I’ve been using linux for about 6 months now and recently been using arch as my main. I’ve done some customzations like changing fonts, background, keybinds, etc. But I really want to actually customize like the behaviour of apps, cool animations.
Are there any links, videos, post or anything that is beginner friendly of ricing Linux?
Edit: I use Gnome for now
Don’t fall for the tiling managers, I know they look pretty but they’ll sink all your time and you’ll never be satisfied. Trust me I’ve been there.
Personally I hate tiling, I just want those cool closing and opening animations
If you use KDE, look for the “TV Glitch [burn-my-windows]” opening and closing animation. It’s a default setting in the KDE Settings > Workspace behavior > Desktop effects > Window open/close animation section. It’s really good in my opinion, especially if you tinker with the open/close timing to make it a little more crisp.
I hated tiling too, everything was constantly changed however, but not what I thought about convenience, before I met PaperWM (gnome extension) and it seems to be exactly what I needed. Using it for 2 weeks and I love it.
I believe in hybrid models. Sometimes tiling is really nice, but what I really want is a better and customizable snap window management.
KDE has your back. You .mostly use regular windows but with meta+T you can configure tiles that can be used to snap windows to them using shift when dragging a window
Might have to try that out. Since installing Linux I’ve mostly run Gnome and I like it a lot so far.
I’ve only started out with Linux a few weeks ago and I liked gnome for the few weeks I’ve used it, but I’m liking KDE much more than gnome so far.
Oh I love that manual titling thingy. I wish I could save my window setups tho. Also an automatic tile option too.
Idk I love hyprland. Maybe it’s not for everyone but there is no harm trying :)
Didn’t mean no offence. If it works for you, great! But personally I got too into customisations and missed a lot of work which was the whole actual point, " productivity" lol. But damn did my setup look slick that week.
Partially true… I’ve been using i3 for roughly 8 years so setup and usage is pretty dang quick these days. I’d say it’s worth it if tiling piques your interest.
Ain’t that the truth. But I love the workflow they offer. You don’t have to go looking for new windows. You can easily pin applications to virtual desktops and I prefer the multihead model they use over the one used by gnome or KDE.
Took me a few goes here and there but now I love my minimal tiling setup. Never really got it but just played with them here and there out of curiosity. Last time I tried it something clicked for me and now I’ve no desire to go back.
Unfortunately for my free time I really enjoy the endless customisation loop
Also tiling WM with virtual desktops makes one monitor feel like many, I often actively choose to use my hyprland laptop and trackpad instead of a triple monitor setup without tiling
This Lemmy community is a pretty good resource for inspiration, and sometimes you can snag animation or icon sources from the descriptions or comments. It’s not super in depth on the how to end of it though.
The easiest step into this world is KDE. It has a store for users to share global themes, color themes, even sddm animations.
You can use kwin rules to send certain apps to certain desktops, start shaded, all sorts of fun stuff.
And then you can throw a tiling manager on top of that. If you want to use the control panel, you can install bismuth. If you’re comfortable editing text files, awesome or i3 (but I have yet to go that far).
If you really want to go for it, hyperland looks incredible, but it is a lot of up front work.
What desktop do you use?
I never use one, useless fluff/hype, I use a wm.
Near double the size and resources for having a dock/bar/menu and pinning icons on the background … too much clutter for things hiding behind whatever you are doing most of the time.
A desktop is something you use to impress someone using mac/msWin …
Your reasoning is understandable if itching out every mb of RAM space is a high priority, but fortunately hardware has improved well enough to use more bloated systems (not windows levels) for easier daily use.
and a WM is something you use to impress someone who doesn’t only use a WM
You know I’ve heard a lot of people say that. And i tested it with bspwm, sure I was saving some ram but when you add all the applets, compositor, bar and notification daemons and all the configs it adds up to the same amount of ram being used as sometching like KDE. I didn’t notice a lot of difference other that more time being spent on configuring the wm than using it. It was fun tho.
Desktop resources are not above 1% of my system use. Wm is annoying because I’d have to use the keyboard for everything.
The question was obviously directed at OP.
Time to switch to Gentoo or Funtoo? That’s when you really start putting more pep in your step
You’ll want to decide on a desktop environment or window manager (or compositor). That’ll be the biggest determining factor of what things will look like. From there, you’ll want to either read the manual or arch wiki on how to customize the different aspects of it.
If you decide you want a tiling window manager, Hyprland is nice since you mentioned you wanted animations. But it’s only recommended on rolling release distros at the moment. It also might not work well with Nvidia.
What kind of “app behaviour” customizations are you wanting to do? That sounds like it would be app-specific. My main form of app customization is to find ways to change the colour scheme (to fit everything else), and also to change the keybindings (I like using vim-like key bindings whenever reasonable)
Can we please stop calling it “ricing”? The term is pretty loaded.
But I really want to actually customize like the behaviour of apps
Welcome to FOSS programming as a hobby. But first, let’s rice your IDE!
Already done it :D
Good, now allow me to explain why your programming language of choice is shit.
Uh, I thought the order of operations here was to hate on their IDE first and then their coding language?
On reddit a few days ago on r/archlinux there was a discussion about ricing being a racist term or not.
When the hell did “ricing” became racist to anyone? Stupid humans
Some people associate rice with Asians (which tbh to me feels sketchy in and of itself, but I digress) because they don’t know it’s an acronym (Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement) that is used as a perjorative against cars, regardless of race of driver or manufacterer of car, for “car with only cosmetic mods because it looks cool but no performance mods.”
“Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement” sounds like a backronym to separate the modern term from its problematic history.
Wikipedia tells a slightly different story.
During the Korean and Vietnam wars, the term “rice burner” was used to refer to Koreans/Vietnamese (as in “machines that run on rice”).
Around the same time, the term “rice burner” was also being used as a disparaging term to refer to Japanese-made cars and motorcycles.
Eventually, the term came to be heavily associated with a specific Japanese automotive style. “Ricing” started to mean modding vehicles according to that style. And then the term was brought to the Unix community through forums like this.
And this is where we get the modern usage.
So the term definitely started out as being both derogatory and specifically asian. But today, no one uses it like that. I think the history and context of this term is completely lost on most people.
Now when people use the term, the sentiment is neither derogatory nor specifically asian. So I don’t think the common usage here in the Unix community is something to worry about.
Well the thing is I’ve only ever heard “Rice Burner” in Vietnam movies, never in reference to a car or linux. I think they’re separate terms. I’ve always heard “Ricer” or “Rice Rocket” for cars, and like I said I have heard people use it racistly (I know that isn’t a word but it is now because I said it) but I judge the individual, as I’m fairly certain the acronym is the correct origin.
I’m not one of those “you can never trust wikipedia” people, but they do sometimes get stuff wrong and this might be one.
