The Generator
A wallpaper in; a palette and the configs for your apps out. Free, and the image never leaves your computer.
~/about cat about.md
About
To rice a desktop is to tune it until it looks and works the way you want. The theme is what you cook it with.
ricetheme is about ricing: making a Linux desktop, its terminal and its editor yours, built from files you understand and can rebuild on the next machine.
The seven sections run from a first tiling config to the keyboard you type it on, by way of shells, Neovim, color schemes, fonts, dotfiles repositories and the distro underneath.
The free Generator turns a wallpaper into a palette and the configs to go with it, all in your browser, and the Toolkit lists the apps our guides use.
Who writes here is on Authors. If a config stopped working after an update, tell us on Contact.
~/about fetchricetheme
ricetheme.com
- what
- generator · guides · toolkit
- sections
- 7
- guides
- 10
- authors
- 2
- founded
- 2026
- fonts
- JetBrains Mono · Inter
- theme
- ricetheme
Guides
Desktops, terminals, editors, color, dotfiles, Linux and desks, each with the config and the version it was written for.
Toolkit
The window managers, bars, terminals, editors, fonts and dotfile managers the guides use, linked to their own projects.
~/guides tree -L 1
What we cover.
- DesktopsWindow managers, compositors and desktop environments, set up and themed, for anyone writing a first tiling config or ricing Plasma or GNOME.3 guides
- TerminalTerminal emulators, shells, prompts, multiplexers and command-line tools, for anyone who spends the day at a prompt and wants it to feel like theirs.1 guide
- EditorsNeovim, VS Code and its forks, Helix, Zed and Emacs, set up and themed to match the desktop, for developers who want the editor to fit the rice.1 guide
- Color & TypeColor schemes, palettes, contrast, wallpapers, programming fonts and icon themes, for anyone picking a scheme for their rice or building their own.3 guides
- DotfilesKeeping a setup in files you can version, share and rebuild, for anyone who has lost a config once and would rather not do it twice.1 guide
- LinuxThe system under the rice: distributions, installs, packages, drivers and hardware, for first-time Linux users and anyone fixing what an update broke.1 guide
- SetupsKeyboards, monitors, laptops, mice, lighting and audio: the desk around the desktop, for anyone building a workspace to match the rice on screen.
~/authors whoami
The team.
Jonah Pelletier
Editor and lead writer
Backend developer on a Linux desktop for fourteen years, with his dotfiles in a public repository for most of them.
Ines Halvorsen
Design and gear writer
Builds color systems and type scales for software by day, and mechanical keyboards from kits and hand-wired boards at home.