| iii | velox | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | |
| 30 | 471 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 10 years ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Shell | C | |
| The Unlicense | 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.
iii
Posts with mentions or reviews of iii.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-20.
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xorg sucks, use swc
IRC client: weechat, irssi, iii, ii,erc;
velox
Posts with mentions or reviews of velox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-26.
- Velox is a simple window manager based on swc
- Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
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Wayland section in site
velox https://github.com/michaelforney/velox
- What does the suckless Community think of Wayland?
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xorg sucks, use swc
Combine this with the velox dwm-inspired window manager and you have yourself a full graphical wayland environment in about 12k sloc. I don't really see a reason to keep xorg so I will be purging it from all of my machines.
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X is Boomer
Combine this with the velox tiling-wm (2897 sloc), and you have a full, hackable tiling wm in about 13k Lines of static C code.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing iii and velox you can also consider the following projects:
void-packages - The Void source packages collection
dwm - LEV Linux's window manager (a fork of dwm)
nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
wayland - Core Wayland protocol and libraries (mirror)
swc - a library for making a simple Wayland compositor
kanshi - Dynamic display configuration (mirror)
vivarium - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots
samurai - ninja-compatible build tool written in C
waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg