swappy
A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS (by jtheoof)
sway-borders
Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders. (by fluix-dev)
Our great sponsors
| swappy | sway-borders | |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | 11 | |
| 910 | 224 | |
| - | - | |
| 4.4 | 1.9 | |
| 18 days ago | about 1 year ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
swappy
Posts with mentions or reviews of swappy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-09.
-
MSPaint like tool for Linux
I think swappy works great as a screenshot annotation tool.
-
Trying to use Swappy for the First Time
It will save the file in save_dir (see config section)
-
Suggest me: Screenshot tool with anotation
Use any wayland compatible screenshot tool and pipe it into Swappy
-
bindsym not working with flameshot
I combine grimshot + swappy to get something similar to Flameshot. Not as good, but it has the advantage of... actually working on Sway.
-
How I chose the right screenshot tool for my Linux
I personally use grim + slurp + swappy, and i love it! :)
-
redshift like gui application
If you want to edit the screenshot, pipe it through swappy
-
swaywm color picker
For those sort of simple jobs, you might find that swappy is enough (and much faster to start and simpler to use).
-
Screenshot in Sway
My fav is swappy.
-
Lighter alternative to GIMP?
Sounds like Swappy. https://github.com/jtheoof/swappy
-
What apps are you running on Sway? (Wayland Native Apps of course)
Screenshots: grim + slurp + swappy
sway-borders
Posts with mentions or reviews of sway-borders.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-05.
-
Why didn't i discover this earlier
There's a fork called sway-borders that implements rounded corners outside of windows.
-
Hyperlinks from other app not opening in firefox
My configuration runs wayland with sway-borders, which I packaged by modifying the sway default.nix file in nixpkgs.
-
Is there a way to force the gap color?
Well, there’s sway-borders, maybe you could find it useful
- Shadows in sway?
-
tokyonight dump
sway-borders
-
Help installing Sway on Ubuntu
This is my first time trying to build and install a program from source. I am following this tutorial on Zorin 16 (Ubuntu 20.04 based) to install Sway-Borders but I am have a few questions:
-
Why is Wayland the way that it is
kinda, but you can try forks like sway-borders (never used, not sure how it is)
-
Screenlock: inhibit_idle and swaylock confusion
Also I'm not sure if you've already found it but I saw your other post and there is a fork that adds rounded borders to sway.
-
recommend me a Wayland tiling wm/compositor with drop shadows / window shadows
This fork of Sway: https://github.com/fluix-dev/sway-borders
-
Building sway-borders on Gentoo
While trying to build sway-borders from github, it fails on my gentoo system running the stable branch's wlroots 12.0 package.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing swappy and sway-borders you can also consider the following projects:
grim - Grab images from a Wayland compositor
cagebreak - Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison
mpv-image-viewer - Configuration, scripts and tips for using mpv as an image viewer
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
qutebrowser - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt.
gammastep
clipman - A simple clipboard manager for Wayland
wayward - Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.
flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
swayidle - Idle management daemon for Wayland