Eww Alternatives

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.

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    i3status-rs is a feature-rich and resource-friendly replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust. It provides a way to display "blocks" of system information (time, battery status, volume, etc) on bars that support the i3bar protocol.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • i3
    • Linux
     
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    Crystal Dock is a cool dock (desktop panel) for Linux desktop, with the focus on attractive user interface, being simple and easy to customize, and cross-desktop support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Create a personalized desktop by integrating live wallpapers, including Aerial screensavers, and drag-and-drop widgets with full JavaScript support for enhanced customization, offering both aesthetic and functional upgrades to your macOS environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    SFWBar (S* Floating Window Bar) is a flexible taskbar application for wayland compositors, designed with a stacking layout in mind. Originally developed for Sway, SFWBar will work with any wayland compositor supporting layer shell protocol, the taskbar and window switcher...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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    Xmobar is a minimalistic status bar. It was originally designed and implemented to work with xmonad, but it is actually usable with any window manager in X11 and also (via its text output mode) Wayland.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Haskell
    • FreeBSD
    • openSUSE
    • Gentoo
    • X11
    • Wayland
     
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    Superlayer is the easiest way to create delightful widgets for your Mac in no time. Choose from a variety of gorgeous pre-designed widgets — all highly customizable — and place them anywhere you want, directly onto your screen.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    lemonbar (formerly known as bar) is a lightweight statusbar based on XCB. Provides full UTF-8 support, basic formatting, RandR and Xinerama support and EWMH compliance without wasting your precious memory.

    19 lemonbar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • openSUSE
     
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    wf-shell is a repository which contains the various components needed to built a fully functional DE based around wayfire. Currently it has only a GTK-based panel and background client.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
     
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    With Widgy, your home and lock screens becomes YOUR screens. You can make any kind of widget imaginable that perfectly matches the rest of your aesthetics. All the information you need can be easily surfaced through a widget that you designed.

    16 Widgy Widgets alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
     
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