Ewwii Alternatives

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, GTK, FreeBSD and BSD apps. The best Ewwii alternative is Wigify, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ewwii are Eww, wayle, Quickshell and Waybar.

More about Ewwii
Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Ewwii alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  2. Eww icon

    Eww

     17 likes

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

    67 Eww alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Eww screenshot 1
     
  4. wayle icon

    wayle

     6 likes

    A Wayland desktop shell with the bar, notifications, OSD, wallpaper, and device controls built in. Written in Rust with GTK4 and Relm4.

    20 wayle alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Rust
    • Fedora
    • GTK
    • Wayland
    wayle screenshot 1
     
  5. Quickshell icon

    Quickshell

     8 likes

    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.

    25 Quickshell alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    A lockscreen.
     
  7. W

    Waybar

     4 likes

    Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.

    25 Waybar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Sway
    • Wayland
    Waybar screenshot 1
     
  8. AGS icon

    AGS

     3 likes

    A framework for crafting Wayland Desktop Shells.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GTK
    • Typescript
    • Wayland
    https://github.com/ezerinz/epik-shell
     
  9. xfce-panel icon

    xfce-panel

     4 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10. Polybar icon

    Polybar

     2 likes

    Status bar for Unix-like systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • X11
    Polybar screenshot 1
     
  11. zebar icon

    zebar

     1 like

    Zebar is a tool for creating customizable and cross-platform taskbars, desktop widgets, and popups.

    26 zebar alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    zebar screenshot 1
     
  12. DMS icon

    DMS

     3 likes

    Desktop shell for wayland compositors built with Quickshell & GO, optimized for niri, hyprland, sway, MangoWC, and labwc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    DMS screenshot 1
     
  13. X

    xmobar

     Like

    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
    xmobar screenshot 1
     
  14. Y

    Yambar

     1 like

    Modular status panel for X11 and Wayland, inspired by polybar.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
    Yambar screenshot 1
     
12 of 24 Ewwii alternatives