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Top 19 C Wlroot Projects
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Project mention: Labwc: Wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland, inspired by openbox | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-04
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Yeah. On Wlroots or Sway, we can setup virtual displays pretty easily (swaymsg create_output, done). Then both the other person and yourself connect to the wayvnc vnc server server to see what's over there.
Available May 2020, https://github.com/any1/wayvnc/issues/7#issuecomment-6256611...
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Project mention: Is there any way to search all files and folders in tofi | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-18
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I still use ratpoison, dreading the day it stops working for whatever reason (wayland being a likely one). Haven't tried it, but Cagebreak (https://github.com/project-repo/cagebreak) seems like a possible successor.
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Project mention: Wayland Maker – A Wayland Compositor Inspired by Window Maker | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-31
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scenefx
A drop-in replacement for the wlroots scene API that allows wayland compositors to render surfaces with eye-candy effects
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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
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C Wlroots discussion
C Wlroots related posts
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Labwc: Wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland, inspired by openbox
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Wayland Maker – A Wayland Compositor Inspired by Window Maker
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Wayland Maker – A Wayland Compositor Inspired by Window Maker
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Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS
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Pomodoro Timer: Waybar and uair
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Hyprland is now independent, dropping wlroots
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Wayland breaks your bad software
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Wlroot projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | labwc | 2,053 |
| 2 | wayvnc | 1,367 |
| 3 | tofi | 1,140 |
| 4 | swaylock | 967 |
| 5 | kiwmi | 673 |
| 6 | swaybg | 606 |
| 7 | gtklock | 414 |
| 8 | wl-mirror | 400 |
| 9 | sfwbar | 334 |
| 10 | cagebreak | 329 |
| 11 | wlmaker | 229 |
| 12 | wdisplays | 226 |
| 13 | japokwm | 154 |
| 14 | scenefx | 136 |
| 15 | wl-gammactl | 57 |
| 16 | blockbar | 39 |
| 17 | wlanthy | 35 |
| 18 | epd-wm | 28 |
| 19 | gtklock-userinfo-module | 11 |
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