j4-dmenu-desktop
A fast desktop menu (by enkore)
nwg-shell
Installer & meta-package for the nwg-shell project: a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors (by nwg-piotr)
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| 11 | 35 | |
| 655 | 736 | |
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| 9.0 | 8.7 | |
| 5 days ago | 13 days ago | |
| C++ | CSS | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
j4-dmenu-desktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of j4-dmenu-desktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-26.
- Arch Linux Updates Keep Breaking Packages (I've Given Up On Pacman!)
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running dmenu commands with arguments
you can run .desktop files with j4-dmenu-desktop
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tofi - a tiny rofi / dmenu for Sway
Not heard of that before, looks like similar points as for bemenu apply (tofi is faster and more themeable, but less polished overall). Tofi also doesn't support icons - not sure if it will to be honest, given the above comment that j4-dmenu-desktop can do the desktop file searching.
- kitty instead of xterm, can no longer spawn terminal based applications with dmenu or associated bindings
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Your favorite launcher ?
In case someone stumbles upon this post, I'd like to suggest using this in combination with j4-dmenu-desktop for use with .desktop files.
- dmenu_run cleaner and faster selection list
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.desktop file into dmenu
You should checkout this project
- Make dmenu read .desktop apps
- Ask HN: Cool dmenu-driven script ideas?
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Noob here, what is the "go-to" software at the moment?
https://github.com/enkore/j4-dmenu-desktop#readme https://github.com/sardemff7/j4status#readme
nwg-shell
Posts with mentions or reviews of nwg-shell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-03.
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Hyprland desktop environment without tinkering
nwg-shell
- nwg-shell: AUR updates issue resolved
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nwg-shell 0.5.8
Release notes
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nwg-shell 0.5.5
Could you please report directly on this thread? I don't do packaging for Fedora. There are two packagers, and I'm not sure if they did any progress lately.
- nwg-shell 0.5.3 released
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Best window manager for Arch with
Since this is your first foray into this world I’d suggest you look into nwg-shell. It’s a sway (and hyprland) based WM that brings some of the niceties of a desktop over to this WM world for you. It comes complete with a gui for setting all the configs, and 4 desktop options, plus the ability to change it to your hearts content. There’s a dock, an app drawer, wallpaper app, and tons of things to tinker with. It’s written in Go and Python and you can change pretty much anything however you want.
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May I remove the DwlTags module from nwg-panel?
This could be consider in the future. Please open a thread in Discussions before you submit a PR.
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nwg-shell 0.4.0 & nwg-shell-config 0.4.11 - slightly cumbersome update
See: https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-shell/discussions/58
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Is there any way to replicate material-shells's ui/ux in sway?
I would suggest the nwg-shell project
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nwg-panel 0.7.15
In case I might be of help in some way during packaging, just let me know, preferably through Discussions.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing j4-dmenu-desktop and nwg-shell you can also consider the following projects:
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
nwg-wrapper - Wrapper to display a script output or a text file content on the desktop in sway or other wlroots-based compositors
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
nwg-dock - GTK3-based dock for sway
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
nwg-panel - GTK3-based panel for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
dmenu-emoji - Search an emoji by name and copy it to the clipboard [i3, dmenu, rofi]
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
sway-launcher-desktop - TUI Application launcher with Desktop Entry support. Made for SwayWM, but runs anywhere
nwg-drawer - Application drawer for wlroots-based Wayland compositors
Marlin-2-0-x-Anycubic-i3-MEGA-S - Marlin 2.0.x Version for Anycubic i3 MEGA M/S/P/X/CHIRON and 4MAX with Anycubic TFT or the "new" DGUS Clone TFT - Now also with BLTouch!
Sway-DE - 🏠 Sway desktop environment dotfile installation for Arch Linux
j4-dmenu-desktop vs i3
nwg-shell vs nwg-wrapper
j4-dmenu-desktop vs rofi
nwg-shell vs nwg-dock
j4-dmenu-desktop vs sway
nwg-shell vs nwg-panel
j4-dmenu-desktop vs dmenu-emoji
nwg-shell vs wayfire
j4-dmenu-desktop vs sway-launcher-desktop
nwg-shell vs nwg-drawer
j4-dmenu-desktop vs Marlin-2-0-x-Anycubic-i3-MEGA-S
nwg-shell vs Sway-DE