nwg-shell
Installer & meta-package for the nwg-shell project: a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors (by nwg-piotr)
sway-launcher-desktop
TUI Application launcher with Desktop Entry support. Made for SwayWM, but runs anywhere (by Biont)
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| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
sway-launcher-desktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of sway-launcher-desktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
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Sway-Talisman: Terminal Application Launcher in Scratchpad, Minimalist And Native
Is it better than https://github.com/Biont/sway-launcher-desktop ?
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command line menu / launcher?
I use sway-launcher-desktop. It does not really have submenus as you requested, but is still a nice terminal application launcher.
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Albert – open-source keyboard launcher for Linux
I don’t know if anything can beat sway-launcher-desktop (1) for me - bash and fzf are a lightning-fast combo.
1: https://github.com/Biont/sway-launcher-desktop
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Application launcher that displays application names correctly
Here's a list of other launchers for Sway, I personally use sway-launcher-desktop.
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Your favorite launcher ?
Now I use perfect TUI based sway-launcher-desktop
- Is there a place to read about recommended SwayWM builds?
- Goodbye Wofi, Hello FZF
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Duplicate .desktop entries for Visual Studio Code, which ones are the right ones?
Hi! I just started using sway-launcher-desktop, and I noticed that I have several duplicate entries for vscode.
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terminal + fzf as a program launcher?
Sounds like this script https://github.com/Biont/sway-launcher-desktop (it doesn't depend on sway anymore). I've been using it for ages and really like it.
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Overview Of The Unofficial Manjaro Sway Edition
It's sway-launcher-desktop.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nwg-shell and sway-launcher-desktop 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
yofi - yofi is a minimalistic menu for wayland
nwg-dock - GTK3-based dock for sway
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
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
betterlockscreen - 🍀 sweet looking lockscreen for linux system
nwg-drawer - Application drawer for wlroots-based Wayland compositors
xdg-xmenu - Minimal app menu with xmenu
Sway-DE - 🏠 Sway desktop environment dotfile installation for Arch Linux
nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
nwg-shell vs nwg-wrapper
sway-launcher-desktop vs yofi
nwg-shell vs nwg-dock
sway-launcher-desktop vs awesome-wayland
nwg-shell vs nwg-panel
sway-launcher-desktop vs rofi
nwg-shell vs wayfire
sway-launcher-desktop vs betterlockscreen
nwg-shell vs nwg-drawer
sway-launcher-desktop vs xdg-xmenu
nwg-shell vs Sway-DE
sway-launcher-desktop vs nnn