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Browse 98 Wayland Software on AlternativeTo.
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This program is a GTK3-based wrapper to display a script output, or a text file content on the desktop in sway or other wlroots-based compositors. It uses the gtk-layer-shell library to place the window on the bottom layer.

Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.



A Wayland compositor based on Mir. It features a tiling window manager at its core, very much in the style of i3 and sway. The intention is to build a compositor that is flashier and more feature-rich than either of those compositors, like swayfx.




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An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.


GTK3-based GUI for Senan Kelly's cliphist. It provides access to previously copied items, as well as management of the clipboard history from a window opened on gtk-layer-shell.




Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Rust
- Wayland
- GNOME
- Linux
Likely the fastest, least user-friendly, and worst named Wayland wallpaper utility possible. Requires for zwlr_layer_shell_v1 and wp_viewporter.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland

Application launcher, developed with sway and Hyprland in mind, but should also work with other wlroots-based Wayland compositors.

Small GTK GUI application to set contrast, brightness and gamma for wayland compositors which support the wlr-gamma-control protocol extension. Basically this is the example from here: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/blob/master/examples/gamma-control.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland

Native macOS compositor in Rust for seamless streaming and display of Linux apps via Wayland protocol, supporting OpenGL, HiDPI, decorations, and zero virtualization overhead.





























