Wayfire Alternatives

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 25 alternatives to Wayfire for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, X11, BSD and KDE Plasma apps. The best Wayfire alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Wayfire are niri, Sway, GlazeWM and Smithay .

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  1. hikari icon
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    hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. Miriway icon
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    Miriway is a starting point for creating a Wayland based desktop environment using Mir.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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    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.

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    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
     
  4. Pinnacle icon
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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.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  5. Polonium icon
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    An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland
     
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    dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is:

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  7. doWM icon
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    doWM is a beautiful floating and tiling window manager for X11 completely written in golang.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • X11
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.

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    • Linux
     
  9. Gnome Mutter icon
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    Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland
     
  10.  Like
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    Making dwm as beautiful as possible!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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