Acrylic & Minimalist

[u/imaboud]

[u/Ok_Maybe184]

Tasteful and not overdone. 👍 Though I think I would have kept the full task bar; my OCD kicks in with a chunk on the right but not the left too.

[u/imaboud → u/Ok_Maybe184]

Yes, I tried to fix it but I've got my own software to deal with. I'm working on a Custom OS that I've stripped as much bloatware as possible, and looks amazing out of the box. I have already acheived a minimal OS which I'm using now, and I've given it to friends to test the core while I apply all themes. Hope this goes smoothly

[u/mustbeerror404]

Can you please tell us how you've achieved this?

[u/imaboud → u/mustbeerror404]

Context menu is iMA Menu, (My software) Github: https://github.com/iMAboud/iMA-Menu/blob/main/README.md

Taskbar: Windhawk (Windows 11 Taskbar Styler) Theme: Squircle

Start Menu: Windhawk (Windows 11 Start Menu Styler) Theme: https://www.vinstartheme.com/down-aero-start-menu/

File Explorer: ExplorerBlurMica: https://github.com/Maplespe/ExplorerBlurMica

Icons: Windhawk (Resource Redirect) Icons name: Fluent Keys Night.
All icons are found here: https://github.com/niivu/resource-redirect-icon-themes

For other system icons / Consistant blur and dark theme for all system programs and windows I use (Rectify11 with Mica).

[u/Ryzen_bolt]

You know with this, MS office's Excel Spreadsheets color break. Becomes black instead of white!

[u/imaboud → u/Ryzen_bolt]

I don't use Excel tbh, but I wouldn't be surprised, it has some bugs with white backgrounds on some apps.

[u/AnotherBlueBooster]

or, Acrylist

[u/InternalVolcano]

Custom theme and windhawk?

[u/imaboud → u/InternalVolcano]

Yes, and yes! I just commented with everything I use above, check it out.

[u/YourAverageDev_]

What did u use? Windhawk

[u/imaboud → u/YourAverageDev_]

Yep! I just commented with all tools I use above.

[u/drkwillisx]

Interesting. I'm curious about the performance. Are there significant changes to it?

[u/imaboud → u/drkwillisx]

Nothing here runs in the background except for Windhawk which is as small as opening a .txt file with notepad. %0 CPU - 2.9MB Memory

iMA Menu does not run a single service in background, it only launches the feature you're using and closes when you stop using it. (Context menu is replaced with registry not a service.

Rectify and Mica activates 3 things to run in background that are almost none existent but even tho I turned them off manually and they still work the same. I have literally just The Goxlr app run on startup for sounds

[u/drkwillisx → u/imaboud]

Wonderful 😊 I should try windhawk again. I've used rainmeter before then dropped it for seelen UI plus some others. Right now I'm using mydockfinder and I also tweaked inbuilt features using Winaero tweaker and Windows manager by Yamic Soft. It looks good but I want transparency without changing the registry. Last time I wasn't happy with Mica. Lemme see what I can get going

[u/imaboud → u/drkwillisx]

ExplorerBlurMica is the fix for Mica. Mica alone is not worth it! Rectify11 + Mica + ExplorerBlurMica is the best combination

[u/drkwillisx → u/imaboud]

Thank you. I'll give you feedback on the same

[u/Babybullet0604]

What software you are using looks amazing

[u/imaboud → u/Babybullet0604]

I just commented above with everything I use

[u/ItsKarmaMen]

O would love to replícate this.

Windhawk?

[u/imaboud → u/ItsKarmaMen]

Yes windhawk mainly, I just commented above with all tools and links

[u/alien2003]

It's not minimalist, a lot of screen space is just wasted + giant gaps

[u/Ok_Maybe184 → u/alien2003]

What is your definition of minimalist?

[u/imaboud → u/alien2003]

This is the meaning of minimalist! To not fill every gap with buttons and texts.
+ I have almost everything hidden withen shortcuts e.g: double click to open task manager, Alt Space to open Flow Launcher with custom commands and shortcuts, Almost everything that I need is in context menu organized in menus, and some items in context menu appear with shift+right click and other keyboard combinations