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Top 23 C Suckless Projects
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dwm-flexipatch
A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time
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pycopy
Pycopy - a minimalist and memory-efficient Python dialect. Good for desktop, cloud, constrained systems, microcontrollers, and just everything.
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nsxiv (fork of the now unmaintained sxiv), is also very light and simple (and the mousewheel zooms in and out): https://codeberg.org/nsxiv/nsxiv
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pdwm
full animation supported, easy configurable (uses shared library) dwm fork with a control center (pdwmc)
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st-flexipatch
An st build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time
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uzlib
Radically unbloated DEFLATE/zlib/gzip compression/decompression library. Can decompress any gzip/zlib data, and offers simplified compressor which produces gzip-compatible output, while requiring much less resources (and providing less compression ratio of course).
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Project mention: Sfm: Simple (suckless) file manager for Unix-like systems in C | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-13
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libxft-bgra
A patched version of libxft that allows for colored emojis to be rendered in Suckless software (dmenu/st/whatever).
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st-history-vim
Development of the "vim patch" and a minimalist "history patch" for the suckless simple terminal (st).
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Most of Linux based media players, including deadbeef, can be interacted with using MPRIS, a DBus interface, and there are multiple CLIs for sending/extracting information from them. I can recommend you the one I developed: https://github.com/mariusor/mpris-ctl , but there are others.
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shotkey
A simple and lightweight hotkey daemon for X with configurable custom modes and key chords (in ~200 LOC)
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C Suckless discussion
C Suckless related posts
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SSU: Simple su utility (>150 lines of C99)
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Sfm: Simple (suckless) file manager for Unix-like systems in C
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Chadwm: Making Dwm as Beautiful as Possible
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Writing a TrueType font renderer
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ChadWM crashes when changing tags using multi-monitor
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Git Workflow with Applying Patches
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behavior of layout switching
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Suckless projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | chadwm | 2,567 |
| 2 | dwm-flexipatch | 1,219 |
| 3 | clipmenu | 1,169 |
| 4 | pycopy | 810 |
| 5 | nsxiv | 699 |
| 6 | st | 681 |
| 7 | xst | 540 |
| 8 | libschrift | 498 |
| 9 | pdwm | 426 |
| 10 | st-flexipatch | 387 |
| 11 | uzlib | 310 |
| 12 | dwmblocks-async | 243 |
| 13 | sfm | 234 |
| 14 | libudev-zero | 210 |
| 15 | slstatus | 208 |
| 16 | modwm | 141 |
| 17 | ssu | 71 |
| 18 | libxft-bgra | 68 |
| 19 | smu | 59 |
| 20 | eiwd | 54 |
| 21 | st-history-vim | 52 |
| 22 | mpris-ctl | 51 |
| 23 | shotkey | 45 |
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