MangoWM

A fast, feature-rich Wayland compositor built on dwl.

Mango starts where dwl ends. It keeps the lightweight, fast-build philosophy while adding the features that make a compositor actually usable day-to-day — without the bloat.

• Lightweight & fast — as lean as dwl, builds in seconds, no functionality compromised
• Excellent xwayland support — run X11 apps without friction
• Tags, not workspaces — each tag maintains its own independent window layout
• Smooth animations — window open/move/close, tag transitions, layer surfaces
• Flexible layouts — scroller, master-stack, monocle, dwindle, grid, and more
• Rich window states — swallow, minimize, maximize, global, overlay, fakefullscreen
• Window effects — blur, shadow, corner radius, opacity (via scenefx)
• Excellent input method support — text-input v2/v3
• Sway-like scratchpad — named scratchpad support included
• Hycov-style overview — see all windows at a glance
• IPC — send/receive messages from external programs
• Hot-reload config — no restart needed for keybinding changes
• Zero flickering — every frame is correct