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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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wlmaker – Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

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

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

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

November 28, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

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

November 24, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Magpie is a soft-fork of GNOME’s Mutter.

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cliphist – clipboard history manager for Wayland

October 4, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

cliphist is a clipboard history “manager” for Wayland. It’s written in Go.

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wl-screenrec – wlroots screen recording

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

wl-screenrec is billed as a high performance screen/audio recorder for wlroots.

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newm-atha – Wayland compositor written with laptops and touchpads in mind

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

newm-atha is a Wayland compositor written with laptops and touchpads in mind. It’s a fork of newm.

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polonium – tiling window manager for KWin

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

polonium is a tiling window manager for KWin.

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SwayFX – Sway with eye candy

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

SwayFX is a fork of Sway. This fork was developed on the basis that Sway is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3.

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Cagebreak – Wayland Tiling Compositor inspired by Ratpoison

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

The goal of this project is to provide a successor to ratpoison for Wayland users.

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japokwm – wlroots and dwl based tiling wayland compositor

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

japokwm is a dynamic tiling wayland compositor where you are able to create new layouts without the hassle of editing the source code.

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river – dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

river is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with flexible runtime configuration.

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dwl – dwm for Wayland

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots.

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Hyprland – dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn’t sacrifice on its looks.

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Qtile – full-featured, hackable tiling window manager

November 11, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager.

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Weston – lightweight and functional Wayland compositor

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Weston provides a very basic desktop, or a full-featured environment for non-desktop uses such as automotive, embedded, in-flight, and more.

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labwc – Lab Wayland Compositor

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Labwc is a wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for wayland, inspired by openbox.

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hikari – stacking Wayland compositor

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

hikari is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

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Wayfire – Wayland compositor based on wlroots

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor, inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots. This is free and open source software.

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