lxqt vs mutter

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lxqt		mutter
	Project
40	Mentions	12
1,559	Stars	191
1.8%	Growth	3.1%
3.2	Activity	9.9
5 days ago	Latest Commit	8 days ago
Shell	Language	C
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

lxqt

Posts with mentions or reviews of lxqt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-13.

Does anyone think wayland will actually be the future?
2 projects | /r/linux | 13 Dec 2022
How can you run Wayland on LXQt ?
4 projects | /r/LXQt | 5 Sep 2022
With rise of wayland, are simpler window managers dying?
14 projects | /r/linux | 26 Aug 2022

LXQt: I think they are working on it but not sure how far along they have gotten https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/issues/10
How do I reliably install Void linux? I am following the handbook but running into issue
2 projects | /r/voidlinux | 6 Aug 2022

Upstream Documentation/Wiki (https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/wiki/ConfigLaunch)
More than ever, GNOME and Plasma are getting way ahead of other desktop environments
6 projects | /r/linux | 12 Apr 2022

MATE & LXQt already have partial Wayland support. Ubuntu MATE team is using Mir to run MATE on Wayland. Upstream LXQt wants to use KWin but a developer already runs LWQt on Mutter. Expect them on Wayland soon. Cinnamon is going to rebase muffin on a newer version of Mutter, which may bring Wayland support with it. With the move to CSDs, Xfce seems to also start work on Wayland support not too far away in the future. While Xorg will continue to thrive, the way to Wayland isn’t that convoluted anymore.

6 projects | /r/linux | 12 Apr 2022
LWQt Wayland DE Notification Geometry Demo
2 projects | /r/LXQt | 18 Jan 2022

As is plain from this and this, these efforts are in collaboration with upstream.
LWQt Wayland DE 2nd Demo
5 projects | /r/LXQt | 12 Jan 2022

I believe you better follow/star this: https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/issues/10
LXQt 1.0.0
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2021

Some sort of bring-your-own-compositor adventure at the moment, if I'm reading this issue correctly [0].
The thread did mention PaperDE [1] however , which you might want to look at if you're interested in a lightweight Wayland + QT environment.
[0] https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/issues/10

9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2021

mutter

Posts with mentions or reviews of mutter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-10.

Dvorak keyboard with Qwerty shortcuts on Wayland
2 projects | /r/gnome | 10 May 2022

As a result I'm studying the wayland architecture (I like gnome so the compositor would be Mutter) so that I can figure out how to either make a hack or make something legitimate. This is proving time consuming.
GNOME 42 release notes
4 projects | /r/gnome | 23 Mar 2022

pkgname=mutter pkgver=42.0 pkgrel=0.1 pkgdesc="A window manager for GNOME" url="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter" arch=(x86_64) license=(GPL) depends=(dconf gobject-introspection-runtime gsettings-desktop-schemas libcanberra startup-notification zenity libsm gnome-desktop upower libxkbcommon-x11 gnome-settings-daemon libgudev libinput pipewire xorg-xwayland graphene libxkbfile libsysprof-capture) makedepends=(git gobject-introspection egl-wayland meson xorg-server wayland-protocols sysprof) checkdepends=(xorg-server-xvfb wireplumber python-dbusmock) provides=(libmutter-10.so) groups=(gnome) _commit=9249aba72a5c4454894c08735a4963ca1665e34d # tag/42.00 source=( "git+https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter.git#commit=$_commit" "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1441.patch" ) sha256sums=('SKIP' 'SKIP')
River: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2022

Wayland is a protocol - not an implementation. It tries to minify latency by merging together some of the components X11 had and tries to do this in a slim and faster way.
The implementation of the protocol may differ, but I know for example MUTTER (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter)
This article has nice and not too complex visualisations: https://www.secjuice.com/wayland-vs-xorg/
LWQt Wayland DE 2nd Demo
5 projects | /r/LXQt | 12 Jan 2022

Stock Mutter - in contrast to this fork of it - would not work either.
GNOME Shell & Mutter Prepare For GNOME 42 Alpha With Exciting Improvements | Phoronix
2 projects | /r/gnome | 12 Jan 2022

I mean look at the gnome-shell and mutter changelogs. Thats an impressive amount of significant fixes & improvements.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lxqt and mutter you can also consider the following projects:

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

docklike-plugin - A Dock-like Taskbar Plugin for XFCE

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

polybar-themes - A huge collection of polybar themes with different styles, colors and variants.

imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

gnome-shell - Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell

dash-to-panel - An icon taskbar for the Gnome Shell. This extension moves the dash into the gnome main panel so that the application launchers and system tray are combined into a single panel, similar to that found in KDE Plasma and Windows 7+. A separate dock is no longer needed for easy access to running and favorited applications.

arewewaylandyet - Sources for https://arewewaylandyet.com

lwqt-session - The LXQt session manager

qtwayland - A toolbox for making Qt based Wayland compositors

adwaita-qt - A style to bend Qt applications to look like they belong into GNOME Shell

lxterminal - VTE terminal emulator written in GTK