Last Updated on March 4, 2026
MangoWC is as lightweight as dwl, and can be built completely within a few seconds. Despite this, Mango does not compromise on functionality.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Basic window manager functionality.
- Excellent xwayland support.
- Base tags not workspaces (supports separate window layouts for each tag).
- Smooth and customizable complete animations (window open/move/close, tag enter/leave,layer open/close/move).
- Excellent input method support (text input v2/v3).
- Flexible window layouts with easy switching (scroller, master-stack, monocle,center-master, etc.).
- Rich window states (swallow, minimize, maximize, unglobal, global, fakefullscreen, overlay, etc.).
- Simple yet powerful external configuration(support shortcuts hot-reload).
- Sway-like scratchpad and named scratchpad.
- Ipc support(get/send message from/to compositor by external program).
- Hycov-like overview.
- Window effects from scenefx (blur, shadow, corner radius, opacity).
Website: github.com/DreamMaoMao/mangowc
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Developer: DreamMaoMao
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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