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Awesome Ricing is a curated list of tools and technologies intended to help with ricing on Linux, described as making the operating system look beautiful. The list groups packages under headings such as window managers, which includes tiling window managers like bspwm and i3, along with terminals, bars and panels, CLI tools, colorschemes and shells.
Awesome Wayland is an open source Linux, macOS, or Unix resource with code, tools, or setup notes.
Aylur's GTK Shell is an open source command-line or Unix tool for terminal workflows and system use.
BSPWM is a tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree. It responds only to X events and messages received on a dedicated socket, and does not handle keyboard or pointer inputs itself, requiring a third-party program such as sxhkd to translate input events into bspc invocations.
Burn My Windows is a GNOME Shell and KWin extension that adds animated effects when windows open and close, such as fire, broken glass and pixelation. Effects are implemented using GLSL shaders. The main branch targets GNOME Shell 45 and later; older versions use the gnome-3.36-44 branch. The code is released under GPL-3.0.
Color Scripts is an open source Linux, macOS, or Unix resource with code, tools, or setup notes.
Fetch is an animated 3D fetch tool for terminals. It takes a user's distribution ASCII logo, turns it into a spinning 3D object, and displays live system information alongside it.
Forge is an open source Linux, macOS, or Unix resource with code, tools, or setup notes.
GUI is an open source Linux, macOS, or Unix resource with code, tools, or setup notes.
Hardcode Tray is an open source Linux, macOS, or Unix resource with code, tools, or setup notes.
Hellwal is a color palette generator comparable to Pywal, written in C. Given a wallpaper image it generates color templates, which are saved to ~/.cache/hellwal/. Templates can reference colors 0 to 15 in hex, rgb or single rgb channel formats and support HSL and RGB operations. It is available via AUR, Homebrew and Nixpkgs, or can be built with make.
Hidamari is a video wallpaper application for Linux written in Python. It supports autostart after login, applying a static wallpaper with blur, pausing playback on maximized windows or fullscreen mode, volume control, hardware-accelerated decoding, GNOME Wayland, multi-monitor setups, streaming URLs and webpages as wallpaper. It is distributed as a Flatpak on Flathub.
Iron Bar is an open source Linux, macOS, or Unix resource with code, tools, or setup notes.
Kvantum is an open source Linux, macOS, or Unix resource with code, tools, or setup notes.
LabWC is an open source Linux, macOS, or Unix resource with code, tools, or setup notes.
Mango is an open source Linux, macOS, or Unix resource with code, tools, or setup notes.
niri is an open source Linux, macOS, or Unix resource with code, tools, or setup notes.
NotCurses is a library for building complex text user interfaces and character graphics on modern terminal emulators. It supports vivid colors, multimedia, threads and Unicode, and includes visual features such as images, fonts, video, sprites and transparent regions. It is described as not a source-compatible X/Open Curses implementation nor a replacement for NCURSES.
nwg-look is an open source Linux, macOS, or Unix resource with code, tools, or setup notes.
picom is a compositor for X11 and a fork of Compton, with animation support. The repository notes it is a development branch where bugs are expected. It can be built with meson and ninja, and the built binary is found in build/src.
Polybar (X11) is an open source Linux, macOS, or Unix resource with code, tools, or setup notes.
Pop!OS Shell is an open source command-line or Unix tool for terminal workflows and system use.
river is an open source Linux, macOS, or Unix resource with code, tools, or setup notes.
Simple Config refers to the ML4W OS Dotfiles for Hyprland, an advanced, full-featured configuration for the Hyprland dynamic tiling window manager. It is compatible with Arch Linux, Fedora and openSUSE.
