swaybg
Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors (by swaywm)
kiwmi
A fully programmable Wayland Compositor (by buffet)
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| swaybg | kiwmi | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | |
| 431 | 556 | |
| 4.9% | - | |
| 4.3 | 0.0 | |
| 11 days ago | about 1 year ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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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.
swaybg
Posts with mentions or reviews of swaybg.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-05.
- How to change paper in wayland dwl (I delete post when I get answer)
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swaybg alone eating up almost 500mb ram for some reason! are there any alternatives?
What version of swaybg are you on? There were some changes in swaybg in 1.1 https://github.com/swaywm/swaybg/commits/master
kiwmi
Posts with mentions or reviews of kiwmi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
- A Wayland compositor fully programmable with Lua
- Kiwmi: A WIP Wayland Compositor with Lua-Scripted Behaviours
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| Weekly Workshop 2021-01-01
Could it—by any chance—be kiwmi? But it ain’t tiling (unless you make it so) & the fully manual thing also depends on the config. AFAIK that behaviour was explicitly mentioned only in its early history, as you can see e.g. in PR#1
What are some alternatives?
When comparing swaybg and kiwmi you can also consider the following projects:
oguri - A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors
cagebreak - Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison
swaylock - Screen locker for Wayland
wl-gammactl
swayidle - Idle management daemon for Wayland
wlanthy - Experimental, simple Wayland-native Japanese input method
wdisplays - GUI display configurator for wlroots compositors
luvi - A project in-between luv and luvit.
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg