swc
a library for making a simple Wayland compositor (by michaelforney)
waymonad
A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad (by waymonad)
| swc | waymonad | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 21 | |
| 596 | 828 | |
| - | 0.4% | |
| 3.5 | 0.0 | |
| 10 months ago | almost 5 years ago | |
| C | Haskell | |
| MIT License | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
waymonad
Posts with mentions or reviews of waymonad.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-02.
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X11 is dead, switch to Wayland
I am personally waiting for Waymonad. https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad
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With rise of wayland, are simpler window managers dying?
It takes time, but the teams behind wlroots etc are doing good work to make sure that wms managed by smaller teams can exist. There are even clones for your specific wm on wayland. See https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad
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switching from awesomewm to a wayland compositor
In addition, there was the last commit in 2019. Thus, it can be assumed that the project is dead and therefore nothing will change on the current state. And according to https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad/issues/44, there are probably not enough people who would actively participate in a fork.
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I was in a stream and I realized what is still lacking from Linux Gaming to be mainstream
Ideally xmonad would be ported/xmonad devs would be working on waymonad, but I doubt it will happen. Waymonad seems to be abandoned.
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Cool Desktops Don’t Change
Nice to see Qtile on Wayland. But I'm personally waiting for xmonad on Wayland.
https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad
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A tiling desktop environment is now available for Bullseye
I wouldn't count on it, as Waymonad has not seen active development since 2019 and the Haskell bindings to wlroots have not been updated since 2019 as well. There is a fork, but it has not been active since September 2021. Also, it was based on wlroots, not sway.
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How hard would it be to make my own window manager?
That's what the XMonad fans are using: https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad lets you write your Wayland compositor in Haskell, is analogy to the way XMonad lets you write your X window manager in Haskell.
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I would not give up haskell for hiring purposes. I think it will exponentialy rise through the roof in a year or two [2012]
Unfortunately it was abandoned https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad/issues/44
- Is there a successful Wayand wm that is close to xmonad?
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Little advice, please.
regarding keeping an interest, waymonad has been dead for something like two and a half years but according to startrack it's still getting people giving him stars so i don't think you should worry about it.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing swc and waymonad you can also consider the following projects:
velox - A C++ vectorized database acceleration library aimed to optimizing query engines and data processing systems.
spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
kanshi - Dynamic display configuration (mirror)
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
wlr-randr - An xrandr clone for wlroots compositors
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
velox - velox window manager
ibus - Intelligent Input Bus for Linux/Unix
wayland - Core Wayland protocol and libraries (mirror)
autotiling - Script for sway and i3 to automatically switch the horizontal / vertical window split orientation