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Quickshell

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.

A lockscreen.

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  • Linux
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  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Customizable

Features

  1.  No registration required
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  Dark Mode
  4.  Works Offline
  5.  Widgets
  6.  X server

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Solandre Shelta
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Useful alongside Openbox Window manager, or Awesome Window manager. Can be used to make an entire desktop enviroment if you register the session with your display manager.

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What is Quickshell?

Quickshell is a toolkit for building a desktop shell, which is to say components of your desktop like bars, widgets, lock screens, display managers, and the like.

Quickshell is based on QtQuick and configured with QML, the QtQuick interface description language. It provides integrations for common shell functionality, as well as support for hot reloading and tools to work with processes, sockets, files, and more.

Built-in integrations are currently provided for:

Wayland and X11 for windowing Wayland for window management and screen recording Workspace management in Hyprland, I3, and Sway Pipewire for audio controls Pam for authentication and building lockscreens Greetd for building a display manager UPower for monitoring battery statistics Power Profiles Daemon MPRIS compatible media players StatusNotifierItem compatible system tray clients

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