SpectrumOS 1.1 · Arch Linux · Hyprland
An Arch Linux distribution with a cohesive, keyboard-driven Hyprland desktop for gaming, professional work, development and everyday life. One system for your code, your campaigns, and the suspicious number of browser tabs you call research.
Colors
Change the wallpaper and the desktop follows: shell, widgets, terminals and supported apps take on its colors. Go on — try it. This page follows too.
Backgrounds, surfaces, text, accents, warnings and errors each get a role, with contrast correction for readability.
Four palette backends, light or dark variants and Gowall filters such as Catppuccin, Nord, Gruvbox or Dracula.
Spectrum logos, login, lock and boot appearance carry the active colors beyond the desktop.
Wallpaper filters are powered by Gowall, an open-source project by Achno.
Desktop
Inspired by Caelestia Shell and built with Quickshell over Hyprland: flowing panels, rounded shapes and one visual language. Arch gives you the freedom to keep building; SpectrumOS gives you a desktop worth settling into.
Dwindle, Master, Scrolling and Monocle layouts with shared keyboard controls.
Standard, Detailed, Multimedia or Minimal — telemetry on one screen, music on another.
Bar on the top or left, as one frame or grouped into rounded islands.
Displays, brightness, audio, networks and Bluetooth without leaving the shell.
In practice
The Dashboard links your calendar to unfinished Questline tasks. Focus sessions earn XP, Favorites keeps your portals close, and HotKey handles the repetition.
Record a monitor, window or area in MP4, MKV or WebM. Record your microphone, desktop audio or both. Pick a color from the screen and keep it.
When a GameMode-aware game starts, bars, frame and toasts step aside, animations pause and Performance mode takes over. Quit, and your desktop comes back as you left it.
SpectrumDrop sends encrypted files between Spectrum PCs over Ethernet or Wi-Fi, with receiver codes and explicit approval — and Apple AirDrop on compatible hardware.
Search Pacman repositories, the AUR and Flatpak in one panel. Every result shows its source; installation happens in a terminal you can review.
Signed packages, preflight checks, and Btrfs restore points paired with matching boot files. Your home data stays outside system rollback.
Homegrown
Three apps we built and ship in both Full and Lean. Their colors and controls belong to the same desktop.
Questline
A productivity RPG: projects become Campaigns, tasks become Quests, notes become Scrolls, and finishing real work earns XP. Focus sessions, soundscapes, a Zen Tree and a Treasury for project money.
Source on GitHub
Stash
A fast Rust terminal app combining a music player, a searchable library and a dual-pane file browser. Lyrics, tag editing, playlists, and a Library Healer for track_07_FINAL.mp3.
Source on GitHub
UKVM
Share a keyboard and mouse between trusted Linux computers. Verified pairing, peer placement, and opt-in clipboard and file sharing from a native widget.
Source on GitHubInstaller
Go back whenever you need; your choices stay in place.
Companion
Your companion through life’s quests. He drops by when he feels like it, waves hello, stretches, and occasionally decides your desktop is an excellent place for a nap. Headphones for music, glasses for movies, a headset for meetings.
“You earned XP. I earned a nap.”
Visits are optional — toggle them with Igor’s button on the bar.
Pops up from behind the bar and waves hello.
Every keyboard and mouse shortcut on one A3 poster. Even heroes are allowed to check the map.
Download the poster (PDF)Changelog
New tools, a new Igor and a few things that should simply feel better. Existing installations receive desktop changes through the normal system update.
A new permanently free outfit, selected once during November 9–15. Winter stays in the wardrobe, and your later outfit choices are respected.
Search for torrents, paste magnet links and manage downloads directly from the shell. Downloads continue after closing the panel. Open it with Super + Shift + J.
Unit conversions update as you type. Currency conversion shows the rate date and can reuse saved rates offline after the first successful lookup.
Keep your calculator and tasks open together, with independent focus and close controls. Panels sit side by side on wide screens and stack on smaller ones.
Expand the Proton VPN controls to check status, connect or disconnect. Sign-in opens a terminal; country and NetShield options depend on your plan.
Better Discord/Vencord text contrast and more consistent appearance syncing with the desktop palette.
Clearer password-copy feedback, button feedback for mouse and keyboard, and screenshot notifications placed correctly for top and side bars.
Sleep now waits for the lock-screen notification before proceeding. New diagnostics and local sleep records help investigate wake failures and battery drain, with sleep-mode selection limited to modes exposed by the hardware. Compatibility still depends on the machine and its drivers.
A full desktop to try before installing, a welcome screen and an Install SpectrumOS action in the bar. These changes are planned for the next installation image.
Download
Comes bundled with an operating system. Try SpectrumOS from a live USB and explore the desktop before installing. Your next daily driver might be one boot away.
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sudo pacman -Syu.Back up important files before installing.