river
[mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (by riverwm)
worm
A dynamic, tag-based window manager written in Nim (by codic12)
| river | worm | |
|---|---|---|
| 82 | 12 | |
| 2,956 | 700 | |
| 2.5% | - | |
| 9.4 | 4.1 | |
| 8 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Zig | Nim | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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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
worm
Posts with mentions or reviews of worm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-20.
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A Mouse Focused WM?
Worm is also a alternative to consider
- Worm: A dynamic, tag-based window manager written in Nim
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Hacker News top posts: Jun 11, 2022
Worm: A dynamic, tag-based window manager written in Nim\ (5 comments)
- "Worm is a tiny, dynamic, tag-based window manager written in the Nim language."
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Shout out to some cool and promising open source Linux projects (List)
https://github.com/codic12/worm - A dynamic, tag-based window manager written in Nim. from what i can tell this will be something similar to dwm, which i really like. tags are not fully implemented yet but really I'm looking forward to that.
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Is it possible to run a windows magnager on a chromebook?
Hi! Trying to run a windows manger on crostini the same way you can do so with kde plasma. Anyone know how? I would like to be able to run Worm if possible.
- Thoughts on worm WM?
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[worm] rewrote my window manager
You can check out my WM at https://github.com/codic12/worm , have fun!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing river and worm you can also consider the following projects:
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
nwg-shell - Installer & meta-package for the nwg-shell project: a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
nimdow - A window manager written in Nim (In Development)
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg
OpenSMTPD - This is official OpenSMTPD Portable repository. Forks, pull requests and other contributions are welcome!
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included
qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
tmux - tmux source code