Hyprland Alternatives

Hyprland is described as 'An independent tiling Wayland compositor written in C++. Noteworthy features of Hyprland include dynamic tiling, tabbed windows, a clean and readable C++ code-base, and a custom renderer that provides window animations, rounded corners, and Dual-Kawase Blur on transparent windows' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Hyprland for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, X11, Mac and FreeBSD apps. The best Hyprland alternative is niri, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Hyprland are Sway, GlazeWM, Wayfire and SwayFX.

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    A Wayland compositor based on Mir. It features a tiling window manager at its core, very much in the style of i3 and sway. The intention is to build a compositor that is flashier and more feature-rich than either of those compositors, like swayfx.

    67 miracle-wm alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
     
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    A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.

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    • Linux
     
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    An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland
     
  4. Pinnacle icon
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    Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  5. Gnome Mutter icon
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    Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland
     
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    Making dwm as beautiful as possible!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Rift is a tiling window manager for macOS that focuses on performance and usability.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Window manager for X inspired by DWM, i3, and other tiling window managers. Windows are assigned to tags, and are automatically arranged on the screen in a stacked layout making the most of your monitor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
     
  9. mangowc icon
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    wayland compositor base wlroots and scenefx(dwm but wayland).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
     
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