dwl
dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg (by djpohly)
qtile
:cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland) (by qtile)
| dwl | qtile | |
|---|---|---|
| 46 | 104 | |
| 1,950 | 4,761 | |
| - | 1.1% | |
| 8.9 | 9.5 | |
| 10 months ago | 1 day ago | |
| C | Python | |
| 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.
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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
qtile
Posts with mentions or reviews of qtile.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-06.
- Show HN: Arbitrarily nestable tabs and splits for the qtile window manager
- Qtile window move/resize behavior as in bspwm?
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How to install on Ubuntu: my solution
Btw. if you're installing from pip anyway, I HIGHLY recommend using git master's version (pip install git+https://github.com/qtile/qtile). It's very stable and it contains a lot of improvements, features and - mostly important - bug fixes, especially because the fact that the last 0.22.1 release is almost one year old. The current master works fine with xcffib 1.4 and cairocffi 1.6 (the newest possible versions).
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Qtile Logs in to a Blank Screen
Yes, all the dependencies listed in qtile.org are installed.
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docs.qtile.org down? Any information to be found?
I think yesterday qtile.org itself seemed to be working properly. Now it is also offline.
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Fixed! Thank you
Did you see the changelog? https://github.com/qtile/qtile/blob/master/CHANGELOG
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my terminal gone ? setings gone etc..i just remove python
You need to have xcffib in version 1.3.0 and you probably have 1.4.0. You also need cairocffi 1.5.1 and you probably have 1.6.0, so it will fail as the next step. Install correct versions or wait until https://github.com/qtile/qtile/pull/4289 is merged.
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Please consider joining the Reddit blackout
Meanwhile users can still communicate and ask questions in the official Github discussion board: https://github.com/qtile/qtile/discussions or alternatively in IRC irc://irc.oftc.net:6667/qtile during the blackout time period.
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How fedora workstation will run on this laptop?
Hello 👋, I use Gnome for my ThinkPad it works nice for me. But giving your ram I would suggest a window manager like Qtile which I prefer and I am about move from Gnome to it when I finish my configurations. But if you want something which will be usable out of the box Xfce is a nice choice too as people mentioned above. 😁😁 Here is the link to GitHub for Qtile if you want to give it a glance https://github.com/qtile/qtile
- Wayland problems
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dwl and qtile you can also consider the following projects:
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
Hyprland - Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
dwm - Luke's build of dwm
bspwm-rounded - Fork of bspwm (baskerville) and the rounded corners patch (Javyre), but more up-to-date
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
leftwm - A tiling window manager for Adventurers
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
dwm-flexipatch - A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time
waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad