hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD




Vivarium is described as 'A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Vivarium for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best Vivarium alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Vivarium are niri, i3, Sway and GlazeWM.
hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.




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JWM is a light-weight window manager for the X11 Window System. JWM is written in C and uses only Xlib at a minimum. Because of its small footprint, JWM makes a good window manager for older computers and less powerful systems, such as the .

bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for Microsoft Windows. It is written in the scripting language AutoHotkey.
Left is a tiling window manager written in rust for stability and performance. The core of left is designed to do one thing and one thing well. Be a window manager. Because you probably want more than just a black screen LeftWM is built around the concept of theming.








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