waymonad VS vivarium

Compare waymonad vs vivarium and see what are their differences.

waymonad

A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad (by waymonad)

vivarium

A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots (by inclement)
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waymonad vivarium
21 5
828 345
0.4% -
0.0 2.8
almost 5 years ago 7 months ago
Haskell C
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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waymonad

Posts with mentions or reviews of waymonad. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-02.

vivarium

Posts with mentions or reviews of vivarium. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-26.
  • With rise of wayland, are simpler window managers dying?
    14 projects | /r/linux | 26 Aug 2022
    Take a look to Vivarium It is more recent it worked decently and it is remakably easy to config.
  • I am looking for a wayland based tiling window manager which is close to dwm/xmonad, which one would you recommend?
    4 projects | /r/wayland | 11 Oct 2021
    I wrote Vivarium specifically to behave like my old xmonad setup, although it isn't at all like xmonad internally. It's configurable in C.
  • XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Oct 2021
    Since various people are asking about xmonad-like tiling in wayland:

    I wrote Vivarium[0] specifically to be a wayland compositor that behaves exactly like my (fairly simple) xmonad config, but it's a relatively new/unstable compositor and nothing like xmonad internally.

    River[1] has a fantastic tiling model via user-provided executables, which makes it very flexible and probably a good fit for many people wanting something xmonad-like.

    Waymonad[2] exists as a direct xmonad-like compositor, but I think development has been basically stalled for a long time. Sometimes there's discussion about reviving it though.

    [0] https://github.com/inclement/vivarium

    [1] https://github.com/ifreund/river

    [2] https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad

  • Recommended Compositors
    2 projects | /r/wayland | 31 Mar 2021
    Vivarium has xwayland as an option, enabled by default.
  • xorg sucks, use swc
    14 projects | /r/suckless | 20 Mar 2021
    https://github.com/inclement/vivarium.git and https://github.com/djpohly/dwl.git are also great projects in the same vein.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing waymonad and vivarium you can also consider the following projects:

spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library

waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad

qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)

velox - velox window manager

ibus - Intelligent Input Bus for Linux/Unix

autotiling - Script for sway and i3 to automatically switch the horizontal / vertical window split orientation

samurai - ninja-compatible build tool written in C