dwl VS wayland

Compare dwl vs wayland and see what are their differences.

dwl

dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg (by djpohly)

wayland

Core Wayland protocol and libraries (mirror) (by wayland-project)
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dwl wayland
46 11
1,950 716
- -
8.9 7.4
5 months ago over 1 year ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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dwl

Posts with mentions or reviews of dwl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-11.

wayland

Posts with mentions or reviews of wayland. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-17.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dwl and wayland you can also consider the following projects:

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

X11 - A Haskell binding to the X11 graphics library.

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

termux-x11 - Not released and unmaintained Termux X11 add-on application.

dwm - Luke's build of dwm

wlr-randr - An xrandr clone for wlroots compositors

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

kanshi - Dynamic display configuration (mirror)

leftwm - A tiling window manager for Adventurers

velox - velox window manager

qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)

velox - A C++ vectorized database acceleration library aimed to optimizing query engines and data processing systems.