Apps with 'Wayland Compositor' feature

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  1. Hyprland icon
     24 likes

    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.

    • Window Manager
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • openSUSE
    • Arch Linux
    • Gentoo
    • Fedora
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • FreeBSD
    • Alpine Linux
    • Slackware
    Screenshot of a preconfigured setup
    Best alternatives are Sway iconSwayandriver iconriver18 alternatives
  2. Sway icon
     19 likes

    Sway is a Tiling Wayland Compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras.

    Sway screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Hyprland iconHyprlandandriver iconriver18 alternatives
  3. river icon
     4 likes

    Dynamic tiling Wayland compositor built in Zig with Master&Stack layout, tag-based window organization, and XWayland compatibility.

    river screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Hyprland iconHyprlandandSway iconSway18 alternatives
  4. niri icon
     3 likes

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

    niri screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Hyprland iconHyprlandandi3 iconi369 alternatives
  5. Wayfire icon
     6 likes

    Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor, inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.

    Wayfire screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Hyprland iconHyprlandandSway iconSway18 alternatives
  6. Labwc icon
     2 likes

    Labwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:

    Labwc screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Hyprland iconHyprlandandSway iconSway18 alternatives
  7. SwayFX icon
     3 likes

    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...

    • Window Manager
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Gentoo Linux
    • Fedora
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Sway
    • FreeBSD
    • Wayland
    SwayFX screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Hyprland iconHyprlandandi3 iconi359 alternatives
  8. Miriway icon
     1 like

    Miriway is a starting point for creating a Wayland based desktop environment using Mir.

    Best alternatives are Hyprland iconHyprlandandSway iconSway36 alternatives
  9. Pinnacle icon
     1 like

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

    Pinnacle screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Hyprland iconHyprlandandi3 iconi358 alternatives
  10.  1 like

    An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP).

    Waybox screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Hyprland iconHyprlandandSway iconSway18 alternatives
  11.  1 like

    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.

    miracle-wm screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Hyprland iconHyprlandandi3 iconi361 alternatives
  12.  1 like

    dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is:

    dwl screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Hyprland iconHyprlandandi3 iconi372 alternatives
  13. Japokwm icon
     1 like

    A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (forked from dwl) that makes it a breeze to create custom layouts with a simple configuration. 🚀

    Japokwm screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Hyprland iconHyprlandandi3 iconi361 alternatives
  14. Polonium icon
     1 like

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

    Polonium screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Hyprland iconHyprlandandi3 iconi369 alternatives
  15.  Smithay  icon
     1 like

    A smithy for rusty wayland compositors.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Linux
    Best alternatives are Wayland iconWaylandandX11 iconX112 alternatives