waylock
A small screenlocker for Wayland compositors (by ifreund)
wayland-rs
Rust implementation of the wayland protocol (client and server). (by Smithay)
| waylock | wayland-rs | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 5 | |
| 343 | 973 | |
| - | 2.6% | |
| 0.0 | 8.2 | |
| 4 months ago | 3 days ago | |
| Zig | Rust | |
| ISC License | MIT License |
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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.
waylock
Posts with mentions or reviews of waylock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-09.
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Can KScreenLocker and SDDM merged into one single program?
I meant that a standard of some sort is probably needed to handle both the desktop environment telling the display manager to lock the screen AND allowing said display manager to take over the screen and lock it. On Wayland at the moment I'm not aware of any screen locker that isn't part of the DE itself that works on GNOME or KDE (I only know of swaylock and waylock, and both require protocols that are only implemented by wlroots based compositors, at least according to Waylock's readme).
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swaylock alternatives?
I only know about waylock, didn't try it though
wayland-rs
Posts with mentions or reviews of wayland-rs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-29.
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Announcing shikane: a dynamic output configuration tool for Wayland compositors
I was initially having some problems with kanshi and was thinking about contributing the new features I wanted. For some of the features I wanted, kanshi's internals would have to change considerably. Since kanshi consists of only ~1500 lines of C, I began writing a replacement for kanshi in Rust. After many hours of reading Wayland protocol specifications, working on shikane, some help from the Smithay project and their Rust implementation of Wayland protocols, shikane was able to replace kanshi on my machines. I have been using it for over 4 months now.
- Is there a good tutorial for writing an X11 Tiling Window manager in Rust?
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Xremap - Linux key remapper written in Rust
Yes, I agree. Since https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots-rs is deprecated, I'm guessing I should use https://github.com/Smithay/smithay or https://github.com/Smithay/wayland-rs. As soon as I find a library that can use the protocol, preferably without extra dependency, I'll switch it to that.
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Are there any ongoing efforts of making a desktop environment (similar to KDE or Gnome) in Rust?
There's also https://github.com/Smithay/wayland-rs
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Rust, Wayland and the Linux "graphics stack"
Also there is an incomplete Wayland implementation in Rust, but that isn't very actively developed.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing waylock and wayland-rs you can also consider the following projects:
physlock - Lightweight linux console locking tool
leftwm - A tiling window manager for Adventurers
swaylock - Screen locker for Wayland
eww - ElKowars wacky widgets
yofi - yofi is a minimalistic menu for wayland
smithay - A smithy for rusty wayland compositors
penrose - A library for writing an X11 tiling window manager
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
wl-clipboard-rs - A safe Rust crate for working with the Wayland clipboard.