layman
a layout management framework for sway/i3 (by frap129)
persway
Petite Puppeteer of Pandemonium - your very own Sway IPC Imp (by johnae)
| layman | persway | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 5 | |
| 32 | 111 | |
| - | - | |
| 1.3 | 6.3 | |
| about 2 months ago | 3 months ago | |
| Python | Rust | |
| 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.
layman
Posts with mentions or reviews of layman.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-27.
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Master and Stack setup
If you want Master stack on sway there is Layman https://github.com/frap129/layman Sway is more documented and easier to configure.
- layman: A programmable layout manager
persway
Posts with mentions or reviews of persway.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-03.
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Questions about availability of specific functionalities in swaywm (and wayland at all)
There’s this: https://github.com/johnae/persway
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Master and Stack setup
Looks like Persway supports this with its stack_main layout? https://github.com/johnae/persway (I haven’t used it, just happened to see it and remembered this post)
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Do you always confuse split modes too?
https://github.com/johnae/persway (in Rust 🦀)
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Help creating a layout manager
The code so far: https://github.com/gumieri/wayout/blob/main/src/main.rs. I am using Rust and the swayipc_async Crate (I'm "inspiring" in the persway because I have low experience with Rust).
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Swayidle to hibernate
Side note: you might want to add https://github.com/johnae/persway (similar to autotiling with some extra features).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing layman and persway you can also consider the following projects:
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
nix-index - Quickly locate nix packages with specific files [maintainers=@bennofs @figsoda @raitobezarius]
autotiling - Script for sway and i3 to automatically switch the horizontal / vertical window split orientation
swayinfo - Some goodies for use in Sway and i3 wm
swayws - a sway workspace manager which allows easy moving of workspaces to and from outputs
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg
swaysnex - Smart split and execute command in Sway
azote - Wallpaper manager for wlroots-based compositors and some other WMs
dotfiles
stacki3 - Stack layout for i3/sway wm