dotfiles VS vivarium

Compare dotfiles vs vivarium and see what are their differences.

dotfiles

My desktop and WSL configuration files (by JavaCafe01)

vivarium

A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots (by inclement)
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dotfiles vivarium
9 5
566 347
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6.0 2.8
almost 2 years ago 7 months ago
Lua C
The Unlicense GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-06.

vivarium

Posts with mentions or reviews of vivarium. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-26.
  • With rise of wayland, are simpler window managers dying?
    14 projects | /r/linux | 26 Aug 2022
    Take a look to Vivarium It is more recent it worked decently and it is remakably easy to config.
  • I am looking for a wayland based tiling window manager which is close to dwm/xmonad, which one would you recommend?
    4 projects | /r/wayland | 11 Oct 2021
    I wrote Vivarium specifically to behave like my old xmonad setup, although it isn't at all like xmonad internally. It's configurable in C.
  • XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Oct 2021
    Since various people are asking about xmonad-like tiling in wayland:

    I wrote Vivarium[0] specifically to be a wayland compositor that behaves exactly like my (fairly simple) xmonad config, but it's a relatively new/unstable compositor and nothing like xmonad internally.

    River[1] has a fantastic tiling model via user-provided executables, which makes it very flexible and probably a good fit for many people wanting something xmonad-like.

    Waymonad[2] exists as a direct xmonad-like compositor, but I think development has been basically stalled for a long time. Sometimes there's discussion about reviving it though.

    [0] https://github.com/inclement/vivarium

    [1] https://github.com/ifreund/river

    [2] https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad

  • Recommended Compositors
    2 projects | /r/wayland | 31 Mar 2021
    Vivarium has xwayland as an option, enabled by default.
  • xorg sucks, use swc
    14 projects | /r/suckless | 20 Mar 2021
    https://github.com/inclement/vivarium.git and https://github.com/djpohly/dwl.git are also great projects in the same vein.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dotfiles and vivarium you can also consider the following projects:

qtile-polybar

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

titus-awesome - Custom AwesomeWM Theme

waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad

pycritty - CLI program that allows you to change your Alacritty config with one command without editing the config file.

velox - velox window manager

tyrannical - Dynamic tagging configuration system for awesomeWM

waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad

awesome-freedesktop - Freedesktop.org menu and desktop icons support for Awesome WM

qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)

picom - A lightweight compositor for X11

spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.