waybox
An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP) (by wizbright)
velox
velox window manager (by michaelforney)
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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.
velox
Posts with mentions or reviews of velox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-26.
- Velox is a simple window manager based on swc
- Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
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Wayland section in site
velox https://github.com/michaelforney/velox
- What does the suckless Community think of Wayland?
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xorg sucks, use swc
Combine this with the velox dwm-inspired window manager and you have yourself a full graphical wayland environment in about 12k sloc. I don't really see a reason to keep xorg so I will be purging it from all of my machines.
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X is Boomer
Combine this with the velox tiling-wm (2897 sloc), and you have a full, hackable tiling wm in about 13k Lines of static C code.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing waybox and velox you can also consider the following projects:
arcan - Arcan - [Display Server, Multimedia Framework, Game Engine] -> "Desktop Engine"
dwm - LEV Linux's window manager (a fork of dwm)
jgmenu - An X11 menu
wayland - Core Wayland protocol and libraries (mirror)
wayst - A simple terminal emulator
kanshi - Dynamic display configuration (mirror)
mako - A lightweight Wayland notification daemon
vivarium - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots
labwc - A Wayland window-stacking compositor
waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad
psxsdk - Homebrew Sony PlayStation 1 SDK
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg