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


wf-shell is described as '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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to wf-shell for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Rust and X11 apps. The best wf-shell alternative is wayle, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like wf-shell are Eww, YASB Reborn, Quickshell and Ewwii.
A Wayland desktop shell with the bar, notifications, OSD, wallpaper, and device controls built in. Written in Rust with GTK4 and Relm4.


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