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DLives — Dynamic Island for Windows 10 & 11

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A sleek, hardware-accelerated Liquid Glass dynamic island & productivity dashboard for Windows.

License: MIT Platform: Windows Python PyQt6


🌟 Overview

DLives brings modern dynamic island interactions and glassmorphism productivity tools to Windows desktops. Living as an unobtrusive, always-on-top pill at the edge of your screen, DLives smoothly expands on hover into a full-featured productivity dashboard with media controls, hardware telemetry, calendar, alarms, quick notes, clipboard history, notifications, and custom app launching.


✨ Features

  • 🎵 Control Center & Media Hub: Live track info, playback controls (SMTC-compatible with Spotify, Chrome, YouTube Music, etc.), system volume, and brightness sliders.
  • 📊 System Diagnostics: Real-time CPU, RAM, battery status, network stats, storage info, and uptime monitoring.
  • Alarms & Timetable: Recurring daily schedules and custom alarms with audio chimes.
  • 📅 Calendar & Events: Glassmorphic monthly calendar with persistent event tracking.
  • 📋 Clipboard & File Shelf: Persistent clipboard history and drag-and-drop file staging area.
  • 📝 Scratchpad Notes: Multi-note plain-text scratchpad with instant auto-save and home card pinning.
  • 🚀 App Launcher: Quick-launch shortcuts for frequently used tools and programs.
  • 🔔 Windows Notifications: Live notifications feed directly inside the island.
  • 🎨 Liquid Glass & Customization Studio: Full live theme engine (Light/Dark, 10+ accent presets, custom hex, acrylic blur, opacity, corner radius, screen position).

🛠️ Requirements & Installation

Requirements

  • OS: Windows 10 (build 1903+) or Windows 11 (x64)
  • No external runtime dependencies required for standalone binary releases.

Running from Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/rootnode-rebels/Dlives.git
cd Dlives

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Run application
python main.py

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License — see the LICENSE file for details.

Copyright (c) 2026 Suhas Hoskere

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