stw
simple text widget for X (by sineemore)
xnotify
read notifications from stdin and pop them up on the screen (by phillbush)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.
stw
Posts with mentions or reviews of stw.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-30.
- Weird extra text when writing on root window
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Build info like windows on the linux desktop.
This is the GitHub page with a few examples, but there should be a man page if you just type ‘man stw’
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[dwm] pop-ups/floating menus?
I use stw to have a "desktop window" containing an excerpt from top, free, and df.
- conky with dwm
xnotify
Posts with mentions or reviews of xnotify.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-07.
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are there any kaomoji widgets?
you might be able to combine https://github.com/phillbush/xnotify and something like xclip
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[dwm] pop-ups/floating menus?
xnotify
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[shod] My X11 desktop
First, in the video, I use πmenu to change the song. A xnotify notification pops up showing the current song.
The third is xnotify, a notification system and dbus-less dunst replacement.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing stw and xnotify you can also consider the following projects:
herbe - Daemon-less notifications without D-Bus. Minimal and lightweight.
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement [Moved to: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi]
xwinwrap - My fork of xwinwrap. Xwinwrap allows you to stick most of the apps to your desktop background.
x11-emoji-picker - Linux XServer emoji picker
riosh
xroach - Classic xroach game for X11
xutils - X utilities in POSIX shell scripts.
hotkeyPopup
pmenu - A pie-menu in xlib and imlib2.