I was scrolling on Reddit through some interesting configs for wayland/x11 window managers. While most of them are simply amazing, why so little of them are just simple? I am seriously missing some square frames in these types of configs. Most of the popular are made on wayland/hyprland, so majority of the bars and windows are just rounded. I think that it takes away some of the professional edge and may be troublesome for some software.
While the configs are surely beautiful isn’t it sacrificing functionality and screen estate for a ‘wow’ effect? I have a config written in i3wm, which is mostly stock, because I like it as it is. I was trying to switch to wayland, I have a config in riverwm (I really liked it), and I didn’t see very much configs of riverwm on unixporn as well. Is it better to just have rounded edges and spaces between the windows, or am I just not accustomed to it? If so, then what configs should I look at, maybe you have some interesting configs yourself. I want to broaden my perspective, because for now I just don’t get it
Because if you are into minimalism there’s no eye candy. I use river as well and decided to ditch the status bar. There’s literally nothing to see on my screen except for my terminal. It might have neovim but again, i went super stock on my neovim config: https://erock-git-dotfiles.pgs.sh/tree/main/item/dot_config/nvim/init.lua.html
There’s really nothing to see
A side-effect of the li/unix ecosystem overall moving to wayland is that conky is no longer really an option for spicing up your desktop.
Without conky, it’s much less trivial to do “interesting” things beyond window tiling, window decorations, and/or color theming.
I noticed UI in apps and internet generally have rounded corners for few yeaes now.
On android all app icons as well as search bar or just widgets in general have round corners to show how slick and modern they are.
So having rounded corners just makes it more slick and modern just like your phone.
I also prefer i3 with minimal visual changes. I hate gaps, the rounded corners and animations when opening/moving windows. Sure it might look pretty on a screenshot, but using it is worse than a simple i3 that gets out of the way and you don’t see it.
I don’t know if this is accurate, but someone claimed that ricing is a hobby sometimes to such an extent that their setups are solely for the looks. They don’t work with it. It can happen that they restart the ricing after a short while. I guess if you have to do actual work on your computer you tend to strive to simpler and less complex setups.
For me at least it is 100% a hobby. Sure when I’m actually working I’m either running plasma or riverwm basically stock, but it’s genuinly really fun to see how “hollywood hacker” based I can get my desktop to look. It also helps me learn more about interacting with the inner workings of linux since I like to modify things myself instead of using other peoples dots. I even made a shitty terminal application launcher using pure fish cause I wanted to see if I could, and it taught me a ton about .desktop files and binary locations and flags. That information I now use daily building my own applications
I hope you didn’t get me wrong, I think it’s an awesome hobby! I love nerd culture and I love looking at Unix porn. I am often blown away by the results and what is possible! And this part where you learn about Linux is very cool, too.
I also use River. I’d say most Hyprland setups are generic and low-quality (what you’d call “slop”) but if it floats your boat go for it.
I think possibly Reddit might have more setups similar to yours, given that Lemmy is smaller. I still see people use the various X11 WMs and have more clean-looking Wayland setups, though, not sure where you’ve been looking.
If you just want inspiration, just look for like, anything other than Hyprland. Maybe you could search for BSD since I’ve never seen a BSD setup with Hyprland or all these flashy effects.
Thank you very much. I have used BSD for some time in the past, but didn’t got the chance to look at other configs. I just mean that the trendy posts are mostly hyprland without extended functionality for me. And I don’t know if I’m just growing too old to keep up, or is this just that people who don’t use rounded corners just don’t visit subreddits like that etc.
And I got my wallpaper from https://www.zerochan.net/2879054
