labwc
A Wayland window-stacking compositor (by labwc)
Waybar
Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada: (by Alexays)
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| labwc | Waybar | |
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| 40 | 92 | |
| 1,446 | 5,424 | |
| 5.5% | - | |
| 9.8 | 9.7 | |
| 3 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| C | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | 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.
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
Waybar
Posts with mentions or reviews of Waybar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-09.
- Hyprland waybar custom modules on-click never works
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How to disable some itens in Waybar?
If I understand https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Configuration correctly, what is to be displayed is defined in a JSON file that can be located in one of the directories mentioned.
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Waybar, how to show hour without leading zero?
GNU calls their extensions "equivalent to" things I'd have suggested trying ($_I or $-l), but I'm not sure if the equivalents are themselves GNU extensions, too. Regardless, reading this Waybar Github issue about %OI, I get the impression there was a regression at some point, in any case on March 27th 2022 someone says it "used to work fine until recently".
- [Waybar] Add workspace styles for multiple monitors
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Error installing waybar on arch
hope it helps. source btw: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/2177
- How to get workspaces showing in default waybar-hyprland-git
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Issue with patching package with pull request
{ config, pkgs, ... }: { wayland.windowManager.sway = let patchedWaybar = pkgs.waybar.overrideAttrs(prev: final: { patches = [ (pkgs.fetchpatch { url = "https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/pull/2134.diff"; sha256 = "1hzdv3b8zzps50pdcb8pj9cxwaix4q2d4gsqb9dl9vflgl429hq3"; }) ]; }); in { enable = true; config.bars = [{ statusCommand = "${patchedWaybar}/bin/waybar"; }]; };
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Hyprland with Waybar Config Reloading
See this issue. CSS and only new properties in config are reloaded when SIGUSR2 is triggered.
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Persistent workspaces?
I think this has just been added to waybar (wlr/workspaces) to work in a similar manner to how it is in sway/workspaces. No need for fake empty terminals. Something was merged for wwlr/workspaces in the waybar github. See - https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/pull/2089.
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How do I set Waybar’s font?
Ah, well in looking at their git, it appears some do have fallback font issues. See here - https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/215
What are some alternatives?
When comparing labwc and Waybar you can also consider the following projects:
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
eww - ElKowars wacky widgets
archcraft - // Source : ISO
i3status-rust - Very resourcefriendly and feature-rich replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust
jgmenu - An X11 menu
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
manjaro-sway - manjaro linux with wayland 🖼, sway 🌴 and a lot of ♥
pywal - 🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.
openbox - Openbox Window Manager (OpenboxWM)
nwg-panel - GTK3-based panel for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
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