dwm
Luke's build of dwm (by LukeSmithxyz)
dwl
dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg (by djpohly)
| dwm | dwl | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 46 | |
| 781 | 1,950 | |
| - | - | |
| 3.3 | 8.9 | |
| about 1 month ago | 5 months ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
- Need help on patching luke's dwm with systray
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Tiling window manager for beginner
Pre-patched dwm, i.e Luke Smith's dwm
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Is it possible to patch an already heavily patched & customized build of suckless program?
I'm now trying out Luke Smith's dwm built on Arch. His build of dwm already utilize several patches and seems to be heavily customized. I tried to add the extrabar patch to it, but quickly noticed this is much more difficult than I thought:
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Trying to get Luke Smith's dwmblocks
I've got Luke Smith's dwm build and made some minor changes in the config, etc. https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/dwm
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DWM is so snappy
To this day, I'm using his build with some modifications of mine
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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dwm and dwl you can also consider the following projects:
dwmblocks - My status bar: my build of the modular dwmblocks
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
dwmblocks - Modular status bar for dwm written in c.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
dwm-flexipatch - A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time
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)
wayland - Core Wayland protocol and libraries (mirror)
kanshi - Dynamic display configuration (mirror)
spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.