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Compositing Window Managers

IonWL – manual tiling Wayland compositor

July 5, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

IonWL is a manual tiling Wayland compositor inspired by Ion3 and Notion. It aims to bring Ion-style frame-based window management to Wayland.

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Compositing Window Managers

CwC – extensible Wayland compositor

July 5, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

CwC is an extensible Wayland compositor with dynamic window management based on wlroots.

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Compositing Window Managers

doors – Wayland compositor based on bspwm

July 5, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

doors is a Wayland compositor based on bspwm. It offers floating, tiling, and scrolling layouts.

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Compositing Window Managers

scroll – i3-compatible Wayland compositor forked from sway

July 5, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

scroll is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor forked from sway. It replaces traditional tiling layouts with a scrolling layout.

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Compositing Window Managers

Pinnacle – Wayland compositor built using Smithay

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built using Smithay which seeks inspiration from AwesomeWM.

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Compositing Window Managers

miracle-wm – hackable Wayland compositor

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

miracle-wm is a hackable Wayland compositor built on Mir. It brings keyboard-driven tiling window management to Wayland.

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Selection of utilities

dusk – dynamic window manager for X

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

dusk is a dynamic window manager for X that has its roots in dwm. It uses workspaces instead of tags.

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dk – list based tiling window manager for X11

July 3, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

dk is a list based tiling window manager for X11 inspired by dwm, bspwm, and xmonad, offering a scriptable, keyboard-driven environment.

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plwm – X11 dynamic tiling window manager

July 2, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

plwm is a highly customizable X11 dynamic tiling window manager written in Prolog.

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Selection of utilities

sxwm – dynamic tiling window manager for X11

July 1, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

sxwm is a simple, feature-rich dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

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Stacking Window Managers

CTWM – X11 window manager derived from twm

June 24, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

CTWM is an X11 window manager derived from twm.

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Stacking Window Managers

EMWM – fork of the Motif Window Manager

June 23, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

EMWM is a fork of the Motif Window Manager that keeps the classic Motif look and behaviour while improving compatibility

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Compositing Window Managers

9 Best Free and Open Source Compositing Window Managers

June 15, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

A compositing window manager, or compositor, is a window manager that provides applications with an off-screen buffer for each window.

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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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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

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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Compositing Window Managers

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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