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How am I supposed to judge a window manager (excuse me, compositor is the term used in the brave new world of wayland) without a video / screenshot of it runnin
by stjo 5y ago
How am I supposed to judge a window manager (excuse me, compositor is the term used in the brave new world of wayland) without a video / screenshot of it running? I get the "tiling" part, but how is this different than sway with a python script telling it to do something on the background?
- pkulak 5y agoIt's a DWM port to Wayland, essentially. I assume that's why this was posted.
- inclemnet 5y agoIt isn't dwm "port", rather it's an independent window manager with some inspiration from dwm but also from other places. Notably it doesn't share the minimalist design philosophy, it's designed with a powerful configuration and interaction api rather than relying on patches. dwl[0] is closer to a port, it's explicitly trying to work the same as dwm for wayland with the same philosophy, although it's still an independent project written from scratch. [0]: https://github.com/djpohly/dwl https://github.com/djpohly/dwl
- pkulak 5y agoYeah, I didn't mean a port in the most literal sense of that word, so it wasn't a great word choice.
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