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Wallpaper Setter

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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Compositing Window Managers

14 Best Free and Open Source Stacking Wayland Compositors

January 14, 2025 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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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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Compositing Window Managers

Miriway – Mir based Wayland compositor

December 31, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Miriway is a starting point for creating a Wayland based desktop environment using Mir.

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Compositing Window Managers

stagen – wlroots-based wayland compositor

December 29, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

stagen is a simple experimental wlroots-based wayland compositor.

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Compositing Window Managers

Waybox – minimalist Wayland compositor

December 16, 2024 Steve Emms Software

Waybox is a *box-style (minimalist) Wayland compositor modeled largely on Openbox.

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Compositing Window Managers

Hopalong – simple Wayland compositor

December 5, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Hopalong is a simple Wayland compositor with a feature set that’s comparable to XFWM.

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