Open Source Windows Wayland Compositors

Labwc is a wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland, inspired by Openbox. It is light-weight and independent with a focus on simply stacking windows well and rendering some window decorations. It takes a no-bling/frills approach and says no to features such as animations. It relies on clients for panels, screenshots, wallpapers and so on to create a full desktop environment. Labwc tries to stay in keeping with wlroots and sway in terms of general approach and coding style. Firstly, we believe that there is a need for a simple Wayland window-stacking compositor that strikes a balance between minimalism and bloat approximately at the level where Window Managers like Openbox reside in the X11 domain. Most of the core developers are accustomed to low-resource Desktop Environments such as Mate/XFCE or standalone Window Managers such as Openbox under X11.

Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks. It provides the latest Wayland features, is highly customizable, has all the eye candy, the most powerful plugins, easy IPC, much more QoL stuff than other wlr-based compositors and more.

Wayfire is a Wayland compositor based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.

A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python. Optimize your workflow by configuring your environment to fit how you work. Efficiently use screen real-estate by automatically arranging windows with minimal visual cruft. Save your wrists from RSI by ditching the mouse and driving with the keyboard. Qtile is simple, small, and extensible. It's easy to write your own layouts, widgets, and built-in commands. Qtile is written and configured entirely in Python. Leverage the full power and flexibility of the language to make it fit your needs. The Qtile community is active and growing. There's always someone to lend a hand when you need help.

Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras. Sway allows you to arrange your application windows logically, rather than spatially. Windows are arranged into a grid by default which maximizes the efficiency of your screen and can be quickly manipulated using only the keyboard.

A wlroots and dwl-based tiling Wayland compositor based around creating layouts. Japokwm is a dynamic tiling wayland compositor where you are able to create new layouts without the hassle of editing the source code. You just give it information about where windows go and it will handle stuff such as resizing all by itself.