scroll is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor forked from sway. It replaces traditional tiling layouts with a scrolling layout similar to PaperWM, niri, and hyprscroller, while retaining high compatibility with sway configuration files.
The compositor offers a workspace model where windows can extend beyond the visible viewport and be navigated with keyboard shortcuts, trackpad gestures, or mouse dragging. It also adds polished visual features, scripting support, overview modes, and layout behaviour designed for both landscape and portrait monitors.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Scrolling Wayland compositor based on sway
- High compatibility with i3 and sway configurations
- PaperWM-style layout with keyboard, trackpad, and mouse navigation
- Overview and Jump modes for quickly finding windows and workspaces
- Customizable animations, rounded borders, title bars, shadows, blur, and dimming
- Per-window content scaling and workspace scaling
- Lua API for scripting the window manager
- Multiple fullscreen modes: workspace, global, application, and layout
- Portrait and landscape monitor support with per-output layout orientation
- Ultra-wide display support with workspace splitting
Website: https://github.com/dawsers/scroll
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Developer: dawsers
License: MIT License
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Related Software
| Tiling Wayland Compositors | |
|---|---|
| Sway | i3-compatible tiling Wayland compositor and a replacement for i3 |
| niri | Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor |
| Hyprland | Dynamic tiling Wayland compositor based on wlroots |
| Qtile | Full-featured, hackable tiling window manager |
| Swayfx | Sway with eye candy |
| river | Compositor with flexible runtime configuration. |
| MangoWC | Lightweight yet a good set of features |
| dwl | dwm for Wayland |
| fht-compositor | Dynamic tiling Wayland compositor |
| newm-atha | Wayland compositor written with laptops and touchpads in mind |
| Cagebreak | Seeks inspiration from Ratpoison |
| Mahogany | Modeled after StumpWM |
| Jay | Wayland compositor written in Rust |
| Vivarium | Dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots |
| polonium | Tiling window manager for KWin |
| Volare | Tabbed, tiling Wayland compositor |
| japokwm | wlroots and dwl based tiling wayland compositor |
| velox | Simple window manager based on swc |
| stagen | wlroots-based Wayland compositor |
| newm | Written with laptops and touchpads in mind |
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