swc
a library for making a simple Wayland compositor (by michaelforney)
velox
velox window manager (by michaelforney)
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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.
velox
Posts with mentions or reviews of velox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-26.
- Velox is a simple window manager based on swc
- Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
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Wayland section in site
velox https://github.com/michaelforney/velox
- What does the suckless Community think of Wayland?
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xorg sucks, use swc
Combine this with the velox dwm-inspired window manager and you have yourself a full graphical wayland environment in about 12k sloc. I don't really see a reason to keep xorg so I will be purging it from all of my machines.
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X is Boomer
Combine this with the velox tiling-wm (2897 sloc), and you have a full, hackable tiling wm in about 13k Lines of static C code.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing swc and velox you can also consider the following projects:
velox - A C++ vectorized database acceleration library aimed to optimizing query engines and data processing systems.
dwm - LEV Linux's window manager (a fork of dwm)
kanshi - Dynamic display configuration (mirror)
wayland - Core Wayland protocol and libraries (mirror)
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
wlr-randr - An xrandr clone for wlroots compositors
vivarium - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots
waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad
wdisplays - GUI display configurator for wlroots compositors
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg