river
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.
Features
Properties
- Customizable
Features
- Tiling Window Manager
river News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
K0RR added river as alternative to term.everything- youlk1234 added river as alternative to Niri Window Manager
- K0RR added river as alternative to chadwm and Superior X Window Manager
- Danilo_Venom updated river
- Danilo_Venom removed all alternatives one-way from river
river information
Developed by
Isaac FreundLicensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Alternatives
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- English
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What is river?
River is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor, built in Zig. It is inspired by dwm and bspwm, featuring a default Master&Stack layout, gap support, and XWayland compatibility. It shares a window management style with traditional dynamic tiling X11 window managers like dwm and xmonad.
Unlike other compositors, River uses a distinct Wayland protocol and a separate "layout generator" process for tiled layout logic. It comes with a basic layout generator, rivertile, and also supports community or user-created generators.
Instead of workspaces, River uses tags for window organization. A window can have multiple tags, and several tags can be displayed on a monitor at once. Configuration is managed at runtime with the riverctl tool, which sets keybindings, configures input devices, and more. On startup, River runs a user-defined init script, usually containing riverctl commands for configuration.
Comments and Reviews
river is a great Wayland compositor.
It feels like dwm and xmonad, and is configured like bspwm