river
[mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (by riverwm)
cagebreak
Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison (by project-repo)
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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.
river
Posts with mentions or reviews of river.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-03.
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Switching to River from Sway and a few questions
More info on the wiki https://github.com/riverwm/river/wiki
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Is there any way to remove the Title bar from zathura on RiverWM
Here is the related github issue
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Easy to config tiling wm
If you can get past some minor wayland related annoyances, river is pretty easy imo, you can write a config in whatever format you want, it just needs to be an executable file, the most common type is a shell script. The actual configuration happens by calling the riverctl program from the file, which from what I've heard is a similar method compared to bspwm.
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Questions about availability of specific functionalities in swaywm (and wayland at all)
Coming from awesome you may find river more to your liking than sway.
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Chromium / Electron on Wayland causes crash of the whole OS
River crashed everytime I closed Chromium. The developer fixed it in 5 minutes :)
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I may have taken plugins too far...
I've written a plugin that implements the river-layout-v3 wayland protocol in Hyprland. This means you can run something like rivertile, river-luatile, rivercarro or kile as a layout provider.
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Master and Stack setup
Author here. And yeah, as of 0.6.0 it supports master stack - I just called it stack main. I was in fact inspired by river: https://github.com/riverwm/river. River is really promising but is still in very early development. Sway on the other hand has been around for a long time and I, for now, prefer that stability.
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Has anyone managed to get Hyprland working on void?
In my very specific case, I'd probably start by taking a look at how animations were previously implemented in river, and then I'd pay careful attention to that transform matrix at the end. I'm not super crazy about the implementation using timers to drive it (versus interpolating where the transform should be across a deadline), but I guess they were going for smoothness.
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Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (8/2023)!
riverwm wayland compositor
- Ideas for system compositor
cagebreak
Posts with mentions or reviews of cagebreak.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-27.
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Here's what your typical Linux system looked like in 2003. We've come so far.
There's also a Wayland WM directly inspired by ratpoison! https://github.com/project-repo/cagebreak
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Actually functional compositors, and querying their protocol capabilities : mirroring screens
That's true for a lot of libraries, you have to maintain the code, I would treat that as a fact of life, It might be worth noting there are some projects designed to provide a high level abstraction over wlroots which might be different: cage -> used by cagebreak phoc -> used by phosh and wayfire -> used by swayfire.
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With rise of wayland, are simpler window managers dying?
cagebreak as far as i can tell is a one man project (it uses cage to provide a high level abstraction over wlroots).
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Writing a Wayland compositor is MUCH harder than it should be
I also remembered cagebreak (wayland window manager). it uses cage (which is defined as a "wayland kiosk" but might also be used as a high level abstraction over wlroots).
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EXWM and Wayland
Anyway, like you I also wanted to see how far I could go on Wayland. After trying out a number of wms I settled on cagebreak which is modeled on ratpoison. It's still in early development but worked well enough for me to give it a semi daily driver status. It works really well with emacs too, without the single-thread issue. I went for a pure Wayland experience (without XWayland as well), so I couldn't some apps I normally use - but I was able to create something quite close to my xorg setup.
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Wayland alternatives
There's cagebreak, wich is inspired by ratpoison. It's different yo hlwm, but it has the same concept of containers, but every container only have the "max" layout
- Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison
What are some alternatives?
When comparing river and cagebreak you can also consider the following projects:
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
sway-borders - Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
kiwmi - A fully programmable Wayland Compositor
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg
wayward - Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
cage - A Wayland kiosk