wtype VS sway

Compare wtype vs sway and see what are their differences.

wtype

xdotool type for wayland (by atx)

sway

i3-compatible Wayland compositor (by swaywm)
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wtype sway
16 613
304 13,672
- 2.3%
0.0 9.2
about 2 years ago 4 days ago
C C
MIT License MIT License
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wtype

Posts with mentions or reviews of wtype. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-01.

sway

Posts with mentions or reviews of sway. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wtype and sway you can also consider the following projects:

Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.

bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)

wslg - Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios

Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:

dmenu-wayland - dmenu for wayland-compositors

weston - Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance

xdg-desktop-portal-wlr - xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots