Here’s the Deal
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When comparing Newm vs Arcan, the Slant community recommends Arcan for most people. In the question“What are the best Wayland compositors?” Arcan is ranked 5th while Newm is ranked 25th. The most important reason people chose Arcan is:
A pro- for programmers, but it is much easier to write a Window Manager for Arcan that it is for Xorg or any of the other options.
Specs
DecorationsSSD
LicenseMIT
Programming LanguagePython
Compositor Librarywlroots
TypeTiling
DecorationsSSD
LicenseBSD, GPLv2+, LGPL
Programming LanguageC, Lua
Default Desktop EnvironmentDurden
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Common Questions
Pros
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Pro Nice API for custom Window Managers
A pro- for programmers, but it is much easier to write a Window Manager for Arcan that it is for Xorg or any of the other options.
Pro Tons of features
So many things that can be done - video recording, streaming, clipboard managers, crash recovery, live window manager swapping, ... the list is endless.
Pro VR support
Pro Very customizable
Cons
No cons yet!
Con Difficult configuration
To work it requires configured Lua files, command line options, environment variables.