Wayland Software

Plasma is a cross-device work environment by the KDE Community where trust is put on the user's capacity to best define their own workflow and preferences.

An independent tiling Wayland compositor written in C++. Noteworthy features of Hyprland include dynamic tiling, tabbed windows, a clean and readable C++ code-base, and a custom renderer that provides window animations, rounded corners, and Dual-Kawase Blur on transparent windows.

Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite strip going to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize.

A Wayland desktop shell with the bar, notifications, OSD, wallpaper, and device controls built in. Written in Rust with GTK4 and Relm4.

Animated and customizable dock for Linux desktops offering hardware acceleration, multi-docks, taskbar integration, launchers, and detachable applets as widgets.

Phosh is a pure Wayland shell for GNOME on mobile devices like the Purism Librem 5.

Desktop shell for wayland compositors built with Quickshell & GO, optimized for niri, hyprland, sway, MangoWC, and labwc.

The next-generation framework for building desktop widgets using Python.

Unisic is a ShareX-style screenshot and screen-recording tool built natively for Linux Wayland, with first-class support for KDE Plasma/KWin and portable fallbacks via xdg-desktop-portal for GNOME, niri, and other compositors.

gamma adjustments for Wayland.

Video wallpaper tool for wlroots-based Wayland compositors using mpv as backend, supports multiple monitors, looped playback, and command-line configuration.

Wayback is an experimental X compatibility layer which allows for running full X desktop environments using Wayland components. It is essentially a stub compositor which provides just enough Wayland capabilities to host a rootful Xwayland server.

A framework for crafting Wayland Desktop Shells.

GUI display configurator for wlroots compositors.

Output management utility for sway and Hyprland.

Adjust the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of the screen at night.

Day/night gamma adjustments for Wayland compositors supporting wlr-gamma-control

Professional screen recording software for Linux with auto-zoom, smooth cursor animation, and beautiful backgrounds - no video editing required.

Sway is an incredible window manager, and certainly one of the most well established wayland window managers. However, it is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3. This fork ditches the simple wlr_renderer, and replaces it with our fx_renderer, capable...

Automatic blue-light filter for Hyprland, Niri, and everything Wayland.

Ewwii is a flexible, resource-efficient, and scriptable widget system that integrates seamlessly with any programming language, letting developers build powerful interfaces quickly.

Voice-to-text CLI for terminal users.

A widget framework for building desktop shells, written and configurable in Python

Native Wayland screen dimming tool.

Wayland utility to gradually dim the screen.