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 described as '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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Quickshell for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, GTK and FreeBSD apps. The best Quickshell alternative is Eww, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Quickshell are Ewwii, Riftbar, fabric (Desktop Widgets System) and AGS.
Elkowars Wacky Widgets is a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.




Ewwii is a flexible, resource-efficient, and scriptable widget system that integrates seamlessly with any programming language, letting developers build powerful interfaces quickly.






The next-generation framework for building desktop widgets using Python.








A widget framework for building desktop shells, written and configurable in Python

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

its way easier to do and its lighter than quickshell in resource usage