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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

    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 will completely break my theming because , 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.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 29 minutes ago

    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!

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

    Say what you wanna say about tiling wms, but there are good tiling wms like niri, paperwm, hyprland(I love it).

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

    Sway not mentioned?

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

    Unfortunately not :/ But I do have rainbow-gradient window borders.

    [–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Transparent Windows are like scifi where they print stuff on see through foil. How the fuck is anybody even able to read this?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

    Simple: only the out of focus apps have opacity set to 85-90%, the focused app is always 100%. Easy.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

    Additionally use Kawase-Blur with a lot of blurring, and this is a non-issue.

    [–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    That's why you want to add blur. I also don't understand unblurred transparent terminals.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

    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

    [–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Or, this might blow off the minds of some people, not using transparency.

    [–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

    I just boot straight into the terminal. No desktop, just the void staring at me full of possibilities.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

    To read thru documentation.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

    I have my focused window opaque, the rest transparent+blur.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    What's the difference between opaque and transparent+blur?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

    opaque is not transparent and has no blur

    transparent+blur has transparency and no blur

    hope i helped

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago
    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago
    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

    That’s the neat part. You don’t.

    [–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 75 points 1 day ago

    It’s not about being original, it’s about what you enjoy eating.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    nowadays the question is not how you turn on rounded corners, but how you turn them off

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    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
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 25 minutes ago* (last edited 25 minutes ago) (1 children)

    so that it looks like you messed up the tiling somehow

    I wish more tiling developers understood this. Gaps between windows looks broken. I don't mind it being an option, but to me it's such a weird choice for the default.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

    plus it's literally unused screen space

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I suppose you're mainly concerned about LibAdwaita-Apps?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

    I stumbled over Gradience just yesterday but I tought it was archived sometime last year, is it still working accordingly?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

    I'm mainly concerned about KDE, android, windows 11, and web shit.

    but yeah now that you say, gtk things too

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

    I feel seen. And belittled. But mostly seen.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

    I just watched a video about a what if situation of this exact same spongebob scene last night lol

    https://youtu.be/s2699HTY-g8