wdisplays
GUI display configurator for wlroots compositors (by cyclopsian)
velox
velox window manager (by michaelforney)
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| wdisplays | velox | |
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| 5 | 6 | |
| 304 | 471 | |
| - | - | |
| 1.1 | 0.0 | |
| over 3 years ago | over 1 year ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | 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.
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
velox
Posts with mentions or reviews of velox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-26.
- Velox is a simple window manager based on swc
- Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
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Wayland section in site
velox https://github.com/michaelforney/velox
- What does the suckless Community think of Wayland?
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xorg sucks, use swc
Combine this with the velox dwm-inspired window manager and you have yourself a full graphical wayland environment in about 12k sloc. I don't really see a reason to keep xorg so I will be purging it from all of my machines.
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X is Boomer
Combine this with the velox tiling-wm (2897 sloc), and you have a full, hackable tiling wm in about 13k Lines of static C code.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wdisplays and velox you can also consider the following projects:
wlr-randr - An xrandr clone for wlroots compositors
dwm - LEV Linux's window manager (a fork of dwm)
kanshi - Dynamic display configuration (mirror)
wayland - Core Wayland protocol and libraries (mirror)
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
wl-gammactl
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg
vivarium - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots
wdisplays - Mirror of cyclopsian/wdisplays
waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad