Show HN: SteppeWM – a stacking IceWM-like Wayland compositor

nosioptar 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Does it run as well on old/underpowered hardware as IceWM?

(I really only use IceWM on systems that would struggle with XFCE.)

	▲	uncognic 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's pretty lightweight, so yes, but it does use wlroots after all, so there's a limit

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uncognic 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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 20 hours ago | parent [-]

labwc?

	▲	uncognic 13 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I 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
	▲	jamesgeck0 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		labwc is closer to Openbox; it doesn't ship a taskbar.