Awesome Wayland

Collections of awesome Wayland tools and compatible applications.

Wayland is a communication protocol that specifies the communication between a display server and its clients.

Contents

• Compositor
  • Tiling
  • Stacking
  • Hybrid
• Display Configuration
  • Sway Specific
• Wallpaper
• Status Bar
• Launcher
• Session

Compositor

Tiling

• sway - An i3-compatible compositor.
• niri - Scrollable-tiling compositor.
• hyprland - Highly customizable dynamic tiling compositor.
• cagebreak - Compositor based on Cage and inspired by ratpoison.
• dwl - A dwm compositor clone.
  • japokwm - Dynamic tiling compositor based on dwl.
• newm - Grid-based compositor with laptops and touchpads in mind.
• river - Dynamic tiling compositor with flexible runtime configuration.
• velox - Simple window manager.
• Vivarium - Dynamic tiling compositor with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.
• Qtile - Full-featured hackable window manager.
• pinnacle - An AwesomeWM compositor clone.
• Jay - Compositor configured in Rust with hot-reload support.

Stacking

• labwc - Experimental window-stacking compositor.
• tinywl+ - Simple stacking compository based on tinywl.
• Waybox - Openbox clone.
• Weston - Reference compositor.
• Mutter - GNOME windowing and compositing manager.
• KWin - KDE windowing and compositing manager.
• COSMIC-comp - COSMIC desktop compositor.

Hybrid

• hikari - Hybrid stacking/tiling compositor.
• kiwmi - Fully programmable compositor.
• Wayfire - Modular and extensible compositor with 3D support.

Display Configuration

• kanshi - Define output profiles that are automatically enabled and disabled on hotplug.
• Kscreen - KDE's screen management software.
• wayout - Simple tool to manage output modes.
• wdisplays - Graphical application for configuring displays.
• wlr-randr - Utility to manage outputs of a compositor.
• cosmic-randr - CLI utility for displaying and configuring outputs.

Sway Specific

• nwg-displays - Output management utility for sway and Hyprland.

Wallpaper

• wallutils - Utilities for setting different types of wallpapers.

Status Bar

• waybar - Highly customizable bar for wlroots compositors.
• ironbar - GTK bar for wlroots compositors.
• rootbar - Bar for wlroots compositors.
• yambar - Lightweight and configurable status panel.

Launcher

• kickoff - Minimalistic program launcher.
• bemenu - Dynamic menu client inspired by dmenu.
• Sirula - Simple app launcher.
• Loungy - Launcher in the vein of Spotlight, Alfred, Raycast.

Session

• wlogout - Logout menu.