dwl VS dwm

Compare dwl vs dwm and see what are their differences.

dwl

dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg (by djpohly)

dwm

Luke's build of dwm (by LukeSmithxyz)
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dwl dwm
46 5
1,950 777
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8.9 3.3
4 months ago 5 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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dwl

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

dwm

Posts with mentions or reviews of dwm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-04.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dwl and dwm you can also consider the following projects:

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

leftwm - A tiling window manager for Adventurers

qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)

dwm-flexipatch - A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time

wayland - Core Wayland protocol and libraries (mirror)

kanshi - Dynamic display configuration (mirror)

spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

velox - A C++ vectorized database acceleration library aimed to optimizing query engines and data processing systems.

velox - velox window manager

dwmblocks - My status bar: my build of the modular dwmblocks