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pctrade/end4-pc

Analysis updated 2026-08-13

1,410QMLAudience · generalComplexity · 3/5Setup · moderate

TLDR

A personal fork adding a customizable Material Design desktop shell, bar, and widgets on top of the Hyprland window manager for Linux.

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  root((end4-pC))
    What it does
      Desktop shell for Hyprland
      Fork of illogical-impulse
      Material Design styling
    Tech stack
      QML
      Quickshell
      Hyprland
    Use cases
      Custom bar and widgets
      Wallpaper support
      Settings via launcher
    Audience
      Linux ricers
      Hyprland users
      Arch Linux users

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Get a ready made, polished desktop shell for Hyprland without building one from scratch.

USE CASE 2

Customize the bar, widgets, and wallpaper on an Arch Linux Hyprland setup.

USE CASE 3

Manage lyrics, weather, and desktop widgets through a configurable settings panel.

What is it built with?

QMLQuickshellHyprland

How does it compare?

pctrade/end4-pcbjarneo/quickshellbjarneo/omarchy-quickapps
Stars1,4108844
LanguageQMLQMLQML
Setup difficultymoderatemoderatemoderate
Complexity3/53/52/5
Audiencegeneralops devopsdeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Requires illogical-impulse (dots-hyprland) already installed and running.

In plain English

end4-pC is a personal fork of a project called illogical-impulse, which is a set of desktop customization files for the Hyprland window manager on Linux. Hyprland is a tiling window manager, a type of program that controls how windows are arranged on your screen, and this project builds a full visual shell on top of it, including a bar, widgets, wallpaper support, and settings panels. This fork is maintained by a user called pctrade and keeps its own configuration folder separate from the original project, so installing it does not overwrite anything already set up on a computer. It still needs the original illogical-impulse project installed and running first, since this fork adds to it rather than replacing it entirely. Once installed, the shell provides a configurable bar across the screen, desktop widgets, a lyrics display, support for online wallpapers, and Hyprland configuration options, all styled with a Material Design look. Users can set it as their default shell by editing one line in a configuration file, or run it alongside the original setup. A built in launcher doubles as a search tool: opening it and typing a keyword like wallpaper or bar jumps straight to the matching settings page, which is why there is no separate search bar inside the settings panel itself. Pressing the same keybind used to open settings, or the escape key, closes it again, since it behaves as an overlay panel rather than a normal window. The README also explains how to view all configured keyboard shortcuts by opening the launcher and typing a less than symbol, which lists every keybind available. This project is aimed at Linux users running Arch based systems with Hyprland who want a ready made, visually polished desktop environment without designing one from scratch, and who enjoy customizing dotfiles as a hobby. The README credits the original creator of illogical-impulse along with two other contributors who added a weather widget integration and helped showcase the fork.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Help me install end4-pC on top of my existing illogical-impulse Hyprland setup without breaking my current config.
Prompt 2
Explain how to set end4-pC as my default Quickshell config instead of ii.
Prompt 3
Show me how to add a keybind to open the end4-pC settings panel in my Hyprland config.

Frequently asked questions

What is end4-pc?

A personal fork adding a customizable Material Design desktop shell, bar, and widgets on top of the Hyprland window manager for Linux.

What language is end4-pc written in?

Mainly QML. The stack also includes QML, Quickshell, Hyprland.

How hard is end4-pc to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is end4-pc for?

Mainly general.

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