wlroots VS libinput-gestures

Compare wlroots vs libinput-gestures and see what are their differences.

wlroots

A modular Wayland compositor library (by swaywm)

libinput-gestures

Actions gestures on your touchpad using libinput (by bulletmark)
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wlroots libinput-gestures
108 65
1,969 3,982
- 0.8%
9.8 6.7
over 3 years ago 18 days ago
C Python
MIT License -
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wlroots

Posts with mentions or reviews of wlroots. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-10-14.

libinput-gestures

Posts with mentions or reviews of libinput-gestures. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-15.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wlroots and libinput-gestures you can also consider the following projects:

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

touchegg - Linux multi-touch gesture recognizer

x11docker - Run GUI applications and desktops in docker and podman containers. Focus on security.

wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors

Fusuma - Multitouch gestures with libinput driver on Linux

nvidia-patch - This patch removes restriction on maximum number of simultaneous NVENC video encoding sessions imposed by Nvidia to consumer-grade GPUs.

ydotool - Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)

wlroots-eglstreams - A modular Wayland compositor library with EGLStreams support

touche - The desktop application to configure Touchégg

waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad

solus-sc - Solus Software Center

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