nwg-launchers VS sway

Compare nwg-launchers vs sway and see what are their differences.

nwg-launchers

GTK-based launchers: application grid, button bar, dmenu for sway and other window managers (by nwg-piotr)

sway

i3-compatible Wayland compositor (by swaywm)
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nwg-launchers sway
5 613
383 13,779
- 1.8%
0.0 9.2
3 months ago 5 days ago
C++ C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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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.

nwg-launchers

Posts with mentions or reviews of nwg-launchers. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-28.
  • My One Complaint still stands in 42
    1 project | /r/gnome | 23 Feb 2022
    You can find this in this github repo - https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-launchers
  • How are you configuring touchpad gestures?
    5 projects | /r/swaywm | 28 Sep 2021
    Sure thing! appgrid.sh is just a single command calling nwggrid from nwg launchers, a series of graphical shell tools for sway. It was originally started in C++ but the author started the project again in Go.
  • GNOME-style Application menu for other DE's?
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 20 May 2021
    Maybe nwg-launchers could work.
  • nwg-dock 0.0.1 ready for testing
    7 projects | /r/swaywm | 2 Apr 2021
    This is the last (at least for now) missing part of nwg-shell for sway: autotiling, Azote, nwg-launchers, nwg-panel and nwg-dock.
  • Manjaro Sway Edition
    1 project | /r/swaywm | 12 Jan 2021
    Just installed it, still looking around. I can make a suggestion that could horrify some (but be a nice possibility with very little added space), make a keybind (I use super+m (you know menu)) for nwg-launchers (https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-launchers). Nice overlay menu much like the gnome menu. Yes I know...we have dmenu/rofi/etc. But I just found this and it looks surprising on sway (lol). It's on the AUR. Both the grid and the bar look good, there's also his custom dmenu app.

sway

Posts with mentions or reviews of sway. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nwg-launchers and sway you can also consider the following projects:

polybar-dwm-module - A dwm module for polybar

Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.

nwg-panel - GTK3-based panel for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

nwg-bar - GTK3-based button bar for wlroots-based compositors

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

sway-launcher-desktop - TUI Application launcher with Desktop Entry support. Made for SwayWM, but runs anywhere

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

dwm-relative-controls - Simple yet useful dwm patch

awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.

win3wm - A Tiling Window Manager for windows 10, Inspired by i3wm

qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)