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DMS 1.5The Wolverine DankMaterialShell (DMS) 1.5 "The Wolverine" is here! This release introduces Frame Mode, a new connected surface that ties the whole shell together, native DankCalendar integration, Hyprland Lua config and enhanced MangoWM support, a reworked Material 3-like shadow system, and hundreds of fixes and improvements across DMS. 4,000+Commits7k+GitHub Stars200+Contributors230+Plugins Frame Mode + Connected or Standalone Surfaces Frame Mode ties the bar, dock, popouts, and modals into one connected surface. DMS 1.5 adds the option to draw the shell surfaces as one connected surface, tying modals (such as the launcher), popouts, and notifications into the bar and frame. New Animations: There are new animation options "Directional" and "Depth" in addition to the standard and default "Fade and Scale" Hover to Open: Optionally popouts can be opened on hover, without a mouse-click DankCalendar Create, edit, and navigate events right from the shell calendar overview. DMS 1.5 brings native support for DankCalendar (docs) as a calendar backend over IPC. This is a major new application addition that unifies Local, Google, Microsoft, CalDAV, and iCloud accounts into a single agenda. When the dcal daemon is active, DMS detects it and establishes a bidirectional IPC connection. That connection enables several shell integrations: Full Event CRUD: You can now create, edit, and delete events directly within the shell calendar overview. Reminders Routing: Upcoming-event notifications are delivered natively through the DMS notification system. Offline Cache: Managed via a local SQLite cache database so agenda views work offline, syncing back as soon as connection is re-established. Secure Keyring Storage: OAuth tokens and secrets are stored directly in your system keyring (GNOME Keyring/KWallet) instead of plaintext files. Keyboard Navigation: Full arrow-key navigation for managing calendar events. Fully On Device: DankCalendar runs entirely on-device, connecting directly to your providers. The DMS calendar provider is configurable for backwards compatibility with Khal, so users can continue to use the khal backend if desired.
Integrated Task Planner In addition to task/reminder/VTODO integration from DankCalendar, a local to-do and task planner widget has been added to the calendar overview, contributed by goatnath (PR #2583). It manages your to-do lists and task states from within the shell calendar panel. Greeter Enhancements The DMS greeter with user selection, session picker, and auto-login. DMS 1.5 adds a settings GUI, multi-user account management, and per-user theme sync to the greeter. Settings GUI: Manage dms-greeter and greetd settings without editing config files by hand. Improved PAM Support: PAM authentication for fingerprint readers and U2F devices, with timeout recovery and unlock-state sync. User Accounts: A Users tab in DMS Settings creates accounts - username, initial password, and optional wheel/sudo privileges and greeter-group access - and lists every human user on the system with their UID, GECOS, and group membership. Behavior Toggles: Remember the last user, remember the last session, and auto-login. Greeter Appearance: Per-greeter font family, 24-hour clock, seconds display, hour padding, and date format presets, separate from the lock screen settings. Custom Greeter Wallpaper: A login screen background independent of your desktop wallpaper, with the same fill-mode options. Sync Pending Indicator: A floating pill appears at the bottom of the tab when there are unsaved changes, so you can apply them without scrolling back to the top. Per-User Theme Sync: Each account gets an independent cache slot, so users can sync their own login-screen appearance - theme, wallpaper (light/dark/per-monitor variants), custom theme files, and profile picture - without system-wide sudo. dms greeter sync pushes the primary user's full theme, wallpaper, and auth config. dms greeter sync --profile syncs just one greeter-group user's slot, without touching the global config. A Sync button in Settings handles both modes, falling back to a terminal when sudo isn't available. Window Rules Manager Configure match criteria and state-based conditions for a new window rule. DMS 1.5 adds a Window Rules Manager for controlling window behaviors across Hyprland, Niri, and MangoWM. A dedicated settings page allows viewing, editing, and creating window rules.
A new IPC allows creating a window rule for the currently focused window. Display Profiles Save monitor layouts as Display Profiles and auto-switch as outputs change. DMS 1.5 adds Display Profiles: saved monitor layouts that DMS can switch between automatically as outputs are connected or disconnected. Automatic Switching: DMS matches the connected set of outputs to a saved profile and applies it, so docking, undocking, or plugging in an external display restores the right layout. Control Center Widget: A Display Profiles widget switches layouts without opening Settings. Fractional Scaling Presets: Hyprland setups gain fractional scaling display presets. Disabled Outputs: Profiles can leave specific outputs turned off. Hyprland Lua Configuration DMS 1.5 moves all Hyprland default configurations to the new Lua format. When DMS deploys configs for Hyprland (via dms setup or dankinstall), it generates native Lua files instead of the older .conf format. This applies to all DMS-managed configurations such as key binds and monitor/output configurations. See the Hyprland configuration guide for details. Enhanced MangoWM Support DMS 1.5 adds better support for the MangoWM compositor across the shell, installer, and UI tools. dms setup now deploys MangoWM configurations and dankinstall supports MangoWM as a compositor option. Material 3 Shadows & Elevation Global shadow controls with intensity, opacity, color, and per-surface elevation. To support Frame Mode, the Material 3 elevation and shadow system was reworked so shadows stay consistent across connected, floating, and overlapping surfaces. A global shadow toggle lives in the Themes tab, with light/dark overrides and independent shadow controls per Dank Bar. Spotlight - Lightweight Launcher New spotlight-style launcher DMS 1.5 introduces Spotlight, a lightweight overlay launcher for minimalist setups. It sits in the center of your screen and searches files, folders, applications, and settings. Search Persistence: Spotlight persists your last search query and highlights it on open, contributed by Legend-017 (PR #2726). Prefix Queries: Use /d and /f prefix tags to narrow the search to directories and files when dsearch is installed. Notepad Rewritten with Standalone Window & Mime-Type Registration Notepad can now convert into a standalone window and back to a surface.
The Notepad utility has been rewritten with the ability to convert it into a standalone window and back to a surface. Additionally mime-type registration has been added so DMS Notepad can be (optionally) used as a default text editor for files. Native Tailscale Integration Tailscale connection status, device search, and controls in the Control Center. DMS 1.5 adds native Tailscale support inside the Control Center. Instead of custom scripts or command-line wrappers, DMS talks directly to the local Tailscale daemon for full VPN controls. Connection Toggle: Connect or disconnect your tailnet from the Control Center. Exit Node Selector: A dropdown lists the available exit nodes on your tailnet to route your traffic through. LAN Access Toggle: Allow or disallow local network access when connected to an exit node, so you can still reach local devices. Node Details: Shows your active Tailscale IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) and connection quality indicators. System Management DMS 1.5 pulls more of the system into the shell, so you can manage updates, power, autostart, and default apps without leaving your desktop. System Updater: Check for and apply system updates from the shell, with multiple package-manager backends and polkit authentication for privileged operations. Power Profiles: Switch between power-saver, balanced, and performance profiles from the Control Center or by scrolling the battery widget. A cycleProfile IPC command is bound to Mod+P by default. XDG Autostart: A new Autostart tab in Settings manages the applications that launch at login, following the XDG autostart specification. Default Apps: A Default Apps page in Settings sets your preferred applications for file types and URL schemes. User Session Switching: Switch between local user sessions directly from the shell.
Plugin Ranking, Moderation, and Community Feedback With 230+ community plugins in the registry, DMS 1.5 introduces a ranking and feedback system so the best plugins rise to the top. Every plugin now has a tracking issue in the dms-plugin-registry that doubles as a forum and voting surface, and the plugins directory displays all of the new metadata affiliated with plugins. Upvotes: Anyone with a GitHub account can 👍 a plugin's issue to upvote it. The plugins page ranks by upvotes by default, so popular plugins surface first. Sorting & Filtering: Sort by upvotes, last updated, date added, name, or random, with an ascending/descending toggle, plus filters for reviewed-only and first-party-only plugins. Status Badges: Plugins can be flagged reviewed, broken, unmaintained, or deprecated, surfaced as badges both on the web page and in the in-shell plugin browser. Moderator & Author Commands: Catalog moderators apply status flags via bot commands on the issue, and a plugin's own author can self-flag their plugin /unmaintained (seeking a new maintainer) or /deprecated (superseded by another plugin or a built-in DMS feature). Browse and vote on plugins at plugins.danklinux.com. Huge thanks to hthienloc for working through the existing plugin registry to review and significantly improve the quality of the plugin ecosystem! If you wish to contribute as a plugin moderator, refer to this ticket for details. Other Notable Features DMS 1.5 also brings a wide array of enhancements and options across other components of the shell: Launcher & Clipboard Plugin Browser Screenshot Previews: The plugin browser now displays inline screenshot previews while browsing, alongside brand new sorting and filtering controls. Launcher QOL Improvements: Grid mode now supports Ctrl+H/L navigation (contributed by kanghengliu, PR #2688), toggleable color-picker entries (lambdaclan, PR #2667), and the option to hide package source badges (hthienloc, PR #2676). Clipboard Type Filtering: The clipboard history popout can now filter between Text, Image, and pinned entries, contributed by dionjoshualobo (PR #2640).