Wayfire Alternatives

Apps similar to Wayfire include Hyprland, which is free and open source. Other options are niri, Sway, GlazeWM and ScrollWM. Window Managers like Wayfire are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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  1. AeroSpace icon
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    AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. SwayFX icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Gentoo Linux
    • Fedora
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Sway
    • FreeBSD
    • Wayland
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  3. mangowc icon
     1 like

    wayland compositor base wlroots and scenefx(dwm but wayland).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
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  4. hikari icon
     2 likes

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

    87 hikari alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. Labwc icon
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    Labwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. Gnome Mutter icon
     1 like

    Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland
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  7. Umbriel icon
     1 like

    Umbriel is a Wayland compositor designed for daily use, with scrolling, dwindle, and master layouts, per-output workspaces, window rules, blur, shadows, and fluid animations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    Good alternative?
     
  8. doWM icon
     1 like

    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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  9. miracle-wm icon
     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  10. 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.

    66 Pinnacle alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    Good alternative?
     
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