# quickshell-mirror/quickshell

Flexible toolkit for making desktop shells with QtQuick, for Wayland and X11

Repository: https://github.com/quickshell-mirror/quickshell
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/quickshell
Homepage: https://quickshell.org
Language: C++
License: LGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: audio-mixer, bar, desktop-widgets, linux, mixer, pipewire, qml, qt, qtquick, status-bar, statusbar, statusnotifieritem, system-tray, wayland, wayland-bar, wayland-compatibility, widget, widgets, x11, xorg
Last push: 2026-08-26T06:38:01+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 83/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 74, longevity 65
- inputs: {"age_days": 912, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 13, "gap_med": 92.0, "n_releases_24m": 5}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2873, forks 184 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:26.706211+00:00)

## What it is
Quickshell is a toolkit for building desktop shell components such as status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and display managers using QtQuick and QML. It provides integrations for Wayland and X11 windowing, Hyprland/i3/Sway workspaces, Pipewire audio, Bluetooth, system tray, and more, with hot reloading of configuration changes.

## Use cases
- build a custom wayland status bar
- create desktop widgets for linux
- make a lockscreen with pam authentication
- build a display manager with greetd
- customize my hyprland desktop shell
- replace waybar with a programmable bar
- build a system tray and audio mixer widget

## When to choose
- you want to program your own desktop shell components rather than tweak a prebuilt bar
- you need deep integrations like Pipewire, BlueZ, MPRIS, or StatusNotifierItem in a custom shell
- you want hot reloading while iterating on QML configurations
- you use Hyprland, i3, or Sway and want workspace-aware widgets

## When to avoid
- you just want a simple preconfigured status bar like Waybar without programming
- you need a fully preconfigured desktop environment out of the box
- you are not willing to learn QML, since configuring Quickshell is essentially programming
- you need a stable 1.0 API, as breaking changes are still expected before 1.0

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: ui-components, gui, developer-tools, audio-processing, auth
- domain: desktop-applications, operating-systems, developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: cpp
- tags: qtquick, qml, wayland, x11, status-bar, desktop-shell, widgets, lockscreen, pipewire, system-tray, hot-reload, hyprland, sway, i3, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- quickshell-mirror/quickshell (main) score 83

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:26.706211+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:35:49.675564+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/quickshell-mirror/quickshell (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:26.706211+00:00, sha 9d1c49c2ac57)
  - homepage: https://quickshell.org (fetched 2026-08-29T09:51:32.105870+00:00, sha 0f48769cdaf5)
  - site_page: https://quickshell.org/about (fetched 2026-08-29T09:51:32.117809+00:00, sha 618f9b13a50c)
  - site_page: https://quickshell.org/docs/v0.3.0/guide/install-setup (fetched 2026-08-29T09:51:32.119575+00:00, sha cb6ed5588a63)
  - site_page: https://quickshell.org/docs/v0.3.0/types (fetched 2026-08-29T09:51:32.121387+00:00, sha 22a912e7e7d5)
  - site_page: https://quickshell.org/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T09:51:32.115190+00:00, sha 78678253b223)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.