musca
weston
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0.0 | 9.6 | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT Expat |
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musca
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River: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
I used to love GOOMWWM[1] and used it for the longest time. I miss a lot of things about it, still. It doesn't quite meet your requirements, looks-wise its very minimal and it doesn't have snapping, but I really liked the idea behind it: make a keyboard-centric stacking/floating window manager that gives you enough control that it can be used as if it were a (manual[2]) tiling window manager. It really feels like a tiling window manager and its fantastic!
[1] https://github.com/seanpringle/goomwwm
[2] I personally use sway these days, but I still prefer manual tiling where I move and size windows myself, rather than having the WM try to do it for me, as long as the WM makes it very easy to do, as goomwwm did (and its predecessor, musca: https://github.com/enticeing/musca)
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Switching to the I3 Window Manager
I came to filing window managers through musca[1] and then goomwwm[2] (Get Out Of My Way Window Manager) and then switched to i3 (and more recently, away) because both Musca and goomwwm haven’t been updated in years.
I still miss Musca and goomwwm. They didn’t require any visualisation of the hierarchy, things were just layer out next to each other without a hierarchy and just worked. It was very intuitive. Goomwwm went a step further: it’s not technically a tiling window manager at all, but rather a floating window manager (so you can have your windows overlap if you want) that happens to be usable as if it were tiling and that’s keyboard centric (but you can use mouse too if you wish). That really was the sweet spot for me and I often find annoying behaviour in i3/sway that goomwwm didn’t have (typically around movement and resizing).
[1] https://github.com/enticeing/musca (original source and all documentation seems to be gone)
[2] https://github.com/seanpringle/goomwwm
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[SimpleWM] Sometimes you just have to make things from scratch
I have attempted a manual tiling WM once, which I have abandoned because stacking WM is more suited for me. Here is the unfinished project. I took the basics from DWM and Herbstluftwm (which was way simpler when I was looking into it). I also remember taking inspirations and examples from Musca WM.
weston
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Cursor scaling on Wayland is not there yet
I decided to investigate how different Wayland client implementations behave with cursor scaling across 4 different Wayland compositors at different scale factors to get an overview of the situation. Below are my findings. As you can see, cursor scaling on Wayland is messy, with the reference Wayland compositor implementation Weston performing the worst. If you find my data to be incorrect please provide your findings in the comments.
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Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!
Mutter is not the “official Wayland implementation”. Wayland has one reference implementation: Weston https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston
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i like violence
If you want Wayland, labwc (GitHub link) aims to be very close to openbox, so it should pop in pretty easily. That being said, Weston (Gitlab link) seems like the best implementation of a wayland compositor right now.
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How do I manually edit the GUI in Ubuntu or any Linux distro?
Weston is a simple wayland one. Wayland does basically what X11 does, but wayland is the modern one that X's legacy baggage: X11 even printing directly part of it.
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[SimpleWM] Sometimes you just have to make things from scratch
For example code there is the weston repository.
What are some alternatives?
goomwwm - Get out of my way, Window Manager!
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
smithay - A smithy for rusty wayland compositors
wayland-protocols - Wayland protocol development (mirror)
simplewm
labwc - A Wayland window-stacking compositor
i3-multimonitor-workspace - i3wm Multi-Monitor workspace
LFS - Stuff for LFS
dotfiles - My personal dotfiles
gvimsurfer2 - Web browser that looks and works like gVim (using webkit2gtk)
i3-gaps - i3-gaps – i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3)