waybox
An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP) (by wizbright)
arcan
Arcan - [Display Server, Multimedia Framework, Game Engine] -> "Desktop Engine" (by letoram)
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| waybox | arcan | |
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| 6 | 33 | |
| 438 | 1,492 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.7 | 8.0 | |
| 7 days ago | 16 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
waybox
Posts with mentions or reviews of waybox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-03.
- Wayland section in site
- Labwc vs Waybox
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How do you personally take advantage of Linux’s open source nature
No, I just googled "openbox wayland" and found the first result is a Wayland version of an Openbox clone: https://github.com/wizbright/waybox
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Does anyone know of a version of OpenBox that supports Wayland, Pipewire, & OpenRC/S6?
There's Waybox as far as I'm aware, but I don't know if it supports s6/openrc/pipewire.
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Save the Mouse
maybe this ? waybox
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4k monitor and blurry scaling
Openbox only works with X11. There is this project, but it's marked as WIP and hasn't been updated in 6 months.
arcan
Posts with mentions or reviews of arcan.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.
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Is there a cross-platform graphics library that can run without X or wayland that runs on the BSD's bare-metal?
Something like this ? https://arcan-fe.com/
- X.org Alternatives? MicroXWin, Wayland, Y, DFB, Xynth, Fresco, etc. (2009)
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kirby.nvim: design update
This requires to remove the terminal emulator plus adjust IPC, like what arcan is doing: https://github.com/letoram/arcan
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VT330/VT340 Sixel Graphics
kragen, what's the current status of BubbleOS?
Also, I'm curious what you think of Arcan (https://arcan-fe.com)
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Qt Wayland: support for surviving a compositor crash was merged
afair ChromeOS do implement it, harder to find the commit but also know Arcan mentioned elsewhere in this thread added it quite a while ago https://github.com/letoram/arcan/commit/d547c55565a848946422e24eee324c8ed091ff15
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not the biggest Xorg fan, but it isn't all sunshine and rainbows in the promised Wayland.
I managed to find this one in my history: Arcan it does has a cool name ngl, I never tried it though
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Wayland blows ass and mostly functions as a launcher for x.org processes. Nobody needs, wants or asked for Wayland. It's nobody's fault but the assholes at FreeDesktop
Lol not arcan
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A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell
See https://arcan-fe.com/, in particular Lash: https://arcan-fe.com/2022/10/15/whipping-up-a-new-shell-lash...
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Is Wayland really the best solution
LOL. Not. Meanwhile, one dude managed to write an entire display server that handles, both, Wayland and X11 apps: https://arcan-fe.com/
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SDL Tries Again To Prefer Wayland Over X11
Arcan is a decent contender for an actual way forward (and like PipeWire replacing PulseAudio, Arcan natively supports X11 and Wayland clients)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing waybox and arcan you can also consider the following projects:
jgmenu - An X11 menu
hello-wayland - A hello world Wayland client (mirror)
wayst - A simple terminal emulator
openbsd-wip - OpenBSD work in progress ports
mako - A lightweight Wayland notification daemon
ydotool - Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)
labwc - A Wayland window-stacking compositor
rdrview - Firefox Reader View as a command line tool
psxsdk - Homebrew Sony PlayStation 1 SDK
glaucus - A simple and lightweight Linux® distribution based on musl libc and toybox
refind-patched - Patched rEFInd. See what's different in the wiki.
etlegacy - ET: Legacy is an open source project based on the code of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory which was released in 2010 under the terms of the GPLv3 license.