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aim

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River based WM's

With the release of River 0.4.0, a wayland compositor proticol, the community is starting to get some really light weight River based "window managers" such as Beansprout. I thought that these might be of interest to the community here and perhaps even some candidates for being included in bunsen's package repository.

Huge shout out to River's developer Isaac Fruend. I'm in no way affiliated with either River or Beansprout, just super excited that we might finally be getting that missing piece that enables more Wayland based WMs. And I thought that this might be relevant to others here too.

Sector11

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Re: River based WM's

Both of those are in codeberg.

Codeberg beset by AI bots that now bypass Anubis tarpit
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/ … y_ai_bots/

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Döbbie03

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: River based WM's

With the release of River 0.4.0, a wayland compositor proticol, the community is starting to get some really light weight River based "window managers" such as Beansprout. I thought that these might be of interest to the community here and perhaps even some candidates for being included in bunsen's package repository.

Huge shout out to River's developer Isaac Fruend. I'm in no way affiliated with either River or Beansprout, just super excited that we might finally be getting that missing piece that enables more Wayland based WMs. And I thought that this might be relevant to others here too.

Thank you for the share, fellow Kiwi.  That Beansprout really piques my interest.

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johnraff

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Re: River based WM's

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Re: River based WM's

That Beansprout really piques my interest.

I'd never even heard of the zig language (10 years old, according to Wikipedia), let alone a wm written in it.

https://ziglang.org/

@Sector11, re: AI
https://ziglang.org/code-of-conduct/

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