awesome
awesome window manager (by awesomeWM)
spectrwm
A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. (by conformal)
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| awesome | spectrwm | |
|---|---|---|
| 223 | 26 | |
| 6,110 | 1,298 | |
| 1.5% | 1.5% | |
| 7.2 | 8.1 | |
| 12 days ago | 9 days ago | |
| Lua | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | ISC License |
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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
Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-23.
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Hyprland Crash Course
https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/3132
- Size of clients in the Master area
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Any plans on porting to wayland?
i'm reading this issue and this thread as i'm looking into migrate to wayland, since sooner or later we'll apparently have (i know this won't be very soon, but wayland is more and more mainstream). I know "any update on this?" is very annoying, and that's why i'm not open an issue, but... Any update on this?
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selecting menu options without releasing right click
I guess, it's not supported at the moment or you'll have to do some hacks.. There is this issue (#3777) with the same problem.
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[HELP] Dynamically change menu item title based on client.focus.maximized state
This is the correction in awesome-git: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/pull/3657/files
- How to replicate this desktop?
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A linux newbie has installed and configured Arch. Minimalist graphical capabilities?
I use the Awesome Window Manager. At it's core, it's a little difficult to figure out. But once you get the hang of assigning hot keys and whatnot, You'll be able to use it more fluently. I use it on all 3 of my machines (two desktops and one laptop). I Love it! I copy my configs from the machine I started it with and put them on the other 2 machines. Works great!
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How to install and setup lightdm and awesomewm?
git clone https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome.git
- awful.keygrabber help
- new to awesome
spectrwm
Posts with mentions or reviews of spectrwm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-17.
- spectrwm 3.5.0 released!
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Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
I use the tiling WM spectrwm. It lets me pull windows out of tiling mode and into window mode. I think a common operation on most tiling window managers. Most of the time I don't want overlapping windows(thus the tiling WM) but every once in a while I do, so the best of both worlds.
It is a bit obscure but I quite like spectrwm, it fills this sweet spot where it is much simpler than I3 but much more feature complete than DWM.
https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm
- No abre el terminal
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Please help me with LD_PRELOAD
are you using spectrwm? it seems like this file comes from there, and they use it to make programs open in particular workspaces: https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm/issues/500
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What exactly is a tiling window manager?
Here is one website with screenshots. https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm
- Install spectrwm from git?
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Easy window manager?
Spectrwm is by far the easiest WM I've tested. Also Fluxbox is pretty much straightforward.
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Which WM should I use ?
Spectrwm is by far the most beginner-friendly WM I've ever tested. Im now running EXWM the buffers management is something else.
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How can I undo mod+v?
I'm a recent convert to i3/sway, after a solid decade using spectrwm (which has not been ported to Wayland, I'm afraid).
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Spectrwm bar class name?
This is supposedly fixed in the master branch, but there has been no release in over a year - I'll just set corner and shadow excludes and sit down. I'll notice when a new release is here :)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing awesome and spectrwm you can also consider the following projects:
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad
dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
i3-auto-layout - Automatic, optimal tiling for i3wm
pywal - 🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)
Hardcode-Tray - Fixes Hardcoded tray icons in Linux
herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg