Share your linux desktop/setup

Sure. Here is mine: sway (wayland)

I am a fan of bspwm, but there is no equivalent on wayland yet (river is still in alpha stages). So i´ve been using sway with the autotiling python script.

Since i changed everything (going from Xorg/bspwm to Wayland/sway) i decided to change the music player. I´ve been using cmus for years and now i´m using mpd+ncmpcpp.

Don´t know if i like it really. I´m not a playlist kind of guy and mpd seems to center around playlists. I prefer to play full albums or shuffle the entire collection. In cmus i spent all the time in the library view, never ever made any playlists.

The upside is that i can control the player with my smartphone.

I´m still hunting for a simple dotfile manager to put things on gitlab.

Looking through my i3 config, here's some things I've done.

I have my workstations named with Font Awesome icons so that they look like this in the toolbar thingy (also pictured are the i3blocks widgets I use): https://i.imgur.com/5PiyR2j.png

I have Flameshot bound to PrtScr so that I can easily take screenshots, mark them up with things like the arrow you see in the status bar screenshot above, and upload them to imgur.

My background is set randomly from a folder when i3 starts up using fbsetbg.

I use i3's modes as a simple keybind-driven menu system. For example, I have $mod+g bound to a games menu. I seem to recall adding a few items to the default $mod+q menu as well, that looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/oTECUla.png

I have $mod+m bound to a music menu that lets me select a source of music, shutting down the current music source if necessary, and is driven by some custom scripts in ~/bin called music, mps, pandora, and radio. Those scripts are also bound to my media keys so that the previous, play/pause, and next buttons always do the right thing.

I bound $mod+x to a macro menu driven by another pile of custom scripts for capturing/replaying/looping/etc. keystrokes using xmacroplay.

A feature of i3's I use all the time is its scratchpad, which is an invisible anonymous workspace that you can send floating windows to and from. I always keep a floating shell window in it that I can flip to with $mod+period to run a quick command regardless of the workstation I'm on. And in addition to $mod+Return launching a new terminal, I have $mod+Mod1+Return set to launch a floating terminal.

I have copyq bound to $mod+c, although I don't use that keybind much. Mostly I use copyq to keep the ctrl+c clipboard synced to the middle click clipboard. I've been meaning to look into a way to keep them synced in the reverse direction, if anyone knows a good way to do that I'd love to hear it.

Let me know if you want to see configs/scripts/etc. for any of the above.

Right now, I'm running GNOME 40 on Arch Linux after abandoning XFCE when they switched to client-side decorations. The Activities overview, touchpad gestures, and slew of extensions are killer features. There was no difference in power consumption, which surprised me a little bit (GNOME is a JavaScript behemoth). All I miss from XFCE is the file manager.

This setup is remarkably unremarkable.

This seems fun! Here's my current setup bspwm(Xorg). I'm fairly happy with it, but I'm planning on starting over once I'm free of school, since everything has become a mess.

Like DMBuce, I'm using Flameshot, since being able to easily take screenshots and annotate on them is really handy, especially when I was working on my OSCP.

The most fun parts, I think, are the music display and the background. I normally listen to Spotify (I used to just have mp3 files, but Spotify is just so convenient) , and the Linux player supports playerctl, so I have a little script that reads the currently playing song and displays it using skroll on Polybar. I don't change background images, since I like having the background fit the colors, and I haven't played with pywal yet to update colors automatically, but I do have a script that uses Image Magick to replace the quote on my desktop every ten minutes with something from the fortune command.

I'd share a link to a dotfiles repo, and I used to track my dotfiles using Stow, but over time, and as I've switched software, my git repository has become really out of date, but if y'all are interested in anything, I can share any of my configs.

Looking forward to seeing y'all's setups!
~Archwizard

This is easily the most boring one in the thread -- https://i.imgur.com/dzMl6N3.png

This shitty Toshiba Chromebook 2 runs GalliumOS (Xubuntu) w/ i3, zsh, surf, etc. Not very exciting. This is my 'on the town' laptop. Its got a ~10hr battery, which is really handy. Its a 13" screen @ 1080p and is actually really nice to look at. The keyboard and trackpad are also excellent.

Hell yeah I love that stuff. I run arch with i3 as well, and I spent some time about a year ago trying to customize it but didn't get super far. I've been meaning to take a weekend and switch wm and really get things set up as I like but haven't found the time yet. I'd be interested in seeing what you have. I'd offer to share my dot files and such but they as unimpressive as they are disorganized.

I use Pop!_OS default with the built-in tiling manager. Aesthetically pleasing, and very helpful for getting stuff done.

Joining late too, I use Fedora Silverblue 34.

Audio is handled by Pipewire, Display protocol is Wayland, Shell is zsh. I don't use any GNOME extensions nor modified the GTK Stylesheet. I use Flatpaks for most if not all my applications.

I think that's pretty much everything I'd really note about it.

Here's a screenshot for it, the fox is Xenia, she was one of the choices proposed for a Linux mascot and I like her quite a bit. The wallpaper was made by my friend.

I love customising my dwm desktop though I have got to a point where it is no longer needing changing. All I change now is the wallpaper.

Late to the party but here is my setup. Boring arch with kde.
The first goal was a setup usable either with mouse only (when lazying in bed) and with keyboard only (for doing work).
The bar allows access with a mouse to all applications and kde also has customizable keybinds for everything.

The second goal was to save space on this small 1366x768 screen.
Kde allows to hide the application top bar when applications are maximized so on the right I have controls for the windows (minimize, close etc). This saves space while maintaining usability.

https://i.ibb.co/6WQBkKF/Screenshot-20210501-212604.png

Yeah, I don’t have time to share right now, but I’ll definitely look over others!

Here's my setup. As you can see, I'm using Sway on Arch Linux (original, I know.) Here are my dotfiles. The thing I'm most proud of is the grabweather script. I wanted to have a small script that updates my Waybar with the weather and temperature, but I couldn't find one, so I made my own.

I wasn't going to just rig a screenshot, but was doing some work on my Planck's layout (adding a couple numpad layers) and saw an opportunity to show everything essentially at once

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I've had more or less this same sort of setup for a few years, with XFCE and i3 in separate sessions because sometimes I just want a "traditional" interface for some tasks. It's just Arc Dark + Nord theming because it looks reasonably good. I mostly use Spotify these days, and wrote a simple i3blocks+playerctl script to display its output. It's on Debian Bullseye.

Could we just edit this into a "share your linux desktop/setup" thread (or however you want to word it)? I can change the title for you, but you'll have to update the post's text.

It's already starting to move in that direction, and in general there's no need to make "Is anyone interested in X?" posts, you can just post X and see if people participate.