r/UsabilityPorn Jun 28 '18

Welcome! [Why this sub exists]

150 Upvotes

r/UnixPorn has inspired a lot of creativity in the *nix community.

However, there is one problem.

A lot of the setups are too "riced-out" and unappealing for long-term desktop use.

This subreddit is an attempt to form a community around the love of practical, cozy, and solid desktop experiences.

DEFAULTS AND MINIMALLY-CONFIGURED SETUPS WELCOME! Let's create something special!

Rules:

  1. Screenshots of desktops must have at least one window open. You may include a screenshot of your blank desktop if necessary as an additional image in the album.
  2. Image links should either be from Imgur or reddit's built-in image service. Please don't use the Imgur album link unless you are posting an album.
  3. Text posts are allowed as long as they are relevant to creating a functional *nix setup. Try to post to support forums and desktop-specific subreddits instead whenever possible.
  4. Follow the reddiquette
  5. Right now only *nix (Linux, BSD (That includes Mac OS)) operating systems are allowed. This is open for discussion though.
  6. Moderators can be wrong. Don't hesitate to message the mods if your post has been wrongfully deleted.

Content Ideas:

  • Screenshots of a unique workflow for a specific task
    • ex. A desktop optimized for pen testing that has easy access to all of your tools.
    • ex. A desktop that you use graphic design with an easy-to-access color picker widget and Krita opened
  • Screenshots with beautiful software that ties in nice with your desktop
  • Regular screenshots of your every-day setup!
  • A short screencast of how you implement a given environment (DE, tilling windows manager, terminal multiplexer or even just your text editor) This idea came from u/piotr_wonsz
  • A photograph of your rig running Linux (Must have screen clearly visible and not glared out).
    • Ex. Raspberry Pi running a Nextcloud server and your Laptop right next to it with the Nextcloud page loaded on your web browser
    • Ex. Two project computers of yours comunicating through a socket application you wrote - I plan to do this, patent pending, patent pending, patent pending!
    • Ex. Your music production setup with MIDI devices hooked up to your computer and Bitwig Studio for Linux on your screen.
  • An album of a desktop environment with different GTK/Qt themes applied

UPDATE: I am now moderating this community as u/dougie-io.


r/UsabilityPorn 1d ago

[KDE] No Reason to Switch When You Have the GOAT

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36 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 1d ago

My Ubuntu 25.04 Desktop :)

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9 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 2d ago

updated dwm daily driver

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39 Upvotes

updated the bar a bit and added patches. lmk what you would change.

os = NixOs
wm = dwm
color theme = apprentice
bar = dwm bar + slstatus
application launcher = dmenu
patches = look at image 2


r/UsabilityPorn 3d ago

Finally becoming satisfied with my writing setup on Emacs/Org-mode

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52 Upvotes

If you use org-mode too share your work/screenshots on the comments.

This is my personal configuration for org-mode: ``lisp (custom-set-faces! '(font-lock-comment-face :slant italic) ;; Face overrides fororg-mode' '(org-document-title :height 1.5 :weight normal :slant italic) '(org-meta-line :slant italic) '(org-link :weight normal :slant italic :underline nil) '(link :weight normal :slant italic :underline nil) '(org-quote :inherit doom-variable-pitch-font :extend t :italic t) '(org-drawer :slant italic) '(org-block :height 0.9) '(org-block-begin-line :height 0.9 :extend t) '(org-block :extend t) '(org-block-end-line :height 0.9 :extend t) '(org-code :height 0.9) '(org-list-dt :inherit org-checkbox) '(org-level-1 :height 1.4 :weight bold :slant italic) '(org-level-2 :height 1.3 :weight normal :slant italic) '(org-level-3 :height 1.2 :weight normal :slant italic) '(org-level-4 :height 1.1 :weight normal :slant italic) '(org-level-5 :height 1.1 :weight normal :slant italic) '(org-level-6 :height 1.1 :weight normal :slant italic) '(org-level-7 :height 1.1 :weight normal :slant italic) '(org-level-8 :height 1.1 :weight normal :slant italic) ;; Face overrides for `org-modern' '((org-modern-date-inactive &override) :family "IBM Plex Mono") '((org-modern-date-active &override) :family "IBM Plex Mono") '((org-modern-time-inactive &override) :family "IBM Plex Mono") '((org-modern-time-active &override) :family "IBM Plex Mono") '((org-modern-label &override) :family "IBM Plex Mono" :height 0.9) '((org-modern-tag &override) :family "IBM Plex Mono" :height 0.9))

(setq org-modern-list '((?- . "•") (?+ . "✧") (?* . "❋")) org-modern-star 'replace org-modern-replace-stars "木火土金水")

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook #'+zen/toggle) ```


r/UsabilityPorn 3d ago

Minimalist JWM Setup, With Lemonbar and st Terminal

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7 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 3d ago

[2bwc] Alpine is quite nice!

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22 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 4d ago

drag and drop files from/to terminal

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5 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 7d ago

basic dwm daily driver (unfinished)

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34 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 7d ago

At the End its Minimalism

3 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 9d ago

[GNOME] with Arch Linux

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60 Upvotes

The rice to end all rice.


r/UsabilityPorn 9d ago

i3wm on void musl - Eye candy is bloat btw

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11 Upvotes

Don't know what I really write here.

Info if you want it:

OS: Void musl

Terminal: Alacritty

Irc client: Senpai

Font: Terminus nerd

Fetch: Pfetch

Bar: i3status

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Others: cowsay, cava


r/UsabilityPorn 12d ago

They said own it, so i did (Arch with Cachy kernel and SwayFX) FIRST RICE!!!

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7 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 13d ago

Herbstluftwm rice with controversial song

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10 Upvotes

I quiet like the song dirty magazines by kanye

Also the wallpaper is bocchi the rock

It's peak


r/UsabilityPorn 14d ago

Vmm/Qemu web UI for OpenBSD

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9 Upvotes

OpenVmctl

A modern, (non-production-ready) Django administration appliance for OpenBSD's vmm(4) hypervisor and QEMU, built on top of vmctl(8)/etc/vm.conf (vm.conf(5)), QEMU system emulators, pf(4) firewall, and relayd(8) proxying.

active development ongoing
not published yet

Anyone is interested in a tool like this for OpenBSD ?


r/UsabilityPorn 14d ago

niri + voidlinux :)

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7 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 17d ago

[Cinnamon] - Work in progress here and there - but otherwise, daily driver.

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9 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 18d ago

Simple Niri setup

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48 Upvotes

I had a similar theme in bspwm, but now I'm transitioning to niri and wanted to preserve it.

Dotfiles in case someone wants them:
https://github.com/AlguienSasaki/new-dots


r/UsabilityPorn 18d ago

[Niri] with void linux

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6 Upvotes

First time posting here :))

dots: https://github.com/6z7y/dots.git

wallpapers: https://github.com/6z7y/wallpapers.git

TWo - my own TUI game: https://github.com/6z7y/TWo.git


r/UsabilityPorn 18d ago

🗡️ Samurai-themed lock screen — kanji password glyphs & dark katana aesthetic

0 Upvotes

https://reddit.com/link/1vogwoa/video/4pxw4jvv5ejh1/player

Lockscreen: hyprlock
Dotfiles / Config: hyprlock-samurai on GitHub

Hey everyone! I put together a minimal, samurai-themed config for Hyprlock.

I got tired of standard password dots, so I customized it to render the Japanese kanji character (Haru — Spring) on each keypress.

Key Features:

  • Custom Kanji password glyphs ()
  • Fully transparent floating input field
  • Japanese date formatting (YYYY年MM月DD日)
  • Minimal dark green / katana aesthetic

Check out the repo if you'd like to try it, and drop a ⭐ on GitHub if you like the look!


r/UsabilityPorn 19d ago

LabWC and Noctalia for a comfy, minimal setup ☺️

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27 Upvotes

Wallpaper : Edit of the album cover of 'Keyboard Fantasies', by Beverly Glenn-Copeland

Window theme : Modified Noctalia auto-template for Labwc

Font : Adwaita Sans

Icon : Default icons

Cursor : Capitaine, size 36

i was thinking of formalizing this setup into actually usable and readable dotfiles, let me know if you're interested :>


r/UsabilityPorn 20d ago

[kde] foggy forest

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35 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn 22d ago

[sway] Sick of scattered scripts? Terminal Control Center

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52 Upvotes

Got sick of creating small scripts. Created one central script to rule them all. (fullscreen toggle) Windowswitcher+launcher+session restore+powermenu+wifi+bt+mediacontrols+system controls+system info all in one. TUICC is made out of small modules. I can move them around, resize them and add, delete them as I please. https://github.com/Lshika-linux/tuicc Do you guys like how it looks? Controls are just simple tab+shifttab and enter..


r/UsabilityPorn Jul 29 '26

[bspwm] minimal gilded noir

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55 Upvotes

r/UsabilityPorn Jul 29 '26

2nd day on linux

4 Upvotes

that's it for now.