arcan
Arcan - [Display Server, Multimedia Framework, Game Engine] -> "Desktop Engine" (by letoram)
gluon
a modular framework for creating OpenWrt-based firmwares for wireless mesh nodes (by freifunk-gluon)
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| arcan | gluon | |
|---|---|---|
| 33 | 2 | |
| 1,491 | 536 | |
| - | 0.9% | |
| 8.2 | 9.5 | |
| 13 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| C | Lua | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
arcan
Posts with mentions or reviews of arcan.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.
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Is there a cross-platform graphics library that can run without X or wayland that runs on the BSD's bare-metal?
Something like this ? https://arcan-fe.com/
- X.org Alternatives? MicroXWin, Wayland, Y, DFB, Xynth, Fresco, etc. (2009)
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kirby.nvim: design update
This requires to remove the terminal emulator plus adjust IPC, like what arcan is doing: https://github.com/letoram/arcan
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VT330/VT340 Sixel Graphics
kragen, what's the current status of BubbleOS?
Also, I'm curious what you think of Arcan (https://arcan-fe.com)
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Qt Wayland: support for surviving a compositor crash was merged
afair ChromeOS do implement it, harder to find the commit but also know Arcan mentioned elsewhere in this thread added it quite a while ago https://github.com/letoram/arcan/commit/d547c55565a848946422e24eee324c8ed091ff15
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not the biggest Xorg fan, but it isn't all sunshine and rainbows in the promised Wayland.
I managed to find this one in my history: Arcan it does has a cool name ngl, I never tried it though
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Wayland blows ass and mostly functions as a launcher for x.org processes. Nobody needs, wants or asked for Wayland. It's nobody's fault but the assholes at FreeDesktop
Lol not arcan
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A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell
See https://arcan-fe.com/, in particular Lash: https://arcan-fe.com/2022/10/15/whipping-up-a-new-shell-lash...
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Is Wayland really the best solution
LOL. Not. Meanwhile, one dude managed to write an entire display server that handles, both, Wayland and X11 apps: https://arcan-fe.com/
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SDL Tries Again To Prefer Wayland Over X11
Arcan is a decent contender for an actual way forward (and like PipeWire replacing PulseAudio, Arcan natively supports X11 and Wayland clients)
gluon
Posts with mentions or reviews of gluon.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-16.
- [Router] NETGEAR 4-Stream WiFi 6 Dual-Band Gigabit Router (WAX202) AX1800 $29.99
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Can I turn Linksys WRT3200ACM into a mesh router?
Mediatek actually working with the open-source community. Complaints about mt76 have washed away because of this type of support.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing arcan and gluon you can also consider the following projects:
hello-wayland - A hello world Wayland client (mirror)
mwlwifi - mac80211 driver for the Marvell 88W8864 802.11ac chip
waybox - An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP)
libuhttpd - A very flexible, lightweight and high performance HTTP server library based on libev and http-parser for Embedded Linux.
openbsd-wip - OpenBSD work in progress ports
lede - Lean's LEDE source
ydotool - Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)
premake-core - Premake
glaucus - A simple and lightweight Linux® distribution based on musl libc and toybox
xmake - 🔥 A cross-platform build utility based on Lua
rdrview - Firefox Reader View as a command line tool
Weechat - The extensible chat client.