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Waybox – minimalist 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.

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

polonium is a tiling window manager for KWin.

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.

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

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

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