Communities

Reddit

• r/findmeadistro - The Distro-hunting Subreddit.
• r/linux4noobs - A community for those new to the Linux Operating System. The Wiki contains a wealth of information for new users to get started in Linux.
• r/unixporn - A coumminty all about Ricing up Linux.
• r/terminal_porn - The unixporn of terminals.
• r/conkyporn - The unixporn of Conky.

Ricing related public groups

• r/unixporn Discord - The official r/unixporn Discord server.
• DE_WM - Friendly Ricing community on telegram.
• dotfiles_IN - Dotfiles Indonesia ( not EN ).
• r/unixporn tg - r/unixporn telegram group.

Contributing

Ricing related public groups

• contribution guidelines - ricing/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md) first.
• contribution guidelines - ricing/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md) first.

Packages

Background setting utilities and generators

• chwall - tiny automatic wallpaper changer. (python)
• auto_background_changer - A simple wallpaper changer supporting various desktop environments and window managers for Linux. (python)
• azote - Wallpaper and colour manager for Sway, i3 and some other WMs. (python)
• BashDynamicPaper - Dynamic wallpaper setter.(shell)
• battery-wallpaper - Simple bash script to set wallpaper according to battery percentage with charging animations. (shell)
• bing-desktop-wallpaper-changer - Automatically changes desktop wallpaper to Bing Photo of the Day for Linux with Gnome. (shell) !!
• canvas - A Gradient / Blured Wallpaper Generator And Setter. (shell)
• dynamic-wallpaper - A simple bash script to set wallpapers according to current time, using cron job scheduler .(shell)
• fbsetbg - Set your wallpaper with the best available application. (C)
• komorebi - A beautiful and customizable wallpapers manager for Linux. (vala)
• lean - A lean, privacy-preserving dynamic wallpaper changer. (rust)
• izulu - weather-aware desktop background images. (shell)
• feh - a fast and light image viewer / setter. (C)
• Nitrogen - Background browser and setter for X windows. (c++)
• Nathans-wallpaper - Desktop wallpaper setter. (shell)
• quickwall - Set latest wallpapers from Unsplash from the commandline. (python)
• setroot - simple X background setter inspired by imlibsetroot and feh. (C)
• Unsplash-Random-Wallpaper-Setter - simple script that changes your wallpaper to a random image from unsplash.it (shell)
• Vallpaper - Plasma5 wallpaper for different desktops. (QML)
• xwallpaper - wallpaper setting utility for X . (C)
• xwinwrapl - My fork of xwinwrap. Xwinwrap allows you to stick most of the apps to your desktop background. (C)
• wallpaper-generator - A simple wallpaper generator. (python)
• wallset - A wallpaper manager that makes it possible to put videos as wallpaper. (shell)
• wallsetter - A live wallpaper setter for linux. (shell)
• wallsetter - A live wallpaper setter for linux. (shell)

Bars and Panels

• perlpanel - Panel made for X11 wms like openbox , icewm. (perl)
• pypanel - lightweight panel/taskbar for X11 wms (python , C)
• pypanel - lightweight panel/taskbar for X11 wms (python , C)

Bars, Panels, and Widgets

• bevelbar - Draw an X11 status bar with fancy schmancy 1985-ish beveled borders. (C)
• blockbar - Blocks based status bar for X window managers. (C)
• barmaid.lua - A status-bar generation program for dzen2, lemonbar, or the terminal. (lua)
• barr - Barr is a status line style generator for LemonBar. (ruby)
• bmpanel - lightweight, netwm compliant, x11 panel with desktop switcher, taskbar, systray and clock. (C)
• bumblebee-status - A modular, theme-able status line generator for the i3wm. (python)
• cnx - A simple X11 status bar for use with simple WMs. (rust)
• conky - Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland, and other things, too
• dwmbar-powerline - dwmbar with powerline look. (go)
• dwmbar - A Modular Status Bar for dwm. (shell)
• dzenbar - dzen2 bar w multiple monitors support. (shell)
• eww - ElKowar's wacky widgets. (rust)
• fbpanel - lightweight X11 desktop panel. (C)
• gobar - minimalistic X status bar. (go)
• goblocks - Fast, lightweight i3status . (go)
• goi3bar - Configurable, extensible replacement . (go)
• i3blocks - A flexible scheduler for your i3bar blocks. (C)
• i3status-rust - Very resourcefriendly and feature-rich replacement for i3status. (rust)
• i3status - Generates status bar to use with i3bar, dzen2 or xmobar. (C)
• lemonbar - A featherweight, lemon-scented, bar based on xcb. (C)
• luastatus - universal status bar content generator. (C)
• lxpanel - Lightweight X11 desktop panel. (C)
• mate-panel - MATE panel. (C)
• monky - Universal status bar content generator. (Haskell)
• mowedline - A X status bar program. (scheme)
• oxbar - configurable X11 status bar for OpenBSD. (C)
• polybar - A fast and easy to use bar. (C++)
• polydock - A shiny and hackable application dock. (typescript)
• py3status - py3status is an extensible i3status wrapper. (python)
• quobar - X11 status bar. (go)
• rust-dwm-status - A status bar for dwm .(rust)
• sketchybar - A easily customizable MacOS statusbar. (C)
• statbar - A Linux status bar, supporting multiple lightweight clients (multi-head). (C)
• statusbar - Statusbar for linux window manager. (go)
• taffybar - A gtk based status bar for tiling window managers such as XMonad. (Haskell)
• tianbar - A status bar for XMonad using WebKit for rendering. (Haskell)
• tint2 - A lightweight panel/taskbar for Linux and BSD. (C)
• tint3 - rewrite of the tint2 panel. (C)
• tinto-panel - Tiny X11 panel. (C)
• unixbar - Rust library for creating output for UNIX-style desktop bars like i3bar/swaybar, dzen2, lemonbar. (rust)
• vala-panel - Vala rewrite of SimplePanel. (C)
• vbar - A lightweight bar written .(go)
• waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. (C++)
• winbar - A familiar X11 panel/dock to ease new linux users transitio. (C++)
• wingpanel - Stylish top panel that holds indicators and spawns an application launcher. (vala)
• xfce4-panel - A panel made for xfce , should work on most stacking wms too. (C)
• xmobar - A minimalistic status bar. (Haskell)
• yabar - A modern and lightweight status bar for X window managers. (C)
• yagostatus - Yet Another i3status replacement. (go)
• yambar - Modular status panel for X11 and Wayland, inspired by polybar. (C)
• perlpanel - Panel made for X11 wms like openbox , icewm. (perl)

CLI Tools

• noice - small file browser. (C)
• bunnfetch - tiny fetch. (shell)
• Sfeed - A very minimal and lightweight RSS/Atom Reader. (C)
• Atop - System and process monitor for Linux. (C)
• bashtop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor (bash)
• btop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor (C++)
• bpytop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor (python)
• bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor. (rust)
• Glances - Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative. (python)
• Gotop - A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop. (go,C)
• gtop - System monitoring dashboard for terminal. (js)
• Nvtop - NVIDIA GPUs htop like monitoring tool. (C)
• Nvitop - An interactive NVIDIA-GPU process viewer and beyond, the one-stop solution for GPU process management. (python)
• px - ps and top for human beings. (python)
• sampler - Tool for shell commands execution, visualization and alerting. Configured with a simple YAML file. (go)
• s-tui - Terminal based CPU stress and monitoring utility. (python)
• tiptop - Command-line system monitoring. (python)
• smterminal - System monitoring for terminal on Linux, OSX and Windows. (typescript)
• sysstat - Performance monitoring tools for Linux. (C)
• SystemMonitor - A C++ based Linux system monitor. (C++)
• vtop - A graphical activity monitor for the command line. (js)
• ytop - A TUI system monitor. (rust)
• zenith - Sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage. (rust)
• zfxtop - [WIP] fetch top for gen Z with X written by bubbletea enjoyer. (go)
• barva - An audio visualizer that pulses the background of your terminal (or anything else). (python)
• cava - Console-based Audio Visualizer for Alsa. (C)
• catnip - terminal audio visualizer for linux/unix/macOS/windblows. (go)
• cli-visualizer - CLI based audio visualizer. (C++)
• octavia - Very configurable colored CLI visualizer. (C++)
• ReVidia-Audio-Visualizer - A highly customizable real time audio visualizer on Linux/Windows. (python)
• xava - X11 Audio Visualizer for ALSA. (C)
• audio-visualizer - Processing program for visualizing music and sounds. (java)
• audio-visualizer-screenlet - Cross-platform audio visualization desktop widget. (python)
• desktop-visualizer - Linux Desktop Music visualizer made with SFML. (C++)
• electron-music-visualizer - A desktop music visualizer using electronjs. (JavaScript)
• glava - GLava - OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer. (C)
• panon - An Audio Visualizer Widget in KDE Plasma. (QML)
• recidia-audio-visualizer - A highly customizable real time audio visualizer on Linux (C++)
• Realtime_PyAudio_FFT - Realtime audio analysis in Python, using PyAudio and Numpy to extract and visualize FFT features from streaming audio. (python)
• visualizer - Transforms cava music visualizer in a cool desktop decoration. (shell)
• visualizers - An audio visualizer for linux based on impulse. (rust)
• cfiles - A ncurses file manager written in C with vim like keybindings. (C)
• cfm - Simple and fast TUI file manager with no dependencies. (C)
• clifm - a completely CLI-based, shell-like and KISS file manager , lightweight as hell. (C)
• clifm - Command Line Interface File Manager. (Haskell)
• dfm - Dynamic File Manager. (C)
• fff - A simple file manager written in bash. (shell)
• fm - c99 ncurses file manager for posix. (C)
• joshuto - ranger-like terminal file manager. (rust)
• lf - Terminal file manager inspired by ranger. (go)
• mc - A free cross-platform orthodox file manager. (C)
• mfm - Minimal File Manager with multiple tabs and no dependencies. (C)
• nav - hackable ncurses file manager. (C)
• ncursesFM - Ncurses File Manager for linux. (C)
• nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager. (C)
• ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console. (python)
• rover - simple file browser for the terminal. (C)
• sheeetfm - A sheeet file manager for sheeet computers. (C)
• vifm - Terminal file manager. (C)
• xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer. (Rust)
• ansiweather - Weather in terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
• Sky - A simple weather monitor server for your terminal based on curl
• wego - weather app for the terminal written in Go.
• wttr.in - The right way to check the weather
• 101fetch - Screenfetch but for 101 school. (shell)
• afetch - Simple system info . (C)
• afetch - A command-line system information tool. (assembly)
• akkufetch - Neofetch for laptop batteries. (python)
• archey4 - Simple system information tool written in Python (python)
• archfetch - Simple CLI system information tool for Arch Linux. (shell)
• archimede - Unobtrusive project information fetcher. (go)
• bfetch - Dynamic fetch displayer that SuperB. (shell)
• bitfetch - simple cli system information tool . (C)
• boxfetch.py - Minimal Fetch in a Box. (python)
• bunny - Tiny system info fetch utility. (go)
• bugfetch - System Information Fetcher. (raku)
• cinfo - a fast and minimal system information tool for linux-based operating systems. (C)
• cppfetch - A neofetch-esque program written in CPP. (C++)
• cpufetch - Simple yet fancy CPU architecture fetching tool. (C)
• crfetch - A WIP neofetch-like program. (cyrstal)
• cutefetch - Tiny coloured fetch script with cute little animals (shell)
• disfetch - Yet another *nix distro fetching program, but less complex. (shell)
• diyfetch - The ultimate fetch tool template. (shell)
• efetch - No description. (c)
• erlfetch - A screenfetch / neofetch clone written in Erlang/OTP. (erlang)
• gentoofetch - System information script for Gentoo GNU/Linux. (shell)
• Hyperfetch - a multi-threaded system information tool written in posix sh. (shell)
• lfetch - Yet another fetch program. (C)
• ferris-fetch - A system information tool for Rustaceans.(rust)
• fetch - polyglot fetch. (javaScript,rust,go)
• fetch-master-6000 - Simple Dilbert themed system info-fe A system information tool for fetching tool. (perl)
• fet.sh - a fetch written in posix shell without any external commands. (shell)
• fetcheya - Fegeya Fetcheya is Scrift's System Information Tool. (C++)
• fetcher - Fegeya Fetcher, pretty & cute system-information-tool. Written in FlaScript. (shell)
• fetch.scm - System information fetcher written in GNU Guile (scheme)
• flexfetch - A fast and generic fetch. (c)
• freshfetch - a fresh take on neofetch. (rust)
• frenzch.sh - A cozy fetch
• fsfetch - A neofetch type program. (F#)
• jfetch - A minimal Linux fetch script. (shell)
• lovefetch - A CLI System Information Too. (Python)
• lunafetch - Returns system information fast. (C++)
• luafetch - Info fetch program. (lua)
• macchina - A system information fetcher, with an emphasis on performance and minimalism. (rust)
• mafetch - System info for Unix-like operating systems. (shell)
• myfetch - My neofetch-like program. (shell)
• neofetch - A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+ . (shell)
• nerdfetch - A POSIX nix fetch script using Nerdfonts. (shell)