leftwm
A tiling window manager for Adventurers (by leftwm)
wayland-rs
Rust implementation of the wayland protocol (client and server). (by Smithay)
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| leftwm | wayland-rs | |
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| 22 | 5 | |
| 2,726 | 971 | |
| 1.9% | 3.8% | |
| 8.4 | 8.2 | |
| 16 days ago | 1 day ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| MIT License | 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.
leftwm
Posts with mentions or reviews of leftwm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-14.
- Any new Opensource projects in (rust) looking for contributors. I want to start my journey as an OSS contributor.
- if I wanted to make a Tiling Window Manager in Rust, how would I go about it?
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Where should I adventure myself
(Also I wouldn't mind if you want to contribute to leftwm ;))
- LeftWM – A tiling window manager for Adventurers
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Preferred DE/WM?
LeftWM if you are adventurous and want to support more Rust projects on Linux.
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Picom backend optimization
I'm using a tiling window manager (LeftWM) and picom with experimental backends for compositing. I'm running into issues configuring picom for use on my laptop when I am on battery power. Two problems arise:
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Is there a good tutorial for writing an X11 Tiling Window manager in Rust?
I've looked at these: - DWM: A popular, compact WM written in C - LeftWM: A popular, configurable WM written in Rust - GabelstaplerWM: An obscure, compact WM written in Rust - XCB DWM: An abandoned rewrite of DWM using XCB
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Arch + Tiling Window Manager
Been using and liking LeftWM: https://github.com/leftwm/leftwm
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Different window managers (e.g. tiling) on Windows?
In particular, I think that "ultrawide-vertical-stack" (based on "CenterMain" from LeftWM) is quite close to what you are looking for. Give it a try with komorebic change-layout ultrawide-vertical-stack!
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Komorebi: Another tiling window manager for Windows 10 based on binary space partitioning
Once again I'm happy to answer any questions, and I want to give a special thanks to nog, leftwm and umberwm, whose work this project borrows from and builds upon.
wayland-rs
Posts with mentions or reviews of wayland-rs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-29.
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Announcing shikane: a dynamic output configuration tool for Wayland compositors
I was initially having some problems with kanshi and was thinking about contributing the new features I wanted. For some of the features I wanted, kanshi's internals would have to change considerably. Since kanshi consists of only ~1500 lines of C, I began writing a replacement for kanshi in Rust. After many hours of reading Wayland protocol specifications, working on shikane, some help from the Smithay project and their Rust implementation of Wayland protocols, shikane was able to replace kanshi on my machines. I have been using it for over 4 months now.
- Is there a good tutorial for writing an X11 Tiling Window manager in Rust?
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Xremap - Linux key remapper written in Rust
Yes, I agree. Since https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots-rs is deprecated, I'm guessing I should use https://github.com/Smithay/smithay or https://github.com/Smithay/wayland-rs. As soon as I find a library that can use the protocol, preferably without extra dependency, I'll switch it to that.
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Are there any ongoing efforts of making a desktop environment (similar to KDE or Gnome) in Rust?
There's also https://github.com/Smithay/wayland-rs
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Rust, Wayland and the Linux "graphics stack"
Also there is an incomplete Wayland implementation in Rust, but that isn't very actively developed.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing leftwm and wayland-rs you can also consider the following projects:
i3-and-kde-plasma - How to install the i3 window manager on KDE
eww - ElKowars wacky widgets
komorebi - A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉
smithay - A smithy for rusty wayland compositors
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg
penrose - A library for writing an X11 tiling window manager
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
yofi - yofi is a minimalistic menu for wayland
my-penrose-config - My personal penrose config
wl-clipboard-rs - A safe Rust crate for working with the Wayland clipboard.
win3wm - A Tiling Window Manager for windows 10, Inspired by i3wm
waylock - A small screenlocker for Wayland compositors