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Top 23 Suckless Open-Source Projects
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dwm-flexipatch
A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time
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pycopy
Pycopy - a minimalist and memory-efficient Python dialect. Good for desktop, cloud, constrained systems, microcontrollers, and just everything.
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picotui
Lightweight, pure-Python Text User Interface (TUI) widget toolkit with minimal dependencies. Dedicated to the Pycopy project.
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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
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st-flexipatch
An st build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time
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
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pdwm
full animation supported, easy configurable (uses shared library) dwm fork with a control center (pdwmc)
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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).
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dbin
📦 Poor man's package manager. +4164 statically linked binaries in the default repos [automated build repos: Go[+34k], Rust[+7k]] (amd64/arm64/riscv)! The easy to use, easy to get, suckless software distribution system.
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pycopy-lib
Standard library of the Pycopy project, minimalist and light-weight Python language implementation
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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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Index
What are some of the best open-source Suckless projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | chadwm | 2,991 |
| 2 | dwm-flexipatch | 1,318 |
| 3 | clipmenu | 1,245 |
| 4 | dotfiles | 968 |
| 5 | pycopy | 821 |
| 6 | picotui | 820 |
| 7 | nsxiv | 820 |
| 8 | st | 742 |
| 9 | libschrift | 560 |
| 10 | xst | 540 |
| 11 | st-flexipatch | 444 |
| 12 | pdwm | 426 |
| 13 | uzlib | 347 |
| 14 | dwmblocks-async | 319 |
| 15 | kunst | 315 |
| 16 | dbin | 312 |
| 17 | patches | 308 |
| 18 | awesome-linux-minimalism | 304 |
| 19 | phyOS-iso | 298 |
| 20 | pycopy-lib | 260 |
| 21 | libudev-zero | 259 |
| 22 | sfm | 254 |
| 23 | nextvi | 243 |
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