A shell for wayland compositors

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• Updated Nov 11, 2026
• QML

Maui Shell is a convergent shell for desktops, tablets, and phones.

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• Updated Apr 9, 2026
• C++

Wayland Elements - A compositor agnostic shell with extensive customization

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• Updated Nov 2, 2026
• Rust

A flexible, extensible desktop shell built with QML, C++, and JavaScript

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• Updated Jul 11, 2026
• QML

A customizable cyberpunk desktop shell for Hyprland featuring an immersive HUD, dynamic widgets, and a modular set of desktop utilities and modals.

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• Updated Nov 10, 2026
• TypeScript

A framework for building Wayland desktop shell purely in Rust

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• Updated Nov 11, 2026
• Rust

A super "coolorful" shell for Hyprland!

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• Updated Nov 12, 2026
• TypeScript

Panacea — a one-pill desktop shell for Hyprland, built with Quickshell (QML). Full dotfiles + installer.

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• Updated Nov 8, 2026
• QML

A desktop shell language and runtime where animation does not depend on logic. Rust, wgpu, layer-shell, SDF — an alternative to Quickshell.

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• Updated Nov 12, 2026
• Rust

Pixel-art desktop for niri: a Rust Wayland shell in ~15 MB, its own file manager, image viewer and video player, one accent for every app, signed updates, any linux distro from source.

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• Updated Nov 11, 2026
• Rust

A liquid-glass desktop shell for Hyprland, niri, or pleamar-wm: a bar, and panels that flow out of it. Built on pleamar.

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• Updated Nov 12, 2026
• Luau

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.

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• Updated Sep 10, 2026
• QML

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.

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• Updated Nov 11, 2026
• Swift

Desktop shell powered by Quickshell

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• Updated Nov 9, 2026
• QML

learn quickshell by building real projects

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• Updated Sep 14, 2026
• TypeScript

A Wayland desktop shell for niri, built as independent living surfaces rather than a bar. Quickshell/QML.

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• Updated Nov 12, 2026
• 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.

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• Updated Nov 12, 2026
• C++

A native Rust Wayland desktop shell: bar, dock, launcher, widgets, lock and login screens, and a live settings studio. Ten compositor drivers, NixOS support and 20 interface languages.

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• Updated Nov 12, 2026
• Rust

A native C++ TBATE-inspired Hyprland desktop shell.

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• Updated Nov 11, 2026
• C++

A complete desktop environment built from scratch with JS, HTML5, and CSS3. Bundles to single html file. Pls star 🥺

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• Updated Nov 11, 2026
• JavaScript