wayle Alternatives

wayle is described as 'A Wayland desktop shell with the bar, notifications, OSD, wallpaper, and device controls built in. Written in Rust with GTK4 and Relm4' and is a wayland compositor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to wayle for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, Mac, Arch Linux and BSD apps. The best wayle alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like wayle are niri, Sway, GlazeWM and Rift.

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  1. 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
     
  2. hikari icon
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    hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

    84 hikari alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. Miriway icon
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    Miriway is a starting point for creating a Wayland based desktop environment using Mir.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  4. miracle-wm icon
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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.

    70 miracle-wm alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  5. doWM icon
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    doWM is a beautiful floating and tiling window manager for X11 completely written in golang.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • X11
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6.  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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  7. Polonium icon
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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)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland
     
  8.  1 like

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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