125 Open source projects that are alternatives of or similar to Sway

[BUGFIXES ONLY, SUPPORT WILL DROP MAR 1, 2021] Injecting composition effects into Electron applications!

Open source 2D node-based raster/vector graphics editor (Photoshop + Illustrator + Houdini = Graphite)

Click on a pixel on your screen and show its color value

Open Display Transform is a collection of tools and experiments for rendering wide-gamut scene-linear data into an image for an SDR or HDR display device.

QML based X11 and Wayland display manager

A reactive graphical symbolic environment for PicoLisp

GUI display configurator for wlroots compositors

my dotfiles

i3 + Plasma: using the i3 window manager on the top of KDE Plasma and other dotfiles, configurations, scripts, workarounds and practises from my Debian Sid machines.

My dotfiles, with an out-of-date install-script. Arch, Tiling WM (i3, sway), ZSH, Neovim

Gromit-MPX is an on-screen annotation tool that works with any Unix desktop environment under X11 as well as Wayland.

Gnome-Shell extension that shows keyboard modifiers status. It's useful when sticky keys are active.

Lightweight KMS plane library

Golang Wayland

Better touchpad gesture handling for GNOME

A simple (Wayland) compositor

Grab images from a Wayland compositor

Embedded Flutter runtime targeting Embedded Linux with Wayland

A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors

Wayland C++ bindings

Peek makes it easy to create short screencasts of a screen area. It was built for the specific use case of recording screen areas, e.g. for easily showing UI features of your own apps or for showing a bug in bug reports. With Peek, you simply place the Peek window over the area you want to record and press "Record". Peek is optimized for generating animated GIFs, but you can also directly record to WebM or MP4 if you prefer.

wayland backend for javafx

My arch setup script and dotfiles

Alter Ego: run Linux desktop applications under a different local user

Sway acid dark

A simple tool for taking screenshots on Linux and sharing via Nextcloud

Run GUI applications and desktops in docker and podman containers. Focus on security.

SwayWM screen recorder; a GUI for wf-recorder

An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP)

Vulkan benchmark

A fully programmable Wayland Compositor

Touchpad gesture improvements for GNOME on Wayland/X11

glmark2 is an OpenGL 2.0 and ES 2.0 benchmark

Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland

Idle management daemon for Wayland

Wayland Client in Pure Go

A simple clipboard manager for Wayland

swaynag wrapper for the love of keybindings

Desktop-dedicated wayland bar for wayfire and other wlroots based compositors. Mir compatible.

Wayland compositor based on BSPWM

Configuration for Arch Linux, sway, kitty, kakoune, zsh and more + scripted installation guide

Wine builds (Vanilla, Staging, TkG and Proton)

A cross-platform context-aware key remapper.

NOTICE: The ToaruOS-NIH Project has been MERGED UPSTREAM. This repository is now archived.

wayland clipboard manager

A modular Wayland compositor library

Attempt at a desktop shell and stuff; abandoned in favor of https://github.com/DankBSD/waysmoke

A simple terminal emulator

Select a region in a Wayland compositor

experimental Wayland Vulkan compositor

Tools for managing reproducible development environments. Mirror of https://sr.ht/abcdw/rde/

A tiny sandboxed Dyon scripting environment for evdev input devices that lets you do e.g. xcape in Wayland

3D wayland compositor

Pure Python 3 Wayland protocol implementation

GNOME Screen Cast OBS Studio plugin

Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors

🏠 Sway desktop environment dotfile installation for Arch Linux

ksnip the cross-platform screenshot and annotation tool

A completely-from-scratch hobby operating system: bootloader, kernel, drivers, C library, and userspace including a composited graphical UI, dynamic linker, syntax-highlighting text editor, network stack, etc.

Easily browse and read Wayland protocols documentation