otter-desktop

otter-desktop is how Otter Shell talks to the host: icon themes, .desktop entries, session services, audio, brightness, system metrics. The bar, settings, greeter, lock, and monitor each import a slice of this library.

Quick example

const desktop = @import("otter_desktop");

var cache = desktop.IconCache.init(allocator);
defer cache.deinit();
const icon = cache.lookup("firefox");

Documentation map

Applications

Icon lookup, .desktop parsing, app list, launcher.

D-Bus clients

UPower, MPRIS, NetworkManager, notifications, tray, polkit.

System services

Brightness, SysInfo, PipeWire, SCX, Falcond, Monitor collector.

Greeter and auth

PAM, session catalog, logind, power actions.

Build flags

Flag	Effect
`-Denable_dbus=false`	Drop D-Bus clients and dependents
`-Denable_pipewire=false`	Drop PipeWire audio
`-Denable_pam=false`	Drop PAM auth

Check desktop.has_dbus, has_pipewire, has_pam at comptime when optional.

sd_bus_process() handles one message per call. Loop until the queue is drained.

Dependencies

otter-utils. Vendored basu (sd-bus) and PipeWire when enabled.

Theme helpers

Applications

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Getting Started

Libraries

Quick example

Documentation map

Applications

D-Bus clients

System services

Greeter and auth

Build flags

Dependencies

​Quick example

​Documentation map

Applications

D-Bus clients

System services

Greeter and auth

​Build flags

​Dependencies

Quick example

Documentation map

Build flags

Dependencies