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    dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is:

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
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    Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Sway
    • Wayland
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    23 alternatives
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    Mahogany is a tiling window manager for Wayland modeled after StumpWM. While it is not a drop-in replacement for StumpWM, StumpWM users should be very comfortable with Mahogany. Its planned features are:

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  4. Likely the fastest, least user-friendly, and worst named Wayland wallpaper utility possible. Requires for zwlr_layer_shell_v1 and wp_viewporter.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    2 alternatives
  5. Application launcher, developed with sway and Hyprland in mind, but should also work with other wlroots-based Wayland compositors.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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    simple clipboard manager for Wayland, built in Rust. It saves a history of your clipboard content, and lets you paste things you've copied earlier. It also lets you configure "favorite" pastes for strings you need often.

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
    • Rust
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    wf-shell is a repository which contains the various components needed to built a fully functional DE based around wayfire. Currently it has only a GTK-based panel and background client.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
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    Root Bar is a bar for wlroots based wayland compositors such as sway and was designed to address the lack of good bars for wayland.

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  9. GTK3-based GUI for Senan Kelly's cliphist. It provides access to previously copied items, as well as management of the clipboard history from a window opened on gtk-layer-shell.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    • Python
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    52 alternatives
  10. Defines the way keyboards codes are handled in X, and provides access to internal translation tables. It is the basic mechanism that allows using multiple keyboard layouts in X.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
    • Wayland
    7 alternatives
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    This is sway's idle management daemon. It is compatible with any Wayland compositor which implements the ext-idle-notify protocol.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    • Sway
    1 alternatives