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My Arch Linux desktop

By Diego Malagrida

Everything,in your pocket.

Pocket is my Arch Linux desktop. The notch opens the launcher, music and controls; the wallpaper sets the colours.

Arch LinuxHyprlandQuickshell

01 Try my desktop.

Interactive preview — click the notch

Pocket, as it is on my desktop
Click the clock to open the controls.
diego@archlinux────────────── - Arch Linux x86_64 - Linux 󱑂 - 4 hours, 12 mins 󰏗 - pacman - Intel Core i5-1135G7 󰢮 - Intel Iris Xe Graphics - 6.79 GiB / 15.40 GiB - kitty - zsh

⌃  ~ ❯

~/Pictures/wallpapers
Selected wallpaper previewpokemon-gyarados-gran-ola-j58qwp.jpg
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hyprland.lua~/dotfiles/home/.config/hypr
-- Window spacing and corners.
hl.config({
    general = {
        gaps_in = 3,
        gaps_out = 6,
        border_size = 0,
    },
    decoration = {
        rounding = 0,
    },
})
Wallpaper

Try the clock, the workspace dots or the files in Yazi.

Meet the notch
01 / THE NOTCH

The controls, in one place.

The clock opens your music, connections and notifications. The launcher and workspace map use the same surface.

Explore the notch
02 / COLOURS

The wallpaper sets the palette.

pywal picks colours from your wallpaper for the shell, terminal, apps, borders and lock screen.

See how colours work
03 / POKÉMON

Six Pokémon on your desktop.

GitHub contributions give the team experience. Choose a leader and let it walk along your windows.

Meet your team

From the wallpaper collection

Pick a wallpaper.
The colours follow.

Choose an anime scene, a Pokémon wallpaper or one of the paintings below. The page uses that image’s palette.

How wallpaper colours reach the desktop
More wallpapersLandscapes & paintings · 9 views
COLOURS FROM YOUR WALLPAPER
01 / WALLPAPER

Gyarados and the Great Wave

02 / PALETTE
kitty

❯ New wallpaper.
  Updated colours.

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Shell
colours

The wallpaper is the starting point. On the desktop, awww displays the image you choose in the picker.

The field guide

Find what
you need.

Install Pocket, learn the shortcuts, or look up how a part of the desktop works.

Looking for something specific?

02 / The details make the desktop

Recorded on my desktop
Pocket Settings showing the appearance controls and live notch preview

Settings with a live preview.

Adjust the appearance and see the result before you apply it.

Stacks of real workspace windows at the left edge of the desktop

Your workspaces at a glance.

Stage Manager keeps window stacks along the edge of the screen.

A fresh start

Ready to
install Pocket?

Start with an Arch installation.
The guide explains what the installer changes and how to review it first.

Read the installation guide
YOUR TERMINAL
$ git clone https://github.com/diegoMalagrida/pocket-dots
$ cd pocket-dots
$ ./install.sh

ARCH LINUX · HYPRLAND 0.56+ · GPL-3.0

The field guide
Pocket desktop preview