bspwm
A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning (by baskerville)
picom
A lightweight compositor for X11 (by yshui)
| bspwm | picom | |
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| 92 | 109 | |
| 7,515 | 3,816 | |
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| 1.0 | 9.7 | |
| 10 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
bspwm
Posts with mentions or reviews of bspwm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-09.
- can't download and decompress git repo
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BSPWM?
Bspwm is a window manager. Configuration happens in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bspwm/bspwmrc, as per stated here: https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm
- Multiple screens with different resolutions?
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What WM should I use?
Use BSPWM. It supports right clicks by default and its modular. You might want to look for status bars that work with it, slstatus does not work. Good luck, supremacist!
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What are some OpenSource apps that are the best of their kind?
I had not heard of bspwm but I am a fan of telling WMs. Looking at the documentation now, I really like the pragmatic approach lol https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm
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Changing layout of node
If you use the bspwm off of github instead of the old 0.9.10, you can use bspc node @parent -y next to cycle the split type of the parent of the focused. I added it ~1.5years ago, after baskerville added node -y horizontal and node -y vertical to set the split type of a node to vertical/horizontal ~2 years ago.
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How to use dump and load state?
Also bspwm's JSON generation and parsing is not great. If you have a window with quotes in its class name, bspwm, when dumping it, will not escape them generating invalid JSON (e.g. {"className":"the "cool" window",) that jq will not be able to read, and even worse, bspwm itself will not be able to read. (Yes, if a window's class name contains a " character, bspwm will fail to reload after you run wm -r #1362).
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How to install bspwm on ubuntu-22.04 and config it?
Just follow this guide
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[bspwm] yine yeşillik ama biraz farklısından
Pencere yöneticisi: bspwm
picom
Posts with mentions or reviews of picom.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-18.
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Can't find picom and polybar default config files
(https://github.com/yshui/picom/blob/next/picom.sample.conf)
- ArchLinux sluggish on 4K monitor
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[photo] installing Debian :)
Also I took a census and zero founding members of NWA are "straight outta Picom". That's right, you heard it here first: Not even MC Ren is running Picom.
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FPS drops when scrolling in monocle layout with Picom
Update: after reporting in picom GitHub repo this is temporarily solved by using --no-frame-pacing. Looks like a recent commit causes this. You can view the discussion here: https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/1072
- Zoom in and zoom out in dwm?
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Compositor Options for Animations
NEED HELP TESTING (write your issues here): https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/1052
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[dwm] Beginning on linux desktop, first ricing
Compositor : picom
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In Picom with the rounded-corners setting how do you apply alpha to the menu list?
It looks like this was identified and the repo corrected in Jan (https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/808) but the NixOS package has not been updated since Nov.
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I have two Linux computers which I use for gaming.... somehow the one with slightly inferior hardware gets significantly better performance. I'm trying to figure out why... any ideas?
If you have compositing you are likely using picom. You can check if it's running with ps -A | grep picom. I've never dealt with this issue as I don't really game on linux often, but I'm sure there's a solution somewhere in the github docs or issues. Worst case scenario you could always just kill the process with killall picom whenever you're about to game, and re-enable it with picom -b after. Do note though that currently running windows might bug out a bit when you kill/start the compositor.
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What are WSL limitations compared with a pure linux install?
Picom is broken for me with GLX backend related Github issue.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing bspwm and picom you can also consider the following projects:
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
compton - A lightweight compositor for X11 [Moved to: https://github.com/yshui/picom]
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
compton - A compositor for X11.
i3-gaps - i3-gaps – i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3)
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
wayward - Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.
bismuth - KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.
herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11
void-packages - The Void source packages collection