Hyprland AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Wayland Compositors
The best Wayland Compositor alternative to Hyprland is Sway, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Hyprland and 13 are Wayland Compositors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Wayland Compositor alternatives to Hyprland are Wayfire, river, Labwc and niri.
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20 Sway alternativesSway 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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
- International
Platforms
- Linux
Sway VS Hyprland
Comments about Sway as an Alternative to Hyprland
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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
Bulgaria
EU
Platforms
- Linux
- FreeBSD
Wayfire Features
Wayfire VS Hyprland
Wayland compositor featuring dynamic tiling and Master&Stack layout, offering configuration through riverctl tool with tag system for window management, customizable with rivertile and user layout generators, allowing flexible workspace setup without traditional workspaces.
river VS Hyprland
Labwc VS Hyprland
Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite strip going to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
Russia
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
niri VS Hyprland
61 SwayFX alternativesSway 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...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Arch Linux
- Gentoo Linux
- Fedora
- Nix Package Manager
- Sway
- FreeBSD
- Wayland
SwayFX Features
SwayFX VS Hyprland
Miriway Features
Miriway VS Hyprland
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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Wayland
- Linux
miracle-wm Features
miracle-wm VS Hyprland
Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
Pinnacle Features
Pinnacle VS Hyprland
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Openbox
- Wayland
Waybox Features
Waybox VS Hyprland
A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (forked from dwl) that makes it a breeze to create custom layouts with a simple configuration. 🚀
Japokwm VS Hyprland
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 Features
dwl VS Hyprland
Much less fine tuned by default. You will feel harder if you use a third-party configuration tool like Home Manager that doesn't provide tutorial code comments. There's more support for attached apps, though.