Nitrux assembles its workspace environment from individual Wayland-native components rather than using a traditional integrated desktop like GNOME or KDE Plasma.
Components
- Window manager → Hyprland (tiling Wayland compositor).
- Session manager → Nitrux Workspace Session Manager.
- Status bar → Valenz.
- Dock → Marina.
- Login manager → greetd + QMLGreet.
- Lock screen → Desklock.
- Idle daemon → Hypridle.
- Wallpaper → Hyprpaper.
- Application launcher/Clipboard manager → Vicinae.
- Notifications → Valenz.
- Session menu → QMLogout.
- Display configuration → Hyprscreend (hyprscreend-cpp).
- On-screen display → NudgeOSD.
Design Choices
This approach provides:
- Modularity: Each component handles a single responsibility.
- Wayland-native: No X11 dependencies or compatibility layers.
- Consistency: Unified appearance through the Catppuccin Mocha color scheme.
- Performance: Lightweight components with minimal resource overhead.
Important Notes
X11 sessions are not supported. Custom Wayland sessions are technically supported; however, they depend on the user configuring them.