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  1. chadwm

    Making dwm as beautiful as possible!

  2. SaaSHub

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  3. dwm-flexipatch

    A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time

  4. clipmenu

    Clipboard management using dmenu

  5. nsxiv

    Read-only mirror of Neo Simple X Image Viewer

  6. pycopy

    Pycopy - a minimalist and memory-efficient Python dialect. Good for desktop, cloud, constrained systems, microcontrollers, and just everything.

  7. st

    snazzy terminal (suckless + beautiful) (by siduck)

  8. libschrift

    A lightweight TrueType font rendering library

  9. xst

    st fork that uses Xresources and some pretty good patches

    Project mention: Linux Terminal Memory Usage | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-11

    i've been using xst https://github.com/gnotclub/xst, a fork of suckless st https://st.suckless.org/ for a long period, but there's also st-flexipatch https://github.com/bakkeby/st-flexipatch available which now includes sixel support

  10. st-flexipatch

    An st build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time

    Project mention: Linux Terminal Memory Usage | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-11

    i've been using xst https://github.com/gnotclub/xst, a fork of suckless st https://st.suckless.org/ for a long period, but there's also st-flexipatch https://github.com/bakkeby/st-flexipatch available which now includes sixel support

  11. pdwm

    full animation supported, easy configurable (uses shared library) dwm fork with a control center (pdwmc)

  12. 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).

  13. dwmblocks-async

    An efficient, lean, and asynchronous status feed generator for dwm.

  14. libudev-zero

    Daemonless replacement for libudev

  15. sfm

    simple file manager

  16. nextvi

    A small vi/ex terminal text editor (neatvi rewrite)

    Project mention: The vi family | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-12

  17. slstatus

    mirror from suckless.org. send patches to hackers@suckless.org mailing list. NO PRs

  18. modwm

    MODWM - Modular Dynamic Window Manager

  19. ssu

    Extremely simple su utility

  20. st

    simple terminal (suckless terminal) (by Shourai)

  21. smu

    Simple MarkUp - markdown/commonmark like syntax (by karlb)

  22. libxft-bgra

    A patched version of libxft that allows for colored emojis to be rendered in Suckless software (dmenu/st/whatever).

  23. eiwd

    iwd without dbus -- maintained fork of original dylanaraps/eiwd (by illiliti)

  24. mpris-ctl

    Basic mpris player control for linux command line

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).

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What are some of the best open-source Suckless projects in C? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 chadwm 3,013
2 dwm-flexipatch 1,330
3 clipmenu 1,253
4 nsxiv 837
5 pycopy 820
6 st 742
7 libschrift 569
8 xst 540
9 st-flexipatch 448
10 pdwm 425
11 uzlib 352
12 dwmblocks-async 322
13 libudev-zero 276
14 sfm 258
15 nextvi 249
16 slstatus 219
17 modwm 145
18 ssu 79
19 st 74
20 smu 73
21 libxft-bgra 68
22 eiwd 64
23 mpris-ctl 59

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