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Wayfire VS IceWM

Compare Wayfire VS IceWM and see what are their differences

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Wayfire logo Wayfire

Wayland compositor with 3d effects.

IceWM logo IceWM

icewm home page . Bug Tracking. If you have a patch, a bug report or a feature request to submit, please do so at the icewm project page at SourceForge.
  • Wayfire Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-08-19
  • IceWM Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-05-07

Wayfire videos

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GNOME 3.36: macOS-like apps with KAWAII BLUR ..on Wayfire :p

More videos:

  • Review - Wayfire: Wayfire config manager + wf-panel
  • Review - Micro Review 2/2 Rayban Wayfire

IceWM videos

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Obscure Window Manager Project - IceWM

More videos:

  • Tutorial - IceWM Tutorial - The fastest Linux window manager
  • Demo - antiX 19 beta 3 IceWM Demo Features Review II

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Wayfire and IceWM)

Wayfire

IceWM

Linux
31 31%
Linux
69% 69
Window Manager
21 21%
Window Manager
79% 79
Operating Systems
100 100%
Operating Systems
0% 0
Utilities
0 0%
Utilities
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Wayfire seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 2 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Wayfire mentions (2)

  • Cant change the system GTK theme/icons
    So im trying to change my GTK theme/icons (on Wayfire) I tryed changing them using LXAppearance and it "changes" in LXappearance until I close it then they goes back to default (no other application changes themes/icons). Source: over 2 years ago
  • [Wayfire] System locks up when trying to build wf-shell
    Im trying to build/install Wayfire (on Debian Testing, using Openbox) using wf-install and I cant seem to get past building wf-shell (i have also tried building using wf-shell instructions, same result),. Source: over 2 years ago

IceWM mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of IceWM yet. Tracking of IceWM recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Wayfire and IceWM, you can also consider the following products

i3 - A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.

KDE Plasma Desktop - Plasma Workspaces is the umbrella term for all graphical environments provided by KDE.

Fluxbox - Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code.

Xfce - Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.

Openbox - Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.

Unity8 - Mir compositor with Wayland apps support.

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