Credits and licences

Code and configuration

Pocket Dots is by Diego Malagrida. Its code and configuration are available under GPL-3.0. Third-party artwork, fonts and other material keep their own licences.

Projects and contributions

Project	Its part in Pocket
Hyprland	The compositor, windows and workspaces.
Quickshell	The shell’s QML interface and system integrations.
Impasto, by Andreu Massanet	Settings previews and tabs, profiles, launcher learning, display arrangement, and the idea of pets that live in the shell.
caelestia · end-4 / illogical-impulse	The single-surface architecture and shared design tokens.
surface-dots · Tide-island	Ideas for reading mode, battery health, cover-art accent and touchpad scrolling.
wl_shimeji	The desktop companion daemon.
Eevee by cachomon	The shimeji poses used as a template.
PokeAPI	Pokédex data, sprites and cries.
plymouth-pokemon	The boot splash generator.
hypr-dynamic-cursors · Bibata	Cursor behaviour and artwork.
termspot	The Spotify theme.

Also built on pywal, awww, cava, kitty, yazi, zsh, powerlevel10k, Thunar, PipeWire, hyprlock and Spicetify. The repository README keeps the desktop’s full attribution alongside the code.

The paintings

The landscape collection includes these public-domain works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access collection:

• Andreas Achenbach, Sunset after a Storm on the Coast of Sicily, 1853.

• Johan Christian Dahl, An Eruption of Vesuvius, 1824.

• Albert Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak, 1863.

• Katsushika Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa, ca. 1830–32.

• Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow, 1836.

• Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889.

• Caspar David Friedrich, Two Men Contemplating the Moon, ca. 1825–30.

• Winslow Homer, Moonlight, Wood Island Light, 1894.

The mountain-village wallpaper also appears in the desktop’s existing screenshots and starter collection. Its original attribution hasn’t been established. The wallpaper folder’s SOURCES.md records what is known about the collection. The code’s GPL licence doesn’t grant a licence to those images.

Anime and pixel worlds

The featured wallpapers come from Diego’s own Pocket wallpaper collection, including the Gyarados Great Wave and the pixel-art Pokémon forest. Original filenames are retained in the landscape data; known provenance is recorded in the collection’s SOURCES.md. The original images and characters remain their owners’ work.

Pokémon

Pokémon is a trademark of Nintendo, Creatures Inc. and GAME FREAK inc. Sprite images in this guide come from the PokeAPI sprites collection. Pocket is a personal desktop project and isn’t affiliated with those companies.

This field guide

The guide uses Newsreader and DM Sans. The desktop preview adds Adwaita Sans and JetBrains Mono Nerd Font Mono. These webfonts are served locally under the SIL Open Font License, with their licence texts included. The clock uses the locally installed Pokémon face when available and falls back to the UI face, matching Pocket’s own behaviour. The terminal’s animated Pokémon sprites come from the PokeAPI collection, with still alternatives for reduced motion.

Each wallpaper in the preview has a Pokémon chosen to match it. The page loads the selected sprite when you choose a wallpaper.

The chapter screenshots and recordings were captured from the Pocket desktop. The desktop preview and interactive notch example are browser illustrations based on Pocket’s QML panels. Their application icons come from the locally installed applications: kitty, Google Chrome, Spotify, Thunar, Visual Studio Code, Yazi and Vesktop. Those names and marks belong to their respective owners.