Comparison to PaperWM and Cardboard

jbuchermn / newm

Wayland compositor

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Comparison to PaperWM and Cardboard #57

Open link2xt opened 2 years ago

link2xt commented 2 years ago

There are other window managers that implement "scrollable tiling":

https://gitlab.com/cardboardwm/cardboard (Wayland)
https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM (X11)

How does newm compare to them? If it's a similar concept, add some comparison to README or "Similar projects" section.

jbuchermn commented 2 years ago

To be honest, I haven't tried either of these.

As paperwm is an X11 thing, that's probably the big difference. cardboard appears (at first sight) to expand in one dimension with variable-width tiles wheres newm uses fixed size tiles in two-dimensions.

CRAG666 commented 2 years ago

the only function that I would really like to have is the preview of paperwm in alttab out there without fear of being wrong newm handles the concept better even there is no point of comparison other than they are all wm