How I Rice My Window for Productivity

• “Convinient, Instant, Fast!”
• “I want to conclude my setup!”

These are the reasons the article exists. Note: My config theme is here

My rules to optimize my productivity

• Instant: No animation = No delay.
• Shortcut: More shortcuts I have, The faster I am.
• Mica: I can see what happening behind the window.
• Clean: I don’t want to see any unnecessary things.

My utils

Core:

• Zen Browser: The Browser which having a lot of shortcuts.
• Zed Editor: The Editor which supports Mica and Vim.
• GlazeWM: The Titling Window Manager which doing instantly.
• Flow Launcher: The fast and powerful replacement of Start Menu.

Decoration:

• MicaForEveryone: Make everything Mica
• F.lux: Make my screen comfortable
• TranslucentTB: Make my taskbar transparent
• tacky-border: Make my accent border
• AutoHotkey: Make the wallpaper replacement

My tips

My Zen Browser

I hide sidebars and toolbars, I only use shortcuts to navigate the web and open the extensions.

• Alt + Q: Search tab bar
• Cmd + T: Create new tab or extension
• Cmd + Shift + T: Reopen closed tab
• Cmd + W: Close current window
• Cmd + L: Change the current link
• Cmd + Shift + D: Pin the current tab
• Cmd + S: Show the sidebar
• Cmd + Shift + S: Toggle the sidebar
• Cmd + Alt + H or V: Split horizontally or vertically
• …

My tacky-border

*Some applications like Discord, Zed Editor, Exploders, etc. need rights to access the border.

Here is my config to change the border color:

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  active_color:
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    colors: ["accent", "accent"]
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    direction: 45deg
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  inactive_color:
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    colors: ["#404040", "#404040"]
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    direction:
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      start: [0.0, 1.0]
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      end: [1.0, 0.0]

Here is my config to handle window rules:

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  - match: Process
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    name: "Discord"
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    strategy: Equals
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    enabled: True
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    follow_native_border: False
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  - match: Process
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    name: "Zen"
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    strategy: Equals
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    enabled: true
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    follow_native_border: false
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  - match: Title
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    name: "Task Manager"
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    strategy: Contains
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    enabled: True
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    follow_native_border: False
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  - match: Process
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    name: "Zed"
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    strategy: Equals
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    enabled: True
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    follow_native_border: False
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  - match: Process
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    name: "GlazeWM"
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    strategy: Equals
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    enabled: True
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  - match: Process
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    name: "GlazeWM Watcher"
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    strategy: Equals
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    enabled: True

My script to change wallpaper quickly

It takes two days to make the script by asking the Gemini. Painful!

Here is the script can do:

• Cmd + ': Change wallpaper
• Cmd + Shift + ': Change previous wallpaper
• Cmd + Shift + S Change wallpaper with randomness
• Cmd + Shift + D Change wallpaper with dual monitor
• Sync the focus’s border color to the accent color
• Sync the text selection & text indicator to the accent color

The accent color

Here is my window’s setting

Done

Here is all my settings to boost productivity. Thanks for reading ^^!