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As someone from the desktop customization scene in the Linux world, I can tell you that it is not entirely dead and still has some actual activity... if you aren't using GNOME. With GNOME 2.x, you could do things via GTK themes and Metacity themes before compiz came around. But with GNOME 3... they threw away as much customization as possible for the same bizzare reasons they had for creating an alienating UI. Can't really do window theming if you're overloading the window title bar with extra UI elements. Though the default GTK theme was initially a banger; it was made by the same guy that created the Cairo theme engine and it looked really good. But now he got rid of that and replaced it with... flat garbage. It's so sad.

If you use KDE, all the theming is still supported and there are still people involved in it. If you use any of the other GTK-based DEs (like XFCE) you can still do window decorations but GTK itself is still locked down.


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in linux world, if you want deep customization, we usually just skip the desktop environment altogether and make our own stuff. you mention compiz, but there are now other compositors instead.

also, through the last 5 years, wayland has replaced many people's xorg server (so the thingy that actually draws things on the screen), and so new tools (including for customization) are being rewritten.

r/unixporn or whatever communities exist outside of reddit are pretty good examples of what people do with their computers

feeling this hard... i still remember the era of windows where a program's title bar could have a gradient color from the left to right edges. went wild spending hours in customization options making sure the active/inactive window borders, font colors, and all that meshed well with each other

at some point windows7 came around and i just resigned myself to rainmeter skins. nowadays I've still got a classicshell/openshell mod swapping the w10 start menu with my own trademark #00FFFF ✖️, but it feels like that's as far as i can get without heavily editing system files manually...

i used to use dedicated software for this in the xp days called "styleXP". couple that with skins for winamp and trillian (old multi-protocol chat program) and you got yourself a stew going. also rainmeter! i kinda miss that as well although maybe not the time it took up lol. i had the same sort of fun when android custom firmware flashing was a big thing too