Desktop Customization

Fetch renders a distribution’s ASCII logo as a rotating 3D object alongside live system information.

msstyleEditor edits Windows visual style files and lets users modify listed components and properties.

Forge adds window tiling and management controls to the GNOME Shell desktop.

theme.park collects themes and skins for 48 applications, with several installation methods documented.

ScreenPlay provides live wallpapers, widgets, and screensavers through an open-source app for Windows and macOS.

Waywallen manages dynamic wallpapers on Linux desktops, according to its project description.

Wayfire offers a modular Wayland compositor with extension points and customizable behavior.

picom composites desktop windows on X11 and includes support for animation effects.

This repository collects aesthetic wallpapers for desktop backgrounds.

Cool Backgrounds collects background images for blogs, websites, desktop screens, and phones.

This guide tracks Wayland support and lists alternative applications for common desktop tasks, such as launchers and screenshot tools.

SecureUxTheme patches Windows theme verification in memory to allow unsigned styles without modifying system files.

Waybar provides a customizable status bar for Wayland compositors such as Sway and wlroots-based environments.

Kvantum supplies Linux desktops with an SVG-based theme engine for Qt applications.

ExcelDarkThemeFix adjusts Microsoft Excel’s appearance when a custom Windows theme is active.

Browse and select background images designed to span dual monitors, with resolution options listed on the site.

The picom manual documents compositor options, window rules, animations, configuration, and examples.

Arrange desktop windows as leaves in a binary tree with bspwm, a tiling window manager that responds to X events.

Build vibrant text user interfaces for modern terminal emulators with the Notcurses library.

7+ Taskbar Tweaker configures Windows taskbar behavior through a range of customization options.

Generate terminal color palettes in C with Hellwal, a utility modeled on Pywal.

herbstluftwm arranges windows through a manual tiling window manager for the X window system.

Variety automatically downloads and rotates wallpapers on Linux systems.

Solarized provides dark and light color scheme ports for applications such as terminals and Vim.