Orbital is a lightweight desktop environment powered by skyWM. Our window manager, skyWM is an extensible tiling Window Manager written in Rust using the penrose Window Manager library.

skyWM has a clear and distinct focus adhering to the KISS and Unix philosophy. Building on that, Orbital provides the user with a small selection of essential applications, and modifications to make skyWM a usable home for you.

We have made many modifications to the default Window Manager, such as writing our own applications, providing our own theming and ensuring that the applications we have selected for our core components work with every part of our system.

Our components:

• Orbital - Orbital is the desktop environment. The repository holds:
  • Modified version of skyWM
  • .xsessions files
  • Installer
  • Orbital Settings binary
  • Terminator theme
  • Rofi theme
  • GTK3 theme
• skyWM - skyWM is an extensible tiling window manager written in Rust. skyWM has a clear and distinct focus adhering to the KISS and Unix philosophy.
• settings - A simple graphical settings application written for Orbital utilising Python and TkInter.
• Keybinds - A GitHub pages site that displays when users press Super + H

Open source components we utilised:

• Tint2 - tint2 is a simple, unobtrusive and light panel for Xorg. It can be configured to include a system tray, a task list, a battery monitor and more. Its look is configurable and it only has few dependencies, making it ideal for window managers like Openbox, that do not come with a panel.
• Picom - Picom is a lightweight compositor for X11
• Feh - feh is an X11 image viewer aimed mostly at console users. Unlike most other viewers, it does not have a fancy GUI, but simply displays images. It is controlled via commandline arguments and configurable key/mouse actions.
• Yaru-purple - Yaru is the default theme for Ubuntu, backed by the community.
• Terminator - Multiple GNOME terminals in one window!
• Thunar - Thunar is a modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Thunar has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy to use. Its user interface is clean and intuitive and does not include any confusing or useless options by default.
• Vim - Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. It is included as "vi" with most UNIX systems and with Apple OS X.

• Desktop overview of Orbital

• Orbital desktop with 3 tiled windows open: orbital-settings, Firefox showing orbital keybinds and Vim.

• Orbital App Grid (Modified Rofi)

Created by http.llamaz with help from jakkaCollins.