Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
- Rust
- GTK

Eww is described as 'Elkowars Wacky Widgets is a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager' and is a desktop customization tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Eww for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Wayland and BSD apps. The best Eww alternative is Rainmeter, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Eww are ViBox, Conky, Uwidgets and Cairo-Dock.


Fully configurable (w/ command line arguments and css) dock, written in Go, aimed exclusively at sway Wayland compositor. It features pinned buttons, task buttons, the workspace switcher and the launcher button.

Nwg-panel is a GTK3-based panel for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors. The panel is equipped with a graphical configuration program that frees the user from the need to manually edit configuration files.


Xfce componet to switch between opened windows, launch applications, switch workspaces and menu plugins to browse applications or directories.
Lets you keep your eye on system resource usages of your PC. It supports 43 kinds of information including CPU, Memory, Network, and detailed HDD usages, so you may discover what's limiting your system performance in each occasion.

This program is a GTK3-based wrapper to display a script output, or a text file content on the desktop in sway or other wlroots-based compositors. It uses the gtk-layer-shell library to place the window on the bottom layer.

Nerdtool allows you to display many things directly on top of your desktop; weather reports, headline news, and system vitals are just a few uses.



BGINFO for X, also called BGINFO4X, is a clone of the popular program BGINFO for Windows created by Sysinternals.

WPInfo displays system information on the Windows wallpaper. It works similarly to BGInfo from SysInternals but it adds a few unique features:

Create you own designs and display any data you need, at once, and with wonderful animations too! If you were looking for Rainmeter or Conky on Android, this is it!





