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Desktop widgets
Glanceable cards on the desktop: adding, arranging, customizing, every widget and its options
Adding and arranging
- Right-click the desktop (or a widget) → Edit Widgets…. Open windows step aside (they're minimized and come back when you finish).
- The gallery at the bottom has one tab per group. Click a widget to add it: it goes to the first free spot, from the right edge inward. Scroll the row with the mouse wheel.
- Drag widgets anywhere; a guide shows where they will land, and they line up with their neighbours.
- × on a widget's corner removes it.
- Done ends editing.
Right-click a widget for Customize… (its own options), Remove Widget and Widget Settings…. Clicking most widgets opens the related app.
Widgets follow the accent color, light or dark style, the clock format and units. Their positions are fractions of the screen and their sizes follow its height, so they keep their place and proportions when the resolution changes. Turn them all off in Settings → Desktop & Dock.
Every widget
Everyday
| Widget | What it shows | Customize… |
|---|---|---|
| Clock | Style (Analog, Digital) | |
| Calendar | — | |
| Weather | — | |
| World Clock | The cities chosen in Clocks (or a few well-known ones), with day/night. | — |
| Sun & Moon | Sunrise, sunset and daylight where you are, and tonight's moon. | Show the moon (on/off) |
| Photo | A photo from Pictures, a different one every ten minutes. | Folder (a folder); Change every (Minute, 10 minutes, Hour) |
| Now Playing | — |
Productivity
| Widget | What it shows | Customize… |
|---|---|---|
| To Do | A checklist: type a task and press Enter; tick it when done. | Title (text); Hide finished tasks (on/off) |
| Notes | Color (Glass, Yellow, Pink, Blue, Green) | |
| Countdown | Days to a date that matters: a trip, a birthday, a deadline. | Event (text); Date (a date); Color (Accent, Sunset, Ocean, Forest) |
| Focus | A focus timer: 25 minutes of work, then a notification. | Length (15 minutes, 25 minutes, 50 minutes) |
| Progress | How much of the day, week, month or year has gone by. | Show (Today, This week, This month, This year) |
| Recent Files | The files you opened last, one click away. | Show (All files, Documents, Pictures, Music and videos) |
| Clipboard | What you copied lately: click one to copy it again. | Items (3, 4, 6) |
System
| Widget | What it shows | Customize… |
|---|---|---|
| System | Processor (on/off); Memory (on/off); Disk (on/off); Temperature (on/off) | |
| Network | Download and upload speed, with the last minute as a graph. | Show the graph (on/off) |
| Battery | — |
Developers
| Widget | What it shows | Customize… |
|---|---|---|
| Projects | — | |
| Local Servers | Dev servers listening on this computer (Vite, Django, Jupyter…); a click | — |
| Containers | — |
Gamers
| Widget | What it shows | Customize… |
|---|---|---|
| Games | — | |
| GPU | — | |
| Performance | The power profile, one click away before a game: Performance, Balanced or | — |
To-do lists and notes are kept in ~/.local/share/aurora/widgets/;
the layout in the desktop-widget-list setting.