waybox
An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP) (by wizbright)
labwc
A Wayland window-stacking compositor (by labwc)
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| waybox | labwc | |
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| 6 | 40 | |
| 438 | 1,446 | |
| - | 5.5% | |
| 6.7 | 9.8 | |
| 7 days ago | 2 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
labwc
Posts with mentions or reviews of labwc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-13.
- Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux
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Looking for the most minimal wm available rn
labwc?
- I Still Use Windows 95 (archived, 2008)
- What is the lightest wayland floating wm/desktop environment
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Suggestions
I'd recommend checking in on the IRC channel or opening a Github issue, much better way to get in touch with the developers! I'm just a very enthusiastic user who likes to report bugs. :D
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Wayland section in site
labwc https://github.com/labwc/labwc
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help me choose a wm
Just fyi, river is nothing like awesome, it's like bspwm. There was an attempt to make an awesome clone for wayland but it's no longer under development. Also, though it's not tiling, for completeness there's also labwc which is a wayland clone of openbox.
- Build My Own?
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What window manager or desktop environment do you use?
I've been using labwc for nearly a year now and I'm really happy with it. Its a simple floating wm though, so not sure that would be something you are looking for.
- Labwc vs Waybox
What are some alternatives?
When comparing waybox and labwc you can also consider the following projects:
arcan - Arcan - [Display Server, Multimedia Framework, Game Engine] -> "Desktop Engine"
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
jgmenu - An X11 menu
archcraft - // Source : ISO
wayst - A simple terminal emulator
mako - A lightweight Wayland notification daemon
manjaro-sway - manjaro linux with wayland 🖼, sway 🌴 and a lot of ♥
psxsdk - Homebrew Sony PlayStation 1 SDK
Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:
refind-patched - Patched rEFInd. See what's different in the wiki.
openbox - Openbox Window Manager (OpenboxWM)