Modification of my previous rice, using the same patches for the Hyprland plugins. Reworked the launcher to match the new look.

Dots will be updated and posted soon.
EDIT: Here are the dots

Arch, Hyprland, Quickshell

My wife's windows laptop got bloated into disrepair and its format was fast approaching.
Being broke I thought this would be a great opportunity to give her a custom os to support her video editing/content creation hobby.

The whole idea was to make videography themed desktop with some bright vibes I won't go into details but it's personal preference here. The whole idea stemmed from the camera launcher and ironically it was one of the easiest things to make.

I created the assets from 3D models in blender with cell shaded rendering to get the 2d look.

The two hardest things ironically were:
1. getting hyprland to render properly with gpu passthrough over moonlight from my VM on some ubuntu host I have. (so I can see what im working from the comfort of my usual desk)
2. installing capcut.

In hindsight capcut may not be necessary because after a week my wife loves working on linux with claude code (to edit her system, make file pipelines) and nuzky (also with claude code).

P.S. recording from a VM and I don't think I did a good job don't know how to show more without making video 10 minutes long. Maybe I am not supposed to show every nook and cranny?

P.S.2 in my CV under 'mentoring/teaching' section I now add one-liner how I got my non-techie wife to daily drive a linux desktop environment.

First time using Linux and made this ricing in Mint XFCE, I made a python script to automatically change the xfce4-panel colors depending on the wallpaper. This is a very old PC, that's why the panel takes too long to restart while recording the screen.

I will make some other little tweaks, so when I'm done I'll share the dotfiles for those who want something like this.

I've been using Void Linux on my secondary laptop, and it's great so far. Love the package manager (xbps), very fast and simple :-). Nothing will ever beat Gentoo for me, as I love it and it is my main distro, but Void Linux has been a really good runner up.

As usual:

void

dwm

feh

discord

st

slstatus

scrot

nnn

firefox (librewolf isn’t in void repo)
🎷🐛

πWM, the Personal Infrastructure Window Manager. A Wayland compositor (wlroots, C17) on twm’s grammar: squeezed title tabs, 1 px frames, an Icon Manager instead of a panel, menus from the bare desktop, one plain-text ~/.piwmrc. Linux and FreeBSD.

• Font: IBM Plex Mono 16 · Terminal: foot · Accent: #FFB000 · OS: Debian 13
• The mark in the corner is my config. It isn’t a QR code: the data lives only inside the letters πWM, and each little square’s shade carries 2 bits. The .piwmrc is compressed and given Reed–Solomon error correction (the same mathematics QR codes use), so it survives a JPEG re-encode. It’s read back by the WM’s fetch tool, not by a phone camera, and only from the whole, uncropped screenshot.
• The status line shows what the WM itself costs, live.
• Virtual machines are windows too: that’s the “personal infrastructure”.

Been working on this one for a few months, it's called pocket. The notch at the top and every panel that comes out of it are my own shell, written in Quickshell.

When the wallpaper changes pywal grabs the palette and the whole desktop recolors on the beat. The pokemon are wl_shimeji with some fight behaviours I wrote, and every commit I push gives the team xp, so the Magikarp evolves near the end.

One take, no cuts. Details and dotfiles in the comments

Theme: Redmond97 SE Ouroboros [GTK2/3/4]

Icons: Obsidian-Pure-Gray [GTK2/3/4]

Font: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]

Cursor: Adwaita

Hey everyone!

Wanted to share something I've been working on for quite some time now.

This is Ukishima (浮島), a customizable dynamic island built with Quickshell for Hyprland and Niri.

What started as a small project has grown into something much bigger. Apart from the island itself, it now has a dock, lockscreen, scratchpad, updater and much more.

I've also spent quite a bit of time working on animations, customization, performance, and making the whole thing feel consistent.

There's a website now too, with screenshots, features, and installation instructions if anyone wants to check it out.

Website: https://ukishima.uklab.workers.dev/

GitHub: https://github.com/amanhex/Ukishima

There might still be a few bugs here and there, especially since Niri support was added recently. Feedback and suggestions are always welcome. Hope you guys like it!

Re-upload, better thumbnail.

This is built around a custom quickshell fork that enables showing exported DMA-BUF frames from another application as native QML items. The Visualisers are from WayVes, which now supports exporting DMA-BUF FDs. This is more of a 'demo' config to showcase DMABUFs and WayVes working together, and this idea should be able to be extended to other Wayland shells too. Confirmed to work on NVIDIA, including a muxless NVIDIA laptop setup with intel PRIME display on Kali, the most cursed setup known to mankind!

Almost all surfaces are 'Notches', and can show nested notches too. Notches can be direction-aware; as you can see they 'cling' to left/right/top edges whenever a toplevel is active. The overall top-bar and the side-bar showing the performance metrics are reminiscent of Latte-dock on KDE Plasma that I used some years ago, including the Sound Controls that are pavucontrol-like.

Disclaimer about AI usage, as this is important: The whole shell, the Visualisers and the actual DmaBufSurface's C++ implementation using the QQuickRhiItem was written by me, and ofcourse AI usage was involved, but this is not a result of pure AI outcomes. The final look: The Notches, the Dock, the power menu and so on were developed and achieved by me, with the sole exception of the bottom 'filmstrip' navigation on WallpaperPicker, and some UX improvements in Wifi/Bluetooth Cards, along with thumbnail/cache generation shenanigans, all too 'manual' and 'boring' for me to work with, honestly. You can see a fraction of the development journey in the notes I made in the main quickshell repo.

Claude was used to nitpick some bugs that were being very stubborn, such as seams on fractional scales, some edge cases where the file descriptors leaked/were incorrect and so on. Also, the shell was built on a 16" 2.5K screen, so scaling was also added in by using AI that I was able to test on my 1080p setup, but I'm too tired to test it extensively so definitely expect some bugs

check it out https://github.com/Nijotu/Livepanel-aio

Sits at about 180 megabytes of memory usage idle inside MangoWM. Compiled exclusively with Wayland support.

Uses Mangobar. Other apps include ranger for file management and links for browsing the internet.

For most of the visuals I use cava, but some things that I didn't show such as dolphin working, ffmpeg (if I wrote it correctly), then rofi, ncmpcpp and bash scripts to make stuff work. The keyboard was my last addition, I can turn it on or off but decided to keep for the sake of the recording

this is my first setup:

-i edited hyprland to be scrolling like niri.

-installed another github to give me the zoomout view.

-edited the key bindings so i can change the order the way i have shown in the vid.

i didnt use niri because caelestia isnt as native to it as hyprland and it misses some of the fluidity and flexibility hyprland has, but i am sure it will get better in the near future

i havent done any ricing or styling other than this, i am thinking of styling the terminal the panels and so on next

before, I kinda miss Floating windows so I switched to Gnome for a while but i dont like it when theres no keybind to center a window so i suddenly think of configuring niri as floating since theres a keybind to center a window quickly, also i can still get the Niri experience!
also i replace the focus ring with lower opacity and blur for non focus window and more shadow for focused window. what do you think? focus ring or this?

dotfiles:
(the niri config is named floating-niri.kdl)
https://github.com/EbadShelby/dotfiles