These are my experiences on a rooted Acer E39 (a.k.a liquid E700) with Android 4.4.2 (kitkat). I hope they apply to other models & Android versions, too. Most of the work (except where indicated otherwise) was done on an Arch Linux desktop computer. First of all you should have an idea what sort of animation you want.

A collection of tricks that also have an effect on the non-graphical environment, a.k.a. the console. I do not use a display manager or splash screen. When my computer boots, I see all messages, then a login prompt. By default the screen would clear before the login prompt shows up, but I have disabled that.

It's like Xmountains, but with configurable colors. See the Xmountaincolors project page on notabug or framagit. Screenshot Gallery Here's an example of what the original xmountains looks like (It is still possible to use xmountaincolors in this way by simply not providing a theme name).

This is based on a really old GTK2 theme, Tempura. I applied the colors and flat shapes to one of the excellent Bunsen themes. This was a manageable task for GTK2, but GTK3... that took me a while. The amount of config text must be about ten times of the GTK2 config text.

What if your Mozilla-browser's favourite theme lacks nice folder icons? You don't have to rewrite the theme, it's enough to create or edit your profile-folder/chrome/userChrome.css e.g. like this: Remember that the folder path still starts with a slash '/', so you end up having three slashes: