December 22, 2024

Top 4 Linux Desktop customization

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For a Linux user, desktop customization is a common interest.They customize their desktop with wallpapers,themes,mind-blowing configurations and many more. Here we show some customizations that make your window look cool.

 

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killer wallpaper!!

 

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1.XFCE

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems.It is being visually appealing and user friendly.It is quick and very less consumption of system resources.and many Linux users opt Xfce desktop environment.

 

Features:

  • Icons appears in Numix circle
  • Dock: DockbarX (custom skin)
  • Sublime-text theme: Material-theme, monokai-soft-MD colour scheme

 

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XFCE-Desktop

 

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2. bspwm

bspwm is a tiling window manager designed for X11, and written in C.It provides tiling, stacking, and tabbing layouts.window representation in bspwm is moreover like binary tree. like xfce ,bspwm also is a popular customization window manager.

 

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bspwm

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3. Openbox: along with conky setup

Openbox is a free, stacking window manager for the X Window System,licensed under the GNU General Public License.Openbox is designed to be small, fast, and fully compliant with the Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual (ICCCM) and Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH).also it is a popular desktop manager amoung Linux users.

 

Features:

  • Menus by which the user can control applications.
  • Openbox has a dynamic menu system that uses pipe menus.
  • Invent completely new ways to use and control desktop.

 

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openbox

 

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4. i3-setup on Arch Linux

i3 is an another popular open source tiling window manager,written from scratch.The target platforms are GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems.i3 is primarily targeted at advanced users and developers.

Features:

  • Use xcb instead of Xlib. xcb has a much cleaner API and should be faster in quite a lot of situations.
  • More flexible layouts than the column-based approach used by other window managers.
  • Implement different modes
  • Implement an IPC interface for other programs.
  • Keep mental complexity low: once you know i3’s key features, other features should be easy to understand.

 

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i3 window

 

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