Pinnacle

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

Cost / License

Free
Open Source

Application type

Window Manager

Platforms

Linux
Wayland

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Compositor
Rust
Wayland Support

Tags

lua
smithay

Pinnacle News & Activities

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Recent activities

POX added Pinnacle as alternative to MouseTiler
7 days ago
K0RR added Pinnacle as alternative to GlazeWM
about 1 month ago
POX added Pinnacle as alternative to doWM
5 months ago
K0RR added Pinnacle as alternative to sxwm
8 months ago
K0RR added Pinnacle as alternative to chadwm and Superior X Window Manager
8 months ago
Danilo_Venom added Pinnacle as alternative to newm
12 months ago
Danilo_Venom added Pinnacle as alternative to Sway, Hyprland, Wayfire and Waybox + 2 similar activities
12 months ago

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Pinnacle information

Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
Written in
Rust
Alternatives
62 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English

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GitHub repository

504 Stars
22 Forks
31 Open Issues
Updated Dec 20, 2025

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Pinnacle was added to AlternativeTo by K0RR on May 11, 2024 and this page was last updated May 11, 2024.

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What is Pinnacle?

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

Features:

Tag system
Customizable layouts, including most of the ones from Awesome
(Scuffed) XWayland support
wlr-layer-shell support
Configurable in Lua or Rust
wlr-screencopy support

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