plasma
wm: KWin
Global theme is McMojave Light and Plasma style is GruvboxPlasma
Wallpaper in two colors: link