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Top 23 window-manager Open-Source Projects
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winbox
WinBox is a modern HTML5 window manager for the web: lightweight, outstanding performance, no dependencies, fully customizable, open source!
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qtile
:cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
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bismuth
Discontinued KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.
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Project mention: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-09I use Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst in my day to day. Slightly different management philosophy but one that works well for me.
Project mention: Is there a way I can tell which exit node I am using from CLI in Linux? | /r/Tailscale | 2023-12-08I'd like to just be able to write a short shell script to check if an exit node is in use, and then pipe that output into polybar which I use anyway. The problem is that I can't find an option in the tailscale Linux CLI client that will show me whether I'm using an exit node or not. Is there a way to do this?
My windows manager is awesome. No really, I mean it, it’s awesome. ↩
Project mention: WiFi and Ethernet disconnecting on Asus X670E-E (AX210 / I225-V) | /r/archcraft | 2023-07-05I did try other kernels and what worked with me is to basically create a custom arch install. There seems to be a specific kernel/driver combination that works well with the WiFi/Ethernet drivers on my board and I can't just force some wifi drivers on the current kernel (I think 81.ucode is the latest one for the wifi but its using a version lower than that which I've already tested by force loading). For now I'm very much thankful that you can basically study and copy Archcraft's code/packages/configs (and my backups as well) and set it up on my custom arch install though it did take a few hours but I probably managed to restore 90% of my previous setup as everything is already on github. As a bonus, I did use u/adi1090x polybar-themes as well (https://github.com/adi1090x/polybar-themes) and study to integrate that pywal effect and basically add and integrate that on top of the default themes. But its just too cumbersome to edit one by one rather than having an already available distro so I'm still hoping for a permanent fix if any of you guys have an idea.
sudo apt install git node-typescript make git clone https://github.com/pop-os/shell.git cd shell
Project mention: Show HN: Arbitrarily nestable tabs and splits for the qtile window manager | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-06
Project mention: AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-06Nice to see another twm on macOS.
Somehow over the past few years Windows became the more vibrant platform for twms (vs macOS) with developers (including myself) trying to push the envelope and introduce many quality of life features you still won't find even in Linux twms today.
https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi
https://github.com/glzr-io/glazewm
https://github.com/dalyIsaac/Whim
Project mention: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-09yabal requires quite some privileges. Did you check out https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace ?
Project mention: Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-18What level are you interested in scripting? In KDE Plasma you can interact with the desktop UI via JS: https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/scripting/
And then for something more sophisticated there are extensions like https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth.
It does all feel a little disorganized/wild-west-y compared to say, a .vimrc with a list of plugins and bindings, which is something that makes a system like Nix (or a fully containerized DE of some kind) appealing
Project mention: Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-18Unusable until moving your mouse to the edges of the screen and clicking makes it hit the scrollbar, or the exit button. Right now it initiates a resize.
Illustrated example from a different compositor https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/issues/570
It's the only DE I'm excited about it so I hope they fix that. Very very promising and the best part is that it made the GNOME people mad.
GNOME: "Sorry I don't see the use case for that, PR closed. Make your own project. "
The only solution I've found for addressing this in any meaningful way is AltSnap[0], which lets me avoid needing to find window borders for any resizing or moving operations.
[0]: https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltSnap/releases
Project mention: Win-Vind: Vim powers with speed of thought throughout Windows 11 | /r/patient_hackernews | 2023-11-14
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
window-manager discussion
window-manager related posts
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Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
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AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
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Correcting iBus/X-Windows compose key conflicts
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Show HN: Arbitrarily nestable tabs and splits for the qtile window manager
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Tiled scrollable window manager for macOS
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Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features
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Windows Alt-Tab on macOS
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Index
What are some of the best open-source window-manager projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | Amethyst | 14,356 |
| 2 | polybar | 13,655 |
| 3 | alt-tab-macos | 9,954 |
| 4 | awesome | 6,180 |
| 5 | winbox | 6,133 |
| 6 | polybar-themes | 5,534 |
| 7 | shell | 4,736 |
| 8 | qtile | 4,641 |
| 9 | react-mosaic | 4,084 |
| 10 | glazewm | 3,841 |
| 11 | xmonad | 3,278 |
| 12 | AeroSpace | 2,999 |
| 13 | river | 2,998 |
| 14 | archcraft | 2,877 |
| 15 | leftwm | 2,766 |
| 16 | PaperWM | 2,743 |
| 17 | awesome-ricing | 2,406 |
| 18 | bismuth | 2,393 |
| 19 | wayfire | 2,289 |
| 20 | AltSnap | 1,886 |
| 21 | NsCDE | 1,857 |
| 22 | win-vind | 1,694 |
| 23 | workspacer | 1,622 |
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