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synshell

A Wayland desktop environment in Rust, split like KDE Plasma: a smithay compositor (tiling and floating layouts, IPC), a shell with panels, a macOS-style dock, launcher, notifications and lock screen, System Settings, a file manager and a screenshot tool. UI on syngui, one live-reloaded config.toml,

  • compositor
  • desktop-environment
  • dock
  • linux
  • rust
  • smithay
  • tiling-window-manager
  • wayland
  • syngui
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Overview

A Wayland desktop environment in Rust, split like KDE Plasma: a smithay compositor (tiling and floating layouts, IPC), a shell with panels, a macOS-style dock, launcher, notifications and lock screen, System Settings, a file manager and a screenshot tool. UI on syngui, one live-reloaded config.toml, It ranks #4701 on GitTiger, gaining +1 star on October 16, 2026 (UTC).

The project is written in Rust. It was created 17d ago.

Installation
git clone https://github.com/VitaminDB/synshell.git
cd synshell
# see README for setup