Open Source Linux Wayland Compositors
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View 283 business solutionsBrowse free open source Wayland Compositors and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Wayland Compositors by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Hyprland
Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks. It provides the latest Wayland features, is highly customizable, has all the eye candy, the most powerful plugins, easy IPC, much more QoL stuff than other wlr-based compositors and more. -
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Niri
A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
Niri is a dynamic, scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor built for Linux composed around columns laid out infinitely to the right. It supports multi-monitor setups, fractional scaling, floating windows, NVIDIA drivers, and input devices like tablets and touchpads. Stable for daily usage, many users have adopted it as their primary Wayland environment. -
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Smithay
A smithy for rusty wayland compositors
Smithay is a modular toolkit for building Wayland compositors in Rust. 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. -
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Sway
i3-compatible Wayland compositor
Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras. Sway allows you to arrange your application windows logically, rather than spatially. Windows are arranged into a grid by default which maximizes the efficiency of your screen and can be quickly manipulated using only the keyboard. -
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Wayfire
A modular and extensible wayland compositor
Wayfire is a Wayland compositor based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance. -
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labwc
A Wayland window-stacking compositor
Labwc is a wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland, inspired by Openbox. It is light-weight and independent with a focus on simply stacking windows well and rendering some window decorations. It takes a no-bling/frills approach and says no to features such as animations. It relies on clients for panels, screenshots, wallpapers and so on to create a full desktop environment. Labwc tries to stay in keeping with wlroots and sway in terms of general approach and coding style. Firstly, we believe that there is a need for a simple Wayland window-stacking compositor that strikes a balance between minimalism and bloat approximately at the level where Window Managers like Openbox reside in the X11 domain. Most of the core developers are accustomed to low-resource Desktop Environments such as Mate/XFCE or standalone Window Managers such as Openbox under X11. -
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Cagebreak
A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison
Cagebreak is a Wayland tiling compositor based on Cage and inspired by Ratpoison. This project provides a successor to Ratpoison for Wayland. However, this is no reimplementation of Ratpoison. Cagebreak supports Arch Linux and uses the libraries and versions from extra and core at the time of release. Most other setups work with a bit of luck. You can build Cagebreak with the meson build system. It requires Wayland, wlroots and xkbcommon to be installed. Note that Cagebreak is developed against the latest tag of wlroots, in order not to constantly chase breaking changes as soon as they occur. Cagebreak is keyboard-based. Everything regarding cagebreak can be done through the keyboard and it is our view that it should be. This does not mean that pointers, touchpads and such are not available for the few applications that do require them. -
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Fireplace
Modular wayland window manager written in rust
Fireplace is a lightweight, modular Wayland tiling window manager written in Rust. 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. -
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Maomaowm
wayland compositor base wlroots and scenefx(dwl but no suckless)
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. -
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Ulubis
A Wayland compositor written in Common Lisp
Ulubis is a Wayland compositor written in Common Lisp, inspired by FVWM and StumpWM. It’s built for live hacking—developers can modify behavior at runtime via SLIME. Though early-stage, its aim is a fully Lisp-configurable compositor with custom modes and window management logic. -
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Wlmaker
A Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker
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. -
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wlroots
A modular Wayland compositor library
wlroots is a flexible and composable C library that abstracts backends (KMS/DRM, libinput, X11, headless) and implements a full suite of Wayland protocols. It’s designed to empower compositor developers to focus on unique features rather than boilerplate, offering support for rendering, input, output management, and XWayland integration.
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