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macOS-style desktop shell for Hyprland, written in Rust: CPU-drawn bar, dock, island, desktop widgets and panels. 36–50 MB idle (UI), 87–106 MB with live wallpaper.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 16, 2026 · 18 upvotes (top 64%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- desktop-shell
- dock
- hyprland
- linux-desktop
- macos
- ricing
- +6 more
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Partial A basic Wayland desktop shell (bar, dock, panels) in Rust is vibe-codeable, but a polished, performant one needs low-level Wayland protocol, layer-shell, and CPU rendering knowledge that the assistant may not get right.
What it would actually take: The stack would be Rust with Wayland client libraries (smithay or wayland-client), layer-shell and wlr protocols for panels and wallpapers, and a CPU rasterizer such as tiny-skia or Cairo. The hard parts are correct compositor integration with Hyprland IPC, input handling, damage tracking, and keeping memory and idle CPU low. Someone comfortable debugging Wayland and graphics internals is needed to reach the stated performance.
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Attention rank: #350 of 538 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 333 days after the earliest competitor.
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