Labwc
Labwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- No registration required
- Ad-free
- No Tracking
- Wayland Support
Tags
- wlroots
- sway
- openbox
- layer-shell
- Linux
Labwc News & Activities
Recent activities
K0RR added Labwc as alternative to term.everything- youlk1234 added Labwc as alternative to Niri Window Manager
- K0RR added Labwc as alternative to chadwm and Superior X Window Manager
Labwc information
Developed by
Lab Wayland CompositorLicensing
Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.Written in
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What is Labwc?
Labwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:
- sense of experimentation and treading new ground
- inspired by BunsenLabs and ArchLabs
- your favorite pet
Labwc is a wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for wayland, inspired by openbox.
It is light-weight and independent with a focus on simply stacking windows well and rendering some window decorations. It takes a no-bling/frills approach and says no to features such as animations. It relies on clients for panels, screenshots, wallpapers and so on to create a full desktop environment.
Labwc tries to stay in keeping with wlroots and sway in terms of general approach and coding style.
Labwc has no reliance on any particular Desktop Environment, Desktop Shell or session. Nor does it depend on any UI toolkits such as Qt or GTK.