weston
Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability,
predictability, and performance (by wayland-project)
gvimsurfer2
Web browser that looks and works like gVim (using webkit2gtk) (by kcirick)
| weston | gvimsurfer2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1 | |
| 521 | 0 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.6 | 0.0 | |
| over 1 year ago | over 3 years ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT Expat | - |
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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.
weston
Posts with mentions or reviews of weston.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-11.
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Cursor scaling on Wayland is not there yet
I decided to investigate how different Wayland client implementations behave with cursor scaling across 4 different Wayland compositors at different scale factors to get an overview of the situation. Below are my findings. As you can see, cursor scaling on Wayland is messy, with the reference Wayland compositor implementation Weston performing the worst. If you find my data to be incorrect please provide your findings in the comments.
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Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!
Mutter is not the “official Wayland implementation”. Wayland has one reference implementation: Weston https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston
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i like violence
If you want Wayland, labwc (GitHub link) aims to be very close to openbox, so it should pop in pretty easily. That being said, Weston (Gitlab link) seems like the best implementation of a wayland compositor right now.
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How do I manually edit the GUI in Ubuntu or any Linux distro?
Weston is a simple wayland one. Wayland does basically what X11 does, but wayland is the modern one that X's legacy baggage: X11 even printing directly part of it.
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[SimpleWM] Sometimes you just have to make things from scratch
For example code there is the weston repository.
gvimsurfer2
Posts with mentions or reviews of gvimsurfer2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-25.
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[SimpleWM] Sometimes you just have to make things from scratch
I have! I named it gVimSurfer, using webkitgtk.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing weston and gvimsurfer2 you can also consider the following projects:
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
dotfiles - My personal dotfiles
wayland-protocols - Wayland protocol development (mirror)
labwc - A Wayland window-stacking compositor
simplewm
LFS - Stuff for LFS
musca - Musca is a simple window manager for X allowing both tiling and stacking modes.
greenfield - HTML5 Wayland compositor :seedling: