swc
a library for making a simple Wayland compositor (by michaelforney)
dwl
dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg (by djpohly)
| swc | dwl | |
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| 4 | 46 | |
| 596 | 1,950 | |
| - | - | |
| 3.5 | 8.9 | |
| 10 months ago | 5 months ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
swc
Posts with mentions or reviews of swc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-20.
- Swc is a small Wayland compositor implemented as a library
- Suckless and Wayland?
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xorg sucks, use swc
swc is a wayland compositor library implementation in about 10k sloc.
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X is Boomer
HOLY SHIT, I spent a couple days playing around, researching wayland, theres a library SWC that implements the core parts of wayland in 10K LINES OF REALLY SIMPLE CODE WITH ALMOST NO DEPENDENCIES.
dwl
Posts with mentions or reviews of dwl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-11.
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How to patch dwl?
Patching autostart:
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steamvr now working on DWL
If any of you have attempted to use SteamVR with DWL then you probably ran into the same issue I did. It doesn't have support for DRM leasing, so it can't actually show an image on the headset.
- [Arch Linux] Migrer vers Wayland
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[Q] Lightweight Linux for Low-End Gaming
DWL
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Can someone recommend a compositor to me?
Have you checked DWL which is DWM for Wayland? I haven't tried it yet so I can't say anything more.
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Master and Stack setup
There's a python script called stacki3 that works both on i3wm and sway. There is also a dwm clone for wayland called dwl.
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I actually use linux because its objectively better
I currently use dwl which is much, much lighter than i3 and suits my needs. On my laptop I just don't have a window manager of any kind installed, I can get by with lynx and the TTY.
- Ideas for system compositor
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Help needed with Wayland (riverwm and dwl) on Void Linux
I wanted to try two wayland compositors out (specifically dwl and river) and cannot for the life of me seem to get it working properly. I am currently doing this inside a VirtualBox vm.
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dwl > ~/dwltags not updat the file
[0] https://github.com/djpohly/dwl
What are some alternatives?
When comparing swc and dwl you can also consider the following projects:
velox - A C++ vectorized database acceleration library aimed to optimizing query engines and data processing systems.
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
kanshi - Dynamic display configuration (mirror)
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
dwm - Luke's build of dwm
wlr-randr - An xrandr clone for wlroots compositors
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
velox - velox window manager
leftwm - A tiling window manager for Adventurers
wayland - Core Wayland protocol and libraries (mirror)
qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)