Awesome Linux Customization

Awesome Linux Customization


List of customization tools for UN*X/Linux user to make the desktop more aesthetic and clean for productivity.

Contents

• File Manager
• Music Player
• Music Visualizer
• Image Viewer
• System Info
• Text Editor
• Terminal
• Menu
• Panel
• Dock
• Notification Daemon
• Tweaks
• Screen Manager
• Others

Intro to Dotfiles

Dotfiles are plain text configuration files on Unix-y systems for things like our shell, ~/.zshrc , our editor in ~/.vimrc , and many others. They are called "dotfiles" as they typically are named with a leading.

Source from here. More about dotfiles check this link.

Getting started

• https://medium.com/@webprolific/getting-started-with-dotfiles-43c3602fd789

File Manager

• **ranger** - A vim inspired filemanager for console.
• **Thunar** - A modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment.
• **PCManFM** - A lightweight Gtk+ based file manager for X Window.
• **fff*** - simple file manager written by bash.
• **Midnight Commander** - A terminal based file manager.

Music Player

• **mpc** - Client for mpd, responsible for telling lemonbar about the currently playing media.
• **mpd** - A daemon for playing music of various formats with ncmpcpp as client.
• **cmus** - A small ncurses based music player.
• **ncmpcpp** - An ncurses Music Player Daemon (MPD) client.
• **Rhythmbox** - A Music Player which takes its inspiration from Apple's iTunes application.

Music Visualizer

• **cava** - Console-based Audio Visualizer for Alsa (MPD and Pulseaudio).
• **mpdviz** - Console mpd visualizer like cava.
• **nausea** - This is a simple Console audio spectrum visualizer, Work well with mpd daemon music player.

Image Viewer

• **feh** - A lightweight image viewer.
• **sxiv** - Simple X Image viewer like feh.
• **n30f** - Image viewer to display an image in a borderless and transparent non-wm-managed window.
• **gpicview** - A Simple and Fast Image Viewer for X.
• **nitrogen** - A GUI background previewer and setter.

System Info

• **neofetch** - A customizable system information written in Bash.
• **screenfetch** - Bash screenshot information tool.
• **ufetch** - Tiny system info for Unix-like operating systems
• **pfetch** - A pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh.

Text Editor

• **neovim** - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability.
• **vim** - Vi IMproved, a programmer's text editor.
• **Spacevim** - Community-driven modular vim distribution with ultimate vim configuration and many build-in features.
• **Leafpad** - Leafpad is a simple GTK+ text editor that emphasizes simplicity.

Terminal

• **rxvt-unicode** - A customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt.
• **xterm** - The standard terminal emulator for the X Window System
• **st** - A simple terminal emulator for X which sucks less, with xft.

Menu

• **dmenu** - A fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X.
• **jgmenu** - Small X11 menu intended to be used with openbox and tint2.
• **myGtkMenu** - GTK2, GTK3 standalone & lightweight menu written in C.
• **rofi** - A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

Panel

• **lemonbar** - A featherweight, lemon-scented, bar based on xcb.
• **polybar** - A fast and easy-to-use status bar.
• **dzen2** - A general purpose messaging, notification and menuing program for X11.
• **xmobar** - A minimalistic, mostly text-based status bar.
• **tint2** - A lightweight panel/taskbar with support system try.

Dock

• **Plank** - A simplest dock on the planet, famous dock for linux user.
• **Cairo Dock** - A desktop interface that takes the shape of docks, desklets, panel, etc

Notification Daemon

• **dunst** - A lightweight replacement for the notification daemons provided by most desktop environments.

Logout Screen

• **lxsession-logout** - A nice banner-style logout dialog for the LXDE.
• **oblogout** - GTK/Cairo based logout box styled for openbox.
• **clearine** - Beautiful logout UI for X11 window manager

Tweaks

• **wal** - Generate and change colorschemes on the fly.
• **pywal** - Generate and change colorschemes on the fly. A wal rewrite in Python 3.
• **wpgtk** - A powerful GTK+ frontend for pywal, adding features such as flexible templates and editing colorschemes.
• **spicetify-cli** - Commandline tool to customize Spotify client.
• **tintyourday** - Generate your tint2 config with Xresources color
• **obtgen** - Openbox theme generator.
• **Shift** - An instantly window manager theme changer.
• **colorfil** - Generate 16 color for Xresources colorscheme from one-color.
• **colorls** - A Ruby gem that beautifies the terminal's ls command, with color and font-awesome icons
• **Cornora** - Simple Hotcorner Launcher for X
• **warnai** - Swiss army theme changer from .Xresources
• **Compton** - A compositor for X11.
• **Oomox** - Generate themes and icons using oomox GUI

Screen Manager

• **lxrandr** - standard screen manager of LXDE.

Others

• **colorls** - A Ruby script that colorizes the ls output with color and icons.
• **exa** - A modern replacement for ls.
• **ls++** - ls on steroids.

Contribute

Fork this repository (optional) and share to other GNU/Linux users.

License

The code is available under the MIT license.

Credits

• Thanks to all contributor who want to share their customize desktop.
• Especially **Linuxer Desktop Art**