Oops! All Shells! | LINUX Unplugged 682

Quickshell is rising, and bringing with it a new wave of customizable Linux desktops, community-built plugins, and serious funding.
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Links:
• Web Boost (boost.jupiterbroadcasting.com/?show=lup) — Send us a boost via sats or USD
• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike (strike.me)
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM (fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov)
• Jupiter Garage SWAG (jupitergarage.com)
• Quickshell (quickshell.org) — 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 (github.com/caelestia-dots/shell) — A fluid, morphing shell for your Linux desktop.
• end-4’s configuration (github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland)
• github.com/Alexays/Waybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.
• Omacom Foundation to be premier Quickshell sponsor (omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-to-…)
• Omarchy (omarchy.org) — — Beautiful, Fun & Opinionated Linux by DHH
• omacom/omarchy - Github (github.com/omacom/omarchy)
• The first plugin competition winners — Omarchy News (omarchy.org/news/2026/08/the-first-plugin-comp…)
• Omacom Foundation to be exclusive Hyprland sponsor — Omarchy News (omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-to-…)
• Hyprland (hypr.land) — An independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
• hyprwm/Hyprland - GitHub (github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland)
• github.com/AksharP5/omarchy-radio-atlas — Explore live radio on a rotatable globe from the Omarchy bar.
• Home Assistant for Omarchy (github.com/konradk/hass) — Home Assistant Quickshell plugin for Omarchy 4
• github.com/ilyaZar/syncshell — See sync health, open folders, control the service, and install or update Syncthing from the Omarchy bar.
• syncshell-dms: (github.com/ChrisLAS/syncshell-dms) — Read-only Syncthing monitoring plugin for DankMaterialShell
• Dank Linux (danklinux.com) — A Modern Desktop for Wayland.
• Dank Linux Docs (danklinux.com/docs)
• github.com/liketrek/TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
• Dawarich (github.com/Freika/dawarich) — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History).
• Immich (github.com/immich-app/immich) — High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
• How to get a TomTom API key - TomTom Docs (docs.tomtom.com/platform/documentation/my-tomt…)
• FileBrowser Quantum - GitHub (github.com/gtsteffaniak/filebrowser)
• FileBrowser Quantum (filebrowserquantum.com/en) — The best free self-hosted web-based file manager with source configuration, modern authentication, office support, and lightning-fast search.
• Open Book Touch (crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/open-bo…) — A pocketable, front-lit, open source e-reader — for every book, in every language.
• Pick: dankcalendar (github.com/AvengeMedia/dankcalendar) — Calendar from the Dank Linux Suite. Local, Google, Microsoft, CalDAV, and iCloud calendars in one standalone app.
• DankCalendar on Flathub (flathub.org/en/apps/com.danklinux.dankcalendar)
• Pick: Homelable (homelable.net) — Visual Homelab Mapper & Monitor
• Homelable (github.com/Pouzor/homelable) — Self-hosted homelab infrastructure visualizer, interactive network diagram with live status monitoring.
• github.com/Pouzor/homelable-hacs — Home Assistant integration for Homelable