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Top 14 Lua window-manager Projects
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While the argument of "I deal with X11-based WMs because it's fine when I don't care about security at all" may be valid in very narrow cases (such as air-gapped systems), the argument more generally is pretty weak.
Its not surpising that x11 based WMs, such as the almighty [awesomeWM](https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome), have more features implemented than, for instance, [jay](https://github.com/mahkoh/jay) due to the enormous time it has had to develop (though I am _very_ excited to see `jay` develop more fully, and expect it to be well used by the more tech-savy devs).
However, some WMs in the Wayland space are doing quite well on that front. I recently had some substantial problems arise in my system which (surprisingly to me, but perhaps some are getting used to this) would have been prevented by using a memory safety language for my WM, so I have made the switch to (for better or worse) only ever consider Wayland+Rust WMs. In this space, [niri](https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri) is actually quite good, and to the point - it is developing correctly _and very quickly_. So, any issues on some WM not implementing some desired feature are quickly disappearing.
IIRC, all the major 'gateway' linux distros, such as Ubuntu or Fedora, are all on Wayland by default now - so I don't imagine x11 will stay relevant much longer.
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smart-splits.nvim
🧠 Smart, seamless, directional navigation and resizing of Neovim + terminal multiplexer splits. Supports tmux, Wezterm, and Kitty. Think about splits in terms of "up/down/left/right".
To make this work, you should install the smart-splits plugin for neovim, with the this configuration
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Project mention: PaperWM.spoon: tiled scrollable window manager for Hammerspoon on macOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-05
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They copied it a little bit, but it's very mouse oriented (option-click the green zoom button to snap windows to left/right).
Another option for this is Hammerspoon, e.g.: https://github.com/scottwhudson/Lunette
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rabbithole
Rabbithole - Are you f#ing tired of your windows flying all over the place when you connect or disconnect an external screen?
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awesomewm-config
Hello, welcome to my awesome awesomewm config. Feel free to steal it for personal use :) (by Jonesad-ETSU)
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Lua window-manager discussion
Lua window-manager related posts
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PaperWM.spoon: tiled scrollable window manager for Hammerspoon on macOS
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Correcting iBus/X-Windows compose key conflicts
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Tiled scrollable window manager for macOS
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After switching from Linux to macos, the alt keymap is not working
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Size of clients in the Master area
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Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
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Any plans on porting to wayland?
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Index
What are some of the best open-source window-manager projects in Lua? This list will help you:
# | Project | Stars |
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1 | awesome | 6,482 |
2 | smart-splits.nvim | 1,148 |
3 | stackline | 977 |
4 | PaperWM.spoon | 493 |
5 | awesomewm-config | 348 |
6 | dotfiles | 205 |
7 | Lunette | 82 |
8 | modalawesome | 82 |
9 | Arch-Linux | 78 |
10 | MinimalSwayFX | 61 |
11 | rabbithole | 19 |
12 | awesomewm-config | 12 |
13 | .dotfiles | 7 |
14 | dotfiles | 4 |