material-shell vs sxiv

material-shell

A modern desktop interface for Linux. Improve your user experience and get rid of the anarchy of traditional desktop workflows. Designed to simplify navigation and reduce the need to manipulate windows in order to improve productivity. It's meant to be 100% predictable and bring the benefits of tools coveted by professionals to everyone. (by material-shell)

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sxiv

Simple X Image Viewer (by xyb3rt)

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material-shell		sxiv
	Project
46	Mentions	3
7,225	Stars	1,734
0.2%	Growth	-
5.4	Activity	10.0
4 months ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
TypeScript	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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material-shell

Posts with mentions or reviews of material-shell. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-30.

Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
35 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Nov 2023

I really want https://material-shell.com/ for MacOS
it was perfect for using a single monitor
kinda like a deterministic alt+tab, you set up the layout of "workspaces" and they're always in the same place
I keep getting annoyed at alt+tab because I accidentally clicked on another window and now the order is messed up
Kera Desktop: A brand-new desktop environment in the development
5 projects | /r/linux | 9 Jun 2023

I'm confused. How does that work? Is it like a GNOME extension or something; similar to how Material Shell works?
Vanilla OS 2.0 Orchid base is changing from Ubuntu to Debian
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 May 2023

check this gnome plugin https://github.com/material-shell/material-shell
How many of you use your gnu/linux distro without much customization?
2 projects | /r/linux | 21 May 2023

I don't know too much about that. You can achieve a lot with gnome extensions. And if you'd like to build your own and see what's possible, check out the source code of Material Shell
I'm a tiling WM user but the concept of the scrolling window managers were new to me. This idea might be experimental but using it was fun. If you want to try it, CardBoard is a good start. I had fun using it for a couple of days and thought it's good to share it with you too.
3 projects | /r/linux | 18 Apr 2023

Website: https://material-shell.com/
do any tiling extensions work on Gnome 44?
3 projects | /r/gnome | 18 Apr 2023

Material Shell has Gnome 44 support: https://github.com/material-shell/material-shell/releases/tag/44
An easy-to-learn Linux Window Manager
1 project | /r/linuxmasterrace | 13 Apr 2023

But you might want to try out Gnome first, with one of the many tiling extensions, or perhaps Material Shell for a Tiling like WM experience
What is the best tilling window manager?
1 project | /r/Fedora | 29 Mar 2023
Considering Switching from Pop_OS!
1 project | /r/Fedora | 16 Mar 2023

Has anyone used Material Shell? It looks like it will do the tiling for me.
Can't install Gnome Shell Extensions
2 projects | /r/gnome | 9 Feb 2023

Hi, I'm working on Ubuntu 22.04.1 with Gnome 42.5. I used to be able to install shell extensions just fine with the Chrome extension. However (I think since (un)installing the Material Shell Extension), I can't install any extension anymore, not via the Chrome extension, not via the terminal (`gnome-extensions install -f ...`). In the browser, the switch is available and clickable, but nothing simply happens. Via the terminal, no feedback at all is given. When going over the [source code](https://github.com/material-shell/material-shell) of the material shell, it seems that it tampers with some extensions and God knows what else... Via `dconf` I had to enable the allowance of extensions (`disable-user-extensions`), also something Material Shell probably did. I uninstalled Material Shell according to the docs, but of course, not everything is undone...

sxiv

Posts with mentions or reviews of sxiv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.

What are you rewriting in rust?
36 projects | /r/rust | 10 Jul 2023

i'm just start exploring Rust GUI world and currently i try to write an image viewer like sxiv with iced
[herbstluftwm] g̶̼̟̓̒ĺ̶̦̠̿i̷̮̫͌t̵̻̋̄c̸͍̙̊h̵̦͛͜ all the things
2 projects | /r/unixart | 23 May 2023

image viewer: sxiv
Switching from Linux. Need help.
3 projects | /r/MacOS | 12 Feb 2023

I tried that and didn't like it, I highly recommend checking out sxiv.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing material-shell and sxiv you can also consider the following projects:

PaperWM - Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell

feh - a fast and light image viewer

titus-awesome - Custom AwesomeWM Theme

vimiv-qt - An image viewer with vim-like keybindings

i3-gnome - Use i3wm/i3-gaps with GNOME Session infrastructure.

ueberzug - ueberzug is a command line util which allows to display images in combination with X11. The user is expected to have knowledge of theoretical computer science. https://github.com/seebye/ueberzug/wiki/Troubleshooting/119e30f331799b30fb9594db29740685cb09425b

gnome-gesture-improvements - Touchpad gesture improvements for GNOME on Wayland/X11

image-roll - Image Roll - simple and fast GTK image viewer with basic image manipulation tools. Written in Rust.

forge - Forge - Tiling and Window Manager for Gnome-Shell [Moved to: https://github.com/forge-ext/forge]

zathura - a document viewer

Fedora-36-Post-Install-Guide - Things to do after installing Fedora 37 [Moved to: https://github.com/devangshekhawat/Fedora-37-Post-Install-Guide]

buku - :bookmark: Personal mini-web in text