Everyone loves the desktop operating system. People customize their Linux or Unix desktop with themes, wallpapers, killer configuration and more. These customizations show you how cool your desktop can be!
Love the Windows 10 UI, but not their privacy policy
Xfce is a lightweight desktop for Linux and UNIX-like systems. The goal is to make UI feel more or less like Window 10 while keeping it light and responsive. Hence the author using Xfce desktop.
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| Distro: Linux Mint |
| DM: Xfce |
| WM theme: Adapta-nokto |
| Icons: Numix circle |
| Dock: DockbarX (custom skin) |
| Other info: Sublime-text theme: Material-theme, monokai-soft-MD colour scheme |
| Download/Credit: Customization info including downloads by phenomenos |
bspwm tiling WM with Polybar
bspwm is an open source tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree. Polybar is a fast and beautiful status bar for desktop.
![[bspwm + polybar] Trying to get a modern look](https://s0.cyberciti.org/uploads/cms/2017/04/bspwm-polybar.png) |
| Distro: Fedora Linux 25 |
| DM: GNOME 3 |
| WM theme: — |
| Icons: — |
| Dock: — |
| Other info: gnome-terminal |
| Download/Credit: Customization info including downloads by gamehelp16 |
I love openbox and conky setup
Openbox is a free and open source stacking window manager for Linux/Unix desktop. Conky is a free and open source light-weight system monitor for X, that displays all sort of system information on your desktop.
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| Distro: Gentoo Linux |
| DM: Openbox |
| WM theme: — |
| Icons: — |
| Dock: — |
| Other info: Wallpaper and conkey config |
| Download/Credit: Customization info including downloads by bluedave08 |
You gotta love 1980s retro future desktop
Oh, this is so awesome. It uses Xfce, Emerald and Compiz-Reloaded to create 1980s retro desktop.
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| Distro: Manjaro Linux 25 |
| DM: Xfce |
| WM theme: Emerald |
| Icons: — |
| Dock: — |
| Other info: Wallpaper and emerald config |
| Download/Credit: Customization info including downloads by jayk806 |
Clean i3 setup on Arch Linux
i3 is a free and open souurce tiling window manager, completely written from scratch. The target platforms are GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems.
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| Distro: Arch Linux |
| DM: i3 |
| WM theme: — |
| Icons: — |
| Dock: — |
| Other info: Wallpaper and i3 and dot config file |
| Download/Credit: Customization info including downloads by nesmeck |
For more info and desktop, customization see Reddit /r/unixporn community.