Top 11 Shell desktop-environment Projects

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1. polybar-themes

   1 74 6,240 4.0 Shell

   A huge collection of polybar themes with different styles, colors and variants.

   

2. AppSignal

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   AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed. Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.

   

3. la-capitaine-icon-theme

   2 8 1,992 0.0 Shell

   La Capitaine is an icon pack designed to integrate with most desktop environments. The set of icons takes inspiration from the latest iterations of macOS and Google's Material Design.

   

4. lxqt

   3 40 1,869 3.9 Shell

   Checkout all LXQt components at once by using git submodule. Discussions, GH Wiki and general issues are here.

   

5. dotfiles

   4 2 575 6.1 Shell

   Sway acid dark (by eoli3n)

   

6. Fedora-KDE-Minimal-Install-Guide

   5 28 191 0.0 Shell

   Guide to install KDE Plasma desktop environment on a minimal Fedora installation

   

7. cosmic-ext-extra-sessions

   6 1 177 1.5 Shell

   Inofficial session variants for cosmic-epoch

   

   Project mention: Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-03

   I wouldn't be surprised if the COSMIC folks add it after the 1.0 release. There's been a lot of feature requests for it. In the mean time, a System76 employee created this unofficial extension to let you use other compositors within COSMIC, including Niri.

   https://github.com/Drakulix/cosmic-ext-extra-sessions

8. VimOS

   7 0 19 - Shell

   :recycle: Desktop environment based on VIM only (by IonicaBizau)

   

9. Kargo

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10. Linux-Desktop-Manager-Backup-Tool

    8 1 2 0.0 Shell

    Complete desktop backup tool for Linux

    

11. scriptsrep

    9 2 1 2.6 Shell

    Contains useful scripts

    

12. mmwrap

    10 1 0 3.6 Shell

    A wrapper script to provide multimedia actions (alternative F-key actions) for minimal GNU/Linux desktop environments

    

    Project mention: mmwrap: provide multimedia-key actions for minimal Linux desktops | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-23

13. shi-env

    11 0 0 7.7 Shell

    A CLI-first, Vi-driven desktop environment for humans and agents. i3/sway + kitty + picom + tmux.

    

Shell desktop-environment related posts

• Start menu icon

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• Is it possible to add this feature?

  1 project | /r/LXQt | 7 May 2023

• Problem with maximized window with two or more displays

  1 project | /r/LXQt | 16 Apr 2023

• Release 1.3.0 · lxqt/lxqt

  1 project | /r/LinuxUserSpace | 15 Apr 2023

• Why do popular distros treat any of their "KDE Editions" or flavours as second class citizens?

  1 project | /r/linux | 17 Feb 2023

• Regarding Window Managers

  2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 31 Dec 2022

• About Window Managers

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