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wlmaker is a lightweight, Window Maker–inspired Wayland compositor offering stacking window management, multiple workspaces, and a NeXTSTEP aesthetic. Early in development, it includes basic features like docks and hot corners. Packaged for Fedora and Arch, it targets nostalgic workflows with modern Wayland support.

maomaowm is a minimal yet smooth Wayland compositor in Rust, featuring animated tiling layouts and low resource usage. Aimed for performance on older hardware, it supports multi-monitor setups and is available via NixOS and Arch Linux. Users praise its fluidity even on decade-old laptops.

...Rather than a standalone compositor, it provides building blocks like protocol handlers, session backends, DRM abstractions, and input/output utilities. It supports core and extended Wayland protocols, libseat, tablets, graphics tablets, Xwayland, and more. It's mature and under active development, providing a “smithy” for compositor authors.

...Built on Smithay or wlc (in older code), it supports floating windows, BSP-style tiling, layer-shell basics, and workspace concepts. It aims to serve as a rapid-development playground for rich, keyboard-driven desktop workflows with GNOME compatibility goals.