I’ve been ricing my desktop slowly over the years (don’t have a lot of time). I’ve gotten it somewhat down to what I like. I use Archlinux with Open box, polybar, and rofi. I don’t use a desktop environment. My question is what are my options for ricing default applications like dolphin or similar apps with default gui’s (xsensors) without using a packaged desktop environment. I believe my default theme and icons are Adwaita (GTK-3)
Kvantun for qt themes and lxappearance for gtk themes. In either one you’d have to first download a theme you want and apply it via correct program. You may have to export a shell variable to tell programs to actually use that theme (may not be necessary, I use a lot of flatpaks so for me it is)
The easiest way to get uniform colors in my experience is to full screen a program running the theme, use a dropper tool in Kolourpaint, see the hex color for what I want to change, then search for that hex in the theme file and change it to the one that matches my rice.
Thank you for this
Sorry if I’m wrong, but doesn’t lxappearance only set the GTK-2 theme? You set the GTK3 theme via dconf or set the GTK3/4 theme using the GTK_THEME env var. There are hardly any apps that use GTK-2 anymore; only one I can think of off the top of my head is PCManFM.
What is ricing
Generally, customization. My understanding is that the origin of its use for describing customization, modding, personalization, etc. comes from the car world where it was used to describe tastelessly modified cars with too many cosmetics, and is most associated with Japanese cars. Folks in various communities where the term has been used to describe customization have occasionally debated whether it has a racist origin (it seems probable that it does, though is now pretty much unrelated to any of that origin), and whether it’s innaproprate to use today as a result
It’s often used in this community to describe thoroughly customizing your Linux or Unix desktop, and carries sort of the same energy in my mind as like pimp your ride, but for your desktop.
Hope this helps!
Thank you!
You’re very welcome! :)
I feel dumb. That makes sense. I always just figured the name was based on the dot files that are used to customize and a bunch of dots were being referred to as rice. Your explanation makes way more sense than what I came up with.
Lol, I’m very glad I could help. Have a good one! :)
Thanks for asking. I just got here and was confused too.
