Description
nwg-shell is a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland
compositors. The project provides a common configuration
tool (nwg-shell-config) that allows you to configure the system in a
graphical UI, and a range of components such as nwg-panel (system panel),
nwg-drawer (application launcher), nwg-dock (system dock) or nwg-menu
(XDG-style menu). It also includes several native tools as nwg-look
(look and feel GTK settings editor), nwg-displays (display configuration
tool), Azote (wallpaper manager), nwg-clipman (clipboard history
manager), nwg-icon-picker (icon browser with textual search),
nwg-readme-browser (documentation viewer) and nwg-hello (login manager).
Scripts and utilities such as autotiling (script for sway to
automatically switch the horizontal / vertical window split orientation)
and gospuinfo (a command to display system usage info) are used in the
background. The shell also utilizes third party software as swaync
(notification center), gtklock / swaylock (screen lockers) and more.
The nwg-shell package itself acts as a metapackage and installer of
default configuration files.
User may want to install the following additional optional components:
* hyprland - supported alternative Wayland compositor;
* nwg-dock-hyprland - nwg-dock for Hyprland;
* firefox - suggested web browser;
* typobuster - suggested text editor;
* thunar - suggested file manager.