Noctalia is a beautiful, minimal desktop shell for Wayland built with Quickshell. It’s designed with a “quiet by design” philosophy, providing a complete desktop experience that stays out of your way.




Ewwii is described as 'Flexible, resource-efficient, and scriptable widget system that integrates seamlessly with any programming language, letting developers build powerful interfaces quickly' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Ewwii for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, FreeBSD and openSUSE apps. The best Ewwii alternative is Noctalia, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ewwii are Eww, Quickshell, xfce-panel and Waybar.
Noctalia is a beautiful, minimal desktop shell for Wayland built with Quickshell. It’s designed with a “quiet by design” philosophy, providing a complete desktop experience that stays out of your way.




Elkowars Wacky Widgets is a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.




Quickshell is a toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and other desktop components using QtQuick. It can be used alongside your wayland compositor or window manager to build a complete desktop environment.




Xfce componet to switch between opened windows, launch applications, switch workspaces and menu plugins to browse applications or directories.




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.


slstatus is a status monitor for window managers that use WM_NAME or stdin to fill the status bar.