mir
The Mir compositor (by canonical)
bspwm
A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning (by baskerville)
| mir | bspwm | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 92 | |
| 580 | 7,524 | |
| 1.4% | - | |
| 9.9 | 1.0 | |
| 2 days ago | 19 days ago | |
| C++ | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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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.
mir
Posts with mentions or reviews of mir.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-28.
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GLFW has merged proper support for client-side window decorations on Wayland!
If you find the list "odd" feel free to change it on Wikipedia. Also Mir is literally a Wayland compositor as stated by the git repo. To my limited understanding (I never done anything with it, I only saw it on the Wikipedia list) it's quite similar to wlroots.
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Interesting opinions on the shortcomings of Wayland
i see mir development still active on github tho https://github.com/MirServer/mir
- Can some one explain to me in basic terms why snaps are so disliked?
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How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One
People have already mentioned wlroots as a starting point, but there is a less opinionated and more compatible (NVIDIA-ready) library that I’m really quite fond of called Mir: https://github.com/MirServer/mir
One thing to note, Wayland, unlike X, does not support server side decorations yet, so compositor’s responsibilities are mostly just placing windows.
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Linux development sucks
Mir is not dead, it's a Wayland Compositor : https://github.com/MirServer/mir
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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mir and bspwm you can also consider the following projects:
hello-wayland - A hello world Wayland client (mirror)
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
sowm - An itsy bitsy floating window manager (220~ sloc!).
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
natwm - Not A Tiling Window Manager
i3-gaps - i3-gaps – i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3)
2bwm - A fast floating WM written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm.
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
tinywm - The tiniest window manager.
bismuth - KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.
kawa - A small Wayland compositor inspired by Plan 9's rio.
herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11