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Ricing projects on GitHub
Customizing Linux desktops and terminal aesthetics with dotfiles.
As of , the most-starred Ricing projects on GitHub are omarchy (45.1K stars), Hyprland (38.9K stars) and yabai (29.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 14 Ricing repositories with 225.3K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was omarchy, with +90 stars in a day.
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17
+90omarchy
omacom/omarchy · ★ 45.1KOmarchy is an opinionated, pre-configured Linux desktop setup created by DHH, built on Arch Linux and the Hyprland window manager, bundling curated apps, themes, and keybindings for a polished out-of-the-box experience.
+31serpantinum
ilyamiro/serpantinum · ★ 7.4KSerpantinum is a shell for Wayland compositors built with Quickshell and QML. It used to be a collection of dotfiles but has now become a standalone shell package you install and update on its own, separately from your compositor config.
+20shell
caelestia-dots/shell · ★ 12.9KCaelestia shell is an animated desktop shell for Linux: the visual layer of your desktop — bar, launcher, dashboard, notifications — rendered with Quickshell on top of the Hyprland window manager under Wayland.
dots-hyprland
end-4/dots-hyprland · ★ 16.4KDotfiles for Hyprland, a Wayland compositor on Linux — technically configuration files, but in practice a custom graphical shell: status bar, widgets, app overview, all styled after Material Design 3.
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14 projects · by stars
- 45.1K
#1 · omacom/omarchyomarchy
Omarchy is an opinionated, pre-configured Linux desktop setup created by DHH, built on Arch Linux and the Hyprland window manager, bundling curated apps, themes, and keybindings for a polished out-of-the-box experience.
- 38.9K
#2 · hyprwm/Hyprland
Hyprland
Hyprland is an independent, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor for Linux that focuses on both usability and visual polish, with gradient borders, blur, animations, shadows and glow built in.
- 29.7K
#3 · asmvik/yabai
yabai
Yabai is a tiling window manager for macOS that extends the system's built-in window manager, arranging windows automatically using a binary space partitioning algorithm.
- 4

NvChad
28.5KNvChad/NvChad · LuaNvChad is a blazing fast configuration framework for Neovim: it wraps the editor in solid defaults, a polished UI and a full IDE-style plugin set.
- 5
dots-hyprland
16.4Kend-4/dots-hyprland · QMLDotfiles for Hyprland, a Wayland compositor on Linux — technically configuration files, but in practice a custom graphical shell: status bar, widgets, app overview, all styled after Material Design 3.
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polybar
15.4Kpolybar/polybar · C++Polybar is a fast, highly customizable status bar for Linux desktop environments, showing things like workspace info, system stats, volume, battery and more.
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shell
12.9Kcaelestia-dots/shell · QMLCaelestia shell is an animated desktop shell for Linux: the visual layer of your desktop — bar, launcher, dashboard, notifications — rendered with Quickshell on top of the Hyprland window manager under Wayland.
- 8
eww
12.7Kelkowar/eww · RustEww (ElKowars Wacky Widgets) is a standalone widget system written in Rust that lets you build your own custom desktop widgets, like bars or system trackers, for any window manager.
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SketchyBar
12.5KFelixKratz/SketchyBar · CSketchyBar is a highly customizable macOS status bar replacement built for people who like to shape their bar with shell scripts.
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serpantinum
7.4Kilyamiro/serpantinum · QMLSerpantinum is a shell for Wayland compositors built with Quickshell and QML. It used to be a collection of dotfiles but has now become a standalone shell package you install and update on its own, separately from your compositor config.
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gitlogue
5.1Kunhappychoice/gitlogue · Rustgitlogue is a cinematic Git commit replay tool for the terminal: it turns your Git history into a living, animated story with realistic typing, syntax highlighting, and file tree transitions.
- 12

Bruteon
282Darkkal44/BruteonBRUTEON is a Neo-Brutalism inspired 'rice' — a fully themed desktop setup whose look you'll be able to recreate on your own machine from the author's config files.
- 13
AgentOS
238eli-labz/AgentOS · ShellAgent0S is a keyboard-driven Arch Linux + Hyprland desktop environment forked from Omarchy, built so AI coding agents can read, modify and verify the system via included AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md and agent skills.
- 14

cbirds
196clainstone/cbirds · Ccbirds is a terminal toy that simulates Craig Reynolds' boids - a flock of birds flying around your terminal, drawn in braille by default or as real sprites in Kitty/Ghostty via the Kitty graphics protocol.
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