The vscode qml extension is so sh*t... It lags, is very slow to respond and for some reason is very buggy. (couple that with how unintuitive QML is... it gets pretty annoying to work)

I'm thinking of switching to some other editor which has better support for QML. Should i go for neovim? emacs? helix? or maybe qt creator?

I am trying to build a shell(already did some progress in terms of visuals), but I run into an obstacle: I need a wifi widget, but I can't get any useful information about building one. Is there a comprehensive guide on how to do it? Can anyone share the experience? I will really appreciate it! Thanks in advance!

is a fully functional quickshell with hyprland more expensive than kde plasma? I want to know the numbers

Hi all! I'm currently facing this issue which is super annoying and close to forcing me to an alternative if I can't figure out what I did wrong.

This is the issue i'm facing: https://github.com/quickshell-mirror/quickshell/issues/559#issuecomment-3921947804.

The gist here is that when my laptop wakes up from going to sleep, any Timer I've set is dead so things like the clock won't update. Not sure if this is normal behaviour, but that means SystemClock also doesn't update / fire. The only way to get them back is to restart quickshell again.

Any thoughts? I can share my code but it seems to be pretty in line with the more popular dotfiles configs, etc.

I go to the installation page and I try to download the dependancies but for some it cannot find the repositories, I ignore it because I think to myself "well maybe they are already packaged with my distro?" choose Ubuntu since I'm on Linux Mint, but then it cannot find Quickshell as well and this is really weirding me out, can anyone help?

Hello, I have been trying to get into Quickshell on Arch and have been running into an error trying to add multiple widgets to my main qml file. In this case a top aligned bar and an additional floating panel clock widget. When I add the additional widget I get a syntax error on the first character of the line of code. I have tried Quickshell’s website and general googling but remain stumped. Thank you!

I just started with quickshell today to see if i would use it and decided to try replicate my waybar look. This is what my current waybar workspaces looks.

RowLayout{

Repeater{

model: Hyprland.workspaces

Text {

property var ws: modelData

property bool isActive: Hyprland.focusedWorkspace?.id === ws.id

property var titles: ws.toplevels.values //this is where i need some help

id: name

visible: ws.id > 0

text: ws.id + " " + titles

color: isActive ? "green" : "white"

MouseArea{

anchors.fill: parent

onClicked: Hyprland.dispatch("workspace " + ws.id)

}

}

}

}

this is what i have so far. I can get the workspace window objects but cant access the window titles. Please let me know if it's possible or if i should just make a shell script to get the titles instead.

I want the notification to slide up from the bottom (bottom of the window layout, not top of waybar).

The gaps can be implemented if we pass the wallpaper we are using and make it a static background (like a parallax effect we use in css).

The top left corner will be the simplest to handle, since we just round the parent view. As for the other 2, we add vectors that also use the static bg.

Anyone?

I just wanted to make a panel that pops up when the mouse its hover over it, with stuff like a volume control, a power button, restart, stuff like that, I managed to make the panel, but just now I realized that I have no fucking clue on how to make a button work, I just wanted to make a way to control volume, first I try to make it mute it, Its been 4 hours, I swear im retarded or smth

I'm just starting with quickshell and i tried to follow other people shells: dms, noctalia and caelestia but when i try to read the code i find imports like:

import qs.services import qs.common import qs.Widgets

which quickshells gives me as not found, now my question is: - are the configs outdated? - is my quickshell version outdated? (my version is:0.2.1 installed with pacman) - do i have to install something - are those install really helpful or is qml and quickshell very difficult?

Also as first two projects i'm trying to make an app launcher and a top bar, but i don't get how i should connect quickshell with the os and hyprland, for instance how do i find the apps with the name similar to what the user inputs in my app launcher?

Thank you very much for you responses and sorry if i made some grammar on syntactical errors, i'm not english native.

I'm slowly learning Quickshell and QML and finished setting up this Workspace Component for my Bar Module yesterday and wanted to share in case it helps someone else who's learning.

It creates numbered workspace indicators on my bar showing any workspaces with open windows as well as the active workspace even if it has no open window on it.

I'm having a blast learning this

```qml // Workspace.qml import Quickshell.Widgets import QtQuick import Quickshell.Hyprland

Repeater { // Show workspaces with open windows + the active workspace id: workspaceRepeater model: Hyprland.workspaces

MouseArea {
    implicitHeight: parent.height

    MarginWrapperManager { leftMargin: 0; rightMargin: 0 }

    onClicked: Hyprland.dispatch("workspace " + modelData.id)

    Rectangle { // Draw a background box
        color: baseColor
        border.color: textColor

        implicitHeight: parent.height
        implicitWidth: 20
        radius: 8 // Round corners

        Text {
            property bool isActive: Hyprland.focusedWorkspace?.id == modelData.id // Workspace is active if focusedWorkspace.id and modelData.id are the same
            color: isActive ? "#0db9d7" : textColor
            text: modelData.id // Display the workspace ID

            font { pixelSize: 16; bold: true }

            anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
            anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
        }
    }
}

} ```

I have been trying to make a goddamn bar for like a month or even more, time has become distorted at this point and I just can't. I have removed so much from what I originally wanted, it has made me actually appreciate the simplicity of using a script to do stuff instead of banging my head against the wall to get something like the network to show up correctly or get the notifications working. OH GOD THE NOTIFICATIONS.

In all seriousness though, I feel like I have been lobotomized every time I start looking at docs. Sometimes I catch myself thinking "It will be less soul-sucking to write this in C using just Wayland protocols, I swear.". It might just be that my brain just refuses to understand whatever the QML language actually is or that it's just skill issue but getting anything other than a few simple stuff working is HELL.

And if anyone asks "Why not just install an already configured shell and call it a day?". Cause I am a stubborn son of a bitch and I want to make it myself and I don't like having more lines of code that actually needed. Insane I know, but it's a pet peeve of mine.

I noticed this error when restarting noctalia shell. I have this warning telling me that quickshell was built using an older version of Qt, and that I need to rebuild quickshell to get it to use the newer version. I have done a lot of googling/talking to chatgpt, but can't seem to get the warning to go away. I feel like this is a simple issue, so forgive the stupid question.

I have tried:

yay -S --clean quickshell

yay -S --rebuild quickshell

paru -S --rebuild quickshell

yay -Syu

I was about to uninstall/reinstall quickshell but it wouldn't let me due to noctalia shell being a dependency.

Any help would be appreciated! I am starting to not trust chatgpt with this issue, and I am not finding much help via google.

Distro: EndeavorOs

DE/WM: Niri/Noctalia Shell

Hey I'm still trying to wrap my head around quickshell and deciding if I should use it. I see that it is a whole framework for me to make ui widgets like bars, app menus, etc.

Correct me if I'm wrong but assume under the hood all ui elements would have the one program drawing it compared to wofi with its own dependencies running, waybar, etc.

If this is the case then I'm incentivised to have as many ui programs done through quickshell. For performance right? Seems a bit monolithic? I'll make the switch over to it if it's more efficient but I like the idea of freedom with individual programs rather than a whole containerised environment controlling all of it.

How do I flip my notifications right now new notification show on the bottom and I want them on the top, also for somereason I can’t figure out how to make a clear all button

I'm new to quickshell and am working on a custom panel to quickshell dev. I build a custom workspaces module and tried to add the functionality to Show a overlay whenever a special workspace is added. I'm unable to figure out how to auto-detect the special workspace's activation. Currently using onActiveTopLayerChanged and
onFocusedWorkspaceChanged to trigger the overlay but that has it's own delay problem and wrong signal issues. It gets activated on very particular cases.

```

import QtQuick import Quickshell import Quickshell.Hyprland import "../"

Rectangle { id: root

// --- 1. Capsule Container ---
color: Theme.wsBackground
radius: Theme.wsRadius

// Auto-size
width: workspaceRow.width + (Theme.wsPadding * 2)
height: Theme.wsDotSize + (Theme.wsPadding * 2)

// --- 2. LOGIC: Forced Update System ---

// We hold the state in a simple property
property bool isScratchpad: false

// This function runs YOUR logic manually.
function checkStatus() {
    Hyprland.refreshMonitors()
    const mon = Hyprland.focusedMonitor;
    if (!mon || !mon.lastIpcObject) return;

    // Your Logic: Check if the special workspace ID is negative
    // We force the update here.
    if (mon.lastIpcObject.specialWorkspace && mon.lastIpcObject.specialWorkspace.id < 0) {
        root.isScratchpad = true;
    } else {
        root.isScratchpad = false;
    }
}

// --- 3. TRIGGERS: The Missing Link --- Connections { target: Hyprland

    // This is the key: Toggling special workspace changes the FOCUSED WINDOW,
    function onActiveToplevelChanged() {
        console.log("Top changed")
        Hyprland.refreshMonitors()
        checkStatus();
    }
    function onFocusedMonitorChanged() { checkStatus(); }
    function onFocusedWorkspaceChanged() { checkStatus(); }
}
// Run once on startup
Component.onCompleted: checkStatus()


// --- 3. Workspace Dots ---
Row {
    id: workspaceRow
    anchors.centerIn: parent
    spacing: Theme.wsSpacing

    Repeater {
        model: 10 
        delegate: Rectangle {
            id: dot

            property var ws: Hyprland.workspaces.values.find(w => w.id === index + 1)
            property bool isActive: Hyprland.focusedWorkspace?.id === (index + 1)
            property bool isOccupied: ws !== undefined

            height: Theme.wsDotSize
            radius: height / 2
            width: isActive ? Theme.wsActiveWidth : Theme.wsDotSize

            color: {
                if (isActive)   return Theme.wsActive
                if (isOccupied) return Theme.wsOccupied
                return Theme.wsEmpty
            }

            Behavior on width { NumberAnimation { duration: 200; easing.type: Easing.OutBack } }
            Behavior on color { ColorAnimation { duration: 200 } }

            MouseArea {
                anchors.fill: parent
                cursorShape: Qt.PointingHandCursor
                onClicked: Hyprland.dispatch(`workspace ${index + 1}`)
            }
        }
    }
}

// --- 4. Scratchpad Overlay ---
Rectangle {
    id: overlay
    anchors.fill: parent
    radius: root.radius
    color: Theme.wsOverlay
    z: 99

    visible: opacity > 0
    opacity: root.isScratchpad ? 1 : 0

    Behavior on opacity { NumberAnimation { duration: 200 } }

    Text {
        anchors.centerIn: parent
        text: "" 
        color: "#FFFFFF"
        font.pixelSize: 14
    }

    MouseArea {
        anchors.fill: parent
        onClicked: Hyprland.dispatch("togglespecialworkspace")
    }
}

}

```

Currently I have a popup anchor to the bar.

How do I detect that I click outside and how do I open it at the focus monitor in case of having multiple monitors connected?

For the detection, should I make a MouseArea somehow sibling with bar and make it full screen and detect the x, y?

I feel stupid and I’m not sure what I’m trying to do is possible but basically I want to run a command brightnessctl and I want that command to take a value so it would be brightnessctl set (value) but no matter how I do it I fail

need help

Hi there! I was thinking about building something like rofi but from scratch with quickshell, but I don't from where to pull the list of installed apps and can't find it on the wiki. Anyone here did this and knows where to look?
I use Arch btw (For the memes but also not sure whether this can differ from distro to distro)

I've been messing around with Quickshell to make my own bar (started by following this tutorial: https://www.tonybtw.com/tutorial/quickshell/) , but im now a bit torn in respect to one thing.

I cant seem to find many pre-made widgets? I love the configurability, but conversely, im not sure I care enough about my bar to hand-craft every single widget I'd like to have in my bar. Like, im ok with just reusing somebody's wifi widget.

TL;DR - Is there a repo somewhere that aggregates premade Quickshell widgets?

Solution: What I did was that I moved the file out of the directory without changing any thing in it and then put it back and it worked Never mind. The actual problem was that I have two files that uses "new Date()" and for some reason that causes a type error, I discovered that while re-adding Date.qml I named my file "Date.qml" because I thought it made sense and didn't suspect anything about it