Lumina Desktop Environment AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Wayland Compositors

The best Wayland Compositor alternative to Lumina Desktop Environment is niri, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Lumina Desktop Environment and 19 are Wayland Compositors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Wayland Compositor alternatives to Lumina Desktop Environment are Labwc, SwayFX, Pinnacle and miracle-wm.

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Lumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and Fluxbox. It is being developed on PC-BSD, and is being packaged for distribution on the PC-BSD package repository as well.

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Lumina Desktop Environment alternatives page was last updated May 11, 2024
  1. 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.

    70 niri alternatives
    niri screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    niri Features

    1.  Rust
    2.  Tiling Window Manager
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  2. Labwc icon
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    Labwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:

    16 Labwc alternatives
    Labwc screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  No Tracking
    4.  Wayland Support
    Labwc iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

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  3. 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...

    59 SwayFX alternatives
    SwayFX screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Gentoo Linux
    • Fedora
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Sway
    • FreeBSD
    • Wayland

    SwayFX Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  No Tracking
    3.  Compositor
    4.  Wayland Support
    5.  OPENGL
    SwayFX iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

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  4. Pinnacle icon
     1 like

    Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.

    57 Pinnacle alternatives
    Pinnacle screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    Pinnacle Features

    1.  Compositor
    2.  Rust
    3.  Wayland Support
    Pinnacle iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

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  5.  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.

    60 miracle-wm alternatives
    miracle-wm screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux

    miracle-wm Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    2.  Tiling
    3.  Tiling Window Manager
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  6.  1 like

    An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP).

    16 Waybox alternatives
    Waybox screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Openbox
    • Wayland

    Waybox Features

    1.  Wayland Support
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  7.  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:

    73 dwl alternatives
    dwl screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    dwl Features

    1.  Compositor
    2.  Tiling
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  8. Polonium icon
     1 like

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

    70 Polonium alternatives
    Polonium screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland

    Polonium Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Wayland Support
    3.  Tiling Window Manager
    4.  Tiling
    5.  KDE
    Polonium iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

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  9. Japokwm icon
     1 like

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

    60 Japokwm alternatives
    Japokwm screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Tiling
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    A Wayland compositor.

    53 Jay alternatives
    Jay screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Rust
    • Wayland

    Jay Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    2.  Rust
    Lumina Desktop Environment Icon

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  11. MagmaWM icon
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    A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.

    53 MagmaWM alternatives
    MagmaWM screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    MagmaWM Features

    1.  Rust
    2.  Wayland Support
    MagmaWM iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

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  12. Cage: the Wayland kiosk icon
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    Cage is a kiosk compositor for Wayland. A kiosk is a window manager (in the X11 world) or compositor (in the Wayland world) that is designed for a user experience wherein user interaction and activities outside the scope of the running application are prevented.

    59 Cage: the Wayland kiosk alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    Cage: the Wayland kiosk Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    2.  Compositor
    Cage: the Wayland kiosk iconLumina Desktop Environment Icon

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