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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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[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I like to set up klipper actions to do automation on certain clipboard actions. I have them for sending certain URLs to special programs, converting credit card charge emails into a new item in a spreadsheet, doing 2 bandcamp things. I used to have some cool automation set up with starting and stopping activities, but they removed that functionality and now I have a worse one with the command output widget. I also love using window rules to customize my programs and where and how they appear.

[–] psilotop@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The email to spreadsheet idea is fantastic! I have my credit card email me for every purchase so the format is uniform no matter where I buy....

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah it's great. I click on the email, press ctrl-a to select all, ctrl-c to copy, win-r to run action on clipboard (there's an option to do this one automatically). It then runs a script that parses that text to get the good bits and reformat it. I wrote it for Chase, not sure if it's helpful if you want it.

[–] psilotop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Sure! I use TD but I'm sure I could modify it