Ewwii Alternatives

Ewwii is described as 'Flexible, resource-efficient, and scriptable widget system that integrates seamlessly with any programming language, letting developers build powerful interfaces quickly' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Ewwii for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, FreeBSD and openSUSE apps. The best Ewwii alternative is Noctalia, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ewwii are Eww, Quickshell, xfce-panel and Waybar.

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  1. Noctalia icon
     12 likes

    Noctalia is a beautiful, minimal desktop shell for Wayland built with Quickshell. It’s designed with a “quiet by design” philosophy, providing a complete desktop experience that stays out of your way.

    38 Noctalia alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
    • Noctalia is the most popular Linux alternative to Ewwii.

    • Noctalia is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Ewwii.

    • Noctalia is Free and Open SourceEwwii is also Free and Open Source
    • Noctalia is Minimalistic, Customizable and Privacy focusedEwwii is not according to our users
  2. Eww icon
     14 likes

    Elkowars Wacky Widgets is a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.

    61 Eww alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. Quickshell icon
     6 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.

    22 Quickshell alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. xfce-panel icon
     4 likes

    Xfce componet to switch between opened windows, launch applications, switch workspaces and menu plugins to browse applications or directories.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5.  2 likes

    Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.

    23 Waybar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Sway
    • Wayland
     
  6. zebar icon
     1 like

    Zebar is a tool for creating customizable and cross-platform taskbars, desktop widgets, and popups.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
    • zebar is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to Ewwii.

    • zebar is Free and Open SourceEwwii is also Free and Open Source
  7. AGS icon
     1 like

    A framework for crafting Wayland Desktop Shells.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GTK
    • Typescript
    • Wayland
     
  8.  1 like

    Modular status panel for X11 and Wayland, inspired by polybar.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
     
  9.  Like

    Xmobar is a minimalistic status bar. It was originally designed and implemented to work with xmonad, but it is actually usable with any window manager in X11 and also (via its text output mode) Wayland.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Haskell
    • FreeBSD
    • openSUSE
    • Gentoo
    • X11
    • Wayland
     
  10. slstatus icon
     1 like

    slstatus is a status monitor for window managers that use WM_NAME or stdin to fill the status bar.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11.  2 likes

    Customisable Wayland gtk bar written in Rust.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    • Rust
    • GTK
     
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