I have customized a bit my original Budgie experience with the addition of some theming from the software store's repositories (the preferred easy way). This is where I leave it at, it is perfect for me, I am satisfied with its outcome.


Really loving 4.2 Budgie. It's quite fast and very comfortable. The only thing I did differently from my typical setup is cmus rather than mpd+ncmpcpp because my usage requires a few utilities that aren't in the repos, whereas with cmus I just had to compile and configure cmusfm.

GTK theme: Basik_Light_Blue
Cursor Theme: Cz-Viator
Icon theme: Papirus (default i believe)
Terminal emulator: alacritty, zenburn theme, no titlebars, with tmux.
Right screen contains weechat, cmus, and cava
Middle terminal contains neofetch

    rdr is that thing on the right - the 2nd monitor?

    • rdr replied to this.

        Solarmass Right, the entire right side is a 1080p HP monitor in portrait. Alacritty is taking up the entire screen, but subdivided into three panes with tmux

        alveion 😆

              rdr I am curious how is usability of the console music players, e.g. hotkeys support, playlists creation, shuffle/repeat, queue, etc... Sure it looks minimal and "geeky".

                  Solarmass The only thing you don't get is drag and drop, they even have rudimentary mouse support. With mpd+ncmpcpp, my typical usage is hitting ~ to add random (songs), 150 (enter), and then removing songs with the hotkey (I usually bind it with x) to make the random mix even better. With cmus, I usually listen to albums, but you can create playlists by adding a song with "y", shuffle is toggleable with a hotkey (s), playlists are a thing. It's not only minimal and geeky but also very functional. It even has Budgie/GNOME integration via mpris, so you can pause/etc with the gui. I encourage you to try it out if it interests you, but there's nothing wrong with a gui player. One limitation with cmus in particular is it tends to encourage you to listen to artists/albums rather than a queue, but you can use the playlist functionality to do that.

                      rdr I encourage you to try it out

                      Thanks! Maybe I give it a try, though I'm already using a perfect player 🙂

                        For some reason this forum gives me error when I try to post a pic of my desktop, but if I try posting screenshot with for example, firefox window open, it's fine 🤔

                          algent Huh didn't really think that because pic wtih firefox open loaded just fine. But maybe it was cropped a bit for some reason. Anyway, here I go