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  1. Hyprland icon
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    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
    • Wayland
    Screenshot of a preconfigured setup
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  2. niri icon
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    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
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  3.  2 likes

    mpvpaper is a wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors, such as sway. That allows you to play videos with mpv as your wallpaper.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Wayland
    • Linux
    • mpv
    mpvpaper screenshot 1
    1 alternatives
  4. Wayback icon
     2 likes

    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.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Linux
    • X11
    • Wayland
  5.  2 likes

    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.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Linux
    • Wayland
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    Day/night gamma adjustments for Wayland compositors supporting wlr-gamma-control

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Linux
    • Wayland
    52 alternatives
  7. SwayFX icon
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    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
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    graphical logout/suspend/reboot/shutdown dialog for wayland. It is inspired by oblogout.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Wayland
    • Linux
    waylogout screenshot 1
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    A flexible logout application for Wayland with Material You theming support. Departure provides a modern, customizable logout interface with buttons, blur effects, and support for multiple theming systems including pywal, matugen, and manual colors.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Linux
    • Wayland
    • Rust
    • GTK
    departure screenshot 1
    3 alternatives
  10. clipse is a configurable, TUI-based clipboard manager application written in Go with minimal dependency. Though the app is optimized for a Linux OS using a dedicated window manager, clipse can also be used on any Unix-based system.

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  11. The "Activate Windows" watermark ported to Linux.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Wayland
    Activate linux screenshot 1
  12. This program transforms individual Wayland clients, which use the xdg-shell protocol to display windows, into clients that use the wlr-layer-shell protocol to render as a wallpaper.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Linux
    • Rust
    • Wayland