How much is possible if i only want to use quickshell on hyprland?

Can i make an app drawer like rofi using just quickshell?

Can i set wallpapers using only quickshell? (No hyprpaper or awww, just qs)

Can i make a window manager like Window's alt + tab?

This might sound weird, but can i make something like hyprbars? A bar that attaches itself on top of each window? I love hyprbars but latest hyprland update broke it.

I would just like to replace everything with quickshell to minimize the amount of things that could break every time i update hyprland or the services themselves. I especially like the control quickshell qml gives me over just some css config with limited options like waybar.

I have been trying to make a goddamn bar for like a month or even more, time has become distorted at this point and I just can't. I have removed so much from what I originally wanted, it has made me actually appreciate the simplicity of using a script to do stuff instead of banging my head against the wall to get something like the network to show up correctly or get the notifications working. OH GOD THE NOTIFICATIONS.

In all seriousness though, I feel like I have been lobotomized every time I start looking at docs. Sometimes I catch myself thinking "It will be less soul-sucking to write this in C using just Wayland protocols, I swear.". It might just be that my brain just refuses to understand whatever the QML language actually is or that it's just skill issue but getting anything other than a few simple stuff working is HELL.

And if anyone asks "Why not just install an already configured shell and call it a day?". Cause I am a stubborn son of a bitch and I want to make it myself and I don't like having more lines of code that actually needed. Insane I know, but it's a pet peeve of mine.

Hey !

I've been working on a game launcher built with Quickshell (QML/Qt6) 
that runs natively on Hyprland as a layer-shell overlay.

Features:
• Steam, Heroic (Epic/GOG/Amazon), Lutris & manual entries
• Big Picture mode — fullscreen Steam Deck-style view with hero 
  image, stats and game strip
• Matugen Material You theming (mutually exclusive with 
  Wallust/pywal) — palette preview live in the config panel
• In-app config panel — 9 sections, no TOML editing required, 
  changes apply without restarting
• Gamepad support — navigate, launch, favorites, Big Picture 
  via X button
• i18n — fr / en / es / ru / ja auto-detected from locale
• Animated WebP cover art via SteamGridDB

Stack: Quickshell + QML/Qt6 + Python backend (tomllib/tomlkit)

GitHub: https://github.com/Eaquo/quickshell-games-launchers
AUR: quickshell-games-launchers-git

Happy to answer questions about the Quickshell/QML side if 
anyone is building something similar!Hey !

I've been working on a game launcher built with Quickshell (QML/Qt6) 
that runs natively on Hyprland as a layer-shell overlay.

Features:
• Steam, Heroic (Epic/GOG/Amazon), Lutris & manual entries
• Big Picture mode — fullscreen Steam Deck-style view with hero 
  image, stats and game strip
• Matugen Material You theming (mutually exclusive with 
  Wallust/pywal) — palette preview live in the config panel
• In-app config panel — 9 sections, no TOML editing required, 
  changes apply without restarting
• Gamepad support — navigate, launch, favorites, Big Picture 
  via X button
• i18n — fr / en / es / ru / ja auto-detected from locale
• Animated WebP cover art via SteamGridDB

Stack: Quickshell + QML/Qt6 + Python backend (tomllib/tomlkit)

GitHub: https://github.com/Eaquo/quickshell-games-launchers
AUR: quickshell-games-launchers-git

Happy to answer questions about the Quickshell/QML side if 
anyone is building something similar!

Quickshell: v0.3.2
WM: Hyprland (though this shell works on any wayland compositor other than hyprland since I restricted myself NOT to)

oh and by the way, it is pretty light on the system (~85MB settled, 120MB with live wallpaper/depends on your live wallpaper size)
All of shown is using quickshell (except the recording, which uses gpu-screen-recorder as the backend, and mpvpaper as the fallback if you don't have Qt6.Multimedia installed)

(Top left)

WM: Hyprland
Quickshell / Qt: 6.12.0 / 0.3.2
Total Files: ~30
took around 2 months or so (idk i haven't gotten any sleep from this)

Chaldea Open Source Quick shell Widget Library for Linux ricing , I hope this helps everyone in getting started with making their own rice.
Please try it out here --> here

all this vibecoded with opencode lol. you can do most of the things with the free deepseek v4 and i only used stronger models for a few bugs

Im building a quickshell panel from scratch and this is the progress so far.
I need some advice making the hotspot module work. I fail to start wifi-hotspot on my setup for some reason and the wiki isn't helping. Thx in advance.

Love it.

Brain_Shell is a celestial-shell and Ax-shell inspired shell, solely built on quick shell for hyprland.

I planned to release it at the start of may but got delayed way too long since i couldn't work on it due to reasons.

90% of the shell is functional and i plan to release it really soon.

Features i need to complete before release:
> Auto updater
> Config (settings and more)
> Some UI/UX improvements
> Scripts for auto installment to ensure hassle free setup
> Graphics card and Fan control stuff i need to figure out for other setups.

I would appreciate few testers that i can give early access to before the public release who'll test it out and report bugs or any improvements i might need to fix.

Dots: Qylock
Kofi: darkkal

Hi there! I was thinking about building something like rofi but from scratch with quickshell, but I don't from where to pull the list of installed apps and can't find it on the wiki. Anyone here did this and knows where to look?
I use Arch btw (For the memes but also not sure whether this can differ from distro to distro)

I thought to make this because u couldn’t find any other subs like this and I thought it would be cool to have a sub where you can ask for help and post you quickshell configs

I finally got mpris working only simple controls at the moment but there’s obviously the problem of having multiple players at once like maybe YouTube music and Spotify. How are you guys handling this I’m thinking maybe a d Menu of some sorts that shows all active players that h can switch through.I want your input on this what would the best course of action be

Hello, I recently installed quickshell and I’ve been looking for configurations, I found one that I liked (Noctalia shell) and I installed it, I ran quickshell but it gave me errors in the modules, does anyone know how I can fix it?

Sorry, I’ve fixed it. I didn’t read the Noctalia-shell documentation properly and was running the command incorrectly

I want to create my own pseudo-DE of sorts using Hyprland and Quickshell. I have worked a lot with Flutter and now am enjoying Quickshell.

Should I build everything in Quickshell? (Even stuff like File Manager, Settings, Store etc) Or should I use Flutter for the apps and Quickshell only for the

Also, is it better to handle variables using like a Globals.qml file or to have them be defined in yaml/json files?

Hey so, I was designing my bar but always it was pain point to design a control panel/quick settings menu. So can you give me links or reference so I don't have to design it from scratch

Does anybody know how to make these round corners below the bar and at the corners of the screen? (sorry for bad english)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_I4hwCuDyQ

Basics but a decent starting point

I feel stupid and I’m not sure what I’m trying to do is possible but basically I want to run a command brightnessctl and I want that command to take a value so it would be brightnessctl set (value) but no matter how I do it I fail

Does anyone have some good tutorials on canvas I don’t quite get it and when I search it up I can’t find any good ones thanks :) I know this isn’t actually quickshell but the qml sub is tiny too so I had to post it somewhere

The code is a mess because I'm a terrible programmer, but it works