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rustdesk/rustdesk

An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Android Flutter Shelf Cargo CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#android #anydesk #dart #flatpak #flutter #flutter-apps

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 7 list mentions
First commit: 2020-09-28
History: 20 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 185 open

126,047

stars

Forks: 19,768
Commits: 11,546 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +598 +0.5%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +25 +0.2%

Website GitHub

hyprwm/Hyprland

Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#compositor #cpp26 #wayland #wayland-compositor

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-03-16
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 197 open

38,432

stars

Forks: 1,976
Commits: 7,800 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

end-4/dots-hyprland

Usability-first dotfiles

Stack

QML pip

GitHub topics

#dotfiles #hyprland #linux #material-design #quickshell #rice

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-12-25
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 659 open

16,006

stars

Forks: 1,344
Commits: 6,311 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

phw/peek

Simple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface

Archived

Stack

Vala Meson

GitHub topics

#apng #gif #gif-recorder #gnome #gtk3 #linux

Updated: 2025-09-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-12-16
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 5 open

10,552

stars

Forks: 337
Commits: 1,439 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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H-M-H/Weylus

Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#android #android-application #app #browser #ffmpeg #hardware-acceleration

Updated: 2026-04-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-26
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 158 open

9,556

stars

Forks: 394
Commits: 573 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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brndnmtthws/conky

Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland, and other things, too

AI dev

Stack

C++ Next.js React Tailwind CSS Bun CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cairo #conky #imlib2 #linux #lua

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-07-20
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 95 open

8,493

stars

Forks: 668
Commits: 4,652 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mmulet/term.everything

Run any GUI app in the terminal❗

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#alacritty #cli #foss #iterm2 #kitty #linux

Updated: 2026-03-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-09-07
History: 112 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 10 open

8,112

stars

Forks: 195
Commits: 107 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: -2 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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dunst-project/dunst

Lightweight and customizable notification daemon

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#c #dbus #libnotify #notification-daemon #wayland #x11

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-07
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 124 open

5,578

stars

Forks: 381
Commits: 2,640 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ilysenko/codex-desktop-linux

Unofficial ChatGPT desktop app for Linux (formerly the Codex app), built locally from OpenAI’s official macOS app. Includes Chat, Work, and Codex. Packages for Debian/Ubuntu (.deb), Fedora/openSUSE (.rpm), Arch (pacman), Nix/NixOS, and AppImage, with Wayland and X11 support.

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript Cargo

GitHub topics

#ai-coding #appimage #archlinux #chatgpt #chatgpt-desktop #codex

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2026-02-05
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

3,843

stars

Forks: 500
Commits: 2,136 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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emersion/mako

A lightweight Wayland notification daemon

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#cli #notifications #swaywm #wayland

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-22
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 134 open

3,247

stars

Forks: 173
Commits: 650 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Aylur/ags

Scaffolding CLI for Astal+Gnim

Stack

TypeScript Cobra Vite Vue Go modules Meson npm

GitHub topics

#gtk3 #gtk4 #layer-shell #typescript #unixporn #wayland

Updated: 2026-04-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-06-24
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 29 open

3,110

stars

Forks: 149
Commits: 757 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

jtheoof/swappy

A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS

Stack

C Meson npm

GitHub topics

#annotation-tool #screenshot #snappy #snapshot #sway #wayland

Updated: 2025-12-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-19
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 49 open

1,497

stars

Forks: 64
Commits: 320 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hyprwm/hyprpaper

Hyprpaper is a wayland wallpaper utility with IPC controls.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#cpp20 #wallpaper #wayland #wlroots

Updated: 2026-08-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-07-01
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 51 open

1,349

stars

Forks: 110
Commits: 236 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fdw/rofimoji

Emoji, unicode and general character picker for rofi, wofi and similar selectors on X11 and Wayland

Stack

Python uv

GitHub topics

#character #emoji #emoji-picker #i3 #input #kaomoji

Updated: 2026-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-29
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,090

stars

Forks: 50
Commits: 445 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

J-x-Z/cocoa-way

Run Linux desktops and apps on macOS with a native Metal Wayland compositor, Apple Container GUI, Waypipe, Docker/OrbStack, and rootless windows.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#apple-container #apple-container-gui #apple-silicon #container-gui #developer-productivity #linux-apps-on-macos

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2025-12-13
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 2 open

1,037

stars

Forks: 23
Commits: 61 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

onagre-launcher/onagre

A general purpose application launcher for X and wayland inspired by rofi/wofi and alfred

Stack

Rust Vite Vue Cargo npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#alfred #app-launcher #application-launcher #dmenu #launcher #rofi

Updated: 2025-04-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-11-03
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

676

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 221 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

janlelis/clipboard

Ruby access to the clipboard on Windows, Linux, macOS, Java, WSL and more platforms 📋︎

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#clipboard #cygwin #java #linux #macos #osc52

Updated: 2025-12-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-09-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

384

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 249 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

0bCdian/Waypaper-Engine

A wallpaper setter with playlist functionality!

Stack

TypeScript Cobra Electron gRPC Go React Go modules pnpm

GitHub topics

#archlinux #electron #hyprland #nodejs #qtile #react

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-06-21
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 6 open

272

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 416 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

cr3eperall/dynisland

A dynamic and extensible GTK4 layer-shell, written in Rust.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#bar #gtk #gtk4 #layer-shell #linux #rust

Updated: 2025-08-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-11-12
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

261

stars

Forks: 4
Commits: 113 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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waycrate/exwlshelleventloop

winit like binding for layershell and sessionlock

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#layershell #sessionlock #sway #wayland

Updated: 2026-09-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-12-15
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

151

stars

Forks: 50
Commits: 803 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

danihek/Themecord

Discord theme will always match your wallpaper!

Stack

CSS

GitHub topics

#colors #discord #hellwal #pywal #rice #swww

Updated: 2025-04-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-01-06
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

101

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 85 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

SaverinOnRails/swengine

No description.

Archived

Stack

C# Avalonia .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#hyprland #live-wallpaper #sway #swww #wallpaper #wayland

Updated: 2025-09-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-08-19
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 0
Commits: 78 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

SergioRibera/super_clipboard

Manage your clipboard history with a beautiful and simple interface

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#clipboard #gui-application #hacktoberfest #linux #rust #rust-lang

Updated: 2024-06-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-12
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 121 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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