juliawm
A wlroots and dwl based tiling-windowmanager based around creating own layouts [Moved to: https://github.com/werererer/japokwm] (by werererer)
labwc
A Wayland window-stacking compositor (by labwc)
| juliawm | labwc | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | |
| 8 | 1,446 | |
| - | 2.5% | |
| 9.5 | 9.8 | |
| over 3 years ago | 6 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
juliawm
Posts with mentions or reviews of juliawm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-13.
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Wayland Performance on Low End Hardware
juliawm (which is similar to dwl) recently had a commit saying they implement damage tracking, dwl didn't seem to implement it. These are all projects that seem fairly immature so maybe stick with sway or some other mature wlroots based window manager for now.
labwc
Posts with mentions or reviews of labwc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-13.
- Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux
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Looking for the most minimal wm available rn
labwc?
- I Still Use Windows 95 (archived, 2008)
- What is the lightest wayland floating wm/desktop environment
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Suggestions
I'd recommend checking in on the IRC channel or opening a Github issue, much better way to get in touch with the developers! I'm just a very enthusiastic user who likes to report bugs. :D
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Wayland section in site
labwc https://github.com/labwc/labwc
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help me choose a wm
Just fyi, river is nothing like awesome, it's like bspwm. There was an attempt to make an awesome clone for wayland but it's no longer under development. Also, though it's not tiling, for completeness there's also labwc which is a wayland clone of openbox.
- Build My Own?
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What window manager or desktop environment do you use?
I've been using labwc for nearly a year now and I'm really happy with it. Its a simple floating wm though, so not sure that would be something you are looking for.
- Labwc vs Waybox
What are some alternatives?
When comparing juliawm and labwc you can also consider the following projects:
japokwm - A wlroots and dwl based tiling wayland compositor based around creating layouts
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
archcraft - // Source : ISO
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
jgmenu - An X11 menu
swaylock - Screen locker for Wayland
manjaro-sway - manjaro linux with wayland 🖼, sway 🌴 and a lot of ♥
Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:
openbox - Openbox Window Manager (OpenboxWM)
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
arewewaylandyet - Sources for https://arewewaylandyet.com