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noctalia-dev/noctalia

A sleek, customizable desktop shell crafted for Wayland.

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How fast noctalia-dev/noctalia is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

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Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Sep 6 – Nov 5, 2026

Stars +1,573 in 61 days

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Forks +242 in 61 days

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Merged PRs 326 in 61 days

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Sun, Sep 6, 2026+44+61Not trending
Mon, Sep 7, 2026+46+52#21
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Thu, Sep 10, 2026+47+45#15
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    • GitHub trending history

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    Aug 17 – Sep 5, 2026Best #7

    #1#5#10#15#20#25
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    1. Oct 251 post

      • 我们借鉴了Omarchy的核心理念“约定大于配置”，在AI的辅助/帮助下，在1个月左右内已经做了一款与Omarchy Linux类似的新发行版：桌面shell复用了Omarchy desktop shell（做了一些裁减与定制），其他（除了go,rust,firefox)全部自己从零搭建。这个过程中只使用了中国模型与中国Agent.

        Read full on X, posted by @jeffzhou_zhouwg

        @jeffzhou_zhouwg · x.com

    2. 26 days earlier
    3. Sep 292 posts

      • [Niri] My first rice on NixOS x Noctalia

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        r/unixporn

      • Noctalia v5.2.0

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        r/Noctalia

    4. 25 days earlier
    5. Sep 41 post

      • Linux users have been duct-taping Wayland together for years. One bar. Another launcher. Another notification daemon. Another lock screen. Noctalia replaces the stack with one polished desktop shell.…

        Read full on X, posted by @Techjunkie_Aman

        @Techjunkie_Aman · x.com

    6. 7 days earlier
    7. Aug 281 post

      • Have you thought about Niri. Nothing against Hyprland, but there are some situations where Niri works "better" according to one's needs or Hardware.

        Read full on X, posted by @ca_frias

        @ca_frias · x.com

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