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What are your favorite desktop customizations? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by psilotop@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've distro hopped quite a bit over the last few years. I've realized recently that I tend to gravitate toward KDE Plasma as a desktop environment, but I don't take advantage of the customization as much as I could.

As I sit here looking through the KDE Plasma settings I'm curious to hear what are some favorite things to change in any DE. Please share what you like to do when you get a vanilla install. Do you have a favorite icon pack? Do you have a favorite theme? Any particular widgets that you would recommend?

I'm sure there is more out there than I can think of. Please share!

Edit: I can't respond to everyone, but this is a great discussion. So many good suggestions and ideas. Keep them coming!

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[–] bathtub@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Love my drop down terminal. I use Yakuake.

[–] rsky@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Once you get used to it, you'll never go back haha

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you prefer Guake over Yakuake because you use Gnome or other GTK based DE, because of specific features, or because it's what you're used to? Or something else?

I've only used Yakuake (and I'm on KDE) so I'm not familiar with Guake, but I'm curious

[–] rsky@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'll be real with you, it's just familiarity. Whenever I'm setting up a new system, I just install Guake and throw my config file at it, so it feels the same as all of my other computers.

I'm sure that Yakuake is great and that all drop-down terminals probably have identical feature sets. However, I'm getting too old and impatient to distro/software hop. I just like my stuff to work and as long as it does, I don't change it.

Concerning DE compatibility though: I run cinnamon on most of my machines and Guake has worked flawlessly for me for years on Cinnamon and Gnome. I've never been a fan of KDE though, so your milage may vary.