waybox
An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP) (by wizbright)
swayimg
Image viewer for Sway/Wayland (by artemsen)
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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.
swayimg
Posts with mentions or reviews of swayimg.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-19.
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nwg-iso 2023.09.18
new preinstalled packages: pacseek, swayimg.
- Wayland section in site
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Looking for: lightweight/minimalist image viewer
My brother in Christ, you need swayimg.
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Image previews with vifm on Wayland?
swayimg was also mentioned, but it seems to be a viewer (i.e., expects user's input) rather than a previewer which is needed here, but maybe there is a way to use it with some inconvenience. It does suggest that something like Ueberzug can be implemented for Wayland.
- swayimg
What are some alternatives?
When comparing waybox and swayimg you can also consider the following projects:
arcan - Arcan - [Display Server, Multimedia Framework, Game Engine] -> "Desktop Engine"
vifm-scripts
jgmenu - An X11 menu
pqiv - Powerful image viewer with minimal UI
wayst - A simple terminal emulator
velox - velox window manager
mako - A lightweight Wayland notification daemon
qView - Practical and minimal image viewer
labwc - A Wayland window-stacking compositor
pacseek - A terminal user interface for searching and installing Arch Linux packages
psxsdk - Homebrew Sony PlayStation 1 SDK
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.