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Release labwc 0.8.0 · labwc/labwc (github.com)

submitted 3 months ago by that_leaflet@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] zelifcam@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Labwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:

sense of experimentation and treading new ground
inspired by BunsenLabs and ArchLabs
your favorite pet Labwc is a wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for wayland, inspired by openbox. It is light-weight and independent with a focus on simply stacking windows well and rendering some window decorations. It takes a no-bling/frills approach and says no to features such as animations. It relies on clients for panels, screenshots, wallpapers and so on to create a full desktop environment.

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It's one of the few floating Wayland WM, similar to Openbox I believe.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You mean other than KDE ( KWin ) and GNOME ( Mutter )?

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Forget to include a "wlroots" in there.