IceWM&#x27;s other reason I kept it around was the config being a few plain text files. Is SteppeWM configured that way too, or is it still a wlroots compositor that wants XML&#x2F;Lua for the panel and keybinds?

It&#x27;s pretty lightweight, so yes, but it does use wlroots after all, so there&#x27;s a limit

Does it run as well on old&#x2F;underpowered hardware as IceWM?(I really only use IceWM on systems that would struggle with XFCE.)

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

labwc is closer to Openbox; it doesn&#x27;t ship a taskbar.

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&#x27;s almost nothing. That is Steppewm

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