Fabric-Development/fabric

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Fabric is a Python framework for building customizable desktop widgets (bars, panels, shells) on Linux using GTK3 via PyGObject. It provides a high-level, signal-based workflow supporting both X11 and Wayland, inspired by tools like eww, ags, and Waybar.

Use cases

• build a custom status bar for Hyprland
• create desktop widgets with Python instead of shell scripts
• make a side panel or shell for my Linux rice
• replace eww or ags with a Python-based widget system
• build a Wayland-compatible system bar
• customize my Linux desktop with low-resource widgets

When to choose

• you know Python and want to build desktop widgets or bars on Linux
• you need X11 and Wayland support, including native Hyprland integration
• you want typed, auto-completed development with signal-based event handling
• you want to avoid resource-heavy shell scripting and polling

When to avoid

• you need a cross-platform GUI framework for Windows or macOS apps
• you want GTK4 or a non-GTK widget toolkit
• you need a ready-made desktop environment rather than a build-it-yourself widget framework
• your project requires a permissive license since Fabric is AGPL-3.0

Facets

framework · maturity active

ui-components gui desktop-framework desktop-applications developer-tools cross-platform python desktop-widgets gtk3 ricing status-bar hyprland pygobject waybar-alternative eww-alternative linux x11 wayland

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