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:
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Lumina Desktop Environment Alternatives
Lumina Desktop Environment is described as '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' and is a desktop environment in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Lumina Desktop Environment for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Wayland, Mac and Windows apps. The best Lumina Desktop Environment alternative is KDE Plasma, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Lumina Desktop Environment are GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon and MATE.
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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
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- KDE
- Wayland
UKUI is a lightweight desktop environment based on pluggable framework for Linux and other Unix-like Distributions. It is developed using GTK and Qt.
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Elokab Desktop Environment is an open-source independent desktop environment for Linux which uses QT libraries like KDE Plasma .
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Fork of Enlightenment version 17 (commonly called E17) used as the main desktop environment on Bodhi Linux
Blackbox is an original window manager, sharing no code with any others. It's designed to be fairly small and minimal, making it particularly suited to less powerful computers. It doesn't support images, other than generated gradients, but it does support multiple...
Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript. Phoenix aims for efficiency and a very small footprint.
A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.
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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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
Mahogany is a tiling window manager for Wayland modeled after StumpWM. While it is not a drop-in replacement for StumpWM, StumpWM users should be very comfortable with Mahogany. Its planned features are:
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