Compositing Window Managers

Volare – Wayland compositor

Volare is a tabbed, tiling Wayland compositor.

This means, compared to other tiling compositors, volare is more static: new windows will show up as tabs in the current frame instead of rearranging the screen layout.

This project is in its bootstrap phase: it should be basically functional, but is still poorly documented

This is free and open source software.

Website: codeberg.org/raboof/volare
Support:
Developer: Drew DeVault
License: MIT License

Volare is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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