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
Can we please stop calling it “ricing”? The term is pretty loaded.
Lived through the 90s when the import car scene was huge. The term ricing back then was used when referring to asians who modified their cars, as a pejorative.
It really bummed me out to see it creep into the Linux community. Tried voicing displeasure back when I used Reddit and got blasted with downvotes and really distasteful comments, felt like I was alone in this feeling. Thanks, from some random Asian Linux user.
It’s actually an acronym for Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement. The fact that some don’t know and use it to be racist says more about them as an individual than the term itself.
That’s a Backronym.
The term definitely comes from looking down on tuned Asian cars (“rice burners”).
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
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.
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