wayward
Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston. (by varmd)
sway-borders
Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders. (by fluix-dev)
| wayward | sway-borders | |
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| 3 | 11 | |
| 87 | 224 | |
| - | - | |
| 4.6 | 1.9 | |
| 2 months ago | about 1 year ago | |
| C | C | |
| - | MIT License |
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wayward
Posts with mentions or reviews of wayward.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-12.
sway-borders
Posts with mentions or reviews of sway-borders.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-05.
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Why didn't i discover this earlier
There's a fork called sway-borders that implements rounded corners outside of windows.
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Hyperlinks from other app not opening in firefox
My configuration runs wayland with sway-borders, which I packaged by modifying the sway default.nix file in nixpkgs.
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Is there a way to force the gap color?
Well, there’s sway-borders, maybe you could find it useful
- Shadows in sway?
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tokyonight dump
sway-borders
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Help installing Sway on Ubuntu
This is my first time trying to build and install a program from source. I am following this tutorial on Zorin 16 (Ubuntu 20.04 based) to install Sway-Borders but I am have a few questions:
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Why is Wayland the way that it is
kinda, but you can try forks like sway-borders (never used, not sure how it is)
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Screenlock: inhibit_idle and swaylock confusion
Also I'm not sure if you've already found it but I saw your other post and there is a fork that adds rounded borders to sway.
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recommend me a Wayland tiling wm/compositor with drop shadows / window shadows
This fork of Sway: https://github.com/fluix-dev/sway-borders
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Building sway-borders on Gentoo
While trying to build sway-borders from github, it fails on my gentoo system running the stable branch's wlroots 12.0 package.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wayward and sway-borders you can also consider the following projects:
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11
cagebreak - Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
compton - A lightweight compositor for X11 [Moved to: https://github.com/yshui/picom]
swappy - A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS
weston-binder - Specify your own keybindings in Weston.
gammastep
wine-wayland - Wine-wayland allows playing DX9/DX11 and Vulkan games using pure wayland and Wine/DXVK.
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
grefsen - A Qt/Wayland desktop
swayidle - Idle management daemon for Wayland