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




rootbar is described as 'Root Bar is a bar for wlroots based wayland compositors such as sway and was designed to address the lack of good bars for wayland' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to rootbar for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, GTK and FreeBSD apps. The best rootbar alternative is Eww, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like rootbar are YASB Reborn, wayle, Quickshell and Ewwii.
Elkowars Wacky Widgets is a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.







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


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.




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.