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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.

This article focuses on stacking Wayland compositors. Only free and open source software is included in this article.

croissant is a stacking Wayland compositor that’s written in the C programming language.

Jay is a Wayland compositor which offers an i3 look and feel.

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

stagen is a simple experimental wlroots-based wayland compositor.

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

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

wlmaker is a Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker, an X11 window manager originally designed to integrate with GNUstep.

Niri is heavily inspired by PaperWM which implements scrollable tiling on top of GNOME Shell.

Woodland is a minimal Wayland compositor based on wlroots and inspired by Wayfire and TinyWl.

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

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

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

This article focuses on tiling Wayland compositors. We only feature free and open source software in this roundup.