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Unixporn projects on GitHub
Heavily customized and aesthetic desktop environment setups.
As of , the most-starred Unixporn projects on GitHub are edex-ui (45K stars), dots-hyprland (16.4K stars) and eww (12.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 5 Unixporn repositories with 74.6K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was dots-hyprland, with +14 stars in a day.
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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.
+3edex-ui
GitSquared/edex-ui · ★ 45KeDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor styled like a sci-fi computer interface, heavily inspired by TRON: Legacy's Board Room scene. It combines a real terminal with live CPU/RAM/network monitoring and touchscreen support.
eww
elkowar/eww · ★ 12.7KEww (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.
+1cbirds
clainstone/cbirds · ★ 196cbirds 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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#1 · GitSquared/edex-uiedex-ui
eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor styled like a sci-fi computer interface, heavily inspired by TRON: Legacy's Board Room scene. It combines a real terminal with live CPU/RAM/network monitoring and touchscreen support.
- 16.4K
#2 · end-4/dots-hyprland
dots-hyprland
Dotfiles 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.
- 12.7K
#3 · elkowar/eww
eww
Eww (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.
- 4

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.
- 5

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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