Rudo is a small application dock designed for Wayland desktops.
It provides quick access to pinned applications, tracks running windows, and offers optional autohide behaviour with hover-to-reveal.
The dock is designed primarily for the niri compositor, using its socket interface for window management. It can also work with other Wayland compositors that support the wlr-foreign-toplevel-management protocol. Rudo is built with Rust, GTK4, and layer-shell.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides a native Wayland dock interface built with GTK4 and layer-shell.
- Maintains a persistent collection of pinned applications.
- Tracks running application windows.
- Supports activating and closing windows from the dock.
- Offers optional autohide with hover-to-reveal behaviour.
- Places the dock at the top, bottom, left, or right of the display.
- Supports a single display or every connected display.
- Provides configurable power-menu and custom-action entries.
- Displays confirmation dialogs before running selected commands.
- Supports visual customisation through CSS.
- Reloads JSON behaviour settings while running.
- Provides command-line controls to show, hide, or toggle the dock.
- Prevents repeated application launches caused by rapid clicks.
Website: github.com/skorotkiewicz/rudo
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Developer: Sebastian Korotkiewicz
License: MIT License
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