wapanel
Desktop-dedicated wayland bar for wayfire and other wlroots based compositors. Mir compatible. (by Firstbober)
hyprpaper
Hyprpaper is a blazing fast wayland wallpaper utility with IPC controls. (by hyprwm)
| wapanel | hyprpaper | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | |
| 58 | 881 | |
| - | 2.6% | |
| 10.0 | 7.9 | |
| about 3 years ago | 17 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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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.
wapanel
Posts with mentions or reviews of wapanel.
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and similar projects.
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Recommendations for a KDE style taskbar?
not KDE like, but Xfce like https://github.com/Firstbober/wapanel
hyprpaper
Posts with mentions or reviews of hyprpaper.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-06.
- Hyprpaper not loading wallpaper - Could not connect to sock
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Original wallpaper text on new background
When you first install Hyprland there is the small text on the bottom center of the screen that is changed every restart. Is there any way to get it on new wallpaper with Hyprpaper?
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Wallpaper changer
Yes it is have a look https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprpaper
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Hyprpaper crashing under rapid switches
I only found this relevant issue: https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprpaper/issues/42 which still persists
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Bind function to change wallpaper on workspace switch with wpaperd
Hyprpaper might be better maybe.
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Hyprpaper not wanting to work
Read the git
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wapanel and hyprpaper you can also consider the following projects:
shell - :shell: Convergent shell for desktops, phones and tables built with QtQuick, Wayland and Material Design
Hyprland - Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
hyprpicker - A wlroots-compatible Wayland color picker that does not suck.
hyprland-waybar-conf
gBar - Blazingly fast status bar written with GTK
plasma5-wallpapers-dynamic - Dynamic wallpaper plugin for KDE Plasma