Show HN: SteppeWM – a stacking IceWM-like Wayland compositor
12 points by uncognic 4 days ago | 5 comments
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

nosioptar 4 days ago
Does it run as well on old/underpowered hardware as IceWM?

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

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uncognic 4 days ago
It's pretty lightweight, so yes, but it does use wlroots after all, so there's a limit
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ChocolateGod 4 days ago
labwc?
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uncognic 4 days ago
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
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jamesgeck0 4 days ago
labwc is closer to Openbox; it doesn't ship a taskbar.
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