dots-hyprland VS PaperWM

Compare dots-hyprland vs PaperWM and see what are their differences.

dots-hyprland

Modern, feature-rich and accessible desktop configuration. (by end-4)

PaperWM

Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell (by paperwm)
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dots-hyprland PaperWM
5 37
2,532 2,663
- 3.3%
9.9 9.8
7 days ago 3 days ago
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dots-hyprland

Posts with mentions or reviews of dots-hyprland. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-23.
  • Hyprland Crash Course
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2024
    My work on AGS, so far, has been mostly focused on adding support for additional features that weren't available before. I implemented the possibility to write your own PolKit agent in AGS and have just recently gotten secure session locking via the ext-session-lock-v1 Wayland protocol working. I still need to clean up the code and send PRs upstream, though.

    That said, my config is available on GitHub [0]. If you want to see much more complete setups, you should check out the configurations by Aylur (creator of AGS) [1], kotontrion [2], or end_4 [3]. I'm sure there are lots more that are notable, but these immediately came to mind.

    [0] https://github.com/Cu3PO42/gleaming-glacier/tree/next/config...

    [1] https://github.com/Aylur/dotfiles

    [2] https://github.com/kotontrion/dotfiles

    [3] https://github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland

  • How do I use the Dotfiles?
    1 project | /r/hyprland | 26 Oct 2023
    I am new to hyprland and want to learn to customize. Before making my own, I wanted to look and install other's configs to learn how they. So I found this dots git.
  • Rethinking Window Management in Gnome
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jul 2023
    > What made you choose hyprland over sway?

    The number of people talking about how great it was, while it's much more recent that sway.

    Eyecandy is important to, so is flexibility: check https://github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland and you'll see very different styles made from the same hyprland that I use in "each window is fullscreen" mode.

    But to stay with a desktop, you've got to integrate it to your workflow.

  • What is your favourite Hyprland dotfiles/configuration?
    2 projects | /r/hyprland | 6 Jun 2023
    Pure insanity https://github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland/tree/main
  • New osu!lazer preview just dropped!
    1 project | /r/osugame | 20 May 2023
    I'm afraid you will need osu!supporter for that >! It's in the original post's image (blog post link in my reply) if you didn't notice, may check each branch for correct version, since it seems to include multiple rices !<

PaperWM

Posts with mentions or reviews of PaperWM. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-30.
  • Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
    35 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Nov 2023
  • PaperWM: Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2023
  • Rethinking Window Management in Gnome
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jul 2023
  • Why doesn't Gnome have native tiling?
    1 project | /r/gnome | 10 Jun 2023
    But with auto-tiling you need to place windows according to a pre-set configuration, it needs to fit whatever layout you want to go for and it needs to be able to resize the window without breaking the content. This works pretty well for libadwaita apps, but a lot of webapps seem to assume a certain minimum window size. Another issue is how to handle modal dialogues, where paperwm for example sets an override to ensure they're not attached to the main window. Should the settings window then be treated as a separate window and tiled, or should it be left floating above all others?
  • PaperWM – Scrolling Window Manager for Gnome
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 May 2023
  • Fedora is really good
    1 project | /r/Fedora | 18 Apr 2023
    I like Gnome's simplicity, agree with most of its deviations from the tired old Windowsy desktop status quo, and am very happy to depend on all its great integration work. I can't quite live with the simplistic window management, but extensions cover that (as they do much else). With Fedora + Gnome + PaperWM, I'm quite at peace with the current linux desktop situation.
  • Bismuth likely going to be deprecated after 5.27
    2 projects | /r/kde | 31 Jan 2023
    Still I'm looking forward for something like PaperWM to be possible in KDE - or even to write it by myself
  • Elementary OS 7
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jan 2023
    I have noticed in one of your comments in this thread that you are looking for novel ideas of the UI look. As others commenters stated, you might be interested in tiling window managers like i3 [0] or sway [1]. They are truly a gem for productivity and sometimes for an eye [2].

    However, I love the concept of scrollable window manager like PaperWM [3] is. When I had a smaller screen (24" 16:9) I was complaining a lot on unused space on my screen. With PaperWM I was finally happy with its dimensions, because I could have huge IDE on the left and small part of terminal displayed on the right. That way I knew if something was printed to terminal, while my editor took 80% of the screen.

    [0]: https://i3wm.org/

    [1]: https://swaywm.org/

    [2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/

    [3]: https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM

  • How do i make linux not just a different version of windows
    4 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 18 Jan 2023
    If you want something really different, give PaperWM a shot.
  • 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop
    3 projects | /r/linux | 25 Dec 2022
    You may want to try PaperWM (GNOME extension) https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dots-hyprland and PaperWM you can also consider the following projects:

dotfiles - dotfiles for my NixOS linux rices

material-shell - A modern desktop interface for Linux. Improve your user experience and get rid of the anarchy of traditional desktop workflows. Designed to simplify navigation and reduce the need to manipulate windows in order to improve productivity. It's meant to be 100% predictable and bring the benefits of tools coveted by professionals to everyone.

linux-configurations - Linux Configurations

gnome-shell-extension-appindicator - Adds KStatusNotifierItem support to the Shell

dots - Nothing here but Dotfiles & Customization 💫

kwin-tiling - Tiling script for kwin

unity-x

shell - Pop!_OS Shell

hyprdots - // Aesthetic, dynamic and minimal dots for Arch hyprland

Rectangle - Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas

ags - A customizable and extensible shell

Grid-Tiling-Kwin - A kwin script that automatically tiles windows