penrose
A library for writing an X11 tiling window manager (by sminez)
wayland-rs
Rust implementation of the wayland protocol (client and server). (by Smithay)
| penrose | wayland-rs | |
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| 15 | 5 | |
| 1,202 | 971 | |
| - | 2.4% | |
| 7.6 | 8.2 | |
| 17 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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penrose
Posts with mentions or reviews of penrose.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-01.
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Is there a way to create a WM with winit?
writing an X11 window manager is ... extremely tedious. have a look at https://github.com/sminez/penrose .
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[Media] shrs: a shell that is configurable and extensible in rust
Hey everyone 👋 ! I'm currently working on a rust library for building and configuring your own shell! It's inspired by projects like xmonad and penrose where the configuration of the program is done in code. This means that for example, instead of using Bash's arcane syntax for configuring the prompt, it can be configured instead using a rust builder pattern! The project itself is still at a very young stage, so there are plenty of bugs and unimplemented features. However, some things that are (partially) implemented are:
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if I wanted to make a Tiling Window Manager in Rust, how would I go about it?
https://github.com/sminez/penrose https://sminez.github.io/penrose/
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Its not opinion. Its fact
im not sure weather or not i should mention penrose an dwm here :D you can configure even more than with kde (and my setup ended up way beyond anything recognisable)
- Penrose 0.3.0 release announcement
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Building a Tiling Window Manager with Rust and Penrose
There are many existing tiling-window managers with i3 probably being the most popular choice for linux systems. These window managers can depend on extensive configuration files or in the case of dwm, git patching or C programming. Penrose takes a different approach in that Penrose is not a window manager. Penrose is a high-level rust library that you use to build your own window manager. This gives us many options for customization while also giving us all the advantages that come with writing rust code.
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I wrote an x11 tiling window manager inspired by DWM that I've been using for a few months now. If you're using x11 and want to try out a new tiling window manager I'd love your feedback!
Mostly non-dynamic except for wm-specific actions. What kind of events are we talking about? I think that if we're talking about something that on a more low-level exposes x11 events penrose is a better bet. That being said, exposing something like:
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Is there a good tutorial for writing an X11 Tiling Window manager in Rust?
You might find Penrose interesting. Basically a rust library that you can use to write your own X11 window manager without needing to deal with a lot of the lower level details of X11.
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Penrose window manager issue
https://github.com/sminez/penrose which I'm really enjoying so far.
wayland-rs
Posts with mentions or reviews of wayland-rs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-29.
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Announcing shikane: a dynamic output configuration tool for Wayland compositors
I was initially having some problems with kanshi and was thinking about contributing the new features I wanted. For some of the features I wanted, kanshi's internals would have to change considerably. Since kanshi consists of only ~1500 lines of C, I began writing a replacement for kanshi in Rust. After many hours of reading Wayland protocol specifications, working on shikane, some help from the Smithay project and their Rust implementation of Wayland protocols, shikane was able to replace kanshi on my machines. I have been using it for over 4 months now.
- Is there a good tutorial for writing an X11 Tiling Window manager in Rust?
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Xremap - Linux key remapper written in Rust
Yes, I agree. Since https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots-rs is deprecated, I'm guessing I should use https://github.com/Smithay/smithay or https://github.com/Smithay/wayland-rs. As soon as I find a library that can use the protocol, preferably without extra dependency, I'll switch it to that.
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Are there any ongoing efforts of making a desktop environment (similar to KDE or Gnome) in Rust?
There's also https://github.com/Smithay/wayland-rs
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Rust, Wayland and the Linux "graphics stack"
Also there is an incomplete Wayland implementation in Rust, but that isn't very actively developed.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing penrose and wayland-rs you can also consider the following projects:
leftwm - A tiling window manager for Adventurers
wmfocus - Visually focus windows by label
eww - ElKowars wacky widgets
dwm-xcb - A port of dwm to XCB.
smithay - A smithy for rusty wayland compositors
xidlehook - GitLab: https://gitlab.com/jD91mZM2/xidlehook
yofi - yofi is a minimalistic menu for wayland
x11rb - X11 bindings for the rust programming language, similar to xcb being the X11 C bindings
wl-clipboard-rs - A safe Rust crate for working with the Wayland clipboard.
pgwm - A minimal tiling x11 window manager
waylock - A small screenlocker for Wayland compositors