DankMaterialShell: Desktop Shell for Wayland Compositors

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DankMaterialShell is a complete desktop shell for niri, Hyprland, MangoWC, Sway, labwc, and other Wayland compositors. It replaces waybar, swaylock, swayidle, mako, fuzzel, polkit, and everything else you'd normally stitch together to make a desktop.

This is a monorepo containing both the shell interface and the core backend services:

DankMaterialShell/ ├── quickshell/ # QML-based shell interface │ ├── Modules/ # UI components (panels, widgets, overlays) │ ├── Services/ # System integration (audio, network, bluetooth) │ ├── Widgets/ # Reusable UI controls │ └── Common/ # Shared resources and themes ├── core/ # Go backend and CLI │ ├── cmd/ # dms CLI and dankinstall binaries │ ├── internal/ # System integration, IPC, distro support │ └── pkg/ # Shared packages ├── distro/ # Distribution packaging │ ├── fedora/ # Fedora RPM specs │ ├── debian/ # Debian packaging │ └── nix/ # NixOS/home-manager modules └── flake.nix # Nix flake for declarative installation

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curl -fsSL https://install.danklinux.com | sh

One command installs DMS and all dependencies on Arch, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, or Gentoo.

Manual installation guide

Dynamic Theming Wallpaper-based color schemes that automatically theme GTK, Qt, terminals, editors (vscode, vscodium), and more using matugen and dank16.

System Monitoring Real-time CPU, RAM, GPU metrics and temperatures with dgop. Process list with search and management.

Powerful Launcher Spotlight-style search for applications, files (dsearch), emojis, running windows, calculator, and commands. Extensible with plugins.

Control Center Unified interface for network, Bluetooth, audio devices, display settings, and night mode.

Smart Notifications Notification center with grouping, rich text support, and keyboard navigation.

Media Integration MPRIS player controls, calendar sync, weather widgets, and clipboard history with image previews.

Session Management Lock screen, idle detection, auto-lock/suspend with separate AC/battery settings, and greeter support.

Plugin System Extend functionality with the plugin registry.

Works best with niri, Hyprland, Sway, MangoWC, and labwc with full workspace switching, overview integration, and monitor management. Other Wayland compositors work with reduced features.

Compositor configuration guide

Control the shell from the command line or keybinds:

dms run # Start the shell dms ipc call spotlight toggle dms ipc call audio setvolume 50 dms ipc call wallpaper set /path/to/image.jpg dms brightness list # List available displays dms plugins search # Browse plugin registry

Full CLI and IPC documentation

Website: danklinux.com
Docs: danklinux.com/docs
Theming: Application themes | Custom themes
Plugins: Development guide
Support: Ko-fi

See component-specific documentation:

quickshell/ - QML shell development, widgets, and modules
core/ - Go backend, CLI tools, and system integration
distro/ - Distribution packaging (Fedora, Debian, NixOS)

Core + Dankinstall:

cd core make # Build dms CLI make dankinstall # Build installer

Shell:

quickshell -p quickshell/

NixOS:

{ inputs.dms.url = "github:AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell"; # Use in home-manager or NixOS configuration imports = [ inputs.dms.homeModules.dankMaterialShell.default ]; }

Contributions welcome. Bug fixes, widgets, features, documentation, and plugins all help.