awesome-linux-customization

Desktop customization tools

Lists tools and software for customizing Unix-like desktop environments to improve user productivity and aesthetic appeal.

books An awesome list of customization tools for your UN*X/Linux desktop.

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Getting started

https://medium.com/@webprolific/getting-started-with-dotfiles-43c3602fd789

Getting started / File Manager

ranger 15,729 2 months ago A vim inspired filemanager for console
Thunar 216 about 1 month ago A modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment
PCManFM A lightweight Gtk+ based file manager for X Window
fff* 4,095 11 months ago simple file manager written by
Midnight Commander A terminal based file manager

Getting started / Music Player

mpc 192 7 months ago Client for , responsible for telling lemonbar about the currently playing media
mpd 2,200 about 1 month ago A daemon for playing music of various formats with as client
cmus 5,605 about 2 months ago A small ncurses based music player
ncmpcpp 2,149 3 months ago An ncurses Music Player Daemon (MPD) client
Rhythmbox A Music Player which takes its inspiration from Apple's iTunes application

Getting started / Music Visualizer

cava 4,363 about 1 month ago Console-based Audio Visualizer for Alsa (MPD and Pulseaudio)
mpdviz 103 about 9 years ago Console mpd visualizer like
nausea 10 almost 10 years ago This is a simple Console audio spectrum visualizer, Work well with mpd daemon music player

Getting started / Image Viewer

feh 1,575 about 2 months ago A lightweight image viewer
sxiv 1,822 about 2 years ago Simple X Image viewer like
n30f 65 almost 5 years ago 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 361 8 months ago A GUI background previewer and setter

Getting started / System Info

neofetch 22,274 6 months ago A customizable system information written in Bash
screenfetch 3,892 about 2 months ago Bash screenshot information tool
ufetch 168 over 4 years ago Tiny system info for Unix-like operating systems
pfetch 2,065 12 months ago A pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh

Getting started / Text Editor

neovim 84,107 about 1 month ago Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
vim 36,910 about 1 month ago Vi IMproved, a programmer's text editor
Spacevim 20,352 about 1 month ago Community-driven modular vim distribution with ultimate vim configuration and many build-in features
Leafpad Leafpad is a simple GTK+ text editor that emphasizes simplicity

Getting started / Terminal

rxvt-unicode 255 about 2 months ago A customizable terminal emulator forked from
xterm The standard terminal emulator for the X Window System
st A simple terminal emulator for X which sucks less, with xft

Getting started / Menu

dmenu 6 almost 6 years ago A fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X
jgmenu 920 about 1 month ago Small X11 menu intended to be used with openbox and tint2
myGtkMenu GTK2, GTK3 standalone & lightweight menu written in C
rofi 13,424 about 2 months ago A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

Getting started / Panel

lemonbar 1,627 5 months ago A featherweight, lemon-scented, bar based on xcb
polybar 14,251 3 months ago 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

Getting started / 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

Getting started / Notification Daemon

dunst A lightweight replacement for the notification daemons provided by most desktop environments

Getting started / Logout Screen

lxsession-logout A nice banner-style logout dialog for the LXDE
oblogout GTK/Cairo based logout box styled for openbox
clearine 102 about 5 years ago Beautiful logout UI for X11 window manager

Getting started / Tweaks

wal 728 over 7 years ago Generate and change colorschemes on the fly
pywal 8,469 12 months ago Generate and change colorschemes on the fly. A rewrite in Python 3
wpgtk 2,072 about 2 months ago A powerful GTK+ frontend for pywal, adding features such as flexible templates and editing colorschemes
spicetify-cli 18,980 about 1 month ago Commandline tool to customize Spotify client
tintyourday Generate your config with Xresources color
obtgen 84 almost 7 years ago Openbox theme generator
Shift An instantly window manager theme changer
colorfil 3 almost 7 years ago Generate 16 color for Xresources colorscheme from one-color
colorls 4,940 2 months ago A Ruby gem that beautifies the terminal's ls command, with color and font-awesome icons
Cornora 16 about 6 years ago Simple Hotcorner Launcher for X
warnai 81 over 5 years ago Swiss army theme changer from .Xresources
Compton 2,249 over 3 years ago A compositor for X11
Oomox 2,109 4 months ago Generate themes and icons using oomox GUI

Getting started / Screen Manager

lxrandr standard screen manager of LXDE

Getting started / Others

colorls 4,940 2 months ago A Ruby script that colorizes the ls output with color and icons
exa A modern replacement for
ls++ 507 7 months ago on steroids

Getting started / Contribute / Credits

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