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@bugrakosen bugrakosen released this 16 Oct 10:03
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The first release of Kabuk: a desktop shell for Windows 11 built from scratch. A bar on every monitor, dynamic tiling and floating windows, a launcher, notifications, wallpapers, a screen saver and a settings app. The Windows taskbar is hidden and Explorer is left untouched; when Kabuk exits, Windows returns to its previous state.

Install

Download kabuk-setup.exe below and run it. Windows 11 is needed; no administrator rights are asked for. The setup installs Kabuk for you, adds it to the Start menu and the kabuk command to your Path, and can start it when you sign in. kabuk-setup.exe /S installs without asking.

kabuk-1.0.0.zip holds the same programs to unpack anywhere; run kabuk.exe --install from that folder.

To remove it: "Uninstall" in Windows' Installed apps, or kabuk --uninstall. Your settings stay in %APPDATA%\kabuk.

What is in it

  • Ten looks, each in dark and light mode: Ada, Çizgi, Devre, Ray, Konsol, Rıhtım (with a dock), Etkinlik, Pano (a task-list panel), Izgara and Defter. Every text keeps at least 4.5:1 contrast with any accent colour you pick.
  • Bar on every monitor: workspaces, the window title, clock and date, media, CPU, RAM, GPU, network and volume, the system tray, notifications, the power menu and your pinned and open apps, which you can drag, pin and preview.
  • Window manager: dynamic tiling (dwindle and master) and floating, workspaces across monitors, window rules, a hidden workspace, tabbed groups, an overview of every workspace, a drop-down terminal and layout profiles. Moves and the minimise genie are animated.
  • Launcher (Win+R) for apps, files, folders, bookmarks, open windows, system commands and a calculator. Also an app grid like Launchpad that you can rearrange and hide apps on.
  • Wallpapers and screen savers: a gallery of live and still designs, your own picture, and wallpapers created from a prompt (Claude, OpenAI or a local Ollama model, with your own key).
  • Game mode: a full-screen game gets its monitor to itself, and notices wait until it ends. Nothing is injected into other processes, so anti-cheat is not disturbed.
  • OLED care: dimming when idle, still pictures that drift by two pixels, and screen savers made for OLED.
  • Settings app, in Turkish and English, with every change applied live. It also covers cursors, the bar's colour, hot corners, touchpad swipes, Windows' own colours following the look, and checking for updates.
  • kabuk msg <command> drives the running shell from the command line (kabuk --help).

If something goes wrong

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+End, or kabuk --restore, brings back every hidden window, the taskbar, the work area, the cursors, the screen saver and the wallpaper. The watchdog does the same by itself if the shell crashes.

Checksums (SHA-256)

  • kabuk-setup.exe: EB7466CC80B0BB77FB76D00BB9333D3EF17ED131B4EAF402A5C8CF7C924E6529
  • kabuk-1.0.0.zip: 1d5d2bf04df83efa96c773c59cccab0ac8ec094563aded61334d195ea5321a48
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