Forest is a lightweight desktop environment for Linux built with C++ and Qt. It has a modular design and is fully themeable via QSS (Qt style sheets).
It can be used with various window managers and compositors, but xfwm4 is recommended.
Download the latest .deb package from the releases page and install it:
sudo apt install ./forest_*.debDependencies Include: CMake, Qt6, KF6WindowSystem, Qt6Xdg, X11/Xcb, ALSA (libasound2), libsensors
All dependencies should be available in the Debian 13 (Trixie) official repositories. Compatibility with the library versions on other distros is not guaranteed.
cmake -B build
cmake --build build
sudo cmake --install build