Awesome Wayland

A curated list of Wayland code and resources.

If you want to contribute, please read this.

Table of contents

• Brightness Control
• Browsers Without X Library Dependency
• Clipboard Managers
• Compositors
• Display Configuration
• Image Viewers
• Launchers
• Libraries
• Notifications
• PDF Viewers
• Screen Locking
• Screencasting
• Screenshots
• Session Management
• Status Bars
• Terminal Emulators
• Tools
• Video Players
• Wallpaper
• License

Brightness Control

No Wayland-specific requirements, so you can use your xorg solution of choice to control screen brightness, like brightnessctl, brillo, light, or just directly manipulate /sys/class/backlight.

• Wlsunset - Day/night gamma adjustments for Wayland compositors supporting wlr-gamma-control-unstable-v1.

Browsers without X library dependency

• QtWebEngine

  • Crusta - Fast, modern and minimal desktop web browser with rich features
  • Dooble - The weather bug browser. Minimal, cute, and unusually stable
  • Falkon - KDE web browser
  • Viper Browser - A lightweight browser using QtWebEngine

• WebKit2GTK

  • Surfer - Simple keyboard based webkit2gtk browser
  • wyeb - A vim-like webkit2gtk browser

Clipboard Managers

• wl-clipboard - Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland
• clipman - A simple clipboard manager for Wayland

Compositors

• Cagebreak - A Wayland tiling compositor inspired by Ratpoison
• Cardboard - A scrollable tiling Wayland compositor
• hikari - A hybrid stacking/tiling Wayland compositor
• labwc - A stacking Wayland compositor with look and feel of openbox
• river - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
• Sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
• Waybox - An openbox clone on Wayland
• Wayfire - 3D Wayland compositor
• Weston - Reference compositor for Wayland
• Mutter - A window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL.

Display Configuration

• Kanshi - Dynamic display configuration
• Wallutils - A set of utilities to manage monitors, resolutions, wallpapers and timed wallpapers
• wdisplays - GUI display configurator for wlroots compositors
• wlay - Graphical output management for Wayland
• wlr-randr - An xrandr clone for wlroots compositors

Image Viewers

• imv - A command line image viewer for X11/Wayland
• mvi - A command line image viewer utilizing mpv

Launchers

• bemenu - Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu
• dmenu-wayland - dmenu-wl is an efficient dynamic menu for wayland (wlroots)
• fuzzel - Application launcher for wlroots based Wayland compositors, similar to rofi's drun mode
• LavaLauncher - A simple launcher panel for Wayland desktops
• Mauncher - A GTK-based alternative to dmenu for Wayland which supports display scaling
• nwg-launchers - A GTK-based application grid launcher, button bar and dmenu for Wayland
• sirula - Simple app launcher for Wayland written in Rust
• wldash - Wayland dashboard and launcher written in Rust
• Wofi - A launcher/menu program for wlroots based Wayland compositors such as sway
• yofi - A minimalistic menu for wayland
• rofi - A fork of rofi with Wayland support

Libraries

• client toolkit - A toolkit for writing Wayland clients in Rust
• swc - A library for making a simple Wayland compositor
• wlroots - Pluggable, composable, unopinionated modules for building a Wayland compositor
• wob - A lightweight overlay volume/backlight/progress/anything bar for Wayland

Notifications

• fnott - Keyboard driven and lightweight Wayland notification daemon for wlroots-based compositors
• Mako - A lightweight Wayland notification daemon

PDF Viewers

• zathura - A document viewer

Screen Locking

• swayidle - Idle management daemon for Wayland
• swaylock - Screen locker for Wayland
• swaylock-effects - A fork of swaylock with effects such as a blurred screenshot as background or a clock on the lockscreen
• waylock - A simple screenlocker for Wayland compositors

Screencasting

• ssr-wlroots - A version of SimpleScreenRecorder with support for wlroots-based compositors (more specifically, those that support wlr-screencopy-v1 and xdg-output). Doesn't support recording area selection and has issues with multiple screens.
• wf-recorder - A utility program for screen recording of wlroots-based compositors (more specifically, those that support wlr-screencopy-v1 and xdg-output)
• wlrobs - An obs-studio plugin that allows you to screen capture on wlroots based wayland compositors
• wshowkeys - Displays keys being pressed on a Wayland session

Screenshots

• Grim - Grab images from a Wayland compositor
• Slurp - Select a region in a Wayland compositor
• Swappy - A Wayland-native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS

Session Management

• wlogout - A Wayland-based logout menu

Status Bars

• i3status-rust - Very resource-friendly and feature-rich replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust
• rootbar - Root Bar is a bar for wlroots based Wayland compositors such as sway
• sfwbar - Sway Floating Window Bar is a taskbar for Sway, focused on a stacking layout workflow
• waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors
• yambar - Modular status panel for X11 and Wayland, inspired by polybar

Tools

• wtype - A Wayland tool that allows you to simulate keyboard input like xdotool
• ydotool - A generic Linux command-line automation tool for Wayland

Terminal Emulators

• Alacritty - A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
• Ate - Awesome terminal emulator
• Foot - A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
• Germinal - Minimalist vte-based terminal emulator
• GNOME Terminal - A terminal emulator for GNOME
• Havoc - A minimal terminal emulator for Wayland
• Kitty - A cross-platform, fast, feature-full, GPU-based terminal emulator
• Termite - A keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support
• wterm - An st fork for wayland

Video Players

• mpv - Command line video player

Wallpaper

• oguri - A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors
• mpvpaper - A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors
• swaybg - A wallpaper utility for Wayland compositors
• Wallutils - A set of utilities to manage monitors, resolutions, wallpapers and timed wallpapers

License