A configurable Wayland desktop.

Ferese combines a window manager and desktop shell with one configuration.

Ferese Blue dark desktop with Appearance settings
Ferese Blue dark with Appearance settings and the default wallpaper.

Window layouts

Scrolling columns, tree tiling, floating windows, and a workspace overview. Use keyboard shortcuts or gestures to move around.

Configure layouts →

Desktop tools

A menu bar, Control Center, Settings, notifications, and desktop widgets.

Explore Ferese →

Appearance

Choose your theme, wallpaper, and colors through Settings or a KDL config, and see changes as you make them.

Customize Ferese →

Continuum motion

Continuum carries your gesture’s momentum into workspace transitions and keeps motion continuous when you change direction. Adjust spring response and speed to your taste, or enable reduced motion.

Explore the animation model →

Getting started

The installation guide covers dependencies, login, updates, and recovery. You can also preview Ferese inside an existing Wayland session before installing.

Share a display with recording and conferencing apps through Ferese’s native screen-sharing portal. Choose what to share and stop at any time. See screen sharing and recording for setup and limits.

Find shortcuts and mouse actions in the handbook. Development happens on GitHub.