Cyberpunk Neon Desktop

As we grapple with a global pandemic, surveillance capitalism, and host of other problems that plague this planet, a bitjockey in UCAS decides to lean into the cyberpunk aesthetic since it is, after all, 2020.

I use GNOME 3.34.2 now on a System76 workstation running Pop!_OS, but in the past I would have used i3 on my economy-class Acer laptop with a bunch of custom drek running on Arch Linux. Unfortunately I no longer have time to engage in that sort of thing, so this will have to do.

Here's a list of stuff I used, along with the commands I used to install everything.

Utilities

• BetterDiscord by bb010g. Instructions by ObserverOfTime.
• GNOME Tweaks Tool to allow a GNOME user to configure more settings than what is showed in the default Settings app.

Themes

• Cyberpunk Neon Themes A set of themes by roboron3042 based on the Cyberpunk Neon color scheme.
• Suru ++ Icon theme by gusbemacbe.
• Cyberpunk Neon Firefox Cyberpunk Neon Firefox Theme.
• Cyberpunk VS Code VS Code theme by prometheux-ar. I'm using the UMBRA PROTOCOL variant.
• Sorceror VS Code Another nice VS Code theme. It doesn't quite match the Cyberpunk Neon color scheme, but I just really like it.

Fonts

• M+ 1c
• Fira Code

Wallpaper

• Highway 4k Wallpaper by AxiomDesign.

Base Installation

# Set dir to store GUI-related stuff
GUI_DIR=$HOME/GUI

# Set up dirs
mkdir -p $HOME/{.themes,.icons,.local/share/fonts,.config/tilix/schemes,.config/BetterDiscord}
mkdir -p $GUI_DIR && cd $GUI_DIR

# Install Cyberpunk-Neon
git clone https://www.github.com/Roboron3042/Cyberpunk-Neon && cd Cyberpunk-Neon
tar xzf gtk/Materia-Cyberpunk-Neon.tar.gz -C ~/.themes/
for d in gtk/*.tar.gz;do tar xzf $d -C ~/.themes/; done

# Install tilix theme
cp terminal/Cyberpunk-Neon.json ~/.config/tilix/schemes

# Install Suru ++ icons
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gusbemacbe/suru-plus/master/install.sh | env DESTDIR="$HOME/.icons" sh

# Install fonts
cd $GUI_DIR
curl -o mplus-1c.zip https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/download/M-1c
unzip -d mplus-1c.zip -d mplus-1c
cp mplus-1c/*.ttf $HOME/.local/share/fonts/
sudo apt install fonts-firacode
sudo fc-cache -v

Discord

Instructions from here.

# Install betterdiscordctl
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bb010g/betterdiscordctl/master/betterdiscordctl
chmod +x betterdiscordctl
sudo mv betterdiscordctl /usr/local/bin

# Initialize betterdiscord
betterdiscordctl # get some basic info. for example: Modules: /home/bitjockey/.config/discord/<version>/modules
betterdiscordctl install -v -v -d /usr/share/discord -m ~/.config/discord/<version>/modules

VS Code

Install the Cyberpunk and Sorcerer themes in the UI. I honestly prefer the Sorcerer theme to the former.

Setup

After installing the above, use GNOME Tweaks to set the GTK Theme, Shell, Icons.

In Tilix, set the color scheme from the Preferences UI.