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  • Unfortunately you can’t; it would need to be implemented by the owner of the instance to make it selectable there, but these themes have been built to work with the default litely theme on any Lemmy instance, all you need is a browser plugin/extension that can inject custom CSS in order to use these themes.




  • Hey so just a heads up, I made a few more changes that I quite like (again, for the red theme, tweak appropriately for the default green theme), so thought I’d just update you.

    This changes the main feed quite a bit, adding a bit more of a card-like design to posts, though I have done my best to make sure there isn’t too much white-space from this change, I just feel it looks a bit more modern, but again, feel free not to use it :)

    It also, and this is my favorite change, changes the title color of any post you’ve visited, something that I feel is basic but for some reason Lemmy didn’t have before. So now any posts you’ve visited before will be a light-gray color instead. Hope you find some value here.

    .container-lg {
        max-width: 1600px;
    }
    .col-md-8 {
        max-width: 80%;
        flex: 0 0 80%;
    }
    .col-md-4 {
        max-width: 20%;
        flex: 0 0 20%;
    }
    .col-sm-2 {
        max-width: 10%;
        flex: 0 0 10%;
    }
    .col-sm-9 {
        margin-left: 5px;
        max-width: 80%;
        flex: 0 0 80%;
    }
    .post-listing {
        border: 1px solid rgba(34,34,34,.125);
        /*border-bottom: 0px;*/
        border-color: #c80000;
        border-radius: 5px;
        margin-bottom: 8px;
        padding-top: 10px;
        background-color: #fff;
        transition: all .2s;
        box-shadow: 2px 2px 1px #c80000;
    }
    
    hr {
        display: none;
    }
    .border-top {
        border-top: 1px solid rgba(34,34,34,.125)!important;
    }
    .border-light {
        border-color: #e4e4e5!important;
    }
    body {
        background-color: #ecf0f1;
    }
    .navbar {
        background-color: #fff;
    }
    .card {
        background-color: #fff;
        box-shadow: 2px 2px 1px #c80000;
    }
    .col-12 .card {
        box-shadow: none;
    }
    .comments {
        padding-left: 10px;
        background-color: #fff;
    }
    a:visited .d-inline-block {
        color:#d6d7d9!important;
    }
    .my-2 {
        margin-bottom: 0px!important;
    }
    


  • Hey there, sure, currently I’m using this. The border between comments on a comment thread doesn’t look the best, but it makes it easier for me to track comment levels so I like it, though there are certain properties I’d like to change but can’t.

    Either way, I’m using an extension called Amino to apply my CSS changes on a domain-level.

    This fixes a lot of the whitespace and borders to make differentiating between posts and comments a little easier, while minimizing white space. I think it looks nice.

    EDIT: I’ve made a few more changes in terms of color.

    .container-lg {
        max-width: 1600px;
    }
    .col-md-8 {
        max-width: 80%;
        flex: 0 0 80%;
    }
    .col-md-4 {
        max-width: 20%;
        flex: 0 0 20%;
    }
    .col-sm-2 {
        max-width: 10%;
        flex: 0 0 10%;
    }
    .col-sm-9 {
        margin-left: 5px;
        max-width: 80%;
        flex: 0 0 80%;
    }
    .post-listing {
        border: 1px solid rgba(34,34,34,.125);
        border-bottom: 0px;
        border-color: #c80000;
        padding-top: 10px;
        background-color: #fff;
    }
    hr {
        display: none;
    }
    .border-top {
        border-top: 1px solid rgba(34,34,34,.125)!important;
    }
    .border-light {
        border-color: #e4e4e5!important;
    }
    body {
        background-color: #ecf0f1;
    }
    .navbar {
        background-color: #fff;
    }
    .card {
        background-color: #fff;
    }
    .comments {
        padding-left: 5px;
        background-color: #fff;
    }
    

  • If we could end up with a theme that looks a lot more like https://kbin.social, I’d be so happy. My biggest gripe with Lemmy is all of the white space, and none of the current themes improve that at all. All of the theme options offered by kbin look amazing by comparison, and to my understanding Lemmy theming is done via CSS based on Bootstrap v4, so new theme creation should be straightforward enough.

    It’s to the point where, when visiting Lemmy instances, I use a custom CSS extension to modify a few properties to make it a bit more palatable to me.

    If you guys ever need help creating custom themes to offer to users I’d be happy to contribute.


  • So one thing that might be worth looking into is virtual machines.

    Currently on my desktop I run a variant of Arch (Endeavor I think) where I primarily do my gaming , but for any highly incompatible games, or Game Pass games, I have a virtual machine running Windows that uses pass-through to pass my graphics card through to the virtual machine for games I can’t play on Linux. I also use CPU pinning to ‘pin’ 10 of my 12 CPU cores to the virtual machine to reduce potential overhead.

    Works really well, might be an option for you, although it’s not super easy to setup. I’ve tried passthrough on PopOS as well before, but it wasn’t as performant, and Arch Wiki provides a ridiculous amount of super useful guides for doing just about anything, including setting this up.

    Edit: Otherwise in terms of daily driver, I love Fedora, and likely won’t move away anytime soon on my laptop.