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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.
dwm
Posts with mentions or reviews of dwm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-18.
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Why Void?
One reason why I like Void that isn't talked about as much is the xbps-src utility. This program allows you to compile, or cross-compile, and bundle, any package in the repositories from scratch, a la Gentoo and BSD. I always use it for the Suckless programs st and dwm. This is handy if you want to compile certain programs from scratch, it connects to your XBPS package manager, and makes it easy to patch software. It installs the dev dependencies in a chroot build environment, so you don't actually have to install them on your machine. I've never tried it but I believe it works with the kernel, too. It's always nice having that option there.
st
Posts with mentions or reviews of st.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-18.
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Why Void?
One reason why I like Void that isn't talked about as much is the xbps-src utility. This program allows you to compile, or cross-compile, and bundle, any package in the repositories from scratch, a la Gentoo and BSD. I always use it for the Suckless programs st and dwm. This is handy if you want to compile certain programs from scratch, it connects to your XBPS package manager, and makes it easy to patch software. It installs the dev dependencies in a chroot build environment, so you don't actually have to install them on your machine. I've never tried it but I believe it works with the kernel, too. It's always nice having that option there.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dwm and st you can also consider the following projects:
void-docs - mdbook source for docs.voidlinux.org