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, Mac and FreeBSD apps. The best Miriway alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Miriway are niri, GlazeWM, Sway and awesome.

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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.

    33 Hyprland alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • openSUSE
    • Arch Linux
    • Gentoo
    • Fedora
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • FreeBSD
    • Alpine Linux
    • Slackware
    • Wayland
     
  2. 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.

    83 niri alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  3. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. 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.

    85 awesome alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. Cardboard is a unique, scrollable tiling Wayland compositor designed with laptops in mind. Based on wlroots.

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  6. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
     
  7. river icon
     4 likes

    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.

    28 river alternatives

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    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. yabai icon
     8 likes

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

    122 yabai alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. dwm icon
     24 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  11. 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.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • X11
    • Haskell
     
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