A Hyprland + Quickshell rice inspired by Nothing OS

https://github.com/Nebelung-cloud/glyph-rice

vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LskkGUNdsZ0&t=186s

Arch, Hyprland, Quickshell

My wife's windows laptop got bloated into disrepair and its format was fast approaching.
Being broke I thought this would be a great opportunity to give her a custom os to support her video editing/content creation hobby.

The whole idea was to make videography themed desktop with some bright vibes I won't go into details but it's personal preference here. The whole idea stemmed from the camera launcher and ironically it was one of the easiest things to make.

I created the assets from 3D models in blender with cell shaded rendering to get the 2d look.

The two hardest things ironically were:
1. getting hyprland to render properly with gpu passthrough over moonlight from my VM on some ubuntu host I have. (so I can see what im working from the comfort of my usual desk)
2. installing capcut.

In hindsight capcut may not be necessary because after a week my wife loves working on linux with claude code (to edit her system, make file pipelines) and nuzky (also with claude code).

P.S. recording from a VM and I don't think I did a good job don't know how to show more without making video 10 minutes long. Maybe I am not supposed to show every nook and cranny?

P.S.2 in my CV under 'mentoring/teaching' section I now add one-liner how I got my non-techie wife to daily drive a linux desktop environment.

Hey everyone! Here's my Hyprland rice on Arch Linux. Hope you like it!

OS: Arch Linux
WM: Hyprland

Dotfiles (GitHub): IhTiYaR0

YouTube Showcase: IHITArch

Feedback is always welcome!

While playing around with cursor shaders on ghostty on a free weekend, I realized that the one thing I have no customization for is /usr/bin/clear, aka screen blanking, so I created a replacement for clear that will do it in am more aesthetically pleasing way.

It is made the spirit of pyroclear, but instead of burning the screen down it pours in streams of braille glyphs (U+2800–U+28FF, like neo --charset braille), cmatrix-style. You can change that to a limited set of other glyphs. The streams eat whatever is on screen, meet in the middle, fade out with decreasing brightness, and leave a blank terminal (scrollback included) for your prompt.

You can find the source at https://codeberg.org/ftranschel/neoclear/ and build with cargo, should you want to play around with it. All options are implemented solely because I was terminally (d'oh...) unhappy with the looks until I had pacing, glyph fade-out and directions customizable.

Strata is my own desktop shell: bar with a dynamic island, control center, clipboard, screenshots with OCR, instant replay recorder, lock screen and one-click themes for the whole desktop. Works on Hyprland, Sway and niri.

Details and links in the comments.

First time using Linux and made this ricing in Mint XFCE, I made a python script to automatically change the xfce4-panel colors depending on the wallpaper. This is a very old PC, that's why the panel takes too long to restart while recording the screen.

I will make some other little tweaks, so when I'm done I'll share the dotfiles for those who want something like this.

Openbsd just works.

My Galaxy Tab S9 FE's bootloader can never be unlocked again, so this runs on stock Android 16 with only root: Arch Linux ARM in a chroot, Hyprland drawing on the Mali GPU through libhybris, and the screen and touch coming through Termux:X11. The Termux:X11 app itself is unmodified; a small bridge speaks its display protocol.

Android apps open as normal Hyprland windows. They tile and resize, and closing one quits the app. The calculator in the video is the stock Samsung app.

Details and dotfiles in the comments.

Been customizing Serpantinum (Quickshell shell for Hyprland) and added a couple of small mods of my own:

🐈 Desktop Cat A pixel-art cat that wanders along the bottom of your screen.

• Reacts to music, the focused app, CPU load, and notifications
• Sleeps in a bed on the bar
• Earns treats while you code
• You can toss it a treat and it chases it

🎧 Lofi Toggle SUPER + - starts a calm lofi stream for coding. Press it again to stop.

Both mods come with installers you can re-run after a shell update.

Happy to answer questions or share the code if anyone's interested!

• Wallpaper: Wallhaven y8y29d
• GTK Theme: adw-gtk3-dark
• Fonts: JetBrains Mono (terminal), AdwaitaMono Nerd Font (shell)
• Other: Serpantinum, Hyprland, kitty

💡 Something different: I built my dmenu-style menus with Wofi, which I was told isn't very common.

Details:
- WM: Hyprland
- Bar: Waybar
- Menus: Wofi (dmenu-style)
- Notifications: SwayNC
- Terminal: kitty | Editor: Neovim
- Extras: btop, cava, fastfetch.

📁 Dotfiles: will be available on October 31

Been working on this one for a few months, it's called pocket. The notch at the top and every panel that comes out of it are my own shell, written in Quickshell.

When the wallpaper changes pywal grabs the palette and the whole desktop recolors on the beat. The pokemon are wl_shimeji with some fight behaviours I wrote, and every commit I push gives the team xp, so the Magikarp evolves near the end.

One take, no cuts. Details and dotfiles in the comments

Hi, made this lil coding agent, and I just realized the linux ricer crowd might like it https://github.com/1jehuang/jcode. Imo it works best with niri rices cuz of how the windows open to the side. I got vim keybindings to move between windows and to spawn a window with an agent

New rice! changed pretty much everything from my last one lol

posted on yt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLMCzWtqh68 :)

before, I kinda miss Floating windows so I switched to Gnome for a while but i dont like it when theres no keybind to center a window so i suddenly think of configuring niri as floating since theres a keybind to center a window quickly, also i can still get the Niri experience!
also i replace the focus ring with lower opacity and blur for non focus window and more shadow for focused window. what do you think? focus ring or this?

dotfiles:
(the niri config is named floating-niri.kdl)
https://github.com/EbadShelby/dotfiles

Not quite finished cause i still have some keybinds to adjust and some other minor tweaks but its close to done. (i think)

Hey everyone!

Wanted to share something I've been working on for quite some time now.

This is Ukishima (浮島), a customizable dynamic island built with Quickshell for Hyprland and Niri.

What started as a small project has grown into something much bigger. Apart from the island itself, it now has a dock, lockscreen, scratchpad, updater and much more.

I've also spent quite a bit of time working on animations, customization, performance, and making the whole thing feel consistent.

There's a website now too, with screenshots, features, and installation instructions if anyone wants to check it out.

Website: https://ukishima.uklab.workers.dev/

GitHub: https://github.com/amanhex/Ukishima

There might still be a few bugs here and there, especially since Niri support was added recently. Feedback and suggestions are always welcome. Hope you guys like it!

A small but satisfying update for wayves-shell: the corner shape of every notch is now configurable. Each corner can be anything from a straight cut to round, a squircle, or a shape that bulges past square.

It's controlled by keys in Properties.json, same as everything else, and any change animates live:

"notch": {
"cornerRoundness": 1.45,
"radius": 30
}

0: straight cut (chamfer)

1: round (the default)

~1.45: squircle

~1.8: bulges past square

You can set it for all notches under notch, or override it for a single notch. Each corner can also have its own value with topLeftRoundness, topRightRoundness, bottomRightRoundness and bottomLeftRoundness. A per-corner key overrides that notch's cornerRoundness, which overrides the shared value.

Nested notches keep their own values where they join their parent, so you can mix shapes. The schema documents every key, so your editor will autocomplete and explain them.

Repo: https://github.com/Roonil/wayves-shell/

[Hyprland] My first custom rice on Fedora Linux 🐧 (constructive feedback is welcome)

My first custom Hyprland rice on Fedora Linux 🐧

Finally sharing my first proper attempt at building a personalised Hyprland desktop! The goal was to keep things minimal, lightweight, visually pleasing, and practical for everyday use and studying.

System

• OS: Fedora Linux
• Window manager/compositor: Hyprland
• Shell: Zsh
• Terminal: Kitty
• Configuration: Lua-based setup
• Hardware: Intel Core i3-1125G4, Intel UHD integrated graphics, 8 GB RAM
• Idle RAM usage: Approximately 1.3 GB

Desktop setup

• Status bar: Waybar — workspaces, CPU/RAM usage, currently playing media, system tray, and clock.
• Wallpaper management: Waypaper
• Animated wallpapers: "awww-daemon"
• Terminal: Kitty
• Application launcher: Wofi
• Notifications: Mako
• Clipboard history: cliphist + wl-clipboard
• Display protocol: Wayland

Customisation

I've been tweaking window gaps, rounded corners, borders, animations, keybindings, and the overall appearance to get a workflow that feels right for me. I also set up keyboard shortcuts for window management and workspace switching.

The animated wallpaper transitions are one of my favourite parts of the setup. I wanted something that looks good without turning the desktop into a resource-hungry mess.

A little context

This is my first proper Hyprland setup, and I'm still learning. I used documentation and AI assistance for parts of the configuration, especially when dealing with unfamiliar syntax and troubleshooting. I'm trying to understand and maintain the setup rather than blindly copy a huge collection of dotfiles.

The focus is on keeping only the tools and features I actually use.

I'd appreciate constructive feedback and suggestions for improvements, especially anything that could make the setup cleaner, more efficient, or more polished!

Finally put together a minimal Hyprland setup with Lua configuration, Waybar, Kitty and my own keybindings.

Still learning, and I used AI and documentation to help with parts of the configuration. Focused on keeping it lightweight and practical for studying.

Genuinely proud of myself for this. Spent weeks trying to make it look the best I could. Any recommendations on what I should add or change to make it look better? I have a second screen and just have it with some random black wallpaper, not really my main focus.