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Tag: wayland
Stasis – modern Wayland idle manager
Stasis is a modern Wayland idle manager that knows when to step back. It’s written in the Rust language.
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Waycheck shows Wayland compositor details
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
mpvpaper is a wallpaper program for wlroots based Wayland compositors, such as sway.
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grim – screenshot utility for Wayland
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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wayclip – access the Wayland clipboard
wayclip is a pair of command-line utilities: waycopy and waypaste, which allow access to the Wayland clipboard.
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14 Best Free and Open Source Stacking Wayland Compositors
This article focuses on stacking Wayland compositors. Only free and open source software is included in this article.
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croissant – stacking Wayland compositor
croissant is a stacking Wayland compositor that’s written in the C programming language.
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Jay – Wayland compositor
Jay is a Wayland compositor which offers an i3 look and feel.
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Miriway – Mir based Wayland compositor
Miriway is a starting point for creating a Wayland based desktop environment using Mir.
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stagen – wlroots-based wayland compositor
stagen is a simple experimental wlroots-based wayland compositor.
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Waybox – minimalist Wayland compositor
Waybox is a *box-style (minimalist) Wayland compositor modeled largely on Openbox.
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Hopalong – simple Wayland compositor
Hopalong is a simple Wayland compositor with a feature set that’s comparable to XFWM.
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wlmaker – Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker
wlmaker is a Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker, an X11 window manager originally designed to integrate with GNUstep.
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niri – scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
Niri is heavily inspired by PaperWM which implements scrollable tiling on top of GNOME Shell.
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Woodland – wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland
Woodland is a minimal Wayland compositor based on wlroots and inspired by Wayfire and TinyWl.
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Magpie – X11 window manager and compositor library
Magpie is a soft-fork of GNOME’s Mutter.
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cliphist – clipboard history manager for Wayland
cliphist is a clipboard history “manager” for Wayland. It’s written in Go.
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wl-screenrec – wlroots screen recording
wl-screenrec is billed as a high performance screen/audio recorder for wlroots.
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13 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Wayland Compositors
This article focuses on tiling Wayland compositors. We only feature free and open source software in this roundup.
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