Wayland desktop shell

Noctalia

See the shell in action

Everything around your Wayland windows.

The bar, launcher, control center, and lock screen you reach for every day. One place to configure them, a palette that follows your wallpaper, and your choice of compositor underneath.

Pick Your Compositor

Noctalia works great on every compositor below, each with its own setup guide. Umbriel is our own, developed alongside the shell - a natural pairing if you're looking for a new home.

Umbriel

Built alongside Noctalia

Young · moving fast

A Wayland compositor designed for daily use, with scrolling, dwindle, master, and floating layouts, per-output workspaces, window rules, blur, shadows, and fluid animations.

  • Scrolling, Dwindle, Master & Floating layouts
  • Tabbed windows
  • HDR
  • Per-output workspaces
  • Blur, shadows & animations
  • Scratchpads
  • Live config reload

At home on your desktop

Real setups from the community. Different wallpapers, different palettes, the same Shell.

Noctalia app launcher, captured from the running desktop shell

The everyday pieces, together

A consistent desktop, from opening your first app to locking up for the day.

Star History

Watch the community grow over time

GitHub star history graph for noctalia