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16 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 2 stories, 14 comments · first 2021-01-26 · latest 2025-05-26

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  1. https://github.com/riverwm/river#future-plans
    comment by lugu · 2025-05-26
  2. …management beyond an IPC boundary, just like with X. Afaik river does something in that direction https://github.com/riverwm/river > Dynamic layouts generated by external, user-written executables. A default rivertile layout generator is…
    comment by zokier · 2024-01-22 · in RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby
  3. …/awslabs/aws-lambda-rust-runtime/blob/e2d5... Zig also has a few other very promising OSS projects: - https://github.com/riverwm/river (wayland compositor) - https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig (HAL for embedded development) -…
    comment by kristoff_it · 2023-09-12 · in Ask HN: Why is Zig gaining so much popularity lately?
  4. River does that for the windows layout https://github.com/riverwm/river
    comment by boudin · 2023-01-15 · in Hyprland: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
  5. …the top 3 popular Zig projects are Bun, as you mentioned, then River [1] and TigerBeetle [2]. [1] https://github.com/riverwm/river [2] https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle Up to you to decide how fine is the situation in those…
    comment by kristoff_it · 2022-09-18 · in Game Jam 2 Results
  6. …two I'm aware of that have some interesting features: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/wiki https://github.com/riverwm/river (I'm also on Sway, FWIW)
    comment by mftb · 2022-06-11 · in Worm: A dynamic, tag-based window manager written in Nim
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    River: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
    story by andreafeletto · 2022-01-15 · 40 comments
  8. …matures more I think I will likely make the switch because I often miss dynamic tiling. [0] https://github.com/riverwm/river On a side note, I hate how window moving works in Sway/i3. I can hardly ever get windows to move to where I want…
    comment by saladuh · 2022-01-15 · in dwm
  9. …as long as Xorg keeps working just fine. > If you liked bspwm then you might want to try this: https://github.com/riverwm/river If I wanted to spend time redoing my configuration, maybe, but I have better things to spend my time on. So in…
    comment by vidarh · 2021-11-03 · in How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One (2014)
  10. …might as well just rewrite the window manager. If you liked bspwm then you might want to try this: https://github.com/riverwm/river
    comment by md8z · 2021-11-03 · in How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One (2014)
  11. …you're normally not even supposed to use (c pointers). Reasonable Zig code looks more like this: https://github.com/riverwm/river/blob/master/riverctl/main.z... That said I think it's fine if you don't like the syntax. I think that some…
    comment by kristoff_it · 2021-11-03 · in Using Zig's translate-C to understand weird C code
  12. …xmonad user roots, but again its own tiling model. [0] https://github.com/inclement/vivarium [1] https://github.com/ifreund/river [2] https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad [3] https://github.com/werererer/japokwm
    comment by inclemnet · 2021-10-08 · in XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM
  13. written in Zig, neat. wiki has one of the best lists of base Wayland utilities I've seen: https://github.com/ifreund/river/wiki/Recommended-Software gonna be hard to pry myself off Sway but I ought to try it.
    comment by rektide · 2021-07-25 · in River – A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
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    River – A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
    story by coldblues · 2021-07-25 · 4 comments
  15. https://github.com/ifreund/river https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=124wdTckHNY
    comment by jorangreef · 2021-02-14 · in Ziglings: Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs
  16. …vs Rust vs Zig on Zig SHOWTIME a while back [2] and also has an upcoming talk at FOSDEM 21 [3] [1] https://github.com/ifreund/river [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwrA5IRGpfU [3] https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/zig_wayland/
    comment by kristoff_it · 2021-01-26 · in Should You Write a Wayland Compositor?