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GNU/LINUX RICING

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At first you'd think it was Windows XP, but look closer.... This is the power of
customization that the GNU/Linux system provides. (KDE on OpenSUSE)

GNU/Linux distributions are well known for their ability to customize the way
they work to a large degree. The purpose of this page is to give the reader some
ideas on what can be customized and how.


CONTENTS

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 * 1 What does /g/ use?
 * 2 Desktop Environments
 * 3 Display Managers
 * 4 Window Managers
   * 4.1 List of window managers and similar tools
 * 5 Themes
   * 5.1 GTK Themes
   * 5.2 Qt Themes
 * 6 KDE
   * 6.1 Icons
   * 6.2 Styles
   * 6.3 Plasma themes
   * 6.4 Window Decorations
 * 7 Fonts
 * 8 Tweaking
 * 9 Screensavers
 * 10 Ricing Code Snippets
 * 11 External Resources


WHAT DOES /G/ USE?

Let's be honest: this is why you're really here.

A common ricing configuration which can be seen among /g/ users in desktop
threads usually features some of the software below. All of these can be
installed from a repository via your package manager, be it your distro's main
one or a user one (the AUR in Arch), or built from source. Do a little searching
to find out.

 * Distro: Arch (but sometimes Gentoo/Funtoo, Void Linux, Debian GNU/Linux,
   FreeBSD, or even OpenBSD);
 * Window Manager: i3, Sway, Awesome, or dwm;
 * Login/Display manager: Usually none;
 * File Manager: ranger, mc, nnn, or none;
 * Terminal Emulator: rxvt-unicode or st;
 * Shell: zsh + oh-my-zsh, fish, or bash;
 * OS information: Neofetch, Screenfetch or Archey;
 * font: DejaVu, Inconsolata, terminus, or Tewi;
 * Music player: mpd + ncmpcpp or ncmpc, or cmus;
 * Video player: mpv;
 * IRC client: weechat or irssi;
 * Screen capture (screenshot): scrot, maim, or import (part of imagemagick);
 * Image viewer/desktop wallpaper display: feh, sxiv;
 * Screen recorder: see below (some casuals also use Byzanz);
 * Streaming: FFmpeg (which includes FFserver if you want to host the stream);
 * Video conversion: FFmpeg (including WebM or GIF creation);
 * Text editor: Vim (or Neovim), Emacs, Nano, or Sublime Text.


DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS


GNOME 3.10

Cinnamon 2.0

XFCE 4.10

A desktop environment is a complete suite of software designed to maintain a
certain experience in a Linux environment. It will contain a display manager,
window manager, session manager, file manager, and various other default
applications that a user may find useful (web browser, audio player, etc). Good
DEs are modular and will allow the users to mix and match and switch any of
their modules with another of their choice. Running multiple Desktop
Environments without uninstalling others is one mere file edit away.

Primarily, what a DE means to you is how you interact with the desktop. Systems
such as Windows and Macintosh only have one user interface to use, however
GNU/Linux systems have many User Interfaces to choose from.

Despite the many options, a desktop environment is not a required part of a
Linux experience, although most Linux distributions will include one by default.
It is entirely possible to have a working graphical environment without
installing a desktop environment, instead opting to only use a window manager
and utilities that you require, and many users choose to do this.

 * KDE Plasma 5

Fairly lightweight DE with a Windows-like UI. If you want something with a bit
more features and eyecandy, this may be for you.
 * GNOME 3

GNOME is extremely polarizing. If you like the Windows 8 Start Screen and
similar touch interfaces, try it out. Else, stay clear.
 * Cinnamon

GNOME fork with a traditional desktop. Very customizable and feature.
 * Xfce

XFCE is a less resource-intensive DE. If you want something that runs fast and
allows for lots of customization without giving up too many features, this DE is
for you.
 * LXDE

LXDE is the most minimal DE around. If you are running on a toaster supercluster
or just need the most battery life out of your freedom device, and are too
lazy/dumb to setup a WM, LXDE is the only correct choice.
 * LXQT

A fork of LXDE that uses the QT framework, however more heavy on system
resources than LXDE and XFCE.
 * Enlightenment
   * Crazy eye candy. Light on system resources.
 * MATE

Fork and continuation of GNOME 2 for those who prefer it.


DISPLAY MANAGERS

A display manager is what might typically be thought of as a "login screen". It
will prompt you to choose a user to log in as, as well as specify a session to
be used, which allows you to switch between desktop environments easily.

 * LightDM
 * SLiM - The SliM project has been abandoned, and is not fully compatible with
   systemd, including logind sessions. Consider using a different Display
   manager.
 * SDDM - Display manager used with KDE and LXQt.
 * GDM - Display manager used in GNOME.
 * LXDM - Works with almost all window managers.


WINDOW MANAGERS

Currently most GNU/Linux distributions use the X Window System for drawing the
desktop (with Wayland being planned to replace it later). The X.org Server is
the most common implementation of the X Window System. It is designed to be
modular and highly customizable. One of the results of this design is that X.org
doesn't manage windows. Instead it depends on a special client application
called a window manager. The window manager (WM in short) moves and resizes
windows, among other things, often in response to user input. Window managers
also do much more, like automatic window layout, compositing, drawing
decorations, drawing panels, providing multiple workspaces, and so on.

Window managers can be divided into these three categories:


Compiz's expo plugin. As most window managers, it allows for multiple
workspaces, as seen here.
 * Stacking (aka floating) - Provides the traditional desktop metaphor used in
   commercial operating systems like Windows and OS X. Windows act like pieces
   of paper on a desk, and can be stacked on top of each other.
 * Compositing - Provide a buffer for each window to draw on and then compose
   those buffers together creating the desktop image. This type of window
   manager allows use of semitransparent windows.
 * Tiling - These "tile" the windows side-by-side so that none are overlapping.
   They usually make very extensive use of key-bindings and have less (or no)
   reliance on the mouse. Tiling window managers may be manual, offer predefined
   layouts, or both.
   * Static tiling - WMs such as ratpoison always use a set number of equal size
     tiles, and the tiles do not move
   * Dynamic tiling - WMs such as awesome allow you to change the layout of the
     tiles, the number of tiles onscreen, and other things. it should be noted
     that awesome also has a stacking mode in addition to many tiling
     configurations.

Many WMs contain both stacking and tiling modes, and the behavior can be
switched by the user. This is sometimes known as a "dynamic" wm (not to be
confused with dynamic tiling)

It's also possible for WMs that don't tile windows to use a separate application
that works together with the main window manager to automatically tiles windows
(for example: pytyle).

Finally, there are also composite managers such as xcompmgr that work together
with a non-compositing WM making it compose windows, allowing for effects such
as transparency and drop shadows.


LIST OF WINDOW MANAGERS AND SIMILAR TOOLS

List of window managers in Arch Wiki

Dynamic

 * Awesome - Despite looking pretty bad of the box, it's a very popular tiling
   window manager. It is completely scriptable in Lua, which makes it one of the
   most powerful and customizable window managers once you get around to
   programming the configuration file.
 * dwm - Doesn't come with a simple configuration file; instead, you're supposed
   to edit config.h and recompile dwm yourself. At least they make an effort to
   keep the code well-commented and under 2000 SLOC. Not for beginners as they
   themselves claim to want to "keep the userbase small and elitist", though you
   might want to give this a shot if you know C and you're willing to hack into
   the source code.
 * i3 - One of the most popular window managers around, i3 is a fork of wmii
   that strives to fix the latter's convoluted code and documentation problems.
   Looks good out of the box and the configuration is simple and intuitive. It
   also provides a great amount of documentation on the webpage. Good for
   beginners and developers/hackers alike.
 * monsterwm - Tiny but monstrous! Currently under 700 lines of code including
   the configuration file.

Tiling

 * ratpoison - Minimal WM without the need of a mouse.
 * bspwm
 * xmonad - A minimal window manager written and configured in Haskell.
 * herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager.

Compositing

 * Compiz - A compositing WM being developed since 2006. It uses OpenGL (AIGLX).
   It is know for having a lot functionality and providing many interesting
   effects. However, it can cause problems if the graphics are faulty.
 * KWin - A compositing WM used in KDE. It's comparable in feature set to
   compiz.
 * Mutter - The default window manager for GNOME.
 * Xfwm - The default window manager for XFCE.

Stacking


PyTyle used together with Compiz, tiling 5 terminal windows.
 * Openbox
 * Fluxbox
 * Blackbox
 * Windowmaker - No-frills, very lightweight, fast. Makes your computer look
   like a mid-90s NeXTSTEP workstation.

Compositing tools (for stacking/tiling WMs)

 * Xcompmgr
 * Compton - Forked of Xcompmgr

Tiling tools (for non-tiling WMs)

 * Tile-windows
 * PyTyle
 * Tiling (Kwin)

For some more information on this topic, see: this page.


THEMES

There are two main toolkits you need to concern yourself with styling: GTK and
Qt. Luckily, there are themes for both that will adapt to the other. So find a
theme for whichever toolkit your distro uses prominently. For KDE based distros,
that's Qt. For everything else, that's GTK.


GTK THEMES

There are a number of great themes. All of these are GTK3 compatible. To apply
them, see GTK Theming.

 * Numix - A very popular theme.


The Numix theme
 * Numix Arctic
 * Hope
 * Naos
 * SimpliX - Supports Xfwm, Xfce-Notify, GTK2, GTK3.
 * Lazulum
 * Zukiwi
 * ElementaryLi - Make your distro look like a Mac!
 * Greybird - See above.
 * Arc - Another popular theme.
 * Chicago95 - Windows 95 theme for Xfce and GTK2/3


QT THEMES

Set Qt themes with the qtconfig tool.

 * GTK+ - Builtin. Adapts to the theme that GTK is using.


KDE

KDE allows you to download most of the following by simply going into the
relative setting, press the "get new" button, and search for the name.


ICONS

 * KFaenza - Port of the famous Faenza theme to KDE.
 * Oxyfaenza - An elegant modification of Faenza.
 * Nitrux
 * FaenK - Incomplete theme, needs KFaenza installed to display all the icons.
 * kAwOken - Nice light/dark gray icon theme.


STYLES

 * QtCurve - Another KDE theme.


A gif of KDE with QtCurve theme, Numix Icons and Homerun launcher
 * Fusion-qt4 - Port of the qt5 default style to qt4, needs compiling to
   install.
 * Oxygen-trasparent - Oxygen, but with transparency.


PLASMA THEMES

 * Diamond - Transparency, almost unusable without composing turned off.
 * Caledonia - Dark "flat" suite, include a Plasma theme, icons and custom
   colors.
 * uniq - Another suite, includes a window decorator, a qtqurve theme and custom
   colors.
 * Produkt - A dark, flat theme with minimal transparency and nice custom tray
   icons.


WINDOW DECORATIONS

 * Diamond - Match the Diamond Plasma theme.
 * MetroDark - Theme from NetRunner OS, Download


FONTS

 * Infinality - This font patchset can give you some of the best font rendering
   there is (if not the best) on GNU/Linux. It comes with a gigantic set of
   patched fonts, many being optional.
 * fontconfig-ultimate - fontconfig-ultimate is an aggregate of configuration
   files, patches, scripts and source packages, meant to add more presets to
   fontconfig and, in most cases, improve the existing font rendering. It is
   supposed to be used with freetype+infinality.


TWEAKING

Article Tweaking Linux.


SCREENSAVERS

See: Screensavers


RICING CODE SNIPPETS

Ricing-Code-Snippets-Anon-No-76935693


EXTERNAL RESOURCES

Ricing guide by z3bra

Nanami's Win7 & Firefox List

Dotshare.it (Contains many helpful terminal application configurations)

Funroll loops

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