nwg-shell
Installer & meta-package for the nwg-shell project: a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors (by nwg-piotr)
Ulauncher
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| nwg-shell | Ulauncher | |
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| 35 | 64 | |
| 735 | 3,386 | |
| - | 1.6% | |
| 8.8 | 9.6 | |
| 8 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| CSS | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nwg-shell
Posts with mentions or reviews of nwg-shell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-03.
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Hyprland desktop environment without tinkering
nwg-shell
- nwg-shell: AUR updates issue resolved
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nwg-shell 0.5.8
Release notes
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nwg-shell 0.5.5
Could you please report directly on this thread? I don't do packaging for Fedora. There are two packagers, and I'm not sure if they did any progress lately.
- nwg-shell 0.5.3 released
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Best window manager for Arch with
Since this is your first foray into this world I’d suggest you look into nwg-shell. It’s a sway (and hyprland) based WM that brings some of the niceties of a desktop over to this WM world for you. It comes complete with a gui for setting all the configs, and 4 desktop options, plus the ability to change it to your hearts content. There’s a dock, an app drawer, wallpaper app, and tons of things to tinker with. It’s written in Go and Python and you can change pretty much anything however you want.
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May I remove the DwlTags module from nwg-panel?
This could be consider in the future. Please open a thread in Discussions before you submit a PR.
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nwg-shell 0.4.0 & nwg-shell-config 0.4.11 - slightly cumbersome update
See: https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-shell/discussions/58
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Is there any way to replicate material-shells's ui/ux in sway?
I would suggest the nwg-shell project
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nwg-panel 0.7.15
In case I might be of help in some way during packaging, just let me know, preferably through Discussions.
Ulauncher
Posts with mentions or reviews of Ulauncher.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-06.
- Using Ubuntu with Ulauncher
- How do I make alt+space behave like it would on a Mac?
- ULauncher - Larger window area?
- desktop files linked to applications can't be run from Nautilus in GNOME 44 (Fedora 38)
- Hotkeys with Super key don't work as expected in Elementary Juno · Issue #405 · Ulauncher/Ulauncher
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How do you guys make good use of the app grid? I feel like I use it way less than I originally thought.
NOTE: If you're using a Wayland session, the Ctrl + Space shortcut (which brings up the launcher) will be unreliable due to other windows eating the keyboard events instead (see the official Ulauncher wiki). The workaround solution is very simple and also works on X11, so we'll replace Ulauncher's default binding with the workaround technique everywhere, so that it works universally on both X11 and Wayland.
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Just Perfection GNOME Shell Extension Version 23 (Codename Goya)
Ulauncher. You can also watch this video to see what it can do.
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My new LM Desktop
Install ULauncher https://ulauncher.io
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Linux implementation
A good alternative though is Ulauncher
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Gnome usage question
https://ulauncher.io or https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/307/dash-to-dock/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nwg-shell and Ulauncher you can also consider the following projects:
nwg-wrapper - Wrapper to display a script output or a text file content on the desktop in sway or other wlroots-based compositors
albert - A fast and flexible keyboard launcher
nwg-dock - GTK3-based dock for sway
rofi - A huge collection of Rofi based custom Applets, Launchers & Powermenus.
nwg-panel - GTK3-based panel for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
blur-my-shell - Extension that adds a blur look to different parts of the GNOME Shell, including the top panel, dash and overview
nwg-drawer - Application drawer for wlroots-based Wayland compositors
i3 - A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features. :warning: i3-gaps has been merged into i3.
Sway-DE - 🏠 Sway desktop environment dotfile installation for Arch Linux
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)