Published release of the user environment Dux Shell 2.0, which supports working on top of composite servers niri, Hyprland, Sway, MangoWC, labwc, Scroll, Aqueous and Miracle W.M. This is the first release since the DankMaterialShell (DMS) project was renamed Dux Shell. The new name is simpler, similar to the Tux penguin and does not include the name of another brand as part of the name. Dux Shell develops a set of interconnected components to form a desktop, such as a taskbar, a virtual desktop switcher, an interface for navigating through installed applications, and a configurator. The design complies with the concept of Material Design 3.
Dux Shell supports dynamic themes that are automatically applied to GTK, Qt and system applications. Color schemes for themes are formed taking into account the color of the selected desktop wallpaper. It is possible to enable night mode, as well as switch between light and dark design themes. The functionality can be extended via plugins. The background process code for integration with the system, tools and installer are written in Go and distributed under the MIT license. Interface components, panels, widgets and graphical applications prepared in QML using the Quickshell framework, written in C++ using Qt.
Includes:
- Panel with widgets for calendar, weather forecast, viewing clipboard history and integration with multimedia players using the MPRIS protocol.
- Interface for navigating through applications installed on the system with support for searching for programs, files, open windows and commands.
- Control center with an interface for setting up the network, Bluetooth, sound devices and screen.
- Metrics built into the controlling background process for collecting metrics about the temperature and consumption of CPU, RAM and GPU resources. Availability of an interface for managing running processes.
- Notification center, which supports grouping notifications, using text markup and keyboard navigation.
- System lock screen with session management capabilities. It is possible to activate sleep mode or lock the screen for a certain period of user inactivity.
- Login screen Dux Greeter.
- A universal installer that allows you to deploy and configure an environment based on Dux Shell in Arch, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Gentoo and Void Linux.
- Toolkit Dux Search for searching files in the system.
- Calendar scheduler Dux Calendar, supporting the CalDAV protocol and synchronized with Google and Microsoft services.
- File manager Dux Files
- DuxConnect application for integration with a smartphone.