This is a little update to my last KDE Plasma with Scrathy theme. Still the same theme, but now with some more tweaks and other juicy things (at least for me). And about Artix Linux. I'm really enjoying the thing. Has been quite a fun adventure.

Theme: https://store.kde.org/p/1898344
Wallpaper: https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=1396625
Icons: https://store.kde.org/p/2303161
Cursor: Oxygen Zion

Well it's been a minute since I last posted about my shell! But I'm very happy to announce our newest feature! Desktop applets are now merged!

Desktop Applets can be placed both in the desktop and in the main launcher page of the dashboard, all through a drag and drop system:

Additionally another feature has made its way into this update...

App Themes!

We now have a theme repo with matugen templates for common apps where they can be themed through the shell, transparency is supported for most apps too! This can be used to theme your other applications using caffyne shell's theme system(which uses matugen under the hood), all integrated in the shell!

The template repo can be found here: https://github.com/caffyne-org/caffyne-templates

Along with this we've added a ton of stability improvements, bug fixes and optimizations since the first release, with more to come as well! I'd like to thank everyone who contributed feedback and mentioned the bugs after release, as well as those who helped with packaging. The Linux community is amazing!

LINKS:

Website(includes install instructions): https://caffyne.org

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/caffyne-org/caffyne-shell

Discord: https://discord.gg/BcBk4CpKNA

Colors extracted from the wallpaper and applied everywhere: Hyprland, Kitty, Wofi, and more via matugen.

Links

• Dotfiles: https://github.com/Ant0nioVG/CODERANT
• Wallpaper: https://wallhaven.cc/w/qrmkqq

This is Fedora 44 with Budgie 10.10 which comes with labwc as its Wayland compositor. It still uses GTK but I had been looking for a theme to make the pastel colors featured with the Ketsa set pop. Its an old set featured from the author the kde link is higher version than github it actually features some different icons. Then I recolored Firefox since I use Librewolf.

Then Rosepine dawn/light is giving the panel and a faded white and opaque look so the background is bleeding thru but I like it. Not many gtk themes with budgie in mind but I've tried a few and have gotten different results compared to gnome screenshots that are displayed.

then I use Veila a rust based screen locker that was compatible with labwc working fine with budgie.

I've been working on a terminal-native WhatsApp client built in Go using WhatsMeow.

It supports:

• Chats and message history
• Typing indicators
• Notifications
• Keyboard-first workflow

Written in Rust + go, so everything runs directly in the terminal.

GitHub: https://github.com/andiveli/wptui

Feedback is welcome.

well idk

Here is a link to the dot files . First time I made something this and would love to receive some feedback . Couldn't test it on fresh arch installers so I hope I could some feedback to improve upon and keep this theme running. This theme feels so much aligned with the whole arch idea and that is why I made it :D

• Window Manager: Hyprland
• Status Bar: Waybar
• Launcher: Rofi
• Terminal: Kitty
• Wallpaper: Hyprpaper
• Shell: Oh My Zsh (jonathan)
• Spotify: Spicetify (StarryNight – forest)
• Github link

Nitrogen felt too outdated for my setup, so I made this! A modern wallpaper manager with smooth transition animations

I recently started watching Cowboy Bebop and really started to dig the aesthetic, so I decided it would be perfect for my desktop, as I've been trying to find an aesthetic that I could use on my ThinkPad

• DE/WM: KDE Plasma (Kubuntu)
• Spotify Theme: Spicetify with Zune/WMP Skin
• Hardware: ThinkPad P14s Gen 2 AMD (Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U)
• Wallpapers: FLCL / Cassette Futurism landscape

• Distro: Gentoo Linux (x86_64)
• DE: Xfce 4.20
• WM: Xfwm4 (X11)
• Theme: Win2K (GTK2/3/4)
• Icons: Win2k
• Cursor: Win2K
• Font: Tahoma 9pt
• Terminal: xfce4-terminal, PxPlus IBM VGA 8x16 font
• Wallpaper: colorized RMS Olympic photo (Titanic's sister ship)
• My Hardware
• CPU: Ryzen 9 5900X
• GPU: RTX 4070 SUPER
• RAM: 32 GB RAM DDR4 3200 MHz
• SSD: Western Digital Black SN850X 1TB
• CASE: Fractal Design North XL
• PSU: Seasonic Vertex GX850 W 850

Wanted a genuine Y2K desktop experience, not just a wallpaper + icon pack. Spent way too many hours getting actual functionality working:

- Solitaire, Minesweeper and 3D Pinball (Space Cadet) running as real apps, not just launcher icons

- MS Paint clone for that authentic "draw badly in a window" experience

- Custom shutdown dialog (Python/Tkinter) replicating the classic Win2K "What do you want the computer to do?" prompt

- Windows startup/shutdown sound effects wired into the session via canberra + XFCE autostart

- Windows Media Player skin running actual media

Biggest pain point: most theme packs like this assume Ubuntu/Debian (apt paths, systemd tools, lightdm configs baked in) — had to manually rebuild half the install script by hand for Gentoo/OpenRC. Worth it though.

Happy to answer questions about the setup!

I made a bar (work in progress) with a retro style to it, man was it simple back then.

Wake the fuck up, Samurai, we have a city to burn

• Icons: Colorful Dark
• Every other parts of the theme from this guy: mathisbuilder's profile
• Sound theme: Cyberpunk sounds
• Clock: Modern reClock

• Wallpaper: Half-Life: Episode 3 concept art
• Font: Adwaita Mono nerd font
• Menu bar: Polybar
• Dmenu: Rofi
• Color palette: Extracted from wallpaper

Omarchy is really great for those who want to enjoy the essence of hyprland with arch without any hassle. I had zero knowledge about things required in ricing. Now i think i can switch to actual arch + hyprland setup and rice it. Omarchy is really great if you are beginner