James Routley

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✓ Installing dependencies

✓ Configuring Dux Modular Shell

✓ Ready to rock!

Dux Modular Shell in Action

Experience the fluid interface and beautiful animations

Dux Dash - Overview Dashboard

Dux Dash

Media controls, weather, calendar, and system info at a glance

Quick Settings

Effortlessly control your audio, displays, network, and bluetooth

Widget Customization

Personalize your desktop experience

Plugins Plugins

Plugins

Extend functionality with new widgets, launcher features, and more.

Dux Files

A fast, keyboard-first file manager with tabs, split view, search, trash, devices, and network shares.

Dux GOP Dux GOP

Dux GOP

Stateless system and process monitoring for CPU, memory, GPU, disks, and network interfaces.

Dux Calendar

Your calendars, events, and tasks together, with Google, Microsoft, CalDAV, and iCloud support.

One theme.

Dux Modular Shell automatically generates matching colors for supported GTK and Qt apps, terminals, editors, and more.

Our custom dank16 algorithm builds a full 16-color palette for terminals and syntax highlighting, with contrast tuned for light and dark themes.

GTK3, GTK4, and Qt
Terminal and editor color schemes
Light and dark modes

Set up app theming

</>workspace.ts · Code−□×

EXPLORER⌄ studio⌄ srcTS workspace.tsTS index.ts{} package.jsonM README.md

TS workspace.ts ×index.ts

src › workspace.ts

1import { readdir } from 'node:fs/promises';

3const extensions = ['.qml', '.ts', '.go'];

5export async function findProjects(path) {

6 const entries = await readdir(path);

7 return entries

8 .filter(name => !name.startsWith('.'))

9 .map(name => ({ name, path }));

10}

12export const formats = extensions.length;

⑂ main* ✓UTF-8 TypeScript

❯_Terminal−□×

~/projects/studio⑂ main

❯ npm run dev

VITEready

➜ Local: http://localhost:5173/

press h + enter to show help

Matching colors, down to the syntax.

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Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file manager and theming