Smithay Alternatives

Smithay is described as 'A smithy for rusty wayland compositors' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are three alternatives to Smithay for Linux and BSD. The best Smithay alternative is Wayland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Smithay are X11 and wayland-rs.

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A smithy for rusty wayland compositors.

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Smithay alternatives page was last updated May 28, 2025
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  1. Wayland icon

    Wayland

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    Wayland is a project to define a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a library implementation of the protocol.

    7 Wayland alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    Wayland screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Support for Multiple Monitors

    Wayland VS Smithay

     

    • Wayland is the most popular Linux alternative to Smithay .

    • Wayland is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Smithay .

    • Wayland is Free and Open Source Smithay is also Free and Open Source
    • Wayland is Lightweight Smithay is not according to our users
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    X11

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    The X.Org project provides an open source implementation of the X Window System. The development work is being done in conjunction with the freedesktop.org community. The X.Org Foundation is the educational non-profit corporation whose Board serves this effort, and whose Members...

    7 X11 alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    X11 screenshot 1

    X11 Features

    1.  Desktop Widget
    2.  Windows-like

    X11 VS Smithay

     

  4. wayland-rs

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    Rust implementation of the wayland protocol (client and server).

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    wayland-rs Features

    1.  Rust

    wayland-rs VS Smithay

     
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