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Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux

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Windows 8 revival on Linux.

If you are one of who enjoyed the windows 8 and miss its fluid animations but have since moved to linux. And cant go back to windows 8, because all apps are non functional there. And if you can bear that you cant install it on the newer hardware. This is for you it is a shell for wayland window managers like Labwc hyprland etc. It gives a wallpaper utility, a lock screen, a start menu, an OSD for volume and brightness a settins app for wall. it dosent provide charms menu because i always thought its useless. Win8De.webm

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Features

Start

one command Win8Start to show hide start menu can be bound to super of compositor. full drag and drop support of start tiles and sizes small medium large xlarge gui way right click. can drag from all apps to tiles. search of apps functional. drag app from all apps to botom to hide start screen and put icon any where that supports like desktop. get power menu by clicking user icon. have battery osd in it.

OSD

Volume up down mute brightness up down. two part Win8OSD-server and Win8OSD-client server should be autostarted Win8OSD-client --volup voldown mute dispup dispdown

Wall

simple image wallpaper settable through settins

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