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VegOwOtenks @lemmy.world

2w ago

When I try to go on a ricing journey again

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It’s not about being original, it’s about what you enjoy eating.
- Hotdog theme
  
  volume bar is a hotdog popping out the top a bun?

Transparent Windows are like scifi where they print stuff on see through foil. How the fuck is anybody even able to read this?
- That's why you want to add blur. I also don't understand unblurred transparent terminals.
  
  Or, this might blow off the minds of some people, not using transparency.
  
  To read thru documentation.
  
  I have my focused window opaque, the rest transparent+blur.
  
  Unblurred transparent terminals
  Hi I might be your worst nightmare and this comment explains how I do it
  I'm not sure why I prefer this, but I really like the "darkened background" rather than "blurred background" effect
- Very simple actually: don't use 100% transparency.
  Just use something like 80-90% opaque (10-20% transparent) and use the background color as black so it just dims whatever us behind it.
  You can have both function and form.
  
  Additionally use Kawase-Blur with a lot of blurring, and this is a non-issue.
- In school I had a physics teacher who thought it was a good idea one day to use whiteboard markers on the glass windows instead of the whiteboard. I didn't learn anything that lesson.
  
  what
- That’s the neat part. You don’t.
- Simple: only the out of focus apps have opacity set to 85-90%, the focused app is always 100%. Easy.

nowadays the question is not how you turn on rounded corners, but how you turn them off
- Same applies to gaps
  
  I was surprised to learn that
  a) macOS only recently added Left/Right-tiling natively (without extensions, just like GNOME does)
  b) they leave gaps when you tile them so that it looks like you messed up the tiling somehow
- I suppose you're mainly concerned about LibAdwaita-Apps?
  
  I'm mainly concerned about KDE, android, windows 11, and web shit.
  but yeah now that you say, gtk things too
  
  Luckily most gui toolkits have a way of disabling CSD. For gtk/libadwaita I recommend something like Gradience to generate a theme with corners of your liking.

- Compiz is Xorg exclusive
  
  Yes.
- Effects aside compiz was just gorgeous, every time i go looking for window decorations on pling it always seems like the pretty ones were made for just compiz

I will spend an entire weekend ricing my desktop in just the right way.
Then I'll notice that one of my main apps doesn't adhere to the theming i've designed, or that
<insert random condition here>
will completely break my theming because
<insert weird OS quirk here>
, or If I change my wallpaper it will make my entire theme look like shit, or that my cool theme makes font unreadable on one app because it renders shit weird, or that I completely overlooked this one aspect of my workflow that my cool design fucks with.
Then I'll just say fuck it and go back to using standard Gnome.
There's an extension that lets me close and open windows with the Matrix Code Rain so I can pretend I'm cool n shit.
- There's an extension that lets me close and open windows with the Matrix Code Rain so I can pretend I'm cool n shit.
  Awesome. Looking into that just got added to my weekend plans. Thanks!
  
  The extension is called Burn-My-Windows and I always look forward to it when booting into GNOME because it feels so ✨fancy✨

Do the windows wobble?
- Unfortunately not :/ But I do have rainbow-gradient window borders.

I feel seen. And belittled. But mostly seen.

Every few years I get the customization bug and trick out my desktop. Then things start breaking down slowly. Then I get frustrated and reinstall vanilla gnome, swear off customization forever, and feel better.
For gaming its Plasma.
Knowing the default DE's idiosyncrasies also helps with work -- I'm never surprised when I reinstall/install a new machine. Same goes for aliases. No for me, knowing the commands themselves, however cumbersome or verbose, helps me better deal with freshly installed machines.

Say what you wanna say about tiling wms, but there are good tiling wms like niri, paperwm, hyprland(I love it).
- Sway not mentioned?
  
  Hyprland is the future old man

i3wm has been my daily driver for the past 4 years. I just flow on it
- Same here, improved imprived improved. I have been looking to switch to sway and experimented with qtile (... Wayland is the future yo). One thing that stops from moving is feh. I know wayland has it's own lightweight, image viewer, background setter. But feh is all in one. The closest thing is imv, but I cant get it to render raw images. (.. i am aware feh does work in wayland using xwayland but not natively.)

KDE, with breeze and a custom colour scheme. I find it less likely to lead to usability issues.

I personally do like all the eye candy, especially animations and round borders, but sometimes i do enjoy using compositors without any of that just as a change of pace. I also really like river for example.

I just watched a video about a what if situation of this exact same spongebob scene last night lol
https://youtu.be/s2699HTY-g8

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