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[OC] I rebuilt the MacBook TouchBar with the TouchPad

I broke my 2020 MacBook Pro TouchBar and decided to replace it with the touchpad (because the repair is too expensive!! Hopefully this finds the right people who face the same issue.

check it out!: https://github.com/forkiron/EdgePad

u/Successful_Ad9130 — 14 hours ago

| Help, im looking for a wayland compositor

I need a tiling wayland compositor that look like dwm, cwm or sxwm. I mean i really want something real simple. But i dont like dwl. Please suggest me something

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u/yuvayikici — 14 hours ago
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[OC] I made a small terminal screensaver that renders Perlin noise flow fields with Braille characters

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a small Python project I have been working on called halo.

It is a terminal screensaver / visualizer that renders a particle flow field using 3D Perlin noise, Braille cells, and 24-bit ANSI color. The main idea was to see how much visual detail I could get out of a normal terminal without opening a GUI window or relying on an external rendering engine.

The renderer uses Braille characters as a kind of sub-cell pixel grid, so each terminal character can represent a 2x4 block of virtual pixels. Particles move through a vectorized noise field, leave trails behind, and the output is diffed frame-to-frame so it only writes changed cells back to the terminal.

It includes a few color presets such as neon, sunset, ocean, forest, and fire, and it should work in modern true-color terminals like Windows Terminal, WezTerm, Alacritty, kitty, Ghostty, and iTerm2.

Install from GitHub:

pip install git+https://github.com/programmersd21/halo.git

Run it with:

halo

Example:

halo -c fire -p 600 -s 2.0

This is not meant to be a serious productivity tool. It is just a small terminal art experiment that I had fun building, and I tried to keep it lightweight and readable.

Repo: https://github.com/programmersd21/halo

I would appreciate any feedback, especially from people who enjoy terminal graphics, creative coding, or small CLI projects. Consider checking out the repo and leaving a star!

u/Klutzy_Bird_7802 — 15 hours ago

[Plasma] KDE/CachyOS themed similar to Win98

Used Chicago95 and Reactionary98 to get a similar vibe, migrated from Hyprland because my config broke. Figured I'd move to something more stable. Would have moved to XFCE to get closer to the original by using the Chicago95 script but they don't support Wayland yet. Icons/window styles from the KDE store. Spotify theme from the Spicetify store.

u/No-Wonder-3545 — 17 hours ago

[GNOME] Mucking around with Waylandcraft

Thank you u/Fabillotic this mod is so cool its absurd how well it works.

Yes this is way less serious than the other sort of stuff that gets posted here but hopefully it's chill

u/Sauleline — 13 hours ago
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[XFCE] my first rice

It’s nothing big , I moved to Arch about 3 days ago, so I made a simple retro setup. I use Chicago95 for everything, and I made the wallpaper myself

[Qtile | XFCE] Minimum Distraction. Maximum focus. Daily driven HEPhysics Workhorse.

I censored some information to be safe to post here.
If interested, I can provide my dotfiles (but please don't judge me!).
For a good mix of convenience & control, I configured XFCE to use the Qtile window manager.
\nvim\`zathura``alacritty``gimp``openconnect``vscode``Firefox`

u/shrrgnien_ — 1 day ago
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[BSPWM] P3 SHELL - I've been working this for days.

BSPWM - P3 SHELL] The Evolution / P2 of my previous setup.

• Just some progress from my last post, currently building it into a full shell.

• BSPWM X P3 Shell (A shell by Paxi/Jaser)

• Status: (WIP) Work in progress.

# The 3 P's of this Shell:

• Pure: Simple and clean, no useless aesthetic additions.

• Performance: Uses < 90MB RAM. CPU is ~0 - 2% on idle and hits 5-8% during animations.

• Productivity: Fast UI, contains only what you actually need for your workflow.

• Dotfiles: Still WIP. I'm working to make it support most X WMs and famous distros. It will be released with an auto-installer when it's done.

I need your suggestions. Hope y'all like it 🤝

u/Live-Novel-2240 — 1 day ago
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[Hyprland] Hollow Knight rice

Lore accurate Hollow Knight rice.

Any HK/SS fans here?

Wallpaper: wallpaper

GTK theme: Graphite-dark
Icon theme: GreyStone

u/ContestKindly333 — 1 day ago

[hyprland] ThinkPad style

Playing around with Dank Linux and finding it amazing. Created two widgets myself, one for cellular modem and one for battery indicator with tlp settings (power save, balanced, and performance). Also built that sddm login screen myself.

Would love to get some inspiration where to get really high quality wallpapers in the same colors containig the thinkpad text.

u/qetuR — 1 day ago
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[Fluxbox] Lightweight Debian 13 setup

I'd like to share my setup; it took me two days adjusting a few things here and there. I'd like to point out that I'm not a programmer, but I have a basic understanding of English, and I had some help from Claude AI. By the way, I'm a beginner.

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[OC] Made this custom bar thing after watching cyberpunk edgerunners

Thx cyberpunk for breaking me

u/OneBitFullAdder — 2 days ago
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[Niri] My spin on the famous Amarena theme

I had been using the amazing AwesomeWM setup by u/empressnoodle for quite a while before I decided to move to Wayland a year or two ago.

For a long time I just stuck to a plain config with Waybar but recently found some time to get something that looks good up and running with Eww. Had a great deal of help from Deepseek V4, it's actually pretty good and cheap. Will share the dots if you guys are interested.

Distro: Void/Arch Linux
Compositor: Niri
Terminal: Alacritty
Wallpaper: Baba Yaga's Hut
App Launcher: Rofi
Display Manager: SDDM with Ant Dark

u/Lase189 — 1 day ago