Awesome Linux Customization

This is a list of customization tools for Linux user to make the desktop more aesthetic.

Contents

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

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.

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.

Music Visualizer

• cava - Console-based Audio Visualizer for Alsa (MPD and Pulseaudio).
• mpdviz - Console mpd visualizer like cava.

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

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.

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

Logout Screen

• lxsession-logout - A nice banner-style logout dialog for the LXDE.
• oblogout - GTK/Cairo based logout box styled for openbox.
• clearine - Yet another GTK3-based logout-window overlay for independent windowmanager

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.
• 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

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License

The code is available under the MIT license.