Hey all! Thought I’d start this discussion to see how you all go about customizing your systems.
I’ve been using a mostly default system for a while, both on my work and personal laptops, because at a certain point the whole customization thing just became too much work, I lost configs and I never really felt like spending much time on it anymore.
At a point I might’ve had a cool look going, but I was never able to get all of my programs using it correctly (GTK vs QT problems if I remember correctly), there was no good obvious way to backup my configs and transitioning them to a new system.
And I know that some tools have popped up in the meantime to make this whole process easier, but being away from it all for a while, I’m sure whatever used to be cool a few years ago has been replaced by something else now.
So I’m interested to know how you go about customizing your systems.
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Do you use any tools to auto generate configs or color schemes?
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What is your general workflow when you start customizing?
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Do you use any backup methods and keep your rices stored/archived, or do you just toss everything out and start anew whenever you feel bored?
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When you set up a new system or distro, do you immediately customize the hell out of it, or do you slowly change things as you go?
Cheers!
- Go through available documentation and look at other people’s configs. Partly learning from, partly blatant ripping.
- nix + git!
- I get essentials out of the way:
- basic window/workspace management keybinds
- status bar with time, workspaces, and volume display
then add everything else i want later.
Hi, i’m kinda new to ricing but i will try to answer it:
- Yes, i’m using pywal for colorscheme sometimes
- Looks up for documentation of the program that i want to customize (i.e: neovim, qtile, etc)
- Github (and also toss everything out because i’m bored, don’t do what i did)
- Depends. If it a minimal distro (btw), yes. If it a complete distro, i will try to fiddle around first with the default config they have. Then customize the hell out of it I hope this helps :)
I’ve set up a bunch of config files on my GitHub, so I clone the repo into my distro and symlink it to set up a bunch of stuff. I’ve also written a script that can install all my programs by reading through a text file. It’s helpful to get up and running quickly
Why ‘Ricing’? I tried searching but could only find explanations of the word related to cars
- I don’t use any tools to generate config & color schemes but I use Gradience to generate css for adw-gtk3 & libadwaita
- Setup WM/compositor, bar & terminal first
- I upload some of my rices to a GitHub repository
- Immediately if it’s minimal distro
