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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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13 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Wayland Compositors

February 9, 2024 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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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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