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Is there a feature rich Wayland WM? I really miss the customisability of AwesomeWM since I moved to Sway.

• mftb 4y ago
  Nothing quite like AwesomeWM yet, but here's two I'm aware of that have some interesting features: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/wiki https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/wiki https://github.com/riverwm/river https://github.com/riverwm/river (I'm also on Sway, FWIW)
• woodrowbarlow 4y ago
  i'm using dwl (a wayland fork of dwm) (awesomewm is based on dwm). https://github.com/djpohly/dwl 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 passed around the community" and "configuration" is "modify config.h and re-build". it can't really be packaged for re-distribution in any useful way. i use a few other pure-wayland components as well to make it more like a full desktop environment rather than just a window manager. https://git.sr.ht/~raphi/somebar https://git.sr.ht/~raphi/somebar https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi https://github.com/francma/wob https://github.com/francma/wob
  • t0astbread 4y ago
    Slightly off-topic but by "can't really be packaged for re-distribution in any useful way" did you mean binary packages? Because there are build systems/package managers that let you easily build a package with minor tweaks.
    • woodrowbarlow 4y ago
      you're right, i did mean as a binary. and yes, for example arch users can install it from the aur with e.g. paru/yay, inserting their own changes to the pkgbuild. it's also in the freebsd ports tree (under x11-wm, even though it's wayland-only).
• bool3max 4y ago
  I have never used Awesome but have been on Sway for the past ~3 years. What features are you missing?