awesome-wayland
A curated list of Wayland code and resources. (by natpen)
sway-launcher-desktop
TUI Application launcher with Desktop Entry support. Made for SwayWM, but runs anywhere (by Biont)
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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.
awesome-wayland
Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-wayland.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-22.
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Is Linux More Customizable Than Windows?
Yup. Here is an example list of things you can swap around. https://github.com/natpen/awesome-wayland
- Wayland section in site
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Moving from Plasma, to Sway, some
You didn't say whether your current config is based on X or Wayland therefore two links with Wayland applications. Are we Wsyland yet and awesome wayland
- When do you think you will switch to Wayland?
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Wayland Protocol Finally Ready for Fractional Scaling
plenty others of all sorts.
> auto keyboard/mouse scripting with xdotool
There's a few tools for this: https://github.com/natpen/awesome-wayland#tools
> not have unnecessary mouse/keyboard to monitor delay
There's none that I can notice. Mice cursor are rendered with hardware support
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With rise of wayland, are simpler window managers dying?
Here's one of many forks of an awesome-wayland repository that lists what's going on: https://github.com/natpen/awesome-wayland
- What are Wayland-native applications and where can I find them?
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Please do not ship work in progress to users: An open letter from developers to the wider Linux community
customization isn't killed, it just takes time to adapt to a new protocol. check out all the stuff you can do with wayland
- Is there a place to read about recommended SwayWM builds?
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Krohnkite still does not work in Wayland, and it has not been updated in more than a year. Any alternatives? Is it Kwin's fault?
More specifically, see: awesome-wayland and arewewaylandyet. Sway-addons also has interesting stuff in it, like wl-clipboard which is mostly compatible with Klipper.
sway-launcher-desktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of sway-launcher-desktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
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Sway-Talisman: Terminal Application Launcher in Scratchpad, Minimalist And Native
Is it better than https://github.com/Biont/sway-launcher-desktop ?
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command line menu / launcher?
I use sway-launcher-desktop. It does not really have submenus as you requested, but is still a nice terminal application launcher.
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Albert – open-source keyboard launcher for Linux
I don’t know if anything can beat sway-launcher-desktop (1) for me - bash and fzf are a lightning-fast combo.
1: https://github.com/Biont/sway-launcher-desktop
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Application launcher that displays application names correctly
Here's a list of other launchers for Sway, I personally use sway-launcher-desktop.
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Your favorite launcher ?
Now I use perfect TUI based sway-launcher-desktop
- Is there a place to read about recommended SwayWM builds?
- Goodbye Wofi, Hello FZF
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Duplicate .desktop entries for Visual Studio Code, which ones are the right ones?
Hi! I just started using sway-launcher-desktop, and I noticed that I have several duplicate entries for vscode.
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terminal + fzf as a program launcher?
Sounds like this script https://github.com/Biont/sway-launcher-desktop (it doesn't depend on sway anymore). I've been using it for ages and really like it.
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Overview Of The Unofficial Manjaro Sway Edition
It's sway-launcher-desktop.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing awesome-wayland and sway-launcher-desktop you can also consider the following projects:
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
yofi - yofi is a minimalistic menu for wayland
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
bismuth - KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.
betterlockscreen - 🍀 sweet looking lockscreen for linux system
kwin-tiling - Tiling script for kwin
xdg-xmenu - Minimal app menu with xmenu
xkeysnail - Yet another keyboard remapping tool for X environment
nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
ydotool - Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)
dotfiles - My arch setup script and dotfiles
awesome-wayland vs sway
sway-launcher-desktop vs yofi
awesome-wayland vs Visual Studio Code
sway-launcher-desktop vs rofi
awesome-wayland vs bismuth
sway-launcher-desktop vs betterlockscreen
awesome-wayland vs kwin-tiling
sway-launcher-desktop vs xdg-xmenu
awesome-wayland vs xkeysnail
sway-launcher-desktop vs nnn
awesome-wayland vs ydotool
sway-launcher-desktop vs dotfiles