Dwl: Dwm for Wayland

(codeberg.org)

Comments

exiguus 25 July 2025
I am a big fan of dwm and have used it for years on all of my Free- and OpenBSD desktops before switching to sway. The suckless people clearly stated that they would not support Wayland on dwm. At the time, I considered sway as the successor to dwm, at least for me, because it already had an ecosystem around it, and its behavior could be configured similarly if it wasn't already. I also took a look at dwl at the time, I think it was three years ago. I am now happy to revisit it.
xwiz 25 July 2025
Looks like a great project. I'm a big TWM fan, so I would also like to direct attention to my daily driver, Niri. https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri
jauntywundrkind 25 July 2025
Pretty awesome that this is a 3200 line single .c file implementation, atop wlroots and it's newer scene graph API. It is not hard to build a good Wayland impl at this point!
alex-moon 25 July 2025
Big big fan of dwm, but this wasn't mature when I tried it. I switched to Hyprland and I have to say it has many improvements over dwm.
cnity 25 July 2025
I wonder if it was considered to submit this as a dwm patch instead.
gundamdoubleO 25 July 2025
Used dwm for so long it was basically the only reason I didn't switch to Wayland. Very happy with dwl since I found it, made the switch (almost) painless.
snvzz 25 July 2025
hopefully with utf-8 support?
chiffre01 25 July 2025
I want to like Wayland...
dannyobrien 25 July 2025
See also https://github.com/engstrand-config/dwl-guile -- a fork with Guile Scheme support.
dodomodo 25 July 2025
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