cosmic-comp is the Wayland compositor for the COSMIC desktop environment. Written in Rust and built on Smithay, it manages windows, workspaces, displays, input devices, and graphical output for a COSMIC session.
The compositor combines traditional floating window management with automatic tiling and provides extensive configuration for input, focus behaviour, displays, accessibility, and X11 applications running through XWayland.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Wayland compositor designed for the COSMIC desktop environment.
- Written in Rust and built using the Smithay compositor library.
- Supports floating and automatically tiled windows.
- Configure automatic tiling globally or independently for each workspace.
- Multiple workspace support including pinned workspaces.
- Supports multiple displays with configurable modes, refresh rates, and transformations.
- XWayland integration for running X11 applications.
- Configurable XWayland scaling behaviour.
- Focus-follows-cursor and cursor-follows-focus options.
- Configurable keyboard, mouse, touchpad, and other input devices.
- Window edge snapping.
- Accessibility zoom and display colour filters.
- Configurable keyboard layouts and repeat behaviour through XKB.
Website: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-comp
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Developer: System76
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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