awesome
awesome window manager (by awesomeWM)
waymonad
A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad (by waymonad)
| awesome | waymonad | |
|---|---|---|
| 223 | 21 | |
| 6,129 | 828 | |
| 0.8% | 0.4% | |
| 7.2 | 0.0 | |
| 13 days ago | almost 5 years ago | |
| Lua | Haskell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
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awesome
Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome.
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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
waymonad
Posts with mentions or reviews of waymonad.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-02.
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X11 is dead, switch to Wayland
I am personally waiting for Waymonad. https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad
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With rise of wayland, are simpler window managers dying?
It takes time, but the teams behind wlroots etc are doing good work to make sure that wms managed by smaller teams can exist. There are even clones for your specific wm on wayland. See https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad
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switching from awesomewm to a wayland compositor
In addition, there was the last commit in 2019. Thus, it can be assumed that the project is dead and therefore nothing will change on the current state. And according to https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad/issues/44, there are probably not enough people who would actively participate in a fork.
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I was in a stream and I realized what is still lacking from Linux Gaming to be mainstream
Ideally xmonad would be ported/xmonad devs would be working on waymonad, but I doubt it will happen. Waymonad seems to be abandoned.
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Cool Desktops Don’t Change
Nice to see Qtile on Wayland. But I'm personally waiting for xmonad on Wayland.
https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad
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A tiling desktop environment is now available for Bullseye
I wouldn't count on it, as Waymonad has not seen active development since 2019 and the Haskell bindings to wlroots have not been updated since 2019 as well. There is a fork, but it has not been active since September 2021. Also, it was based on wlroots, not sway.
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How hard would it be to make my own window manager?
That's what the XMonad fans are using: https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad lets you write your Wayland compositor in Haskell, is analogy to the way XMonad lets you write your X window manager in Haskell.
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I would not give up haskell for hiring purposes. I think it will exponentialy rise through the roof in a year or two [2012]
Unfortunately it was abandoned https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad/issues/44
- Is there a successful Wayand wm that is close to xmonad?
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Little advice, please.
regarding keeping an interest, waymonad has been dead for something like two and a half years but according to startrack it's still getting people giving him stars so i don't think you should worry about it.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing awesome and waymonad you can also consider the following projects:
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
pywal - 🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
Hardcode-Tray - Fixes Hardcoded tray icons in Linux
ibus - Intelligent Input Bus for Linux/Unix
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
autotiling - Script for sway and i3 to automatically switch the horizontal / vertical window split orientation