Your whole screen looks like one desktop.
Ooze puts its Gel frames and traffic lights on its own apps and supported third-party Wayland windows.
A desktop that makes sense
Ooze
The clarity of classic Mac OS and old GNOME, rebuilt on Linux.
No walled garden. No subscription. Just a calm, consistent desktop with Linux freedom underneath it.
A real desktop: menu bar, floating dock, Gel windows, and matching apps.
What makes Ooze different
Most Linux desktops give you a shell and a pile of unrelated apps. Ooze is built as one complete, opinionated desktop.
A real desktop, not just a launcher.
A menu bar, floating dock, desktop icons, wallpaper, and lively animations work together.
One switch changes everything.
Light and dark mode follow through the shell, Ooze apps, and supported foreign GTK applications.
A full set of built-in apps matches.
Files, settings, terminal, screenshots, images, sound, torrents, software, and displays share one visual language.
It bridges old and new.
Wayland, X11, classic app menus, foreign GTK themes, notifications, and system-tray applications live together.
Made to be tinkered with.
OozeKit and a nested build-and-run workflow make new Ooze apps part of the desktop.
The apps that come with it
Spot — the file manager for folders, files, Trash, and icon or column views.
Ooze King — the settings hub for displays, themes, defaults, sound, software, torrents, and more.
Ooze Command — a clean, tabbed terminal.
Ooze Launch — a searchable launcher with categories, custom groups, and keyboard navigation.
Ooze Shot — screenshots with preview, copy, reveal, and Ooze Eye actions.
Ooze Eye — an image viewer with zoom, fit-to-window, and next/previous controls.
Ooze Ear — audio devices, volume, mute, and stream routing.
Ooze Torrent — torrent and magnet downloads with progress and pause/resume.
Software (Ooze Pak) — install and remove Flatpak applications.
Ooze Monitor — resolution, refresh rate, scale, orientation, and monitor layout.
Ooze Defaults — default apps for links, files, media, text, and torrents.
Ooze Themes — appearance, icon, cursor, and foreign-GTK theme preferences.
Ooze About — information about your computer and Ooze apps.
Works with the rest of Linux
Wayland and X11
Modern Wayland apps and older X11 apps run side by side through built-in Xwayland support.
Foreign-window Gel
Supported third-party Wayland windows receive Ooze frames and traffic lights too.
Menus, tray, and notifications
Global menus, StatusNotifier/AppIndicator tray items, and clickable notification cards fit into the shell.
Light and dark
Bundled WhiteSur themes follow Ooze's appearance live for foreign GTK applications.
A complete session
Autostart, polkit authentication, PAM lock screen, and logout, restart, shutdown, and suspend actions are built in.
Screen sharing
The first-party ScreenCast portal lets Flatpak Discord and browser calls share a monitor through a native picker.
Light and dark — the same desktop, one click apart.
Try Ooze
Download the Alpha 0.4.10 AppImage or native session package from Releases. The AppImage runs nested on an existing Wayland desktop.
chmod +x Ooze-v0.4.10-x86_64.AppImage && ./Ooze-v0.4.10-x86_64.AppImageOr install the native session package:
sudo apt install ./ooze_0.4.10_amd64.debMade to be built
Ooze is a Mutter 18 plugin with an installable OozeKit toolkit, a nested development loop, and headless CI checks for every app that can be constructed without live services.