## DarkShadow's Shell V3.60

The biggest update so far: niri support, a new Look & Feel page, a new tour and lots of fixes.

✨ New

• niri (alongside Hyprland) on Arch, CachyOS, Fedora and NixOS: the installer asks which one you want (--wm=niri). Keys, borders, corners, animations, blur, monitors and your own binds are written from Settings
• Settings > Desktop > Look & Feel: fastfetch with a live preview (logos, info, icons, wallpaper colors), pick your shell (fish, zsh, bash) and your terminal (kitty, foot, Alacritty, Ghostty, WezTerm, Konsole), all themed from your wallpaper
• Settings > System > Keybinds: every key worth knowing, with search
• New Material 3 tour: explains the Dynamic island and walks through Settings
• Settings > System > Screen: size, resolution and refresh rate (goes back by itself unless you press Keep)
• A clean start: only a big clock in the middle of the desktop

🛠 Fixes

• Videos and GIFs in Brave, Chrome and Discord work again (NVIDIA variables removed; log out once)
• Smoother on laptops: hybrid graphics no longer get a software cursor, widgets pause behind windows
• Touchpad: no more jumping back while scrolling, one swipe = one workspace
• No mouse cursor after installing without yay: Adwaita comes from the repos, Bibata downloads by itself
• niri: blur without pale bands, faster island, blurred overview, the shell's own notifications
• yay is optional: no more yes/no question (--aur / --no-aur)
• Power modes: power-profiles-daemon is installed and turned on

⬆️ Update

Already installed: rice-update (or the notification). New: see Install.

Full list: CHANGELOG.md

## V3.15 – Control & Tasks tabs, a brand new Dashboard tab

Two new tabs

• Control: switches (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Do not disturb, Night light, Sound, Microphone, Stay awake, Airplane), volume and brightness sliders, power mode, screenshot and recording buttons, and lock / sleep / log out / restart / shut down
• Tasks: a focus timer that keeps running while the dashboard is closed, a to-do list you can type into, and a note (the same list and note as the desktop widgets)
• Both are switched on once by this update. Turn them on or off and reorder them in Settings → Dashboard → Tabs
• Keys 1–9 switch tabs

New Dashboard tab

A day board instead of the old layout:

• Big time with a day line (00–24) that fills while the day passes
• Weather and round quick switches
• The week you are in, today lit
• Music as a turning record
• Pulse: bars for CPU, GPU, RAM and disk, plus the battery
• Your first tasks, click to tick them
• The older cards (You, Clock, Calendar, Usage, Music) can still be added in edit mode
• An old saved Dashboard layout is reset once

Every card of the new tabs can be moved and resized in edit mode.

Update from the notification ("Update is Available!") or run rice-update.

V3.14 – Dashboard & Dock from any edge, Profiles, editable About

Dashboard

• Opens from any screen edge: Settings → Dashboard → Position (Bottom / Top / Left / Right)
• On the left/right it's a compact panel floating in the middle of the edge: tabs in a pill column on one side, cards next to it, with its own layouts for Dashboard, Performance and About (Reset restores them)
• Wallpapers scroll up and down in the side panel
• About tab is editable now: move, remove and add cards, resize them into empty spaces. New cards: Software (kernel, packages, WM, shell, Quickshell) and Session (uptime, display)
• Music card: in a narrow card the cover sits on top and the buttons stay inside

Dock

• Can sit on the bottom, top, left or right edge (a column on the sides)
• New Now playing text switch: song title and artist written in the dock
• The Settings page "Interface" is now called Dock

Notification center (Deck)

• Opens from any edge: Settings → Notifications → Side (Left / Right / Top / Bottom)
• Power modes removed from the Deck

Settings

• Profiles: Performance / Balanced / Power saver as three cards at the top of Home → Settings, click to switch. Only modes your PC has are shown. Works on laptops and desktops
• Window size has a live preview, and the Settings window really resizes now (new helper rice-settings-size; log in ~/.cache/rice/settings-size.log)

Update from the notification ("Update is Available!") or run rice-update.

V2.80: Welcome intro, Settings tour, moving logo

What's new

• Welcome intro: after installing, night falls over the desktop, a few words rise letter by letter and the moon logo draws itself in. Take a look opens your desktop up again from the moon
• Settings tour: right after the intro, Settings lights up one part at a time with a short explanation (Next, Skip, Done). Play it again with rice-welcome tour, the whole intro with rice-welcome show
• Moving logo on the Settings Home page: the moon floats and sways, the stars twinkle, a shooting star now and then
• Change your profile picture by clicking it in the sidebar

Fixes

• Notifications: no more red bell, a white bell with a small badge instead. DarkShadow's Shell notifications stay in the notification center when clicked
• Screenshots are saved faster, and the dashboard and hot corner stay open while you take one
• Hot corner: an even outline along the rounded corners, the cards inside match the panel corners
• Fedora: Quickshell from its official COPR, rofi on Fedora 43, matugen downloaded when Fedora has no package

Install

git clone https://github.com/shadowww-dev/shadows-shell && cd shadows-shell
./install.sh

Update

Press Update now in the update notification or in the dashboard (About tab), or run rice-update.

Supported: NixOS · Arch Linux · CachyOS · Fedora / Nobara · EndeavourOS · Garuda

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md

V2.70: CachyOS & Fedora logos, new README

What's new

• CachyOS support: the installer detects CachyOS (its repositories and paru are used)
• Distro logos: your distro's logo (CachyOS, Fedora, Nobara, Arch, NixOS, EndeavourOS ...) in the bar, dashboard, welcome window and Settings, picked automatically
• The installer warns when your Hyprland is older than 0.55 (the Lua config needs it) and tells you how to update it
• Manjaro: a note that its Hyprland can be too old
• New README, banner and social preview

Supported systems

NixOS · Arch Linux · CachyOS · Fedora / Nobara · EndeavourOS · Garuda
(Bazzite and Silverblue: the installer prints the rpm-ostree commands.)
CachyOS and Fedora support is new. If something does not install, open an issue with the installer log.

Install

git clone https://github.com/shadowww-dev/shadows-shell && cd shadows-shell
./install.sh

Update

Run rice-update, or ./install.sh --update in the repo, or press Update now in the dashboard (About tab).

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md