dwl
dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg (by djpohly)
leftwm
A tiling window manager for Adventurers (by leftwm)
| dwl | leftwm | |
|---|---|---|
| 46 | 23 | |
| 1,950 | 2,980 | |
| - | 0.3% | |
| 8.9 | 8.0 | |
| over 1 year ago | 14 days ago | |
| C | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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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.
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.
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How to patch dwl?
Patching autostart:
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steamvr now working on DWL
If any of you have attempted to use SteamVR with DWL then you probably ran into the same issue I did. It doesn't have support for DRM leasing, so it can't actually show an image on the headset.
- [Arch Linux] Migrer vers Wayland
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[Q] Lightweight Linux for Low-End Gaming
DWL
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Can someone recommend a compositor to me?
Have you checked DWL which is DWM for Wayland? I haven't tried it yet so I can't say anything more.
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Master and Stack setup
There's a python script called stacki3 that works both on i3wm and sway. There is also a dwm clone for wayland called dwl.
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I actually use linux because its objectively better
I currently use dwl which is much, much lighter than i3 and suits my needs. On my laptop I just don't have a window manager of any kind installed, I can get by with lynx and the TTY.
- Ideas for system compositor
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Help needed with Wayland (riverwm and dwl) on Void Linux
I wanted to try two wayland compositors out (specifically dwl and river) and cannot for the life of me seem to get it working properly. I am currently doing this inside a VirtualBox vm.
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dwl > ~/dwltags not updat the file
[0] https://github.com/djpohly/dwl
leftwm
Posts with mentions or reviews of leftwm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-08-26.
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Linux: We Need Tiling Desktop Environments
I'm surprised there hasn't been any mention of my favorite rust based tiling windows manager - leftwm (https://github.com/leftwm/leftwm?tab=readme-ov-file#why-go-l...)
- Any new Opensource projects in (rust) looking for contributors. I want to start my journey as an OSS contributor.
- if I wanted to make a Tiling Window Manager in Rust, how would I go about it?
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Where should I adventure myself
(Also I wouldn't mind if you want to contribute to leftwm ;))
- LeftWM – A tiling window manager for Adventurers
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Preferred DE/WM?
LeftWM if you are adventurous and want to support more Rust projects on Linux.
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Picom backend optimization
I'm using a tiling window manager (LeftWM) and picom with experimental backends for compositing. I'm running into issues configuring picom for use on my laptop when I am on battery power. Two problems arise:
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Is there a good tutorial for writing an X11 Tiling Window manager in Rust?
I've looked at these: - DWM: A popular, compact WM written in C - LeftWM: A popular, configurable WM written in Rust - GabelstaplerWM: An obscure, compact WM written in Rust - XCB DWM: An abandoned rewrite of DWM using XCB
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Arch + Tiling Window Manager
Been using and liking LeftWM: https://github.com/leftwm/leftwm
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Different window managers (e.g. tiling) on Windows?
In particular, I think that "ultrawide-vertical-stack" (based on "CenterMain" from LeftWM) is quite close to what you are looking for. Give it a try with komorebic change-layout ultrawide-vertical-stack!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dwl and leftwm you can also consider the following projects:
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
komorebi - A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
i3-and-kde-plasma - How to install the i3 window manager on KDE
Hyprland - Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
wayland-rs - Rust implementation of the wayland protocol (client and server).