A shell for wayland compositors
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A shell for wayland compositors
// A Shell // now with less bloat and more stuff!
Maui Shell is a convergent shell for desktops, tablets, and phones.
Wayland Elements - A compositor agnostic shell with extensive customization
A flexible, extensible desktop shell built with QML, C++, and JavaScript
A customizable cyberpunk desktop shell for Hyprland featuring an immersive HUD, dynamic widgets, and a modular set of desktop utilities and modals.
A framework for building Wayland desktop shell purely in Rust
A super "coolorful" shell for Hyprland!
Panacea — a one-pill desktop shell for Hyprland, built with Quickshell (QML). Full dotfiles + installer.
A desktop shell language and runtime where animation does not depend on logic. Rust, wgpu, layer-shell, SDF — an alternative to Quickshell.
Pixel-art desktop for niri, written in Rust: a ~15 MB shell (bar, launcher, dock, lock screen, notifications, widgets) and its own file manager, viewer, player, screenshots and login screen as standalone modules. One palette for every app, signed updates, ready binaries and packages for every major distro.
A liquid-glass desktop shell for Hyprland, niri, or pleamar-wm: a bar, and panels that flow out of it. Built on pleamar.
An extensible Dynamic Island-style bar for Hyprland, built with Quickshell: media, control center, notifications, launcher, screen capture, a video editor and a documented plugin API.
Caelestia-inspired desktop shell for macOS 26 Tahoe: sidebar with its own dock, launcher, dashboard, quick actions and a settings app. Native Swift, English and German.
Desktop shell powered by Quickshell
learn quickshell by building real projects
A Wayland desktop shell for niri, built as independent living surfaces rather than a bar. Quickshell/QML.
Quickshell-compatible desktop shell runtime for Windows. Build bars, panels, launchers and docks in QML on Qt 6, with native services for tray, taskbar, workspaces, media, network, audio and notifications.
A native Rust Wayland desktop shell with 19 bar presets, 19 Looks, 86 built-in plugins, a live design studio and optional offline AI control. Ten compositor drivers, Linux and FreeBSD, NixOS support and 20 interface languages.
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