nwg-shell
Installer & meta-package for the nwg-shell project: a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors (by nwg-piotr)
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ElKowars wacky widgets (by elkowar)
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| nwg-shell | eww | |
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| 35 | 115 | |
| 735 | 8,434 | |
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| 8.8 | 8.4 | |
| 9 days ago | 1 day ago | |
| CSS | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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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.
eww
Posts with mentions or reviews of eww.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-23.
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Widgets: which are the alternatives?
I'm trying to get the most out of my OS (Arch with X11 and Awesomewm), but I'm stuck with the widgets. I would like to create/use some utilities like an interactive calendar, small TODO list, dropdown menu, etc. but using the awesomewm widgets is too difficult and limiting. I found eww but it seems as difficult as the former widgets.
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eww fails to compile
Reported and closed upstream: https://github.com/elkowar/eww/issues/712
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How do I autostart Eww bar inside the hyprland.conf file?
The reason, why eww would not start, is because i compiled it myself with rustup according to the official documentation (https://elkowar.github.io/eww/) and not by the AUR. After installing it with the AUR it workes in Hyprland. So in conclustion: If you wanna use Eww on Hyprland, use the AUR method and not the method on the Docs!
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Sway/workspace by Eww
Are you as mystified as me? I'll save you the google search: eww is Elkowars Wacky Widgets a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.
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Eww is hard :(
Well actually there is https://elkowar.github.io/eww. I used it to make my config and also looked at other configs.
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changing profiles
I'm guessing one could use [eww](https://elkowar.github.io/eww/) to create buttons/widgets. And the buttons could dispatch commands to any of the wallpaper/theme changing applications to actually execute the change.
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Get workspaces information (to integrate with Eww)?
I'd like to get informations from xmonad on all the currently active workspaces and which one is the current workspace. Possibly I'd like to format that information into a JSON object for better integration with Eww, which I'm using as a status bar.
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How to get the groups in use via the Command-API
Hi all, I'm trying to configure a bar with eww (https://github.com/elkowar/eww) and I' stuck getting the workspace widget to work.
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calendar
No, as far as I know. I personally use eww and toggle a calendar when clicking on a time widget. I'm using the config in this repo
- Does anyone know how to build this with EWW?This is an awesome wm rice, actually,but I can't figure out how to make it.Also,I want to build it with EWW in hyprland. Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dkpcEeKk0E&t=3
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nwg-shell and eww 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
Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:
nwg-dock - GTK3-based dock for sway
conky - Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland (sort of), and other things, too
nwg-panel - GTK3-based panel for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
rofi - A huge collection of Rofi based custom Applets, Launchers & Powermenus.
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
dwm-flexipatch - A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time
nwg-drawer - Application drawer for wlroots-based Wayland compositors
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
Sway-DE - 🏠 Sway desktop environment dotfile installation for Arch Linux
bumblebee-status - bumblebee-status is a modular, theme-able status line generator for the i3 window manager.