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.)
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.
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 <insert random condition here> will completely break my theming because <insert weird OS quirk here>, 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 ✨fancy✨
Sweet. Thank you.
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.
I have my focused window opaque, the rest transparent+blur.
What’s the difference between opaque and transparent+blur?
The difference between a wall and frosted glass.
Yeah, that. Opaque means no transparency. Easier to read/work, or see a picture/video without background stuff mixing in with it. But for my non-focused windows, I’m not actively working on those, so rice it up, transparency all the way! (but still add blur to those, just so I can read them if I need to…)
Aesthetics
opaque is not transparent and has no blur
transparent+blur has transparency and no blur
hope i helped
Simple: only the out of focus apps have opacity set to 85-90%, the focused app is always 100%. Easy.
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.
In school I had a physics teacher who thought it was a good idea one day to use whiteboard markers on the glass windows instead of the whiteboard. I didn’t learn anything that lesson.
what
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
Do the windows wobble?
Unfortunately not :/ But I do have rainbow-gradient window borders.
It’s not about being original, it’s 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
nowadays the question is not how you turn on rounded corners, but how you turn them off
I suppose you’re mainly concerned about LibAdwaita-Apps?
Luckily most gui toolkits have a way of disabling CSD. For gtk/libadwaita I recommend something like Gradience to generate a theme with corners of your liking.
But I want to keep Christopher Street Day :(
CSD stands for Client Side (window) Decorations in this case.
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
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
I feel seen. And belittled. But mostly seen.
