dunst VS swappy

Compare dunst vs swappy and see what are their differences.

dunst

Lightweight and customizable notification daemon (by dunst-project)

swappy

A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS (by jtheoof)
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dunst swappy
42 21
4,251 870
2.2% -
8.8 3.3
17 days ago 15 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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dunst

Posts with mentions or reviews of dunst. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-11.

swappy

Posts with mentions or reviews of swappy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dunst and swappy you can also consider the following projects:

mako - A lightweight Wayland notification daemon

awesome - awesome window manager

spicetify-themes - A community-driven collection of themes for customizing Spotify through Spicetify - https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli

rofi - A huge collection of Rofi based custom Applets, Launchers & Powermenus.

rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

gruvbox - Retro groove color scheme for Vim

bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

herbe - Daemon-less notifications without D-Bus. Minimal and lightweight.

polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

grim - Grab images from a Wayland compositor

mpv-image-viewer - Configuration, scripts and tips for using mpv as an image viewer