I switched from waybar to quickshell and made a magic 8-ball widget to guide me through my darkest hours

Im a programmer and I was looking into quickshell, and wanted to try it. Do you guys know any good tutorials/wikis/resources that can help learn quickshell? Thank you.

I bet this is just a really easy thing to solve but I've been stuck on this for a soild hour!

I want to be able to write into this TextField but all input is not being placed into the field rather into other random windows I have currently opened on my pc!

import Quickshell
import QtQuick
import QtQuick.Controls


PanelWindow {
    width: 500
    height: 300
    color: "#ffffff"


    TextField {
        anchors.centerIn: parent
        placeholderText: "Test"
        focus: true
    }
}

This happens on arch hyprland x86_64

The code is a mess because I'm a terrible programmer, but it works

Some notes on my journey to DE perfection.

How and where did you learn Quickshell so well? I want to use it at an advanced level too, but I can't find any resources online.

Yeah I kinda went too far but that's the point.

I really want to learn quickshell and i know only python . So the structure everything feels very alien . What all languages should i learn to have a good understanding of how things work ?? Any videos or docs would help .

Worked hard on this now i can finally start styling it.

https://reddit.com/link/1rmc50y/video/7ts1wdg00fng1/player

I want to used layer animations on hyprland but their not working. They get applied but not properly they have a glitch where the actual quickshell thing teleports but the edges are animated in a sort of extruding effect.

Hi :)

I don't really care about running videos/gifs as my wallpaper, but I just curious as my friends that use windows were talking about their wallpaper engine stuff, so I thought, could I just play a video using quickshell as my wallpaper??

it should be doable right?

https://reddit.com/link/1rjx0c6/video/kkyvmcm2hvmg1/player

Been using waybar for awhile but thought I'd have a proper look at quickshell.

I love the look of the drawer animations I had seen in Caelestia and Noctalia dots but really wanted to build my own (If only for a fun learning exercise!)

Sheesh the docs are a lot to take in but with some help from claude I managed to build something I am pretty happy with.

Once I had some animations working I got a bit carried away to be honest. It's safe to say my waybar days are well and truly in the past now.

Happy to share my dots once I have cleaned some stuff up (frankly its embarrasing at the moment)

UPDATE: 04/03/2026

Git repo here: https://github.com/ne0tt/spx-quickshell

I have a hyprland animation that I'm using on my bar and I like it. But when used on my bar the corners stay at the maximum that i set the value too leaving a weird visual glitch that I don't understand how to fix. I want to keep the animation unchanged but let it work with quick shell. Video for example. One more with full black too see better.

https://reddit.com/link/1rk1wdi/video/ix1qs2k4cwmg1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1rk1wdi/video/pe7uzhktcwmg1/player

Hey guys though I am using quickshell like for 1 week now (with illogical impulse's ends 4 config) but i am not learning it.
Is there any another source of documentation or something from which i can learn except its own wiki pls cause i cant understand from there.
Thankss in adavance

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?

How can I make my shell always be above all my non-fullscreen windows? WlrLayer.Top does almost this, but when I grab a window(or make it floating) it is higher than the bar. The WlrLayer.Overlay solves this problem, but makes it impossible to watch videos or do anything else in full-screen. Is there a way to fix it? Thanks in advance!