wayfire VS compiz-windows-effect

Compare wayfire vs compiz-windows-effect and see what are their differences.

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wayfire compiz-windows-effect
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2,232 132
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9.6 0.6
5 days ago about 1 month ago
C++ JavaScript
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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wayfire

Posts with mentions or reviews of wayfire. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-18.
  • Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Apr 2024
    Unusable until moving your mouse to the edges of the screen and clicking makes it hit the scrollbar, or the exit button. Right now it initiates a resize.

    Illustrated example from a different compositor https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/issues/570

    It's the only DE I'm excited about it so I hope they fix that. Very very promising and the best part is that it made the GNOME people mad.

    GNOME: "Sorry I don't see the use case for that, PR closed. Make your own project. "

  • Wayfire (a Wayland compositor) 0.8.0 announcement
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2023
    One of the developers just responded on the github issue referecing this thread.

    "After a bit of discussion on HackerNews, I got a bit better understanding of the actual problem. People don't want to just configure the keys according to a particular layout - the actual 'issue' here is that they expect the key binding changes together with the layout. Unfortunately, the 0.8.0 changes didn't make this possible to implement as a plugin.

    I would reconsider adding this as an option if there are enough interested people. React with a thumbs up to this comment if you are interested in having this option (though the defaults will certainly remain as they are now). Please, react only if you actually use Wayfire or would use it if it had this feature :)"

    https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/issues/1601#issuecommen...

  • I'm ending the WM/DE discussion... PERMANENTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    1 project | /r/linuxmasterrace | 28 Jun 2023
  • Is wayland still bad with Nvidia?
    1 project | /r/archlinux | 31 May 2023
    I have been on Wayfire for over a year now, and I can't possibly praise it enough. It's entirely modular, so you can make it look and behave exactly as you want. It does tiling, it does Compiz-style wobbly windows and 3D desktop cubes, configurable rules and hotkeys, everything. It's stable and handles gaming flawlessly.
  • Do we finally switch to Wayland or not?
    3 projects | /r/archlinux | 5 May 2023
    Your impression of Wayland is going to be very much determined by the quality of the compositor implementing it, and I've found Wayfire to be the best, by far - but oddly, also the one least talked about. Everybody's paying attention to stuff like Hyprland, Sway and Mutter - you're barking up the wrong tree there. Wayfire is fantastic, has most of the bells and whistles Compiz on X11 has, and is as pretty or as functional as you want it to be.
  • Guide to setup Wayfire on Artix?
    1 project | /r/artixlinux | 12 Apr 2023
  • Which technology / protocol etc. is the next big thing, coming the next few years in Linux gaming?
    4 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 20 Mar 2023
    - VR support
  • BGFX problem
    1 project | /r/MAME | 28 Feb 2023
    I thought so too not long ago, but Wayland compositors needed some time to mature, and some of them are getting pretty damn good. Ever since I discovered Wayfire I'm a total believer, it's better than any X window management solution I've used. Much lighter too.
  • Show HN: Parallax wallpaper engine for Linux and Windows
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2023
  • Swayfire and Wayfire news
    3 projects | /r/Wayfire | 18 Feb 2023
    might be a small window when wayfire releases a version, before master identfies as the next release number. (see: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/blob/master/meson.build )

compiz-windows-effect

Posts with mentions or reviews of compiz-windows-effect. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-15.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wayfire and compiz-windows-effect you can also consider the following projects:

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect - KDE Connect implementation for GNOME

Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.

Vitals - A glimpse into your computer's temperature, voltage, fan speed, memory usage and CPU load.

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

extension-manager - A utility for browsing and installing GNOME Shell Extensions.

manjaro-sway - manjaro linux with wayland 🖼, sway 🌴 and a lot of ♥

Windows Terminal - The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar

argos - Create GNOME Shell extensions in seconds

dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg

Burn-My-Windows - 🔥 Disintegrate your windows with style.