Commashell

A GUI Shell of all time

Commashell is a GTK + Libadwaita based shell for Linux powered by Astal. It is also a practical test bed for Astal-rs

NOTE: current designed with commafiles in mind only. I will add support for usage with other rices soon. Many things will look wrong if you try to use it with other rices right now.

Features

• Top status bar (astal toggle top)
  • Weather
  • Network status
  • Time
  • Wallpaper switcher
• Right music bar (astal toggle right)
  • Music controls (Uses MPRIS)
  • Lyrics (requires sptlrx in mpris mode)
  • Music visualizer (uses CAVA)
• Notifications
  • Uses regular wayland protocols for notifications
• Launcher
  • Fuzzy app launcher
  • Calculator (requires libqalculate. = prefix)
  • Journal entry (requires Obsidian + Thino Pro plugin. I will add support for other journaling apps soon™. ; prefix)
  • Task taking (will use ticktick. I will add support for other task managers soon™)

Installation

NOTE: due to this being beta, it is not easily distributed or packaged. You will have to build it yourself.

Dependencies

Note: The nix shell includes all the dependencies needed to build the project

Build-time

• Rust
• Meson
• Ninja
• GTK 4
• Libadwaita
• Astal
• Blueprint Compiler
• Cava

Runtime

• Astal
• Cava
• GTK 4
• sptlrx
• libqalculate

Building

meson setup build
ninja -C build

Running

./build/src/commashell

And it should just work™. Right click on the top bar's weather and wallpaper buttons to configure them.

Talk is cheap, show me the screenshots

oki