682: Oops! All Shells!
30 August 2026
Quickshell is rising, and bringing with it a new wave of customizable Linux desktops, community-built plugins, and serious funding.
Episode Links
- Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- Jupiter Garage SWAG
- Quickshell — 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.
- Caelestia — A fluid, morphing shell for your Linux desktop.
- end-4’s configuration
- Waybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.
- Omacom Foundation to be premier Quickshell sponsor
- Omarchy — — Beautiful, Fun & Opinionated Linux by DHH
- omacom/omarchy - Github
- The first plugin competition winners — Omarchy News
- Omacom Foundation to be exclusive Hyprland sponsor — Omarchy News
- Hyprland — An independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn’t sacrifice on its looks.
- hyprwm/Hyprland - GitHub
- omarchy-radio-atlas — Explore live radio on a rotatable globe from the Omarchy bar.
- Home Assistant for Omarchy — Home Assistant Quickshell plugin for Omarchy 4
- syncshell — See sync health, open folders, control the service, and install or update Syncthing from the Omarchy bar.
- syncshell-dms: — Read-only Syncthing monitoring plugin for DankMaterialShell
- Dank Linux — A Modern Desktop for Wayland.
- Dank Linux Docs
- TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
- Dawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History).
- Immich — High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
- How to get a TomTom API key - TomTom Docs
- FileBrowser Quantum - GitHub
- FileBrowser Quantum — The best free self-hosted web-based file manager with source configuration, modern authentication, office support, and lightning-fast search.
- Open Book Touch — A pocketable, front-lit, open source e-reader — for every book, in every language.
- Pick: dankcalendar — Calendar from the Dank Linux Suite. Local, Google, Microsoft, CalDAV, and iCloud calendars in one standalone app.
- DankCalendar on Flathub
- Pick: Homelable — Visual Homelab Mapper & Monitor
- Homelable — Self-hosted homelab infrastructure visualizer, interactive network diagram with live status monitoring.
- homelable-hacs — Home Assistant integration for Homelable