Eww Alternatives

Eww is described as 'Elkowars Wacky Widgets is a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager' and is a desktop customization tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Eww for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Wayland, Mac and BSD apps. The best Eww alternative is Rainmeter, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Eww are Docking, Wigify, Conky and ViBox.

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  1. XWidget icon
     38 likes

    XWidget is a free desktop customization platform. It’s light, handy with powerful visual widget editor and very subtle animations. The Android page is found here: http://android.xwidget.com/

    38 XWidget alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Steam
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  2. Quickshell icon
     8 likes

    Quickshell is a toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and other desktop components using QtQuick. It can be used alongside your wayland compositor or window manager to build a complete desktop environment.

    25 Quickshell alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  3. Plank icon
     34 likes

    Plank is meant to be the simplest dock on the planet. The goal is to provide just what a dock needs and absolutely nothing more. It is, however, a library which can be extended to create other dock programs with more advanced features.

    22 Plank alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. OpenAnima icon
     1 like

    OpenAnima is an open-source Windows desktop overlay engine for animated and static assets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. WindowsWidgets is a Windows application that enables you to create, load, and manage customizable, standalone widgets for your desktop. The project is released under the AGPL license. This repository provides an overview of Widget Manager and the supporting plugins (widgets)...

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Latte Dock icon
     12 likes

    Latte is a dock based on plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids. It animates its contents by using parabolic zoom effect and trys to be there only when it is needed.

    27 Latte Dock alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
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  7. vtop icon
     15 likes

    vtop is a graphical command-line tool that uses unicode braille to chart CPU and memory usage. It can be easily extended.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
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  8. BgInfo icon
     23 likes

    How many times have you walked up to a system in your office and needed to click through several diagnostic windows to remind yourself of important aspects of its configuration, such as its name, IP address, or operating system version If you manage multiple computers you...

    26 BgInfo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. Desktop Info icon
     16 likes

    This little application displays system information on your desktop in a similar way to some other desktop information tools. Unlike others, this application looks like wallpaper but stays resident in memory and continues to update the display in real time.

    27 Desktop Info alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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