ENTRY 31.01.21

My Linux Setup

One day I may post the dots if I get around to it :^)
If you have any question / want a particular config though, feel free to reach out.
Note that this is not a guide, but just a gallery and description of my setup/rice.

2023 Update - I no longer use mint! I got a new desktop and laptop and decided to go with Arch on both of them. My theme remains mostly the same but I added some new stuff :)

2025 Update - Minor tweaks, oomox dropped support for Arc so I switched to using the following script to modify and compile the Arc theme directly with swapped colours;

Click to show bash script
#!/bin/bash # Get Arc GTK theme cd /tmp git clone https://github.com/jnsh/arc-theme --depth 1 cd arc-theme ## Replace the Arc colours with Nord colours and build the theme # Night 1 - 2e3440 find . -name "*" -type f -exec sed -i 's/'2F343F'/'0b0c16'/gI' {} \; # Night 2 - 3b4252 find . -name "*" -type f -exec sed -i 's/'383C4A'/'0d0f1b'/gI' {} \; # Night 3 - 434c5e find . -name "*" -type f -exec sed -i 's/'404552'/'02070e'/gI' {} \; # Night 4 - 4c566a mystery colour find . -name "*" -type f -exec sed -i 's/'565965'/'081b36'/gI' {} \; # highlight color find . -name "*" -type f -exec sed -i 's/'5294E2'/'5e81ac'/gI' {} \; SELF_CALL=1 meson setup --prefix=$HOME/.local -Dvariants=dark -Dthemes=gtk2,gtk3,gtk4,metacity,plank,unity,xfwm build/ meson configure build/ meson install -C build/ cd .. rm -rf ./arc-theme
Basic details of my setup Colourscheme (loosely) Wallpapers Most of my wallpapers come from Gracile, who makes amazing art that goes extremely well with my colourscheme.

Screenshots


Desktop

Here is a preview of the whole rice :)



GTK3

My GTK theme is a custom recolour of Arc. My GTK theme was the basis for how I would style the rest of my system. I chose something dark and low in contrast for a theme that was very easy on the eyes while still looking pretty.
Certain programs such as nemo have an opacity rule set on them using picom, giving most of my theme a glassy-blurred look against the wallpaper. The icon theme is NovaOS Nord



Terminal

The terminal emulator I use is kitty. I absolutely love kitty from a ricing and productivity standpoint; the built in keyboard-oriented tabs and tiling is a godsend.
I am using fish as my main shell. What it lacks in POSIX-compliancy, it makes up for in raw features. Since every aspect of fish is divided into functions, it makes it extremely easy to modify the parts I want without editing a giant config file.




Web Browser

I use vivaldi as my main web browser. The level of customization vivaldi offers is insane, allowing for a extremely beautiful and productive UI. The main aspect of vivaldi that I have fallen in love with is the vertical tabs. Not only do vertical tabs save a ton of screen-space, but they work well with my setup. Since my bar/panel are on the top of my screen, having the tabs on the side saves me from wasting a lot of vertical space and prevents misclicks.
I use glance for a custom homepage.



Spotify

My spotify client is customized using spicetify. I use a recoloured version of the Ziro theme.



Discord

I use Vesktop as my discord client. Please note that this is techically against the TOS (however it is hardly enforced). The theme I use is a recolour using bdeditor.
I use Kompact/Hoverable-Sidebars to hide the server/channel lists.



PDF Reader - Zathura

Zathura uses the same colorscheme as my terminal.



Program Launcher - Rofi

My rofi theme was based on this post. However I have no idea where their github/reddit account went.



Panel

I use xfce4-panel, which works really well with i3.