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dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg
10 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2020-06-02 · latest 2022-07-05
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…features are implemented in lua. someone has already made dwl, a wayland (wlroots) port of dwm: https://github.com/djpohly/dwl the dwl codebase is very similar to dwm. some dwm patches can even be applied directly. i currently use dwl,…
comment by woodrowbarlow · 2022-07-05 · in My quest for the perfect window manager (2004) -
i'm using dwl (a wayland fork of dwm) (awesomewm is based on dwm). https://github.com/djpohly/dwl it is _just_ dwm for wayland, though, so it's not what most people would call "feature-rich". it's suckless, so "features" are just "patches…
comment by woodrowbarlow · 2022-06-11 · in Worm: A dynamic, tag-based window manager written in Nim -
…with the same philosophy, although it's still an independent project written from scratch. [0]: https://github.com/djpohly/dwl
comment by inclemnet · 2022-01-15 · in River: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor -
I think the dwl codebase is an excellent read: https://github.com/djpohly/dwl
comment by ximm · 2021-11-03 · in How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One (2014) -
…in 2500 LOC [1] Plan 9 /dev/draw is simpler yet, somehow it was not reason against X11. [1] https://github.com/djpohly/dwl
comment by sergeykish · 2021-03-14 · in Wayland in 2021 -
> dwl - dwm for Wayland > dwl.c, 2000 LOC https://github.com/djpohly/dwl wlroots should be compared with X.Org Server, 370000 LOC https://github.com/freedesktop/xorg-xserver
comment by sergeykish · 2020-10-29 · in On Abandoning the X Server -
Found a Wayland dwm port, still haven't gotten around to trying it out though. https://github.com/djpohly/dwl
comment by codr7 · 2020-06-06 · in Why I Use Suckless Tools