Hyprland AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Wayland Compositors

The best Wayland Compositor alternative to Hyprland is niri, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Hyprland and 15 are Wayland Compositors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Wayland Compositor alternatives to Hyprland are Sway, Wayfire, SwayFX and river.

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  1. niri icon

    niri

     10 likes

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

    77 niri alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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    Comments about niri as an Alternative to Hyprland
    hced
    Positive
    0

    The scrolling tiles mechanism is superior.

    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Niri's config file is easy to configure and well documented. The combination with DankMaterialShell is excellent. The arrangement of windows on top of an infinite screen is awesome. The overview function is really nice.

    By the way, there is also Mango WC which I haven't tested so far, but looks useful too.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • niri is the most popular Linux alternative to Hyprland.

    • niri is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Hyprland.

    • niri is Free and Open SourceHyprland is also Free and Open Source
    • niri is Privacy focusedHyprland is not according to our users
  2. Sway icon

    Sway

     22 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    Comments about Sway as an Alternative to Hyprland
    SoAndSo
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    0

    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.

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    • Sway is Free and Open SourceHyprland is also Free and Open Source
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    Wayfire

     7 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
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  5. SwayFX icon

    SwayFX

     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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Gentoo Linux
    • Fedora
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Sway
    • FreeBSD
    • Wayland
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  6. river icon

    river

     4 likes

    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.

    23 river alternatives

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    • Linux
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    Miriway

     1 like

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

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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    Japokwm

     2 likes

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

    Cost / License

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    • Linux
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  11. dwl

     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:

    Cost / License

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  12. miracle-wm

     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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
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  14. Polonium icon

    Polonium

     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland
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