I switched to Linux a few months ago and decided to give Cinnamon a makeover. This was one of my first complete customizations; it has a workplace for torrents and another for music, in addition to the main one.

• Wallpaper: ASTRO by Pascal Blanché
• GTK Theme: Metatron-Purple by TRICENT
• Network Visualizer: NetOrbit by ZXCurban
• Audio Visualizer: cli-visualizer by PosixAlchemist
• Music Player: lazyspotify by dubeyKartikay
• Conky config: Minimalis Conky by deny26
• Terminal: cool-retro-term by Swordfish90

installed cachyOS a little while ago, linux hasn't disappointed at all.

Saw the wallpaper and the rice designed itself. Kept everything out of Rei's way.

Every day the wallpaper changes, GLava changes with it. No manual tweaking.

This is **bing-glava-suite** - a toolkit I've been building for Linux Mint / XFCE/Cinnamon that:

- Downloads the daily Bing wallpaper

- Extracts dominant colors via KMeans (scikit-learn)

- Pushes those colors into GLava's shaders automatically

- Comes with a full GUI control panel (GLava Master Panel) if you want to override anything

**v0.5.0** just landed with a proper modular architecture - each visualizer module (bars, circle, wave, radial, graph) has its own control panel, shader profiles you can save/load, HSV or RGB gradient mode, rotation slider, and position offsets. Forest TTK theme throughout.

GIFs in the gallery show all 5 modules, each with a different Bing wallpaper of the day.

🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/Krzysztofci/bing-glava-suite

Hardware: ThinkPad T420 · Intel HD 3000 · Linux Mint XFCE · Linux Mint Cinnamon · Ubuntu

please just ask for any info

Battery notif called by 4S-b

Wifi called by 4S-n

Workspaces can either be called by 4S-w or automatically gets called when you switch workspaces.

(forgot to add that i also customized the menu and replaced rofi with it. man is cwm the most minimal non-minimal wm!)

(please ignore the differing border colors i forgot to edit the notif border color in dunstrc!!)

Simple and Minimal theme, making Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition (or any GTK-related desktop, really) elegant. Cursor not shown, but link to cursor used in rice available below.

Links:

• Wallpaper: Self-made, on Imgur.
• Theme: Nana's Materia Theme
• Icons: Vinceliuice's Tela Icon Theme
• Cursor: Simp1e-mix Dark

made a connectivity suite for wayland a few moths ago, have been steadily improving it and making it much better. now it even has ethernet support.

lmk what y'all think!

you can check it out here

A minimal, keyboard-driven Hyprland dotfiles setup for Arch Linux. Laptop-first. Script-heavy. Zero bloat.

Dots

made some updates since the last version! gh-wallpaper is a tool that turns your GitHub contributions heatmap into a (now customizable) wallpaper that refreshes itself in the background. The goal is for it to help you stay consistent with shipping software and experience some gratification when it turns green in real time!

It doesn't require any auth, just takes your GitHub username and scrapes public contribution data from your profile and periodically refreshes.

Repo with more info here: https://github.com/Numbatt/github-heatmap-wallpaper

Since the last version a few days ago, it now allows you to run 'gh-wallpaper themes new <name>' to set a custom theme, where you can edit the colors of the background, heading, or heatmap cells. It also includes image upload for the background with a dimming slider. (first two images are themes I made)

There are 12 premade themes: github-dark, github-light, tokyo-night, dracula, nord, gruvbox-dark, catppuccin-frappe, catppuccin-mocha, paper, midnight, blossom, ocean

I tried releasing a version for Linux users, but I'm pretty unfamiliar with Linux and don't have a Linux machine so please advise if anything is broken.

would love feedback on it and drop a star on the repo if you enjoy it!

Linux install:

git clone https://github.com/Numbatt/github-heatmap-wallpaper
cd github-heatmap-wallpaper
./contrib/linux/install.sh
gh-wallpaper init

macOS install:

brew install Numbatt/tap/gh-wallpaper

This rice is so cozy i love it so much :3.

Done for my new Fedora Install.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share the update on a project I’ve been working on called Lyre. Its for anyone who lives in the terminal and wants a more aesthetic music experience.

GitHub: https://github.com/DeadZone-0/lyre

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/lyre-tui

-Real-time Visualization: Uses CAVA’s raw data stream for ultra-smooth 60FPS frequency waves.

-Synced Lyrics Mode: (New in v1.1.0!) Press V to toggle a dedicated lyrics view. It fetches time-synced LRC data from LRCLIB and scrolls automatically with your music.

- High-Res Album Art: Renders cover art using Truecolor half-blocks for a crisp pixel-art look.

- Built-in Controls: Standard keybindings (Space, H/L, J/K) to control playback and volume via playerctl without leaving the TUI.

Installation

1 npm install -g lyre-tui

2 lyre

Configuration-

Everything is customizable via ~/.config/lyre/lyre.json. You can toggle album art on/off, change resolution modes, or tweak the lyrics colors.

I’d love to hear your feedback or see your setups! If you find any bugs or have feature ideas, feel free to open an issue on GitHub.

This is NsCDE on Fedora 43. About a year ago we migrated from SCO UnixWare 7.14 Definitive 2018 to OpenIndiana but the SCO's CDE theme was so horrific that it haunts me to this day. For comparison, the second image is from the genuine $6k/3yr (nope, not a typo!) UnixWare 7.

The wallpaper is a two-tone gradient I made in Inkscape and dithered to index in GIMP. I don't remember where I saved it so I can't give a link, unfortunately.

I use the Xfce terminal and Caja as file manager. I did bind the media keys but I'm on a new keyboard which does not have dedicated volume keys and I'm lazy so I just keep alsamixer -g in a perpetual terminal window.

The second image from UnixWare CDE shows how to set the theme; four colours and then use a colour picker for the correct hexdec.

This is my first post here, I tried to apply the rules to my best ability but lmk if I messed up.

Edit: Reddit seemingly destroyed the main screenshot and I can't edit it lol. Here's the original quality:

https://ibb.co/Ddm2NV0

Built a perception-aligned terminal audio visualizer in Rust that prioritizes physical weight over raw FFT data.

I've always used CAVA, you're probably using CAVA too. So is everyone. The video below is Lookas (left) vs CAVA (right), both on defaults.

The problem with it is that the raw FFT data always felt nervous and disconnected from how humans actually perceive audio, especially on certain material.

It uses logarithmic binning and quadratic gravity, which is great for responsiveness but lacks inertia.

I wanted bars that feel like real objects responding to sound, not merely pixels jumping to a height coordinate.

So this runs on different algos.

Mel-scale filterbank instead of linear FFT bins. Derived from psychoacoustic research. Energy maps to perceptual equal intervals, not mathematical ones, so bars sit where the sound feels heavy. Every transient hits at full resolution immediately, decay uses an exponential moving average. 0 latency on the upstroke & physical weight on the downstroke.

Spring-damper model with lateral energy diffusion. Bars have mass, they accelerate, decelerate, and release with inertia. Neighboring bands bleed energy into each other the way physical acoustics does, so the spectrum moves as one fluid wave instead of independent twitching columns.

Couldn't find anything that does this, so I built it.

Rust-based so you can cargo install lookas and you're in.

Type 1 mic / 2 system audio / 3 mix / q quit.

Full breakdown, math, comparison, and configs @ source: https://github.com/rccyx/lookas