Noctalia shell
quiet by design
What is Noctalia?
A beautiful, minimal desktop shell for Wayland that actually gets out of your way. Built on Quickshell with a warm lavender aesthetic that you can easily customize to match your vibe.
✨ Key Features:
- 🪟 Native support for Niri, Hyprland, Sway and MangoWC
- ⚡ Built on Quickshell for performance
- 🎯 Minimalist design philosophy
- 🔧 Easily customizable to match your style
- 🎨 Many color schemes available
Preview
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/72c6d6dc-48b0-48a0-bd8b-c7e70990edc4
Screenshots
📋 Requirements
- Wayland compositor (Niri, Hyprland, Sway or MangoWC recommended)
- Quickshell
- Additional dependencies are listed in our documentation
🚀 Getting Started
New to Noctalia?
Check out our comprehensive documentation and installation guide to get up and running!
⚠️ Important: Breaking Change in v3.0.0
If you're upgrading to v3.0.0 and using Niri, we've reworked how we handle wallpapers & overview. Please read the docs to adapt your niri config.
🖥️ Wayland Compositors
Noctalia provides native support for Niri, Hyprland and Sway. Other Wayland compositors will work but may require additional workspace logic configuration.
🤝 Contributing
We welcome contributions of any size - bug fixes, new features, documentation improvements, or custom themes and configs.
Get involved:
- Found a bug? Open an issue
- Want to code? Check out our development guidelines
- Need help? Join our Discord
✨ Nix DevShell
Nix users can use the flake's devShell to access a development environment. Run nix develop in the repo root to enter the dev shell. It includes packages, utilities and environment variables needed to develop Noctalia.
💜 Credits
A heartfelt thank you to our incredible community of contributors. We are immensely grateful for your dedicated participation and the constructive feedback you've provided, which continue to shape and improve our project for everyone.
☕ Donations
While all donations are greatly appreciated, they are completely voluntary.
Thank you to everyone who supports the project 💜!
- Gohma
- DiscoCevapi
- PikaOS
- LionHeartP
- Nyxion ツ
- RockDuck
- MrDowntempo
- Tempus Thales
- Raine
- JustCurtis
📄 License
MIT License - see LICENSE for details.