mako VS sway

Compare mako vs sway and see what are their differences.

mako

A lightweight Wayland notification daemon (by emersion)

sway

i3-compatible Wayland compositor (by swaywm)
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mako sway
16 613
1,951 13,672
- 2.3%
7.0 9.2
7 days ago 4 days ago
C C
MIT License MIT License
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mako

Posts with mentions or reviews of mako. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-27.
  • Any software that can get me pop up windows when doing certain stuff?
    6 projects | /r/swaywm | 27 Aug 2022
    I use avizo as a volume indicator, mako for notifications generally.
  • Is there some app that lets you launch a simple text overlay?
    7 projects | /r/swaywm | 10 Aug 2022
    I guess some standard notifications app like https://github.com/emersion/mako doesn't suffice, as it isn't related to a window?
  • Thoughts over MicroOS aftering giving a try
    2 projects | /r/openSUSE | 28 Jul 2022
    mako is a Wayland notification daemon from one of the principal Sway/wlroots devs, and is currently provided with openSUSEway. It's pretty minimalist, but so are most things in the Sway/wlroots ecosystem.
  • Long time Arch user, moved to Gentoo a couple months ago.
    3 projects | /r/Gentoo | 26 Mar 2022
    It's a notification, I use mako: https://github.com/emersion/mako
  • What apps are you running on Sway? (Wayland Native Apps of course)
    20 projects | /r/swaywm | 7 Mar 2022
    Notifications: mako
  • Was told y'all might like my new laptop setup
    5 projects | /r/outrun | 1 Sep 2021
    The little one at the bottom right is mako, the music player is ncmpcpp and the music visualiser is cava
  • Notification center like window for sway
    2 projects | /r/swaywm | 22 Jul 2021
    Not really the same but still a cool notification Daemon https://github.com/emersion/mako
  • What are some automation scripts that have made your life easier?
    11 projects | /r/commandline | 15 Jul 2021
    # Details I'm an English speaker living abroad, and while I'm trying to learn the local language it's real hard. I found myself popping open a browser to use deepl quite frequently, or trying to find translator plugins for several different applications. To make this process easier, I wrote a script (bound to a hotkey) which will screenshot a selected area, OCR it, translate it to english, and show a notification with the translated text. It also copies the translated text to the clipboard. Why screenshot + OCR rather than just selecting and copying text? Images and screen-sharing, mostly. I think this is just a really cool way to show how the hard parts have usually been done for you, and all you need to do is put the blocks together. ## Implementation I'm running sway, so the several of the tools are Wayland specific. You could easily swap them out for xorg compatible variants if you like. The script is [here](https://github.com/rbuchberger/dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/screenshot\_translate). The toolchain is: * [Slurp](https://github.com/emersion/slurp) - select an area * [Grim](https://github.com/emersion/grim) - screenshot that area * [Tesseract](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract) - OCR * [Translate Shell](https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/) - Translation CLI * [Mako](https://github.com/emersion/mako) - Notification window Mako needed a little configuration to show long form text: [category=translation] width=900 height=1200 Edit: added details and links for the tools used.
  • [sway] fake busy for the updoots
    15 projects | /r/unixporn | 27 Dec 2020
    notification: mako

sway

Posts with mentions or reviews of sway. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mako and sway you can also consider the following projects:

Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.

bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)

wslg - Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios

Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:

dmenu-wayland - dmenu for wayland-compositors

weston - Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance