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Labwc

Labwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:

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  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Lightweight

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  1.  No registration required
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  No Tracking
  4.  Wayland Support

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Labwc was added to AlternativeTo by K0RR on and this page was last updated . Labwc is sometimes referred to as Lab Wayland Compositor. 
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What is Labwc?

Labwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:

  • sense of experimentation and treading new ground
  • inspired by BunsenLabs and ArchLabs
  • your favorite pet

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.

Labwc has no reliance on any particular Desktop Environment, Desktop Shell or session. Nor does it depend on any UI toolkits such as Qt or GTK.