Ewwii Alternatives

Apps similar to Ewwii include Wigify, which is free and open source. Other options are Eww, wayle, Quickshell and Waybar. You can choose from more than 10 Desktop Customization Tools like Ewwii for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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  1. Wigify icon
     11 likes

    A desktop app that lets you create and display custom HTML/CSS/JS widgets right on your desktop.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. Eww icon
     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.

    69 Eww alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  3. wayle icon
     6 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Rust
    • Fedora
    • GTK
    • Wayland
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  4. Quickshell icon
     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
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  5.  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
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  6.  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
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  7. AGS icon
     3 likes

    A framework for crafting Wayland Desktop Shells.

    59 AGS alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GTK
    • Typescript
    • Wayland
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  8. zebar icon
     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  9. DMS icon
     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
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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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  11.  1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
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