Welcome to the suckless-utils docs!

suckless-utils is a collection of applications that aims to form a desktop environment that is modular, flexible and lightweight (for the RAM and storage).

  • Modular - it aims for various functionality that can be turned off or on in the source code level, which could make for various personal versions of each component.

  • Flexible - it aims to be flexible, with the ability to have various functionality, window management layouts and down-to-source code customization aiding for that, as well as the ease of hacking due to the -flexipatch forks by bakkeby implemented preprocessor directives.

  • Lightweight - compared to other desktop environments, the suite clocks in at 700+ MB in RAM usage when idle (but actual mileage may vary), and it’s small source code size (only clocking in at 18.2MB not including .git) makes it the lightest desktop environment that you could compile yourself.

It features things such as EWMH support, IPC and fsignal, pywal color scheming, dynamic window management (tiled, floating, tabbed and stacked window types), desktop icons (nemo-desktop), notfications (dunst), and more!

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Note

This project is under heavy development.

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Getting started