[HN Gopher] Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtful...
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       Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for
       Wayland
        
       Author : doener
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2026-01-31 19:58 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | gigatexal wrote:
       | Should pair well with my tons of noctua fans [1] ;-)
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       | [1]https://gigatexal.blog/assets/images/about/workstation.JPEG
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       | All jokes aside, it looks really well done!
        
       | Cyphase wrote:
       | s/Noctia/Noctalia/g
        
       | miduil wrote:
       | Wow, Noctalia looks amazing! I'm especially excited about the
       | automatic theme by background image, that means my live updating
       | wallpaper also tweaks the theme :) super fun.
        
         | gunalx wrote:
         | That is exactly the only feature I would like to disable. (have
         | custom theming already)
        
           | miduil wrote:
           | Checkout the Settings panel, in the GitHub screencast this
           | feature is shown in the there.
        
       | arikrahman wrote:
       | I don't know, dank-material-shell fills the same niche, and works
       | better on NixOS out of the box, making it easier to setup while
       | highly configurable. It seems broader than Noctalia in scope as
       | well, so there are more components and they play nicer with each
       | other.
       | 
       | Noctalia seems like it would fit more slimmer builds that want to
       | move away from waybar.
        
         | arikrahman wrote:
         | Noctia* Gnome's Nautilus stuck in my mind gahh
        
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