Shell

Cutefish desktop shell: the status bar, dock, launcher and desktop in a single process, sharing one QML engine.

Each component keeps its own window and its own D-Bus name, so the session behaves exactly as it did when they were separate programs.

The desktop itself is not part of this repository. It is provided by the file manager as the org.cutefish.filemanager.desktop QML module; the shell only creates a window per screen and hands the desktop the screen it belongs to.

Dependencies

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt install cmake extra-cmake-modules pkg-config build-essential \
    qt6-base-dev qt6-declarative-dev qt6-tools-dev \
    libkf6windowsystem-dev libxcb1-dev

FishUI and File Manager also need to be installed before building; the file manager supplies the desktop QML module the shell imports at runtime.

Build

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr ..
make

Install

sudo make install

License

This project has been licensed by GPLv3.