---
layout: home
pageClass: home-page

hero:
  name: "Astal"
  text: "Create Beautiful Widgets With Ease"
  tagline: "The Linux Suite and Framework to Craft Desktop Shells and <i>beautiful</i> <i>functional</i> Wayland Widgets with GTK!"
  image: /icon.svg
  actions:
    - theme: brand
      text: What is Astal?
      link: /guide/getting-started/introduction
    - theme: alt
      text: Get Started
      link: /guide/getting-started/installation
    - theme: alt
      text: References
      link: /guide/libraries/references

features:
  - title: Use Your Preferred Language
    icon: <i style="color:var(--vp-c-brand-3)" class="devicon-typescript-plain"></i>
    details: The main focus of Astal is TypeScript+JSX. But you can use the libraries in any language that supports <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_bindings_for_GTK">Gobject Introspection</a>.
  - title: No bash scripts needed
    icon: <i style="color:var(--vp-c-brand-3)" class="devicon-bash-plain"></i>
    details: Includes modules to work with Network, Bluetooth, Battery, Audio and <a href="/astal/guide/libraries/references#astal-libraries">more</a>.
  - title: Use any Gtk widget
    icon: <i style="color:var(--vp-c-brand-3)" class="fl-gtk"></i>
    details: With Astal you work with Gtk directly. You are not limited to only a set of them.
---
<!--TODO: add icons for buttons https://github.com/vuejs/vitepress/pull/3795-->

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