“Reinventing the wheel isn't a waste when you understand why it rolls — that's how you learn to make it turn in new directions.”
Eq Desktop is a collective effort to bring elegance, ownership, and freedom back to the Linux desktop.
Our projects aim to combine the polish of commercial OSes with the transparency and flexibility of Linux.
Aurelis CLI — made to install, update and control aureli
🔹 eqSh
The flagship project — a next-generation shell for Hyprland.
It’s more than a bar: eqSh is your panel, notch, notifications hub, launcher, lockscreen, wallpaper engine, and more.
- Ownership first → You own your system and your data.
- Elegance without compromise → Beautiful design meets open-source freedom.
- Unified ecosystem → eq-desktop projects are designed to integrate seamlessly.
- Project-specific documentation lives in their own repos.
- For eqSh: see the Wiki.
We welcome contributions! Whether it’s code, design, documentation, or ideas — eq-desktop grows with the community.
Check out our idea repository.
Most eq-desktop projects are released under the APACHE-2.0 License.
You are free to use, modify, and distribute — as long as changes remain open-source.
For more information look at the projects' repo.