cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31970848
I'm willing to try some wayland compositor, but I would need some advice to find adequate replacement for my usual X11 utilities.
- the compositor/window manager : some tiling one, ideally close to herbstluftwm (hyprland, unless you've got a better match)
- a tool to set up some custom keyboard map, like xmodmap
- a customizable menu like rofi or dmenu
- a bar like polybar : maybe waybar ?
- a notification service
- a tools to adjust screen luminosity, like xblacklight
- a transparency fitter, like transset
- a replacement for xset dpms, to put the screen to spleep
Any ideas are welcome !
2 Comments
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I use wmenu personally. It's a drop-in replacement for dmenu, though it looks from the readme like it only supports wlroots-based compositors. And if you end up using Hyprland, my guess is that it probably won't work. I think probably Sway is the wlroots-based compositor that is most comparable to Hyprland. (Sway is basically a drop-in replacement for i3.) I've never used herbstuftwm, but I did run across a random comment on that other site we don't speak of (coughRedditcough) that mentioned that Qtile may be very much like herbstuftwm. I don't think it uses wlroots, though, so again wmenu may not work if you use Qtile.
chimay@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Thanks! Just checked : hyprland doesn't use wlroots any more, but qtile does :
https://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/manual/install/index.html