as the title suggests matugen is integrated with every apps and programs shown for the purpose of dynamic wallpaper based theming.
And almost everything in my rice that you'll see from mods to themes (especially the TUI YouTube and vs code) are made by me.
please give your thoughts and make sure to leave an upvote if you liked it.
as for the dots I'll make sure to leave the link to the repo once i release it.
the RAM usage on idle is 3-3.5 GiB (also in the fastfetch)

i play a lot of valve and minecraft

[Update] GlassDesk Pro v3.3.0 is live: 4 Languages, PWA & Store Icon Engine, Unified Stack Dragging & Sub-Second Startup!

Hey everyone! 👋

A huge thank you to the Reddit community and everyone who shared bug reports, ideas, and setup feedback on our previous builds. Thanks to your direct feedback, **GlassDesk Pro v3.3.0** is now officially live on the Microsoft Store!

For those new here, GlassDesk Pro is a lightweight, native desktop organization tool for Windows 10 & 11 that organizes your icons into translucent acrylic glass fences with hover auto-rollups, folder portals, virtual desktop pages, and multi-monitor memory.

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### 🔥 What's New in v3.3.0 (Community-Driven Polish):

- 🌐 **Full 4-Language Localization:** Added native English, Spanish, Portuguese (Português - Brasil) and German (Deutsch) with live instant switching.

- 🖼️ **Native PWA & Store Icon Engine:** High-resolution icon rendering for Web Apps (X, WhatsApp, Notion, Canva) and Microsoft Store UWP apps (Adobe, Spotify, Netflix).

- 📸 **Independent Folder Portal Previews:** Every image, photo, and video now generates its own crisp thumbnail without cache collisions.

- ✨ **Unified Stack Drag Handle (`⋮⋮`):** Move entire stacked columns together as a single solid block.

- 🛡️ **Zero Window Stealing (`WS_EX_NOACTIVATE`):** Containers stay strictly on the desktop wallpaper layer and will never pop over active games or browser windows.

- 🎨 **True Acrylic Glass Tinting:** Custom accent colors tint the translucent glass body with vibrant saturation.

- 📦 **1-Click Desktop Restore & Self-Healing:** Return all shortcuts to your raw desktop anytime with 1 click.

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### 📦 Where to get it:

- 🏬 **Microsoft Store (15-day Free Trial):** https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NM15J551MRX?hl=es-es&gl=UY&ocid=pdpshare

- 💼 **Zero-Install Portable Edition:** Available on our store page with full digital signing.

Would love to hear your feedback and see your desktop setups! Thank you for supporting indie Windows development! 🚀

No WSL.

Wezterm and Komorebi.

Remapped Win key to handle everything WM and spawn progr related, Alt for Wezterm.

I just published a new update to Pets Therapy - Desktop Pets with the new feature where Pets gets picked up by a school bus which drives them to school! 😀 What do you guys think of this feature?

Here is my setup. The light is not correct one but still is fine, what do you think?

i gave up on the middle bottom right, what do we think

Hey guys! I’m looking for a proper, native StartAllBack skin (.msstyles) that brings back the authentic Windows 7 Aero Glass look (dark theme) on Windows 11.

I want to avoid those "hybrid" themes that mix Win11 elements with Win7, and I’m not looking for themes that require ExplorerPatcher or manually renaming files into Explorer7 folders. Just a clean, free .msstyles folder to drop into %localappdata%\StartAllBack\Styles that gives the full Aero experience (authentic 3D glow buttons, thick glass frames, and dark/readable titlebar text).

Right now, StartAllBack only gives me the glossy effect on the taskbar without the actual Aero Glass frames. On top of that, the minimize/maximize/close (_ 🗖 X) buttons are still the default flat Windows 11 ones. I'm currently using DWMBlurGlass alongside StartAllBack, as my main goal is to fully transform Windows 11 into Windows 7 without half-baked hybrid visuals (see attached screenshot).

Does anyone have a direct download link or a recommendation for a solid, pure Win7 skin built specifically for StartAllBack? Thanks!

yes it's a little basic compare to other ones seen in this sub, but it's pretty clean

Hey guys,

I am the developer of BetterStickies, it is very customizable with transparency dialing on windows and linux, image and GIF sticking on desktops so I hope you like it!

What it is, for anyone new

A sticky notes app for Windows,Linux, macOS (soon). Offline, no account, no telemetry. Built with PySide6 so it's actually native, not another Electron app eating your RAM.

I built it because I wanted quick capture that lives on the desktop instead of inside another app I have to open. Windows Sticky Notes wants a sign-in, and on Linux there was nothing decent that works the same across KDE, GNOME and Cinnamon. It also helps my ADHD to have things persist on screen where I can't ignore them.

The main thing it does that other sticky apps don't: you can paste or drag anything into a note.

• Files and folders become clickable shortcuts, and you can drag them back out to your file manager
• Screenshots and images paste straight from the clipboard, PDFs and images get a hover preview, and double-click opens an image at full resolution
• Pasted code gets detected and formatted into a code block automatically, no AI and no network, in about 50ms. Ctrl+M when it guesses wrong
• Rich text, links, plain text, all formatted properly instead of rejected

Other things worth knowing:

• Reminders with sound and desktop notifications
• GIF and image backgrounds per note (because why not)
• RTL text support, and the app plus its full guide are in 12 languages
• Pin a note to lock both position and editing
• Ctrl+scroll to zoom text without opening settings
• Checkboxes with strikethrough when done and nesting
• Snap to grid with an adjustable grid size
• Export to .txt, .md or .json, so you can back them up with whatever cloud you like
• Proper Linux support, tested on KDE, GNOME and Cinnamon (COSMIC coming)
• On the Microsoft Store and the Snap store, Flathub coming soon

What's new in v1.2

Notes have tabs now. Up to three pages inside one note, each with its own text, scroll position and undo history. Ctrl+PgDown and Ctrl+PgUp to move between them, Ctrl+Shift+N for a new one, all rebindable. If you have a small screen this is the feature: one note on the desktop, three notes' worth of content in it.

Search reads every page of every note, including hidden notes and pages you've never opened.

The free version now has exactly one limit. It used to have three: a note cap, a reminders cap, and a cap on animated GIF backgrounds. The reminder and GIF limits are gone entirely, so the free version now has every feature, and the only thing left is a budget of 4 note slots (an extra tab uses a slot).

A new look: in-app color picker, themed icons instead of emoji, and one shared design system across every dialog. Reminders moved out of the text into their own strip on the note.

"Start with the hub hidden" if you want it fully out of the way at boot.

65 fixes across formatting, file shortcuts, dates, translations, read-only notes, global shortcuts and desktop integration on both Linux and Windows.

And v1.2.1 last week fixed the things users told me about after v1.2: notes surviving Show Desktop on Windows, window stacking on Cinnamon, reminders retrying instead of getting lost, images keeping their size and rotation after a restart.

⚠️ One warning if you use tabs: don't downgrade to an older build afterwards. Old versions understand one page per note, so opening and saving a tabbed note there permanently drops its other pages. Export first if you're going back.

As always, if you try it and something annoys you, tell me here. Most new features and fixes are built on users feedback (tens of thousands are using BetterStickies today)

Website: https://betterstickies.com

Microsoft store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NS7LLQJX1QG

Snap Store: https://snapcraft.io/betterstickies

Subreddit: r/BetterStickies

Github (free releases and bug reports): https://github.com/HimaSphere/BetterStickies

Thoughts?

i asked ai for a tool to use pinterest wallpapers as my desktop wallpaper without downloading them in pc locally. (and free options ofcourse) and that's what it suggested. but i haven't found any review of it anywhere. anyone is using it? is it safe?