xorg sucks, use swc

• swc

  4 596 3.5 C

  a library for making a simple Wayland compositor (by michaelforney)

swc is a wayland compositor library implementation in about 10k sloc.

• velox

  6 471 0.0 C

  velox window manager (by michaelforney)

Combine this with the velox dwm-inspired window manager and you have yourself a full graphical wayland environment in about 12k sloc. I don't really see a reason to keep xorg so I will be purging it from all of my machines.

• InfluxDB

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• vivarium

  5 347 2.8 C

  A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots

https://github.com/inclement/vivarium.git and https://github.com/djpohly/dwl.git are also great projects in the same vein.

• nnn

  200 18,203 8.1 C

  n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

File Manager: Sometimes noice, nnn, or LF, standard Unix utils like ls, cp, mv, etc.;

• iii

  1 30 0.0 Shell

  POSIX sh frontend to iim or ii

IRC client: weechat, irssi, iii, ii,erc;

• lel

  1 10 0.0 C

  farbfeld x11 image viewer

Image viewer/desktop wallpaper display: lel, feh, or sxiv and hsetroot;

• Vim

  424 34,973 9.9 Vim Script

  The official Vim repository

  

Text editor: acme (boarderline bloat), Vim (boarderline bloat), neovim (better), Vis (best), or sam, Nano (if you don't need/want a modal editor), Emacs

• SaaSHub

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• void-packages

  671 2,374 10.0 Shell

  The Void source packages collection

  

Distro: Gentoo, OpenBSD, Void Linux, 9front, or Alpine Linux);

• mpv

  830 25,960 9.9 C

  🎥 Command line video player

  

Video player: mpv or ffplay (part of ffmpeg);

• dwm

  22 0 6.8 C

  LEV Linux's window manager (a fork of dwm) (by lev-linux)

  

Window Manager: DWM, rio, or TTY;

• cmus

  37 5,266 6.8 C

  Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.

  

Music player: mpd + mpc, or cmus;

• doas

  2 51 0.0 C

  Port of OpenBSD's doas(1) to Linux systems (by multiplexd)

Other: doas (opendoas package on void) in place of sudo, 9front or plan9 and factotum in place of Linux and PAM.

• waymonad

  21 828 0.0 Haskell

  A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad

  

Installation is easy on arch-based distros, if you want something like xmonad, you could use waymonad, but it uses the wlroots library, which is a lot less minimal than SWC, but no where near as complex than X.

• samurai

  10 797 3.2 C

  ninja-compatible build tool written in C

This means ninja is popular both on embedded for its tiny footprint (samurai is about 3k sloc and portable), and for humongous projects like Chrome, because it is infinitely scalable in complexity due to its genaration method.

• SaaSHub

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