I’ve been using linux for about 6 months now and recently been using arch as my main. I’ve done some customzations like changing fonts, background, keybinds, etc. But I really want to actually customize like the behaviour of apps, cool animations.
Are there any links, videos, post or anything that is beginner friendly of ricing Linux?
Edit: I use Gnome for now
Can we please stop calling it “ricing”? The term is pretty loaded.
I’m kinda surprised that people don’t say modding
i personally call it “theming” or “customizing” since these are quite descriptive. pretty sure “modding” is more often used in the context of gaming
Theming seems more relevant and specific than modding/customizing👍
There’s a point where it goes from basic theming to full blown ricing. I think OP is trying to jump off the deep end.
Lived through the 90s when the import car scene was huge. The term ricing back then was used when referring to asians who modified their cars, as a pejorative.
It really bummed me out to see it creep into the Linux community. Tried voicing displeasure back when I used Reddit and got blasted with downvotes and really distasteful comments, felt like I was alone in this feeling. Thanks, from some random Asian Linux user.
For what it’s worth I have only ever heard the term used to describe the Linux thing. So for me that is the only meaning.
It’s actually an acronym for Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement. The fact that some don’t know and use it to be racist says more about them as an individual than the term itself.
That’s a Backronym.
The term definitely comes from looking down on tuned Asian cars (“rice burners”).
How can someone use that to be racist and don’t know what it means at the same time?
Not knowing what the acronym means and using it for stock Honda Accords, because “asian car” for instance. That is racist.
Tbh I don’t really even get the hate on Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement, I see it as a different facet of “car enthusiast,” like the dudes with Donks and Low-Riders. Still though it isn’t racism, just eleitism or regular old gatekeeping from the racing people.
Is the concern the connection to “rice racers” japenese import cars? or the term when you rice potatoes or cauliflower through a ricing device, making it into tiny parts?
Horribly offensive term. Webster’s Dictionary defines ricing as a tiling window manger with 64px gaps, minimalist Naruto/anime background, useless bouncing bar EQ meter, entire window dedicated to song lyrics, obnoxious monospace fonts, nonsensical colors, task bar showing time/date/IP+MAC address/GPS coords/moon phase/crop yield/barometric pressure, and a Vim buffer with Rust’s “hello world” tutorial.
To clarify for those who come after: It’s quite blatantly the first one. You’re tricking your desktop out as is stereotypical of the cars you mentioned.
Wasn’t sure, some people see ricing as going into every tiny detail like grains of rice…but being old the first one is the first reference I heard.
It’s possible that the majority of people weren’t aware of the first one when they started using it, but they don’t have an excuse if they continue to use it now.
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It’s ok. We have called the mind police and they’re on their way. Open up when you hear the knocking or the door will be put in.
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This Lemmy community is a pretty good resource for inspiration, and sometimes you can snag animation or icon sources from the descriptions or comments. It’s not super in depth on the how to end of it though.
The easiest step into this world is KDE. It has a store for users to share global themes, color themes, even sddm animations.
You can use kwin rules to send certain apps to certain desktops, start shaded, all sorts of fun stuff.
And then you can throw a tiling manager on top of that. If you want to use the control panel, you can install bismuth. If you’re comfortable editing text files, awesome or i3 (but I have yet to go that far).
If you really want to go for it, hyperland looks incredible, but it is a lot of up front work.
Don’t fall for the tiling managers, I know they look pretty but they’ll sink all your time and you’ll never be satisfied. Trust me I’ve been there.
Personally I hate tiling, I just want those cool closing and opening animations
If you use KDE, look for the “TV Glitch [burn-my-windows]” opening and closing animation. It’s a default setting in the KDE Settings > Workspace behavior > Desktop effects > Window open/close animation section. It’s really good in my opinion, especially if you tinker with the open/close timing to make it a little more crisp.
Unfortunately for my free time I really enjoy the endless customisation loop
Also tiling WM with virtual desktops makes one monitor feel like many, I often actively choose to use my hyprland laptop and trackpad instead of a triple monitor setup without tiling
You’ll want to decide on a desktop environment or window manager (or compositor). That’ll be the biggest determining factor of what things will look like. From there, you’ll want to either read the manual or arch wiki on how to customize the different aspects of it.
If you decide you want a tiling window manager, Hyprland is nice since you mentioned you wanted animations. But it’s only recommended on rolling release distros at the moment. It also might not work well with Nvidia.
What kind of “app behaviour” customizations are you wanting to do? That sounds like it would be app-specific. My main form of app customization is to find ways to change the colour scheme (to fit everything else), and also to change the keybindings (I like using vim-like key bindings whenever reasonable)
What desktop do you use?
I never use one, useless fluff/hype, I use a wm.
Near double the size and resources for having a dock/bar/menu and pinning icons on the background … too much clutter for things hiding behind whatever you are doing most of the time.
A desktop is something you use to impress someone using mac/msWin …
and a WM is something you use to impress someone who doesn’t only use a WM
Your reasoning is understandable if itching out every mb of RAM space is a high priority, but fortunately hardware has improved well enough to use more bloated systems (not windows levels) for easier daily use.
Desktop resources are not above 1% of my system use. Wm is annoying because I’d have to use the keyboard for everything.
You know I’ve heard a lot of people say that. And i tested it with bspwm, sure I was saving some ram but when you add all the applets, compositor, bar and notification daemons and all the configs it adds up to the same amount of ram being used as sometching like KDE. I didn’t notice a lot of difference other that more time being spent on configuring the wm than using it. It was fun tho.
The question was obviously directed at OP.
But I really want to actually customize like the behaviour of apps
Welcome to FOSS programming as a hobby. But first, let’s rice your IDE!
Already done it :D
Good, now allow me to explain why your programming language of choice is shit.
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On reddit a few days ago on r/archlinux there was a discussion about ricing being a racist term or not.
