A beautiful, fluid Wayland desktop made to feel like yours.

A complete Linux desktop with a custom shell, native settings, scrolling and tiling layouts, and live-reloading themes.

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Ferese Blue desktop with the default wallpaper, Settings, Control Center and clock widget — Ferese Blue with Settings, Control Center, and the default wallpaper.

Flexible layouts

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

Configure layouts →

A native desktop

A menu bar, Control Center, Settings, notifications, and desktop widgets, designed to work together.

Why integration matters →

Make it yours

Choose your theme, wallpaper, colors, and motion. Change settings through the app or a KDL config, with live reload.

Customize Ferese →

Getting started

The installation guide covers dependencies, setup with any Wayland-capable login manager, and TTY startup. 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 current capabilities.

Built in Rust on Smithay. Development happens on GitHub.