natepayn3 / Vitreus

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 A liquid-glass desktop shell: a bar, and panels that flow out of it. 
 Panels flowing out of the bar 
 The wallpaper picker ( SUPER + B ) 
 A tour 
 The Desk 
 The lock screen 
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> [!WARNING]
> **Vitreus is in active development.** Features, settings and behaviour can change at any time, and things may break
> between updates.
>
> **AI Disclosure:** Vitreus was built with AI tools
> **vit·re·us** _(Latin)_ — *of glass; glassy, transparent.*
**Vitreus** is a desktop shell for Wayland, written for pleamar. It is a single
floating pill of frosted glass at the top of the screen, or a strip down the left edge with a thin glass frame round
the screen. Everything else — the calendar, the quick controls, the player, the settings, the launcher, the volume
indicator, an incoming notification — is a drawer that grows out of the bar, joined to it by a liquid neck, in the same
glass, with the same spring, and folds back into it.
It is built to be *not boring*: a shell that morphs rather than pops. On pleamar the animation, the springs and the
layout all run in the renderer, and the logic only reports facts.
**Install it:**
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Want to try it without breaking your current setup?
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`--test` changes nothing at login, stops your Quickshell and starts Vitreus, and `./install.sh --stop` (from `~/.config/pleamar/shells/vitreus`) brings yours back.
See Installation.
**Something not working?** Run this. It works even when Vitreus would not install or will not start:
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It asks what went wrong and writes one plain-text file you can read first (your user name, computer name, network addresses
and monitors' names are blanked out; it does not read your notifications, clipboard, calendar or files). Then it tells you how
to send it: attach it to a GitHub issue, or e-mail it to
natepayn3@gmail.com if you have no account. With Vitreus installed it is just `vitreus-report`.
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## 📸 Screenshots
 Dashboard ( SUPER + SHIFT + D ) — everything at a glance, surfacing through the glass 
 Snap — click a window or drag an area, then draw on it, redact, copy 
 Controls — Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, brightness and volume 
 Calendar — weather, month, and reminders 
 Launcher — apps, files, commands, emoji, clipboard, wallpapers 
 Player and windows — hangs from the window title 
 System tray — an app's own menu, drawn in the shell's glass 
 Settings — the About page shows the build and updates the shell 
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## ✨ Features
* **Three layouts** — an *island* pill along the top; a *frame*: a strip on any edge with glass round the screen; or *notches*: a thin frame with the bar in three pieces of glass (workspaces, clock and title, controls) hanging from the top edge, the panels melting into it.
* **Dashboard** (`SUPER + SHIFT + D`) — one screen of glass cards that surface through the water: volume and brightness, a big clock with reminders,
 weather with a sky that moves, scrollable notifications (swipe to dismiss), your picture and machine, the pow