river
[mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (by riverwm)
labwc
A Wayland window-stacking compositor (by labwc)
| river | labwc | |
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| 82 | 40 | |
| 2,942 | 1,446 | |
| 1.6% | 2.5% | |
| 9.4 | 9.8 | |
| 4 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Zig | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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
labwc
Posts with mentions or reviews of labwc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-13.
- Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux
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Looking for the most minimal wm available rn
labwc?
- I Still Use Windows 95 (archived, 2008)
- What is the lightest wayland floating wm/desktop environment
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Suggestions
I'd recommend checking in on the IRC channel or opening a Github issue, much better way to get in touch with the developers! I'm just a very enthusiastic user who likes to report bugs. :D
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Wayland section in site
labwc https://github.com/labwc/labwc
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help me choose a wm
Just fyi, river is nothing like awesome, it's like bspwm. There was an attempt to make an awesome clone for wayland but it's no longer under development. Also, though it's not tiling, for completeness there's also labwc which is a wayland clone of openbox.
- Build My Own?
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What window manager or desktop environment do you use?
I've been using labwc for nearly a year now and I'm really happy with it. Its a simple floating wm though, so not sure that would be something you are looking for.
- Labwc vs Waybox
What are some alternatives?
When comparing river and labwc you can also consider the following projects:
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
archcraft - // Source : ISO
jgmenu - An X11 menu
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg
manjaro-sway - manjaro linux with wayland 🖼, sway 🌴 and a lot of ♥
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:
qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
openbox - Openbox Window Manager (OpenboxWM)