compositing window manager Archives

IonWL – manual tiling Wayland compositor

IonWL is a manual tiling Wayland compositor inspired by Ion3 and Notion. It aims to bring Ion-style frame-based window management to Wayland.

CwC is an extensible Wayland compositor with dynamic window management based on wlroots.

doors is a Wayland compositor based on bspwm. It offers floating, tiling, and scrolling layouts.

scroll is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor forked from sway. It replaces traditional tiling layouts with a scrolling layout.

Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built using Smithay which seeks inspiration from AwesomeWM.

miracle-wm is a hackable Wayland compositor built on Mir. It brings keyboard-driven tiling window management to Wayland.

A compositing window manager, or compositor, is a window manager that provides applications with an off-screen buffer for each window.

Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features.

The Enlightenment (“E) window manager is a robust, flexible, highly configurable, graphically rich yet unobtrusive desktop environment for X.

Gala is a window and compositing manager based on libmutter. The program is designed by elementary for use with Pantheon.

The Xfce 4 Window Manager (xfwm4) is part of the Xfce Desktop Environment. xfwm4 can be run standalone.

KWin is the window manager for the KDE Plasma Desktop. KWin supports compositing, which means using 3D effects for handling windows.

Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. Mutter is free and open source software.