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Show HN: SteppeWM – a stacking IceWM-like Wayland compositor
Every Wayland compositor I could find is a tiling one: sway, river, Hyprland, dwl, niri. If you want windows that float and overlap with titlebars and a taskbar, the way IceWM does it, there's almost nothing. That is Steppewm
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- ChocolateGod 1mo agolabwc?
- jamesgeck0 1mo agolabwc is closer to Openbox; it doesn't ship a taskbar.
- uncognic 1mo agoI tried it but it was really a struggle to get like OSD or an actual good non-janky taskbar; all implementations are either buggy or cannot be as useful as i was hoping
- nosioptar 1mo agoDoes it run as well on old/underpowered hardware as IceWM? (I really only use IceWM on systems that would struggle with XFCE.)
- uncognic 1mo agoIt's pretty lightweight, so yes, but it does use wlroots after all, so there's a limit
- dong2go 1mo agoIceWM's other reason I kept it around was the config being a few plain text files. Is SteppeWM configured that way too, or is it still a wlroots compositor that wants XML/Lua for the panel and keybinds?
- uncognic 1mo agoIt is Lua, but please don't just "Lua = bad", the syntax is sort of similar