If you want to completely change the
look and feel of your Windows 11
desktop, then this is probably the best
application for that. It is called Calm
UI. This is a free and open-source
application. And the description of this
application says the fully customizable
desktop environment for Windows 10 and
11. This is kind of like a desktop
environment for Windows just like in
Linux. Like Linux has many desktop
environments like Gnome, KDE, many
others. So this is somewhat similar. It
changes the look and feel. At least you
get the Mac style dock. Now you can also
have the animations, the wave animation
and you get the top bar at the top just
like Mac or you can also say Linux,
whatever you prefer. And I think this is
like third video I'm making about this
because this thing is actually pretty
good. And just recently there is
something interesting going on here with
this application. So let's talk about
that. So you can get this from Microsoft
Store. Yes, it's available in Microsoft
Store or you can go to releases and from
here you can download the .exe or
MSIX file and install it whichever you
prefer. Once you install it, this isn't
the default look of this. I actually
customized it by installing the plugins.
Yes, now it supports plugins and you can
kind of fully customize this thing to
your liking. Okay, so at the top you can
see uh there are colorful icons and
everything cuz I used the plug-in again.
So let's open the cylind settings. If
you go to resources here, you'll see
bunch of categories. We have themes,
plug-in, widget, icon pack, wallpaper,
sound pack. If you go let's say for
example themes here you can see I have
downloaded couple of themes here we have
a new section called discover more
resources there is a link you just click
on it it will open your default web
browser here you can actually download
themes or plugins and these plugins and
themes are actually pretty cool like for
example wave animation I have already
downloaded this so this is the wave
animation okay just like in Mac OS It's
like it feels so good. Okay, it's
smooth. Look at that. Okay, let's say
for example, I want to download this
one. Okay, or maybe this one. With the
name, without the name. I think we have
a name here. Okay, with the name. We're
going to download with the name. Okay,
this is a system tray menu. This is the
system tray menu of Calen UI. The
default one, it's vertical. Uh but we
can change this to um grid. Okay, we can
click on download and it will just
automatically download it to the ceiling
UI and for the first time it will ask
you to open sillin UI with this link.
You'll have to allow that. So I've
already allowed that. So I'm going to
click on enable. Once I enable it, if I
go and check the system tray, you can
see it's grid now. Okay, there is a
little bit of overlapping happening. I
should actually uninstall this one and
have the icon only. Let's enable it.
Let's open this. And yeah, this one
looks much better. When we hover then
this will show us the name. So this one.
Oh, it will give you the transparency.
Let's enable it now. Yeah. Okay.
Everything became transparent at the
top. You can see our top bar became
transparent. I think this looks much
better. Okay. We can also com compact
this. There is this uh theme called
round toolbar is it? Yeah. With this we
can you know make them come closer. And
there was a time and date in here which
I disabled. Let's add the date. That
looks much better. Tool or media player.
Let's actually download this. I think I
can add module from
here. Uh media.
Yeah, media player 2. Okay, so we have
this right now. There is nothing
playing, but we have the media player
here. And we can set this to wherever we
want. When it's playing, it will look
something like this. Okay, so the name
of the music and the media control
buttons and so on. There are many other
cool plugins that you can download. Now,
let's just talk about the selen UI and
its settings. Uh in resources you can
change the plugins, themes, you know,
icon packs and everything. If you go to
the theme section here, you can enable
and disable the themes that you have
downloaded. If you go to the fancy
toolbar, this is for the top bar. Okay,
you can enable it, disable it. If you
don't want to use it, yeah, you can uh
just completely disable it. But if you
want to use it, you can enable it. You
can also change the position and all
that. Okay. Uh we have application
launcher. I actually prefer the Power
Toys command pallet. So, I just don't
use it because it's more powerful. But
if you want to use a app launcher from
this, yeah, you can. I think doc is the
best thing about this application. When
you enable doc, it actually completely
hides the Windows taskbar. Okay? It
doesn't show up even after you hover
your mouse. So if you want a dog that
works just like Mac and even has
animation and all that, this is probably
the best doc application that you can
get. I mean again as I said you don't
have to use everything. You can disable
every single thing on this like the top
bar themes and everything. And if you
just want to use doc you can only enable
doc window manager. If you're someone
who wants to use tiling window manager
then yeah it also has the tiling window
manager option and the themes and
plugins that you have downloaded can be
customized too. So we have individual
colors in here. Uh so that's why we have
individual colors in our top bar widgets
or modules. If I go to the theme and uh
disable where is the individual colors?
Yeah, this one. Disable this and save
it. You can see this is the default
look, okay, the white. But if you want
to have individual colors, you can
download this theme and enable it. And
you can also go to setting and here you
can select the color for the module like
Bluetooth color module. It's reddish. So
you can see it's red in here. So you can
give it whatever color you want. These
are the default. And I think default
looks good. Okay. You don't really have
to customize anything. By default,
everything will look good, but if you
want to, you have the option. And it
also supports multiple monitors. This
app is actually pretty simple. You have
the top and the top bar. And it works
really well. I mean, if you want to
replace the Windows taskbar, yeah, it
can do that basically if you prefer
something like that. To be honest, yeah,
it has the best dock by default. Okay.
You'll have to download the theme for
the animations, okay? The if you want
these animations and after that, this
will look just amazing. Okay? And it's
getting better and better. Now, there
are themes, plugins that you can
download to make it even better. If you
want to change the look and feel of your
regular Windows, yeah, this is pretty
cool. And on top of that, this is
completely free and open source, and
it's fairly popular, too. Yeah, a lot of
people love this. And yeah, that's it
for this one. Hope you enjoyed it. But
if you still have any questions or have
any suggestions for me, you can always
do the comments and we can have some
chitchat in the comment section, too.
Yeah, that's it. I'll see you in the
next one. Take care of yourself and have
Chrome Extension