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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.
wayst
Posts with mentions or reviews of wayst.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-12.
- Wayst – Simple terminal emulator for Wayland and X11
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What terminal emulator do you use?
wayst — Simple terminal emulator for Wayland and X11 with OpenGL rendering and minimal dependencies https://github.com/91861/wayst
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wayst and waybox you can also consider the following projects:
zutty - X terminal emulator rendering through OpenGL ES Compute Shaders
arcan - Arcan - [Display Server, Multimedia Framework, Game Engine] -> "Desktop Engine"
terminal - :rocket: Terminal
jgmenu - An X11 menu
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. [Moved to: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty]
mako - A lightweight Wayland notification daemon
x11vnc - a VNC server for real X displays
labwc - A Wayland window-stacking compositor
devour - X11 window swallower
psxsdk - Homebrew Sony PlayStation 1 SDK
tmux - tmux source code
refind-patched - Patched rEFInd. See what's different in the wiki.