r/QuickShell

Hello my dear fellow programmers and developers. The title might seem quite vague and spoonfeeding, but for the love of me, i am just unable to learn quickshell. I use Arch with Hyprland and i have been using waybar since the beginning, and recently, i came across shells like Caelestia and Ambxst and some others, but those are really complex and i also want to make something visually pleasing and something that is also more performant and open. I have taken inspiration from this person's Shell setup and i have been trying to use claude, gemini, notebooklm and chatgpt to help me learn this, but i just cannot get myself to actually understand what is going on. I tried to read the documentation, but most of it just doesn't make sense at all. I am used to the arch wiki but quickshell's documentation doesn't even come close to it, and sorry for saying this, i might just be dumb, but i cannot understand even one thing in there.

I would really appreciate if anyone would be able to mentor me or help me understand it and eventually let me build a good-looking quickshell setup.

Really thanks to anyone who is willing to do so.

Hello everyone! I'm a total beginner and I've tried learning Quickshell THRICE but I just can't get it!!
Could anyone just tell me the best approach to learn Quickshell?

Edit Solution:

I used these commands/binds and it works

XF86MonBrightnessUp   allow-when-locked=true { spawn "qs" "-c" "noctalia-shell" "ipc" "call" "brightness" "increase"; }
    XF86MonBrightnessDown allow-when-locked=true { spawn "qs" "-c" "noctalia-shell" "ipc" "call" "brightness" "decrease"; }XF86MonBrightnessUp   allow-when-locked=true { spawn "qs" "-c" "noctalia-shell" "ipc" "call" "brightness" "increase"; }
    XF86MonBrightnessDown allow-when-locked=true { spawn "qs" "-c" "noctalia-shell" "ipc" "call" "brightness" "decrease"; }

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I have niri + noctalia shell and I want the default fn + f5/f6 to lower/increase brightness. I tried different things but nothing works. Other fn combinations like f2/f3 lower and increase sound properly but only this doesn't work. I tried to set it to another key but nothing works.

https://preview.redd.it/xqb18q6iz6yg1.png?width=1918&format=png&auto=webp&s=1b6004361113a89090ec4100a1858308e53e6039

How to create those curved corner edges like in the noctalia and calastetia shell's.

Is it extended from the bar as shape with shapepaths, but then won't it need exclusive zones when panels are opened which makes the area irresponsive ('cause of the exclusive zones ).

Tried by creating custom corner shapes and anchoring it to the edges. But won't it break when shadows are applied and the animation smoothness...