doors is a Wayland compositor based on bspwm. It offers floating, tiling, and scrolling layouts, and is designed for users who like keyboard-driven window management with a simple configuration model.
The compositor uses wlroots and provides a companion command-line tool, doorsctl, which can be used for compositor bindings. Configuration is split between a startup shell script and a hotkey configuration file, giving users a familiar, scriptable setup.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Wayland compositor based on bspwm
- Floating, tiling, and scrolling layouts
- Uses wlroots
- Keyboard-driven window management
- Configurable startup script
- Hotkey configuration reloaded on save
- doorsctl command-line utility for compositor bindings
- Example configuration supplied
- Built with Meson and Ninja
Website: github.com/dy-tea/doors
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Developer: dy-tea
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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