aphelia VS dwl

Compare aphelia vs dwl and see what are their differences.

aphelia

A light, single-file, minimalist window manager for X11. (by vardy)

dwl

dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg (by djpohly)
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aphelia dwl
2 46
179 1,950
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0.0 8.9
over 4 years ago 5 months ago
C C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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aphelia

Posts with mentions or reviews of aphelia. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-14.
  • [aphelia] Small visual changes to my application launcher!
    1 project | /r/unixart | 5 Jun 2023
    aphelia, OpenBSD, feh, conky, a compositor, my own launcher, the university tea cup.
  • Wayland in 2021
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Mar 2021
    I think Wayland, and the modern desktop in general too, has forgot about a few good ideas that the original X system had. I will miss them once Wayland has taken over:

    - A unified way to change applications settings. All old X apps used to read the X resources database (xrdb): you could set a global color scheme, fonts, window geometry and what not, all in one place using a simple but powerful text format.

    - The simplicity of the window managers, hotkey daemons and other X clients. You can implement a functional wm in a few hundred lines of C[1] because the X server takes care of most of the stuff. In comparison a compositor has much more work to do and it's difficult to implement one, unless using a big library like wl_roots.

    - A base graphics API based on drawing primitives like the original X, SVG or Cairo, rather than just bitmaps. This would make writing a simple application without importing huge frameworks feasible again. Also sending the drawing calls over the network would probably be less bandwidth intensive.

    [1]: https://github.com/vardy/aphelia

dwl

Posts with mentions or reviews of dwl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing aphelia and dwl you can also consider the following projects:

yagostatus - Yet Another i3status replacement written in Go

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

dwm - Luke's build of dwm

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

leftwm - A tiling window manager for Adventurers

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

dwm-flexipatch - A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time

wayland - Core Wayland protocol and libraries (mirror)

kanshi - Dynamic display configuration (mirror)

spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

velox - A C++ vectorized database acceleration library aimed to optimizing query engines and data processing systems.