hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD




Cocoa-Way is described as 'Native macOS compositor in Rust for seamless streaming and display of Linux apps via Wayland protocol, supporting OpenGL, HiDPI, decorations, and zero virtualization overhead' and is a wayland compositor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Cocoa-Way for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best Cocoa-Way alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cocoa-Way are niri, i3, Sway and Openbox.
hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.




JWM is a light-weight window manager for the X11 Window System. JWM is written in C and uses only Xlib at a minimum. Because of its small footprint, JWM makes a good window manager for older computers and less powerful systems, such as the .






herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.




Left is a tiling window manager written in rust for stability and performance. The core of left is designed to do one thing and one thing well. Be a window manager. Because you probably want more than just a black screen LeftWM is built around the concept of theming.






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.


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




