@smokey have a question for you.
I’m not an artistic person. But I do like to match things. How do you color-match things to your wallpaper? Do you have an app that would help you know the color codes?
You have pywal for creating a color palette from an image :
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That is a good question. I often make a lot of my wallpapers or re-colour other wallpapers to get the colours to match the theme I have chosen. To get the colours I will either use the colour picker widget (on Plasma) or use GIMPs colour picker to match certain colours (before I started using Plasma I would also use GPick). Sometimes I will change certain colours in themes etc as well. I’m probably missing a lot of what I do here as it all depends on theme or the wallpaper.
In short 1. Pick Either a Theme/Wallpaper 2. Edit Either Theme/Wallpaper to match other
Hope this makes sense and can help you, it’s pretty automatic now for me.
EDIT - I’ve tried this out in the past but I wasn’t for me but it may help you if you are using Plasma https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors
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That does help. I used to create stuff but I’m too fond of Adobe and for some reason, I can’t get the handle of GIMP. Below are some images I made using Adobe while doing graphical stuff.
This is one of the splash screens I did for a game I played. Devs used it. There’s no background but upload converts the file it seems.
Thank you for your answer @smokey I’ll try one of those methods. I’m on XFCE so no KDE stuff.
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Those are really nice, I’d use Gpick on XFCE as a colour picker. GIMP can be a bit tricky to work out (I’m constantly learning how to use it differently).
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Looking good, love the choice of wallpaper 
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Plasma 6, Wayland etc. started to get on my nerves so I went for a change to LXQT + Kwin instead. I must say I like it… 
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Did a couple of minor changes really. Removed the Weather app I had that I rarely used that just took up space. I also changed out my long time default clock to something more simple to keep with a simple clean look.
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80° C…are you on Mars 
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80 Deg Fahrenheit - as used by the unbelievers “across the pond”
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And as I always do made a splashscreen from it, well 2 this time now that I can edit the colours in the plasma logo
(Will be uploading them on Tuesday, have to watch my data usage til then)
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Xfce setup of mine. I find vertical panel more efficient as it stays out of the way, quite like the DE itself.
GTK: Skeuos-Violet-Dark
Icons: Flat-Remix-Violet-Dark
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I’ve been tinkering with my new theme. The final output is below. All changes are done in a VM so I don’t mess up my daily setup. I’ll transfer once everything is ready.
GRUB
Greeter
Desktop
My only issue I can’t get the snake image to appear in my terminal. I’m using fastfetch and Alacritty. But still it’s not showing.
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Looks pretty neat. For the fastfetch-Problem you can take a look here
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