waybox
An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP) (by wizbright)
mako
A lightweight Wayland notification daemon (by emersion)
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waybox
Posts with mentions or reviews of waybox.
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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.
mako
Posts with mentions or reviews of mako.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-27.
- where does mako stores it's history?
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[wofi] how would I go about making this?
So, using this github issue as a reference, I'm trying to make a wofi menu that appears when a bluetooth file transmission is sent to my PC from my phone (or any other device for that matter).
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Transparent or/and non-interactive notifications
I currently use mako for the notifications. When I play Strategy Games (Mouse is all over the place) and a notifcation pops up, the mouse gets stuck on the notification message until I click it.
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Any software that can get me pop up windows when doing certain stuff?
I use avizo as a volume indicator, mako for notifications generally.
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Is there some app that lets you launch a simple text overlay?
I guess some standard notifications app like https://github.com/emersion/mako doesn't suffice, as it isn't related to a window?
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Thoughts over MicroOS aftering giving a try
mako is a Wayland notification daemon from one of the principal Sway/wlroots devs, and is currently provided with openSUSEway. It's pretty minimalist, but so are most things in the Sway/wlroots ecosystem.
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Long time Arch user, moved to Gentoo a couple months ago.
It's a notification, I use mako: https://github.com/emersion/mako
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What apps are you running on Sway? (Wayland Native Apps of course)
Notifications: mako
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Notification daemon priority
Is there any way to force dbus to use a specific notification daemon? On one of my systems, I run both Plasma and Sway. The latter obviously doesn't have a notification system, so I'm using mako. As far as I can tell, mako automatically launches when a notification is fired, however this causes an issue with Plasma. Plasma seems to be shutting down its own notification daemon in favor of anything else that's running, and I'm not sure if there's a way to prevent it from doing that
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Toggling floating windows for thunderbird notification
I don’t use Thunderbird, but does it support using FreeDesktop notifications e.g. that would work with Mako? Some applications will fall back to their own windows if there’s no notification daemon running.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing waybox and mako you can also consider the following projects:
arcan - Arcan - [Display Server, Multimedia Framework, Game Engine] -> "Desktop Engine"
dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
jgmenu - An X11 menu
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
wayst - A simple terminal emulator
dust - A more intuitive version of du in rust
labwc - A Wayland window-stacking compositor
swaylock - Screen locker for Wayland
psxsdk - Homebrew Sony PlayStation 1 SDK
SimpleFox - 🦊 A Userstyle theme for Firefox minimalist and Keyboard centered.
refind-patched - Patched rEFInd. See what's different in the wiki.
eww - ElKowars wacky widgets