wdisplays
GUI display configurator for wlroots compositors (by cyclopsian)
dwl
dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg (by djpohly)
| wdisplays | dwl | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 46 | |
| 304 | 1,950 | |
| - | - | |
| 1.1 | 8.9 | |
| over 4 years ago | about 1 year ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
wdisplays
Posts with mentions or reviews of wdisplays.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-11.
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X is Boomer
arandr replacement: wdisplays
- Plasma 5.21 is out and this time we have improved its looks and usability: there's a new wallpaper, an easier-to-use application launcher, a new system monitor, and much more.
- Can sway only use the primary display by default?
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Xrandr equivalent on wayland?
Output/display configuration tool: kanshi, wdisplays, wlr-randr
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Is there a Wayland equivalent of xrandr?
... because I like quick, and lazy: https://github.com/cyclopsian/wdisplays
dwl
Posts with mentions or reviews of dwl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-11.
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How to patch dwl?
Patching autostart:
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steamvr now working on DWL
If any of you have attempted to use SteamVR with DWL then you probably ran into the same issue I did. It doesn't have support for DRM leasing, so it can't actually show an image on the headset.
- [Arch Linux] Migrer vers Wayland
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[Q] Lightweight Linux for Low-End Gaming
DWL
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Can someone recommend a compositor to me?
Have you checked DWL which is DWM for Wayland? I haven't tried it yet so I can't say anything more.
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Master and Stack setup
There's a python script called stacki3 that works both on i3wm and sway. There is also a dwm clone for wayland called dwl.
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I actually use linux because its objectively better
I currently use dwl which is much, much lighter than i3 and suits my needs. On my laptop I just don't have a window manager of any kind installed, I can get by with lynx and the TTY.
- Ideas for system compositor
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Help needed with Wayland (riverwm and dwl) on Void Linux
I wanted to try two wayland compositors out (specifically dwl and river) and cannot for the life of me seem to get it working properly. I am currently doing this inside a VirtualBox vm.
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dwl > ~/dwltags not updat the file
[0] https://github.com/djpohly/dwl
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wdisplays and dwl you can also consider the following projects:
wlr-randr - An xrandr clone for wlroots compositors
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
kanshi - Dynamic display configuration (mirror)
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
wl-gammactl
dwm - Luke's build of dwm
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
wdisplays - Mirror of cyclopsian/wdisplays
leftwm - A tiling window manager for Adventurers
japokwm - A wlroots and dwl based tiling wayland compositor based around creating layouts
qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)