Wayfire AlternativesWindow Managers & Wayland Compositors like Wayfire
Wayfire is described as '3D Wayland compositor, inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Wayfire for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, Arch Linux, Gentoo and FreeBSD apps. The best Wayfire alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Wayfire are Sway, river, niri and Labwc.
- Window Manager
- Free • Open Source
- 20 Hyprland alternatives
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.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Linux
- BSD
- openSUSE
- Arch Linux
- Gentoo
- Fedora
- Ubuntu
- Debian
- FreeBSD
- Alpine Linux
- Slackware
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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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Country of Origin
- International
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- Linux
- 20 river alternatives
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.
- 71 niri alternatives
Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite strip going to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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Country of Origin
Russia
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- Linux
- Wayland
niri Features
- 20 Labwc alternatives
Labwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:
Sway is an incredible window manager, and certainly one of the most well established wayland window managers. However, it is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3. This fork ditches the simple wlr_renderer, and replaces it with our fx_renderer, capable...
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- Free • Open Source
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- Linux
- Arch Linux
- Gentoo Linux
- Fedora
- Nix Package Manager
- Sway
- FreeBSD
- Wayland
SwayFX Features
Miriway Features
A Wayland compositor based on Mir. It features a tiling window manager at its core, very much in the style of i3 and sway. The intention is to build a compositor that is flashier and more feature-rich than either of those compositors, like swayfx.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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- Wayland
- Linux
miracle-wm Features
License model
- Free • Open Source
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- Linux
- Openbox
- Wayland
Waybox Features
Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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- Linux
- Wayland
Pinnacle Features
A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (forked from dwl) that makes it a breeze to create custom layouts with a simple configuration. 🚀
An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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- Linux
- KDE
- Wayland
Polonium Features