Quickshell is a toolkit for building a desktop shell, which is to say components of your desktop like bars, widgets, lock screens, display managers, and the like.
Quickshell is based on QtQuick and configured with QML, the QtQuick interface description language. It provides integrations for common shell functionality, as well as support for hot reloading and tools to work with processes, sockets, files, and more.
Built-in integrations are currently provided for:
There are many setups intended to be useful without much tweaking, for example:
Quickshell is a relatively low-level tool compared to simple status bars like Waybar. When writing a Quickshell configuration, you are not just changing styles and layouts, but practically programming, which is considerably more complex.
You can see the QML Language Reference to get an idea of what you’re getting into.
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See the Usage Guide to learn how to set up and use Quickshell.