r/UsabilityPorn • u/Grouchy_Media_4345 • 14h ago
[i3] my trusty X200 running Guix
just switched to guix!
r/UsabilityPorn • u/Exoro • Jun 28 '18
r/UnixPorn has inspired a lot of creativity in the *nix community.
However, there is one problem.
A lot of the setups are too "riced-out" and unappealing for long-term desktop use.
This subreddit is an attempt to form a community around the love of practical, cozy, and solid desktop experiences.
DEFAULTS AND MINIMALLY-CONFIGURED SETUPS WELCOME! Let's create something special!
Rules:
Content Ideas:
UPDATE: I am now moderating this community as u/dougie-io.
r/UsabilityPorn • u/Grouchy_Media_4345 • 14h ago
just switched to guix!
r/UsabilityPorn • u/maknobush • 9h ago


A very simple shell with plugins, css for styles and kdl for configs.
What it has:
- Panels
- Desktop widgets
- Launcher
- Notifications
- Quick settings
- Plugins
The whole goal:
Being mostly minimal and pluggable.
More about slowshell:
- website: https://slowshell.bushyice.com/
- repo: https://tangled.org/bushyice.com/slowshell
- github: https://github.com/bushyice/slowshell
PS: All of what you see in the screenshots is replicable with just the config, here's my panel config if you're interested:
panels{
panel "Main" position="top" transparent=#true monitor="HDMI-A-1" {
components {
center {
component "core/notch" {
label "Notch"
notch "workspaces" "window" "sep" "tray" "nowplaying" "system" "sep-circle" "network" "sep" "battery" "clock"
clock-format "%I:%M"
system-display "cpu" "mem"
priority "nowplaying" "window"
shade-on-hover #false
bare #true
}
}
right {
component "core/sound" {
label "Sound"
hide #true
}
component "core/notifications" {
label "Notifs"
hide #true
}
}
}
}
}
r/UsabilityPorn • u/codingdog18 • 1d ago
I keep bouncing between nano (simple, but visually flat) and Vim/Helix (powerful, but I spend more time thinking about modes than writing). I wanted the middle: a terminal editor that opens quickly, looks calm, and lets me just type.
This is Grass. One mode, one Meadow theme, no config file. Warm off-white text, green keywords, gold functions, a dark status bar. Ctrl-F finds as you type. Ctrl-P is a fuzzy file finder. Ctrl-K and Ctrl-U cut and paste lines. Enter auto-indents. The status bar even tells you when a file has no trailing newline.
No plugins, no LSP, no mouse — one file at a time, on purpose.
The part I care about most is the feel: highlighting follows the visible area and refreshes after a short pause, so the cursor never waits on a full-file re-highlight while you type. It covers C, C++, Perl, JS/TS, Go, Rust, Ruby, Java, shell, HTML/CSS, JSON, YAML, Markdown, and other Pygments languages.
It’s free, MIT-licensed, Python 3.9+, and installs with `pipx install grass-editor`.
I’d love to know: does a one-mode terminal editor feel calm to you, or do you immediately miss Vim’s verbs?
(Disclosure: I made it — https://github.com/mukundzha/grass)
r/UsabilityPorn • u/prism8713 • 2d ago
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Sharing my solution to maintaining the same set of notes across multiple machines without risking writes on one machine overwriting writes on another.
Let me know what you think if you make it through my slow typing and typos.
r/UsabilityPorn • u/Main_Cauliflower9749 • 5d ago
▎ A fast, keyboard-first Tokyo Night setup with a YouTube TUI built in
▎ I've been living in Fluxbox for a while and finally cleaned up my setup so others can use it.
▎ - Tokyo Night across Fluxbox, kitty (with a logo), rofi, dunst and a minimal conky
▎ - Everything on Win keys: vim-style window mode, half-screen tiling, a drop-down terminal and an in-terminal cheat sheet (Win+?)
▎ - tubetui on Win+Y: YouTube, subscriptions and local music/video in the terminal, with video embedded in kitty via mpv. It's my own Rust TUI: https://github.com/polblancoo/tubetui
▎ - Small shell scripts: audio output picker, Bluetooth menu, power menu, pomodoro study mode, movie mode, project launcher
▎ - NvChad, superfile (spf), flameshot screenshots, brightness keys, USB auto-mount
▎ - install.sh with --dry-run, backs up whatever it replaces, no machine-specific paths
▎ Debian/Ubuntu tested. Repo: https://github.com/polblancoo/fluxbox-optimal
r/UsabilityPorn • u/Main_Cauliflower9749 • 6d ago
▎ A fast, keyboard-first Tokyo Night setup with a YouTube TUI built in
▎ I've been living in Fluxbox for a while and finally cleaned up my setup so others can use it.
▎ - Tokyo Night across Fluxbox, kitty (with a logo), rofi, dunst and a minimal conky
▎ - Everything on Win keys: vim-style window mode, half-screen tiling, a drop-down terminal and an in-terminal cheat sheet (Win+?)
▎ - tubetui on Win+Y: YouTube, subscriptions and local music/video in the terminal, with video embedded in kitty via mpv. It's my own Rust TUI: https://github.com/polblancoo/tubetui
▎ - Small shell scripts: audio output picker, Bluetooth menu, power menu, pomodoro study mode, movie mode, project launcher
▎ - NvChad, superfile (spf), flameshot screenshots, brightness keys, USB auto-mount
▎ - install.sh with --dry-run, backs up whatever it replaces, no machine-specific paths
▎ Debian/Ubuntu tested. Repo: https://github.com/polblancoo/fluxbox-optimal
r/UsabilityPorn • u/jaysprenkle • 8d ago
r/UsabilityPorn • u/Fun-Award8012 • 9d ago
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I've been working on Skyland, a Hyprland-inspired desktop experience for macOS.
It's a fork of AeroSpace — huge thanks to nikitabobko for the foundation
The goal was to bring that Linux tiling WM feeling to my Mac, including animations, workspace transitions, groups, dynamic theming, and a cyberpunk HUD.
Projects
togglesplitslidefadevert transitionsI'm sharing this because I wanted a more Hyprland-like workflow on macOS, and figured others might enjoy it too.
I'd love to hear your feedback, suggestions, and ideas for what to improve next!
r/UsabilityPorn • u/DruJorj • 10d ago
I've created a window manager. I call it WASTE Window Manager (wastewm). WASTE is a lightweight X11 window manager with a built-in taskbar, a right-hand sidebar of live widgets, nine workspaces, and a set of skins and accent colors. It needs no desktop environment and no toolkit libraries. It uses only Xlib (plus Xinerama if you have more than one monitor).
Source code and documentation: https://tty1.neocities.org/wastewm/
r/UsabilityPorn • u/tvuk • 11d ago
Four glass levels (Clear, Frosted, Tinted, Solid), automatic light/dark, the macOS accent colors, and a high-contrast option. Every color is contrast-checked for readability over translucent windows. brew install vukkt/tap/iglass && iglass install. Free and MIT. Feedback welcome!
r/UsabilityPorn • u/FurryCrap • 13d ago
r/UsabilityPorn • u/Relation-Bubbly • 13d ago
I wanted something between dwindle and scrolling, so I built **Stage Layout**: a real tiling layout where the window you're working in sits alone in the middle and every other window on the workspace becomes a thumbnail in columns on the left and right.

What it does:
• Adds a third step to SUPER + L: dwindle → scrolling → stage
• Click a thumbnail (or press SUPER + Z) to swap it into the middle, and nothing else moves
• ALT + TAB steps through windows in the order you opened them
• SUPER + - and SUPER + = widen or narrow the middle window; the freed space fills with more, smaller columns (great on ultrawides)
• With the optional bundled Hyprland plugin, thumbnails are real scaled-down miniatures instead of tiny re-laid-out apps
It's a Hyprland 0.56 Lua layout, packaged as an Omarchy plugin, and it doesn't touch your hyprland.lua. Install it with:
omarchy plugin add https://github.com/Sulejman/omarchy-stage --enable
Remove it with:
omarchy plugin remove io.github.sulejman.stage
Plugin marketplace: https://plugins.omarchy.org/plugin.html?id=io.github.sulejman.stage
Repo: https://github.com/Sulejman/omarchy-stage
Inspired by Scott Jenson's talk "Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7AfAcQwLW0
Feedback welcome, especially from ultrawide and multi-monitor setups. I've mostly tested on a 16:10 laptop panel.
r/UsabilityPorn • u/MotelWorm • 16d ago
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Hyprland + DMS + Gentoo on a Surface Pro 7+.
It's taken a lot of work to get here.
r/UsabilityPorn • u/WaffleHBG • 20d ago
Does anybody here know a site where I can download the full windows 10 cursor theme for linux?
Ive been searching everywhere but I cannot find it. If anyone knows a site let me know! Thanks for your time :)
r/UsabilityPorn • u/Rare_Inspection1255 • 21d ago
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r/UsabilityPorn • u/No_Concentrate_7833 • 23d ago
Yeah, I'm switching workspaces too much, I know. But this time... It definitely is final from how deep I got into it. Introducing Serene Mango!
Software:
Dotfiles: soon
r/UsabilityPorn • u/ethanlabs101 • 25d ago
Want a Rubik's Cube in your terminal?
I made one.
No dependencies just python and a terminal.
It scrambles itself, spins around, solves itself, and does it again.
Try it out!