AllanWm

A highly customizable replacement for the windows shell written in python with PySide6.

Important

This is not maintained. It will (probably) not get finsished. I have moved to Linux and Hyprland, and I am thus not interested in working on a project that exists to make windows usable.

Roadmap

⚫ Future 🔴 Not started 🟡 Working on it 🟢 Done

Feature	Status
Bar	🟢
App launcher	🟢
App switcher	🟢
Clock	🟢
Power menu	🟢
Theming: Colours	🟡
Documentation	🟡
Theming: Fonts	🔴
Tiling Window manager	⚫
Workspaces	⚫
Theming: More	⚫
Progress bars	⚫

Setup

(requires windows 10)

1. Make sure the above requirement is met - this (probably) only works on windows 10.
2. Move the taskbar to the top of the screen
3. Enable "Use small taskbar buttons" in windows settings
4. OPTIONAL: Setup taskbarx to center the taskbar icons. This isn't a requirement, but it makes windows' animations fit in better with this project.
5. Install the Fira code font family
6. Download AllanWm.exe from the latest release here
7. Create a file called .allanwmrc and paste into it this text. If you have trouble creating that file, press win + r, paste the following command into the popup, then press enter.

   cmd /c cd Desktop && echo "" > ".allanwmrc"
8. Move AllanWm.exe and .allanwmrc into a folder on your computer you won't move or rename. I suggest you use username/Documents/Bin, username/Bin, username/bin, or C:/bin.
9. Right click on AllanWm.exe, click Send to, and then Desktop (create shortcut). A shortcut will appear on your desktop.
10. Press win + r, type shell:startup, then press enter. This will open a special folder.
11. Drag and drop the shortcut from step 9 into the folder opened by step 10.
12. You're done! Reboot and AllanWm should start soon after you log on.