desktop-theming

desktop-theming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pedroiff0/awesome-skills. It costs 82 tokens per session (5,171 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

Instructions for changing the appearance of a Linux desktop environment, such as XFCE, GNOME, or KDE, to resemble macOS or another style. It focuses on themes, icons, cursors, fonts, docks, and desktop settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to detect the desktop environment and install or configure macOS-like themes, icons, cursors, fonts, and a dock on supported GTK-based desktops.
Why use it?
It guides users through the environment-specific setup and avoids common installation mistakes when customizing Linux.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to detect the desktop environment and install or configure macOS-like themes, icons, cursors, fonts, and a dock on supported GTK-based desktops.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pedroiff0/awesome-skills/desktop-theming
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add pedroiff0/awesome-skills --skill desktop-theming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pedroiff0/awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for desktop-theming

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for desktop-theming

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,171 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00082 $0.05171
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.02586
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01034
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00517

Measured 12d ago against content hash 81218a0f7f4a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

desktop-theming scanned grade D with 3 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt-get install -y git curl wget sassc inkscape plank fonts-inter x11-apps

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

"cursor" dir prints the GTK banner, you cloned the wrong repo — `rm -rf` and re-clone

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

sudo apt-get install -y git curl wget sassc inkscape plank fonts-inter x11-apps
skills/desktop/desktop-theming/SKILL.md · 313 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 313 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Desktop theming / ricing on Linux (macOS look via WhiteSur)

Best, lowest-effort path to a macOS-like desktop on a GTK-based DE (XFCE, GNOME, Cinnamon, MATE, Budgie) is the WhiteSur family by vinceliuice. It ships a GTK theme, an icon set, and a cursor set that mimic Big Sur / Monterey.

When to use

  • "Deixa meu Debian/Ubuntu com cara de macOS"
  • "Quero trocar o tema do XFCE/GNOME"
  • Custom cursors, dock estilo Mac, top bar com relógio centralizado

Detect the environment first

Run these before installing anything:

echo "XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP"
cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager 2>/dev/null
ls /usr/share/xsessions/
dpkg -l | grep -Ei 'xfce4|gnome-shell|plasma|cinnamon' | awk '{print $2}'

WhiteSur targets GTK DEs. On XFCE it is a near-perfect macOS clone; on KDE use a different approach (not covered here).

Install dependencies

sudo apt-get install -y git curl wget sassc inkscape plank fonts-inter x11-apps

NOTE: on Debian xcursorgen is NOT a separate package — it lives inside x11-apps. Installing xcursorgen by name fails with "no candidate"; just install x11-apps.

Clone the THREE separate repos (critical pitfall)

The cursor theme is a separate repository. The gtk-theme repo does NOT contain cursors, and its install.sh will silently do nothing useful if you point it at the cursor job. Clone each independently:

mkdir -p ~/.themes-src && cd ~/.themes-src
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-theme.git
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-icon-theme.git
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-cursors.git

Do NOT clone the same URL three times into differently-named dirs — the loop git clone <gtk-url> WhiteSur-cursors produces a cursor dir that is actually the GTK theme (detected by git remote -v showing the gtk URL). If install.sh in the "cursor" dir prints the GTK banner, you cloned the wrong repo — rm -rf and re-clone the real WhiteSur-cursors URL.

Read the full file on GitHub · 313 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 313 lines · 82 tokens per session scan D 81218a0f7f4a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

desktop-theming is a skill published in the GitHub repository pedroiff0/awesome-skills (1 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 5,171 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, recursive force delete, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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