Quickshell Alternatives

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, FreeBSD and X11 apps. The best Quickshell alternative is Eww, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Quickshell are zebar, ironbar, Yambar and nwg-panel.

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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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    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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    The motivation for creation of oatbar was to extend on the idea of Unix-way for toolbars. Inspired by i3bar which consumes a JSON stream that controls it's appearance, we take this idea much further without becoming a DIY widget toolkit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Feature-Complete Bar for DWL.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
     
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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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    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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    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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