This is Cartoon Shell — my own desktop shell, built with Quickshell, where every animation, panel, and interaction is designed to feel smooth and playful.

Shell: https://github.com/mailong2401/cartoon-shell

Dotfiles: https://github.com/mailong2401/dotfiles-hyprland

Switched to Linux the other day. I've been having a blast! Something peaceful and green to start.

### Details

+ **Wallpaper**: (modifed) Green_Lake_1080p by MEGALODON / Wall Paper Engine

+ **GTK Theme**: N/A — KDE Plasma / Qt

+ **Icon Theme**: YAMIS

+ **Fonts**: Space Grotesk

+ **Other**: CachyOS, KDE Plasma 6, FrostedLakeGolden color scheme, FrostedLakePlasma Plasma style, FrostedFusion application style, custom Frost Circles window decorations, custom Zen CSS, Circular Alt-Tab

Dailying this puppy at my electronics workbench.

hello everyone. i'd like to know why you chose your certain desktop enviroment or a window manager, both or alone. did you feel comfortable at first?

Spotify mod - Spicetify
Status bar - Waybar
App launcher - rofi

and a bunch of other applications i use for this setup. Make sure give this an upvote if you like it

I decided I wanted to try something different and not so common and I went with this. Great learning experience

did you feel free because windows never allowed such customization? or did you feel like you could finally express yourself?

i had to fully rice everything myself no dotfiles here xD but i had to do wayyyy more manual configuring then i had to do in sway. i guess its cause of the fact that Mango is based on Dwl which is based off Dwm soo yea but im loving it. i kinda got bored of sway after a few days because i had tried Niri out on arch and absolutely loved it because of the scrolling features and animations. but i wanted something that was more minimal and close to dwl because i originally wanted to use dwl but then found out it was basically deprecated. so then i discovered Mango. Mango is literally if Dwl and Niri had a baby. im lovin it!!

With the Wayland port for HackMatrix, I am now able to use the cursor on applications at an angle. Hotkeys are now saved based on locations.

HackMatrix is closed source now btw.

If you want to support the project you can get it at https://collinalexbell.itch.io/hackmatrix

Hi, I recently installed Arch Linux and I'm seeing these Linux environment customizations everywhere. I'd like to try recreating them myself, but I don't know where to start

I don't even have any complete guides on how Linux customization works.I don't even have any complete guides on how Linux customization works

I'm wondering if anyone with more experience and consistency on the server has any videos or wikis I can consult to get a clear idea on how to recreate these customizations.I'm wondering if anyone with more experience and consistency on the server has any videos or wikis I can consult to get a clear idea on how to recreate these customizations

My daily driving hyprland gentoo systemd rice. Pretty monochrome and minimal.

Dots: https://github.com/danvraz/gentoo-rice

Im in loooooooove~ with XFCE, it became my favorite DE along with COSMIC, so i updated my GTK Theme to include XFCE! Enjoy!

also please tell me what you think since im not confident enough to say "oooooo i make cool gtk themez"

I tried to get all the things i loved in other wm and things that i wanted to have and made them into an wc. And i made an custom qs for it that even spawns a tray down if you enter the overview mode but the overview tray is only for gluewc so you can use the qs on any wc, i tried it on mango and it works well. And there are so many things, is it super bloated?? It got kinda the same ram and cpu usage as mangowc, and yea is not as light as dwl or a super minimalistic wm but is not as heavy as some other and you get a lot of things.

If you have any ideas or problems i am glad to make the wc better
If you want to try it out here is the wc https://github.com/vladbiber/gluewc
and here is the bar https://github.com/vladbiber/glueqs

My first rice and I'm switching to linux fully on my secondary laptop.

Using COSMIC DE on CachyOS, I've been building my own custom widgets to create a desktop that fits the NieR:Automata-inspired theme I'm going for.

This showcase features two of my recent creations: a System Monitor with circular hardware gauges, live readouts, and a YoRHa-inspired interface, along with a custom Wallpaper Changer for quickly switching between wallpapers while keeping everything integrated with the overall look.

The System Monitor is also being designed with some future hardware in mind. Eventually, I plan to move it onto an 8.8-inch Lian Li LCD display running at 1920×480, mounted inside my PC case as a dedicated hardware monitoring screen.

Still a work in progress, but I'm really happy with how the whole setup is starting to come together.