go-wlroots
Go binding for wlroots (by swaywm)
nwg-bar
GTK3-based button bar for wlroots-based compositors (by nwg-piotr)
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| go-wlroots | nwg-bar | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | |
| 115 | 105 | |
| 2.6% | - | |
| 5.5 | 6.9 | |
| about 1 month ago | 2 months ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.
go-wlroots
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-wlroots.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-31.
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What libraries would allow drawing windowless overlays?
For Sway you can use the go bindings for wlroots. https://github.com/swaywm/go-wlroots
nwg-bar
Posts with mentions or reviews of nwg-bar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-12.
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nwg-bar 0.1.5
Release notes
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(Fedora 38 + Hyprland) - I am at home, my search is over.
nwg-bar (power menu & options)
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Question for windows resize & floating window
For 3. I use nwg-bar and put a small power glyph (nerd font) on the top right of my waybar that triggers the popup on click.
- A dock for Wayland - How to get started? Basic information? Is it a compositor?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing go-wlroots and nwg-bar you can also consider the following projects:
glfw - Go bindings for GLFW 3
nwg-launchers - GTK-based launchers: application grid, button bar, dmenu for sway and other window managers
Ebiten - Ebitengine - A dead simple 2D game engine for Go
nwg-look - GTK3 settings editor adapted to work in the wlroots environment
macdriver - Native Mac APIs for Go. Soon to be renamed DarwinKit!
nwg-dock - GTK3-based dock for sway
clipman - A simple clipboard manager for Wayland
Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:
go-python3 - Go bindings to the CPython-3 API
pasystray - PulseAudio system tray
nwg-drawer - Application drawer for wlroots-based Wayland compositors