sowm VS dwl

Compare sowm vs dwl and see what are their differences.

sowm

An itsy bitsy floating window manager (220~ sloc!). (by dylanaraps)

dwl

dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg (by djpohly)
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sowm dwl
20 46
889 1,950
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0.0 8.9
7 months ago 4 months ago
C C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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sowm

Posts with mentions or reviews of sowm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-24.

dwl

Posts with mentions or reviews of dwl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sowm and dwl you can also consider the following projects:

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

dwm - Luke's build of dwm

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

leftwm - A tiling window manager for Adventurers

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

dwm-flexipatch - A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time

wayland - Core Wayland protocol and libraries (mirror)

kanshi - Dynamic display configuration (mirror)

spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

velox - A C++ vectorized database acceleration library aimed to optimizing query engines and data processing systems.

velox - velox window manager