wl-pick is a new Rust tool for Sway/Wayland that displays live window previews in a grid, allowing users to visually select windows for switching or screen sharing. It uses recent Sway capture protocols and avoids performance overhead by delegating rendering to the compositor rather than processing pixels directly.
Carosello is a fast, minimalist image and video viewer for Linux built with Rust and GTK4, featuring keyboard and gesture navigation, image decoding on worker threads, video playback with controls, and support for Wayland/X11. It can be installed via local build with Meson or as a Flatpak.
Evergarden is a collection of software tools and applications spanning text editors, terminal emulators, command-line utilities, browsers, and system tools, many designed with minimalism and speed in mind.
Fluentry is a local voice-to-text dictation tool for Linux and Wayland that runs speech recognition models on your machine without uploading data. It supports dozens of languages, integrates with PipeWire and system keyboards, and includes features like custom dictionary management, filler-word removal, and optional local grammar correction through language models.
Regolith Desktop maintainer provides status update after months without releases, announcing a break from full-time work to focus on the project. The maintainer is exploring new Linux desktop technologies like Wayland and COSMIC while prioritizing Ubuntu 26.04 support and seeking user feedback via survey on future development priorities.
Chonkstep is a performance-focused Wayland compositor written in Rust that serves as a drop-in replacement for Hyprland within the Omarchy desktop environment. It provides responsive floating windows, native decorations, and efficient rendering while preserving Omarchy's menu bar, themes, and services. The software emphasizes bounded work, low idle overhead, and includes damage-driven rendering and GPU-aware presentation optimizations.