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Wallpaper Setter

Icebg – Wayland wallpaper setter

March 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Icebg is a lightweight wallpaper setter for Wayland compositors.

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Aurora – modern, native GUI package manager for Arch Linux

March 16, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Aurora is a graphical package manager for Arch Linux designed to provide a modern interface.

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Compositing Window Managers

13 Best Free and Open Source Stacking Wayland Compositors

March 16, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on stacking Wayland compositors. Only free and open source software is included in this article.

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Compositing Window Managers

Otto – stacking window manager

March 16, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Otto is a visually focused desktop system and Wayland compositor designed around smooth animations, gestures, and spatial interaction.

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20 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Wayland Compositors

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on tiling Wayland compositors. We only feature free and open source software in this roundup.

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Compositing Window Managers

Volare – Wayland compositor

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Volare is a tabbed, tiling Wayland compositor written in the C language

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Proslenkey – application launcher

January 19, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Proslenkey is a lightweight GTK4 application launcher for Wayland.

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Linux at Home - RSI

Ianny – prevent repetitive strain injuries

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Ianny is a simple, lightweight, easy to use, and effective Linux Wayland desktop utility that helps with preventing repetitive strain injuries

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Selection of utilities

Waytermirror – real-time Wayland screen mirroring to a terminal

January 13, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Waytermirror offers real-time Wayland screen mirroring to a terminal using Unicode braille characters, half‑blocks, ASCII

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Compositing Window Managers

fht-compositor – dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

fht-compositor is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that implements a window management model inspired by X11 window managers such as dwm and xmonad.

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Selection of utilities

DankMaterialShell – desktop shell

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

DankMaterialShell is a complete desktop shell for niri, Hyprland, MangoWC, Sway, labwc, and other Wayland compositors.

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Selection of utilities

hyprdrover – lightweight session manager for the Hyprland compositor

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

hyprdrover allows users to snapshot their current window layout (workspaces, positions, and sizes) and restore it later.

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Selection of utilities

Noctalia – minimal desktop shell for Wayland

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

Noctalia is billed as a beautiful, minimal desktop shell for Wayland that actually gets out of your way.

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Selection of utilities

Stasis – modern Wayland idle manager

October 23, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Stasis is a modern Wayland idle manager that knows when to step back. It’s written in the Rust language.

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Compositing Window Managers

Waycheck shows Wayland compositor details

June 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Waycheck is a simple Qt6 application that displays all of the Wayland protocols that your compositor supports and doesn’t support.

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mpvpaper – video wallpaper software

May 17, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

mpvpaper is a wallpaper program for wlroots based Wayland compositors, such as sway.

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Screen Capture

grim – screenshot utility for Wayland

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

grim is a command-line utility to take screenshots of Wayland desktops. It currently needs support for the screencopy protocol to work.

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Clipboard

wayclip – access the Wayland clipboard

March 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wayclip is a pair of command-line utilities: waycopy and waypaste, which allow access to the Wayland clipboard.

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Best Free Window Managers

croissant – stacking Wayland compositor

January 6, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

croissant is a stacking Wayland compositor that’s written in the C programming language.

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Compositing Window Managers

Jay – Wayland compositor

January 2, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

Jay is a Wayland compositor which offers an i3 look and feel.

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