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Why does it seem like all new Wayland compositors are tiling? Sure there's Gnome and kWin which are classic stacking/floating windows, but there aren't many min
by mrweasel 5y ago
Why does it seem like all new Wayland compositors are tiling? Sure there's Gnome and kWin which are classic stacking/floating windows, but there aren't many minimal light weight non-tiling compositors showing up. Are tiling just easier to write?
A Windows 3.11 or Mac Classic like compositor would be fun.
- IiydAbITMvJkqKf 5y agoThe situation on x11 isn't too different - there's basically only metacity, kwin, and openbox in the stacking WM world, plus a thousand tiling WMs. In wayland there's additionally KWinFT, hikari, and wayfire. Although neither of them are comparable to the classic Windows/Mac WMs.
- mrweasel 5y agoThere are a ton of small stacking X11 window manager, sure many of them are old, but they're still maintained.
- ijlx 5y agoThe arch linux wiki has a good list: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Window_manager#Stacking_window_managers https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Window_manager#Stacking_win.... Haven't looked into how many of them are maintained.
- johnny22 5y agohttps://github.com/labwc/labwc https://github.com/labwc/labwc is one I've seen. I don't use these myself, so I can't speak for the quality or anything.