DankMaterialShell is now Dux Shell, and Dank Linux is now Dux Labs.

DMS 2.0 "Heisenberg" is here with a new design across the shell, plugins for Dash and OmegaDock, the new Dux Dot, and much deeper compositor support for Hyprland, MangoWC, and newly added, Aqueous. There's a customizable lock screen, the Dux Lyrical Engine, and Dux Files, a new standalone file manager.

DankMaterialShell (DMS) 1.6 "Marble Tabby" is here! This release brings significant performance improvements and resource optimizations across the shell and CLI, Dank Island - a new island-style bar instance, spring-based motion across the whole shell, GTK3 dynamic theming, a standalone greeter, unified versioning across the Dank Desktop, a big plugin ecosystem push, and hundreds of fixes and improvements across DMS.

DankMaterialShell (DMS) 1.5 "The Wolverine" is here! This release introduces Frame Mode, a new connected surface that ties the whole shell together, native DankCalendar integration, Hyprland Lua config and enhanced MangoWM support, a reworked Material 3-like shadow system, and hundreds of fixes and improvements across DMS.

DankCalendar is a solution for calendar management on Linux that unifies Local, Google, Microsoft, CalDAV, and iCloud calendars into a single agenda. It features background synchronization, native event reminders, secure credential storage, a comprehensive GUI, keyboard-driven navigation, and a scriptable IPC interface. It is available now on every DankLinux-supported distro: Arch (AUR), Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, and openSUSE.

We're excited to announce DankMaterialShell (DMS) 1.4 "Saffron Bloom"! This release introduces a brand new launcher, numerous improvements to the plugin system which enables GIFs, KDE Connect, Clight, and a lot of new possibilities for extending DMS features and capabilities.

We're excited to announce DankMaterialShell (DMS) 1.2 "Spicy Miso"! This release features numerous new features and major improvements to both the DMS core and plugin system.

The next DMS release has a new type of widget and plugin, Desktop Widgets. These are little applets that live on your desktop, below your windows and above your wallpaper.

We are pre-announcing this feature to highlight the plugin ecosystem and to encourage the community to build these new types of widgets.

We're excited to announce DankMaterialShell (DMS) 1.0! ~ DMS is a Desktop Shell for Wayland Compositors built with Quickshell & GO.

What started as a small hobby project has grown into a full desktop shell and application suite with thousands of users and dozens of contributors - with first class support for niri, Hyprland, Sway, MangoWC, and LabWC. As well as general support for all compositors implementing select wayland protocols.