A Wayland desktop shell built with GPUI (Zed's UI framework) in Rust. Provides a system bar, command launcher, and control center for Hyprland and Niri compositors.

GPUi Shell aims to be a lightweight, modular desktop shell replacing components like waybar, swaync, rofi/walker, and wlogout. It integrates deeply with Linux desktop ecosystems via D-Bus while providing a modern, GPU-accelerated UI.

• Wayland layer-shell status bar (top/bottom/left/right)
• Workspaces — workspace switcher with click to switch
• Active Window — shows focused window title
• System Tray — D-Bus system tray integration (libtray)
• Clock — configurable datetime display
• Keyboard Layout — current keyboard layout indicator
• Battery — battery percentage and charging status
• SysInfo — CPU/memory overview widget

• Command launcher with prefix-based view routing
• Apps — application search and launcher (freedesktop desktop files)
• Shell — run shell commands
• Workspaces — workspace management
• Theme — switch between light/dark and accent colors
• Wallpaper — set desktop wallpaper
• Web — quick web search
• Help — keyboard shortcuts reference

• Audio — volume control with PulseAudio (libpulse-binding)
• Brightness — screen brightness control
• Network — WiFi/Bluetooth toggle via NetworkManager (libnm)
• Bluetooth — device pairing and connection (bluez)
• Power — battery status and session power actions (UPower)
• Notifications — notification center with Do Not Disturb
• Media — MPRIS media player controls

• Volume and brightness indicators on key press

• Compositor abstraction — auto-detects Hyprland or Niri
• Single-instance — running again opens launcher (via socket)
• Privacy mode — temporarily disable screenshare/camera indicators
• Applications — desktop file parsing and icon loading

Try GPUi Shell without installing:

nix run github:andre-brandao/gpui-shell

Full documentation is available at https://andre-brandao.github.io/gpui-shell/

• Installation
• Configuration

• zed: rendering and ui design (gpui).
• gpui-component: ui code copied from here.
• mgs: For the initial idea and inspiration.
• ashell: For the initial idea and inspiration.

• iced-shell: A shell written in Rust using the iced framework. (i did not like iced that much)
• svelte-shell: A shell written using Tauri + Svelte. (Too slow)

And some others that are not on github using ags or quickshell