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gamescope
Discontinued SteamOS session compositing window manager [Moved to: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope] (by Plagman)
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Hyprland
Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
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NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better sway alternative or higher similarity.
sway discussion
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We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-26.
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Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion
> basically no good if you're any different from the people who hacked it together.
Why would you expect it any different? How can one implement things that they have no need or no hardware for? The entitlement is a bit jarring.
Also I think they merged something last year: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/7681
- Sway 1.10 Released
- Sway 1.10 Is Released
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Pomodoro Timer: Waybar and uair
I am currently using uair integrated in to my Waybar running on my sway window manager. I use it similar to the way I use watson (both as a CLI tool with Waybar integrations), so it is a good fit for me.
- Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor
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Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for Nvidia Users
It used to be called `-my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia `
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/3334d11adc926c0f6d86afc4...
- Sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor
- Sway 1.9 Release
- Sway 1.9
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"We understand" ;)
This is partially why i use tools like i3 (/ sway). i like the tool; it works extremely well for me; the design has stayed the same for 20 years; there's no profit motive to come along and fuck everything up. it just works. it is boring in the best way possible.
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swaywm/sway is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of sway is C.
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