river Alternatives

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   hikari

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   hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD

   

   

   

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   term.everything

    1 like

   Run any GUI app in the terminal?.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Wayland Compositor

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

   

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   Labwc

    2 likes

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Window Manager
   • Wayland Compositor

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   Gnome Mutter

    1 like

   Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • GNOME
   • Wayland

   

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   Pinnacle

    1 like

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Wayland

   

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   miracle-wm

    1 like

   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Wayland

   • United States

   

   

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   Waybox

    1 like

   An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP).

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Window Manager
   • Wayland Compositor

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Openbox
   • Wayland

   

   

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    dwl

     1 like

    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:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Wayland Compositor

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    

    

    

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    Polonium

     1 like

    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)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Window Manager
    • Wayland Compositor

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland

    

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    Vivarium

     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    

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    Superior X Window Manager

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    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

    • Window Manager

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11

    S

    

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    MangoWM

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    Practical and powerful Wayland compositor (dwm but wayland).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application typeApplication types

    • Window Manager
    • Wayland Compositor

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Wayland

    

    

    

    +3

    

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