Miriway AlternativesWayland Compositors and other similar apps like Miriway

Miriway is described as 'Starting point for creating a Wayland based desktop environment using Mir' and is a wayland compositor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Miriway for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, FreeBSD and Mac apps. The best Miriway alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Miriway are Sway, awesome, niri and Qtile.

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Miriway alternatives page was last updated Nov 10, 2024
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  1. Hyprland icon
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    An independent tiling Wayland compositor written in C++. Noteworthy features of Hyprland include dynamic tiling, tabbed windows, a clean and readable C++ code-base, and a custom renderer that provides window animations, rounded corners, and Dual-Kawase Blur on transparent windows.

    19 Hyprland alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • openSUSE
    • Arch Linux
    • Gentoo
    • Fedora
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • FreeBSD
    • Alpine Linux
    • Slackware

    Properties

    1.  Customizable
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Tiling Window Manager
    2.  Compositor
    3.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    4.  Support for scripting
    5.  Support for Multiple Monitors

    Hyprland VS Miriway

     
    • Hyprland is the most popular Linux alternative to Miriway.

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

    • Hyprland is Free and Open SourceMiriway is also Free and Open Source
    • Hyprland is Customizable and LightweightMiriway is not according to our users
  2. Sway icon
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    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.

    20 Sway alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    2.  Tiling Window Manager
    3.  Support for Multiple Monitors
    4.  Tiling Layouts
    5.  Tiling

    Sway VS Miriway

     
  3. awesome icon
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    awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    awesome Features

    1.  X server
    2.  Tiling
    3.  Extensible window manager

    awesome VS Miriway

     
  4. 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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • RU flagRussia

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Rust
    2.  Tiling Window Manager

    niri VS Miriway

     
  5. Qtile icon
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    A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python.

    68 Qtile alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Qtile Features

    1.  Support for Multiple Monitors
    2.  Support for scripting
    3.  Command line interface
    4.  Tiling
    5.  Extensible window manager

    Qtile VS Miriway

     
  6. river icon
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    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.

    20 river alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  Tiling Window Manager

    river VS Miriway

     
  7. yabai icon
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    yabai started as a C99 rewrite of chunkwm, originally supposed to be its first RC version.

    102 yabai alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • NO flagNorway

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Properties

    1.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  Automatic window tiling
    2.  Tiling Layouts
    3.  Tiling Window Manager
    4.  Tiling

    yabai VS Miriway

     
    • yabai is the most popular Mac alternative to Miriway.

    • yabai is Free and Open SourceMiriway is also Free and Open Source
  8. dwm icon
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    dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.

    73 dwm alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Keyboard focused

    Features

    1.  Support for Multiple Monitors
    2.  X server

    dwm VS Miriway

     
  9. Xmonad icon
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    xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. xmonad makes work easier, by automating this.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    Xmonad Features

    1.  X server
    2.  Tiling
    3.  Extensible window manager

    Xmonad VS Miriway

     
  10. Wayfire icon
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    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.

    20 Wayfire alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • BG flagBulgaria
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD

    Wayfire Features

    1.  Wayland Support

    Wayfire VS Miriway

     
  11. Labwc icon
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    Labwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:

    20 Labwc alternatives

    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 VS Miriway

     
  12. 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...

    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 VS Miriway

     
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