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# Awesome Linux Customization 



[![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/myugan/awesome-linux-customization/)



List of customization tools for **UN*X/Linux** user to make the desktop more _aesthetic_ and _clean_ for productivity.



### Contents



  - [File Manager](#file-manager)

  - [Music Player](#music-player)

  - [Music Visualizer](#music-visualizer)

  - [Image Viewer](#image-viewer)

  - [System Info](#system-info)

  - [Text Editor](#text-editor)

  - [Terminal](#terminal)

  - [Menu](#menu)

  - [Panel](#panel)

  - [Dock](#dock)

  - [Notification Daemon](#notification-daemon)

  - [Tweaks](#tweaks)

  - [Screen Manager](#screen-manager)

  - [Others](#others)



# Intro to Dotfiles



**Dotfiles** are plain text configuration files on Unix-y systems for things like our shell, `~/.zshrc` , our editor in `~/.vimrc` , and many others. They are called "dotfiles" as they typically are named with a leading.



Source from [here](https://thoughtbot.com/upcase/videos/intro-to-dotfiles).

More about dotfiles check this [link](https://dotfiles.github.io/).



# Getting started



- https://medium.com/@webprolific/getting-started-with-dotfiles-43c3602fd789



## File Manager



- [**ranger**](https://github.com/ranger/ranger) - A vim inspired filemanager for console.

- [**Thunar**](https://github.com/xfce-mirror/thunar) - A modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment.

- [**PCManFM**](https://wiki.lxde.org/en/PCManFM) - A lightweight Gtk+ based file manager for X Window.

- [**fff***](https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff) - simple file manager written by `bash`.

- [**Midnight Commander**](https://midnight-commander.org/) - A terminal based file manager.



## Music Player



- [**mpc**](https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/mpc) - Client for `mpd`, responsible for telling lemonbar about the currently playing media.

- [**mpd**](https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD) - A daemon for playing music of various formats with `ncmpcpp` as client.

- [**cmus**](https://github.com/cmus/cmus) - A small ncurses based music player.

- [**ncmpcpp**](https://github.com/arybczak/ncmpcpp) - An ncurses Music Player Daemon (MPD) client.

- [**Rhythmbox**](http://www.rhythmbox.org/) - A Music Player which takes its inspiration from Apple's iTunes application.



## Music Visualizer



- [**cava**](https://github.com/karlstav/cava) - Console-based Audio Visualizer for Alsa (MPD and Pulseaudio). 

- [**mpdviz**](https://github.com/lucy/mpdviz) - Console mpd visualizer like `cava`.

- [**nausea**](https://github.com/ViktorNova/nausea) - This is a simple Console audio spectrum visualizer, Work well with mpd daemon music player.



## Image Viewer

 

- [**feh**](https://github.com/derf/feh) - A lightweight image viewer.

- [**sxiv**](https://github.com/muennich/sxiv) - Simple X Image viewer like `feh`.

- [**n30f**](https://github.com/sdhand/n30f) - Image viewer to display an image in a borderless and transparent non-wm-managed window.

- [**gpicview**](https://wiki.lxde.org/en/GPicView) - A Simple and Fast Image Viewer for X.

- [**nitrogen**](https://github.com/l3ib/nitrogen) - A GUI background previewer and setter.



## System Info



- [**neofetch**](https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch) - A customizable system information written in Bash.

- [**screenfetch**](https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch) - Bash screenshot information tool.

- [**ufetch**](https://github.com/jschx/ufetch) - Tiny system info for Unix-like operating systems

- [**pfetch**](https://github.com/dylanaraps/pfetch) - A pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh.



## Text Editor



- [**neovim**](https://github.com/neovim/neovim) - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability.

- [**vim**](https://github.com/vim/vim) - Vi IMproved, a programmer's text editor.

- [**Spacevim**](https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim) - Community-driven modular vim distribution with ultimate vim configuration and many build-in features.

- [**Leafpad**](http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/) - Leafpad is a simple GTK+ text editor that emphasizes simplicity.



## Terminal



- [**rxvt-unicode**](https://github.com/exg/rxvt-unicode) - A customizable terminal emulator forked from `rxvt`.

- [**xterm**](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xterm) - The standard terminal emulator for the X Window System

- [**st**](https://st.suckless.org/) - A simple terminal emulator for X which sucks less, with xft. 



## Menu



- [**dmenu**](https://github.com/l3pp4rd/dmenu) - A fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X.

- [**jgmenu**](https://github.com/johanmalm/jgmenu) - Small X11 menu intended to be used with openbox and tint2.

- [**myGtkMenu**](https://sites.google.com/site/jvinla/mygtkmenu) - GTK2, GTK3 standalone & lightweight menu written in C.

- [**rofi**](https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi) - A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement



## Panel



- [**lemonbar**](https://github.com/LemonBoy/bar) - A featherweight, lemon-scented, bar based on xcb.

- [**polybar**](https://github.com/jaagr/polybar) - A fast and easy-to-use status bar.

- [**dzen2**](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dzen) - A general purpose messaging, notification and menuing program for X11. 

- [**xmobar**](https://github.com/jaor/xmobar) - A minimalistic, mostly text-based status bar.

- [**tint2**](https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2) - A lightweight panel/taskbar with support system try.



## Dock



- [**Plank**](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Plank) - A simplest dock on the planet, famous dock for linux user.

- [**Cairo Dock**](http://glx-dock.org/) - A desktop interface that takes the shape of docks, desklets, panel, etc



## Notification Daemon



- [**dunst**](https://dunst-project.org/) - A lightweight replacement for the notification daemons provided by most desktop environments.



## Logout Screen



- [**lxsession-logout**](https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXSession) - A nice banner-style logout dialog for the LXDE.

- [**oblogout**](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Oblogout) - GTK/Cairo based logout box styled for openbox.

- [**clearine**](https://github.com/yuune/clearine) - Beautiful logout UI for X11 window manager



## Tweaks



- [**wal**](https://github.com/dylanaraps/wal) - Generate and change colorschemes on the fly.

- [**pywal**](https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal) - Generate and change colorschemes on the fly. A `wal` rewrite in Python 3.  

- [**wpgtk**](https://github.com/deviantfero/wpgtk) - A powerful GTK+ frontend for pywal, adding features such as flexible templates and editing colorschemes.

- [**spicetify-cli**](https://github.com/khanhas/spicetify-cli) - Commandline tool to customize Spotify client.

- [**tintyourday**](https://github.com/yuune/tintyourday) - Generate your `tint2` config with Xresources color 

- [**obtgen**](https://github.com/fikriomar16/obtgen) - Openbox theme generator.

- [**Shift**](https://github.com/noirecat/Shift ) - An instantly window manager theme changer.

- [**colorfil**](https://github.com/yuune/colorfil) - Generate 16 color for Xresources colorscheme from one-color.

- [**colorls**](https://github.com/athityakumar/colorls) - A Ruby gem that beautifies the terminal's ls command, with color and font-awesome icons

- [**Cornora**](https://github.com/yuune/Cornora) - Simple Hotcorner Launcher for X

- [**warnai**](https://github.com/reorr/warnai) - Swiss army theme changer from .Xresources

- [**Compton**](https://github.com/chjj/compton) - A compositor for X11.

- [**Oomox**](https://github.com/themix-project/oomox) - Generate themes and icons using oomox GUI



## Screen Manager



- [**lxrandr**](https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXRandR) - standard screen manager of LXDE.



## Others



- [**colorls**](https://github.com/athityakumar/colorls) - A Ruby script that colorizes the ls output with color and icons.

- [**exa**](https://the.exa.website/) - A modern replacement for `ls`.

- [**ls++**](https://github.com/trapd00r/ls--) - `ls` on steroids.



## Contribute



**Fork** this repository (optional) and share to other GNU/Linux users.



### License



The code is available under the [MIT license](LICENSE).



### Credits



- Thanks to all contributor who want to share their customize desktop.

- Especially [**Linuxer Desktop Art**](https://www.facebook.com/groups/linuxart/?ref=group_header)