wayland
Core Wayland protocol and libraries (mirror) (by wayland-project)
velox
velox window manager (by michaelforney)
| wayland | velox | |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | 6 | |
| 716 | 471 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.4 | 0.0 | |
| over 1 year ago | over 1 year ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
wayland
Posts with mentions or reviews of wayland.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-17.
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wayland!!!!
source
- Help request: What is plasma shell and why is at using an entirewith no sign of stoppping?
- I like the Odin programming language
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4chan /g/ on Wayland
Those that have contributed to "http://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland", especially those that are paid by Red Hat to contribute.
- Why use wayland over x11?
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PipeWire 0.3.50 released
"Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a C library implementation of that protocol" (see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland)
- Asus will release a 17“ foldable OLED laptop
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XWayland in proot
https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland Official wayland sources
- What is wayland and x11-repo? How to use them in termux?
- Request for Open Source Project Recommendation to get involved with that is a showcase for C language
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 wayland and velox you can also consider the following projects:
X11 - A Haskell binding to the X11 graphics library.
dwm - LEV Linux's window manager (a fork of dwm)
termux-x11 - Not released and unmaintained Termux X11 add-on application.
kanshi - Dynamic display configuration (mirror)
wlr-randr - An xrandr clone for wlroots compositors
vivarium - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg
waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad
velox - A C++ vectorized database acceleration library aimed to optimizing query engines and data processing systems.