One black island that changes shape, a desk of widgets under the windows, and every program around it repainted by whatever wallpaper is up.
git clone https://github.com/andreumassanet/impasto.git ~/impasto && cd ~/impasto && ./setup installPick a wallpaper and the page takes its colours, the way the desk does.
A black capsule in the middle of the bar rests on the time and turns into everything else: the glance under the pointer, the control centre, the launcher, the overview, a notification, a game. Each is the size of what is in it, with no title and no close button.
How the island worksWhat is running sits either side of the time: the player, the battery, the processor, the recorder, the weather, the month with its tasks. Click one and the island becomes its detail, rather than a popup of its own.
Every modulePieces are dragged out of a catalogue onto a picture of the bar, then drawn grouped round the island, spread to the edges, or all inside one capsule. Any piece can have a look of its own.
Arranging the barPick a wallpaper and its colours reach everything at once. Or pick one of nine palettes instead, and the wallpaper stays where it is. This page does the same with the forty wallpapers the desk comes with.
Where the colours goShowing Pagoda Fuji Blossom
Surfaces
Type
Accent
Status
On a grid, in four shapes: a square, a card, a large square and a band. Right-click the wallpaper to arrange. Modern draws each module as a figure with a caption, Analogue as an object, and either is a choice per widget.
Widgets on the desktopPlain text searches applications, = calculates, @ finds an open window,! starts a countdown, ' is the clipboard history and > is the shell itself. The dock holds what you pinned, then whatever else is open.
SUPER + S opens a deck of pastel notes in handwriting, which can also sit on the wallpaper or stack along an edge. SUPER + K is a board of to do, doing and done, and a task's day shows as a dot under the month.
SUPER + G opens a shelf and the island becomes the board. A family of five small creatures lives on the bar, one out at a time, earning levels from being fed and played with. Nothing dies.
The shell locks the session itself, over the blurred desk. The SDDM theme draws the same clock, the same face and the same field before anybody has logged in.
Lock and loginAn ordinary window where each option is drawn as the thing it changes. Profiles keep whole desks under a name, keys included: Moon castle, Fuji and Night bay come with it.
Settings and profilesArch Linux, and Hyprland 0.56 or newer configured in Lua. Run it from a terminal inside the Hyprland session: the plugins are built against the compositor that is running.
Nothing is linked: setup copies, and remembers what it wrote. A file of yours in the way is moved aside first, and a file you edit afterwards is left alone.
$ git clone https://github.com/andreumassanet/impasto.git ~/impasto
$ cd ~/impasto
$ ./setup install