Zeliblue Desktop

Zeliblue is a customized Fedora Atomic Desktop image, based on the Universal Blue project, featuring the GNOME desktop as the flagship experience.

Notable changes from vanilla GNOME and Fedora Silverblue include:

  • Workspace navigation shortcuts are adjusted, with the aim of being more intuitive for horizontal workspaces
  • Ptyxis replaces GNOME Terminal as the default terminal, and can be launched with Super+t
  • fish is set as the default shell in Ptyxis
  • Homebrew is enabled out of the box
  • The fish shell is configured to integrate with certain CLI utilities for a more modern terminal experience
  • Flathub is set up in the background on first boot, both system-wide (flathub-system) and for per-user installs (flathub-user)
  • GNOME Software defaults to installing apps from flathub-user
  • Core system apps are installed to flathub-system after first boot
  • System apps are selected based on the official GNOME Core apps, with some substitutions and additions
  • And more miscellaneous tweaks

There is also Zeliblue Plasma (zeliblue-kinoite), which uses the Plasma desktop environment instead of GNOME. It replaces multiple apps that are layered into the upstream image with Flatpak equivalents, as well as using fish as the default shell in Konsole.

Zeliblue is made with BlueBuild.

For more information and to report issues or offer feature suggestions, see the GitHub repository.