LUP 682: Oops! All Shells!¶
- Air Date: 2026-08-30
- Duration: 68 mins 57 secs
About this episode¶
Quickshell is rising, and bringing with it a new wave of customizable Linux desktops, community-built plugins, and serious funding.
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Episode links¶
- Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- Jupiter Garage SWAG
- Quickshell — Quickshell is a toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and other desktop components using QtQuick. It can be used alongside your wayland compositor or window manager to build a complete desktop environment.
- Caelestia — A fluid, morphing shell for your Linux desktop.
- end-4’s configuration
- Waybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.
- Omacom Foundation to be premier Quickshell sponsor
- Omarchy — — Beautiful, Fun & Opinionated Linux by DHH
- omacom/omarchy - Github
- The first plugin competition winners — Omarchy News
- Omacom Foundation to be exclusive Hyprland sponsor — Omarchy News
- Hyprland — An independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
- hyprwm/Hyprland - GitHub
- omarchy-radio-atlas — Explore live radio on a rotatable globe from the Omarchy bar.
- Home Assistant for Omarchy — Home Assistant Quickshell plugin for Omarchy 4
- syncshell — See sync health, open folders, control the service, and install or update Syncthing from the Omarchy bar.
- syncshell-dms: — Read-only Syncthing monitoring plugin for DankMaterialShell
- Dank Linux — A Modern Desktop for Wayland.
- Dank Linux Docs
- TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
- Dawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History).
- Immich — High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
- How to get a TomTom API key - TomTom Docs
- FileBrowser Quantum - GitHub
- FileBrowser Quantum — The best free self-hosted web-based file manager with source configuration, modern authentication, office support, and lightning-fast search.
- Open Book Touch — A pocketable, front-lit, open source e-reader — for every book, in every language.
- Pick: dankcalendar — Calendar from the Dank Linux Suite. Local, Google, Microsoft, CalDAV, and iCloud calendars in one standalone app.
- DankCalendar on Flathub
- Pick: Homelable — Visual Homelab Mapper & Monitor
- Homelable — Self-hosted homelab infrastructure visualizer, interactive network diagram with live status monitoring.
- homelable-hacs — Home Assistant integration for Homelable
Tags¶
ai, ai agents, arch linux, caelestia, coding agent, dank linux, dankcalendar, dankmaterialshell, dawarich, desktop customization, e-reader, filebrowser, firefox, firefox profiles, gemma, gnome, hermes, home assistant, homelab, homelable, hp 840 g9, hyprland, immich, jupiter broadcasting, kde plasma, linux desktop, linux podcast, linux unplugged, local llm, mcp, muse glimmer, omacom foundation, omarchy, open book touch, open source, outfoxxed, pi, qtquick, quickshell, qwen, radio atlas, rubber duck debugging, self-hosting, syncshell, syncthing, thinkpad, trek, vaxry, waybar, wayland, wine